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Andrew Dakers, Founder

Andrew’s career has spanned IT at the BBC, business change management at GlaxoSmithKline, campaigning for WWF-UK and most recently leading Public Affairs at Business in the Community. Andrew has been a parliamentary candidate (2005 and 2010) and, as a local councillor (2006-10) was a member of London Borough of Hounslow’s Pension Fund committee.  He spends his evenings chairing the project to regenerate the historic heart of Brentford town centre and as a trustee of a social landlord. He has worked in Fiji, India, Uganda and the USA, and gained an MSc Development Management from The Open University in 2002.

Andrew undertakes a range of freelance consultancy focussing on ‘wicked problems’.  His time is currently largely focused on Hounslow Education Business Partnership, developing and delivering The University of Bradford’s MBA module in Business Ethics & Sustainability, as well as The Cooperatition Incubator’s campaign for changes to competition law to enable greater collaboration between companies where there is public benefit.  This is managed on a not-for-profit basis through Sensonido Ltd.

To ensure his work as a campaigner is transparent, his interests are registered.

Tom Linton, Consultant

Tom Linton worked in the competition department of Herbert Smith LLP for three years (2005-8), qualifying in 2006.  Whilst there, the limitations on cooperation between businesses caused by competition law attracted his attention.  This area interacted with his strong interests in sociology, development and economics, which had been stimulated by teaching in rural Nepal in 1995 and studying International Relations at LSE (1999-2000).  Tom developed his thinking in this area and subsequently joined Business in the Community (BITC) for a short placement (2008).  At BITC he teamed up with Andrew, who had also encountered the competition law issues, and developed the research further for a response to the Conservative’s Commission on waste and voluntary agreements.   Andrew is now taking this work forward through The Cooperatition Incubator and Tom remains involved in an advisory capacity continuing to develop wider analysis and frameworks for an ethical economy and for the strengthening of various forms of community.