James Cooper

James is a Chartered Accountant and has worked as a plc director and Chief Executive. As well as having a strong financial and general management background, he is also an experienced trainer. James qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Baker Tilly.

He then moved into training, spending 7 years with Financial Training before joining BPP, Europe's largest quoted education group.

As a main board director of BPP, James was involved in the flotation of the company on the London Stock Exchange and subsequently played an active role in a number of corporate acquisitions and disposals. For the last 15 years, he has also been Chief Executive of the business education division of BPP. During this time, he was responsible for creating a network of over 30 training centres - in the UK and more recently in Europe and the Far East. Under his stewardship, divisional turnover and profits grew seventy fold.

James left BPP in 2003 to pursue a pluralist career. He is currently completing an Executive MBA from Warwick Business School.