Rod Wilkes Biography
| Rod Wilkes Company Name: The Chartered Institute of Marketing Job Title: Chief Executive Rod is chief executive of The Chartered Institute of Marketing - the leading international professional marketing body with over 50,000 members worldwide. Rod’s business career spans fifty years and includes both marketing and general management positions with GKN, Bridon, Ellison, Senior Engineering and Phoenix Metal Products. He is currently chairman of the Gray Page group of companies.
Born in the Black Country, Rod left school at 15 and went on to gain an HNC in business studies and a diploma in marketing from Sandwell College He has been visiting speaker at Birmingham University, visiting lecturer at Wolverhampton Polytechnic and an external adviser at Aston University. Rod is trustee director of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents and a trustee of the Jubilee Sailing Trust. Rod has been a member of The Chartered Institute of Marketing for a number of years and held the position of chairman in 1994, before being appointed chief executive in 2007. |
