Team
Who is Who
John HIGHAM - Founder
John is an experienced PRINCE2 User (since 1996), Practitioner, turned examiner and assessor then trainer.
John has been involved in projects since 1989 and has had the opportunity to deal with large and complex programmes mainly in the Internet world. In fact, John’s first contact with the internet was in 1981 when, using the Arpanet, he helped setup a network connecting schools in Belgium and in the UK, develop bulletin boards, forums and email systems. A hobby at the time, he has since then helped the Internet grow by managing teams of project managers developing the global backbone networks at EMEA level as part of his position at UUNET (now Verizon).
Now, John focuses on helping organisations set up their PRINCE2 environment and guides their staff on the way to certification and use of the method.
Despite his english name, John is both a french and english native speaker and is also fluent in dutch. He can deliver trainings in those 3 languages.
His view is that training only has value if the knowledge acquired is applied appropriately within the organisation.
Colin BENTLEY - Mentor and Advisor
Colin Bentley is a foremost author of books on PRINCE2. His books have been used as explanatory texts on the method for some years and are acknowledged as preferred texts.
Colin has a wealth of background experience and skills that he brings to his writing on project management and PRINCE2. He has been a project manager since 1966 and has managed projects in a range of dimensions and in several countries.
He has been working with PRINCE2, PRINCE and its predecessor, PROMPT II, since 1975 and was one of the team that brought PROMPT II to the marketplace.
Colin wrote all the early versions of the PRINCE2 manual and was the lead reviewer and mentor to the 2009 revision to the PRINCE2 manual for the OGC.
He was the Chief Examiner for The APM Group until his retirement in 2008. In that role he set and supervised the marking of the examination papers in PRINCE2 for The APM Group and OGC. He has had over twenty books published, lectured widely on PRINCE2 and has acted as project management consultant to such firms as The London Stock Exchange, Microsoft Europe, Tesco Stores, Commercial Union and the BBC.
Vincent GUIHENEUC – Consultant and Trainer
Vincent Guiheneuc has been working as a Senior IT Consultant for the last 14 years. He is a member of the Expertise and publication committee of itSMF France and of the Publication committee of itSMF international and one of the founding members and former administrators of the itSMF France.
He is acknowledged by his peers as one of the ITIL expert and was admitted as « Member » of the Institute of IT Service Management (www.iosm.com).
As well as being a renowned consultant, he is also a trainer accredited by the APMG, EXIN and ISEB authorised to deliver ITIL v2 and v3 trainings in french and english. He works as a freelance in France and throughout EMEA.
Johann TERRIER – Consultant and Trainer
Johann TERRIER, graduate of the ICADE – Universidad Pontificia Comillas of Madrid in International Management, has been coaching businesses in need of growth and human resources optimisation, IT and Logistics for the last 6 years. Member of ITSMF France, he is very active in the West region of France. He gives trainings in Skills Management and Growth at various Business Schools.
Carla HIGHAM – Training manager
Carla deals with the organisation and coordination of trainings.
Born in Leiden (The Netherlands), Carla is a dutch native speaker, equally fluent in french and english.
She has a long experience in the editing world as she was photo editor for magazines. Organisation is Carla’s thing and you can always rely on her to ensure your training experience with Bizness Academy will be smooth.
If you have any questions about your training requirements, simply call Carla.