Andy Towse is a Senior Lecturer within the school of Leadership, Management and Marketing at De Montfort University.
With over 30 years industry experience in senior service industry roles with major global brands, his work has spanned sectors including retail, travel and tourism and financial services.
Andy brings significant practitioner experience to the development of learning in the General Management, Marketing and Innovation topic areas. Practitioner and academic experience has focused heavily on strategy, innovation linked to product and service development and customer management to drive organisational growth.
Current Postgraduate focus areas are leadership of innovation/business improvement modules for Executive Education and Apprenticeship programmes, plus delivery of the UK Government’s ‘Help to Grow’ programme for SME’s.
Andy leads Undergraduate programmes across Business & Marketing subjects, including Customer Relationship Management.
Andy holds an MBA (Dist), is a Chartered Marketer and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) where he was previously a board member, a Chartered Manager and Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute (CMI).