Paul Kooner-Evans MSc, BSc (Hons), PG Cert HE, FHEA,

Paul focuses on helping organisations use data, technology, and artificial intelligence responsibly to improve decision-making, performance, and confidence, without unnecessary complexity or disruption. This includes leadership development, applied digital strategy, and support for organisations navigating change with limited time and resources.

With over 25 years of experience across business, technology, and higher education, Paul brings a strong commercial perspective alongside deep delivery experience. He has held senior industry roles, created and successfully sold two businesses, and worked with organisations ranging from growing SMEs to large public bodies. Alongside this, he previously led a university business school, where he worked closely with employers to design leadership, AI, and data-focused programmes aligned to real-world needs.

Paul remains actively involved in executive education, and consultancy, particularly in the areas of AI in business, data-informed leadership, and ethical digital transformation. He is known for a calm, collaborative style and a focus on building internal capability.

Outside his consultancy work, he balances family life with community involvement, serving as a committee member of Portsmouth Cricket Club. He has a long-standing love of music and can often be found attempting to play the guitar, usually with more commitment than talent

Prof Dave Cooper BSc, PhD, CEng, MIMechE, FHEA

Dave Cooper is a consultant with extensive experience in programme delivery, change management, and sustainable economic development, working across the public and private sectors.

Formerly Professor of Management and Economic Development and Head of the Business School at the University of Chichester, Dave brings together academic insight and extensive industry experience. Before joining the University, he held senior roles with Cap Gemini, working as a Programme Manager, Change Management Consultant, and Account Director across sectors including manufacturing, health, and telecommunications. With an engineering background, he brings a strong practical focus to complex organisational and systems-based challenges.

Dave has led and advised on major programmes, including the £11m ERDF-funded Business Hot House project supporting business start-up and growth across the Coast to Capital region. He has also been involved in several European initiatives, including leading the €4m Interreg-funded Channel Payments for Ecosystem Services project focused on catchment-scale improvements in water quality.

Since leaving the University, Dave has established Rampion Consulting and continues to work on projects with a strong sustainability focus. Recent work includes developing a low-cost real-time water quality monitoring sensor (funded by UK Research and Innovation), supporting growth in the creative digital technology sector along the South Coast, and advising on the development of a reuse and recycling facility for medical waste containers. He is a Trustee of the Western Sussex Rivers Trust, where he chairs the Finance and Audit Committee, and remains a Visiting Professor at the University of Chichester.

In his spare time, Dave is Commodore of a local sailing club, and tries to sail his dinghy upright! He also finds inspiration in cycling around the South Downs National Park and further afield with a few mates and inevitably ending up with a few beers.