{"id":13435,"date":"2019-07-18T17:15:59","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T16:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ounews.co\/?p=13435"},"modified":"2019-07-18T17:15:59","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T16:15:59","slug":"business-and-laws-high-achieving-students-and-alumni-are-honoured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/business-law\/business-and-laws-high-achieving-students-and-alumni-are-honoured\/","title":{"rendered":"Business and Law\u2019s high-achieving students and alumni are honoured"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Open University Business and Law Schools celebrated their highest achieving students in a joint awards ceremony in Milton Keynes on Friday 12 July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The annual awards, bigger and better this year as the OU celebrates its 50th<\/sup> birthday, commended the exceptional achievements of high-calibre Business and Law students and graduates from the previous academic year. They also honoured some of the Business School\u2019s alumni who have made an outstanding contribution to an organisation or to society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year\u2019s winners were selected from thousands of candidates in dozens of countries. They were congratulated by Devendra Kodwani, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Business and Law (FBL) and Head of the OU Business School, together with fellow academics Mark Fenton-O\u2019Creevy and Simon Lee, at the OU\u2019s Walton Hall campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor Kodwani said: \u201cIt\u2019s a real privilege to meet so many of our talented Business and Law students and to celebrate their achievements and successes. These winning students have all distinguished themselves as the highest achievers in their qualification and fields with a real determination to succeed.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“We are also immensely proud of the achievements of our alumni who have demonstrated significant contributions to society, community or business. In this, the OU\u2019s 50th<\/sup> year, I wish all these deserved winners my warmest congratulations on their achievements and for continued success in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Open University Business School (OUBS) winners<\/h2>\n

The MBA Graduate of the year<\/em><\/strong> is Rob Crellin who is Head of Operations for one of the world\u2019s fastest-growing and dynamic Alternative Investment Fund Managers, Rokos Capital. He had previously become one of Barclays\u2019 youngest titles \u2013 a Vice President \u2013 in less than five years.<\/p>\n

\"Robert

Robert Crellin, MBA Graduate of the year<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Leadership & <\/em><\/strong>Management Student of the year: <\/em><\/strong>Stuart Sheldon<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professional Certificate in Management Student of the year:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Gerard Perryman<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professional Certificate in Accounting Student of the year:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Donna Young<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BA (Hons) Business Management Student of the year:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Adam Morris-Cope<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MBA Dissertation of the year:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Gillian Byrne<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MSc Human Resource Management (HRM) Graduate of the year:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Joanne Orr<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MSc Human Resource Management (HRM) Dissertation of the year:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Darren Gilmore<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MSc Finance Graduate of the year:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Jenny Rodgers<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

MSc Finance Dissertation of the year:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Thomas Holzer<\/p>\n

Visit the OUBS website for more information on the OUBS winners<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Open University Law School (OULS) winners<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Bachelor of Laws LLB:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Lucy Bessant<\/p>\n

Master of Laws LLM:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Nerys Davies<\/p>\n

Master of Laws Dissertation of the year:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Rebecca Senghore<\/p>\n

Tom Bingham Memorial Essay Prize:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>John Young<\/p>\n

The Open Justice Centre, which has worked to develop practical pro bono opportunities for OU Law students since it was launched in 2016, also presented six students with their awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Outstanding individual contribution to Open Justice<\/em><\/strong> was shared by Jamahl Peterkin and Ben Platts. Jamahl was one of the stars of a group project at HMP Foston Hall in Derbyshire, while Ben worked in Citizens Advice for one day a week for most of the module and reduced his working hours to four days a week so he can attend, at some financial cost to his family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best team contribution to Open Justice:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>William Pengcheng Gu, Aimee Foster, Hannah Vo and Alexandra Priestly<\/p>\n

Visit the OULS website for more information on the OULS winners<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Alumni Achievement Awards<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"Gerard

Gerard McGurk, Alumni of the year<\/p><\/div>\n

Gerard McGurk MBE who works for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office received the honour of Alumni of the year<\/em><\/strong>.<\/em> He is a diplomat with 30 years\u2019 foreign policy and leadership experience who is currently based at the British Embassy in Madrid. Gerard provides strategic direction for the delivery of high-quality consular services and real-time crisis responses across 37 diplomatic posts located in 17 countries from Portugal to Turkey. He was responsible for design and delivery of the overseas response to the Monarch Airlines collapse in 2017, returning 89,000 passengers from 34 locations. Gerard, who graduated with an MBA in 2012, is a member of The Open University Business School\u2019s Alumni Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Highly Commended<\/strong><\/em> in the Alumni of the Year category were Marianne Fennema, Gwyneth Letherbarrow and Carlo Stasi.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The awards also recognised the achievements of Tillmann Henssler, one of only 33 business school graduates worldwide honoured by AACSB International, the world\u2019s largest business education alliance, as the 2019 Class of Influential Leaders<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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