Roy BUTCHER is currently the Academic Dean at London School of Business and Finance and local Program Director. He is Principal Lecturer in Information Systems and leads the academic subject group in Business Operations. During his 25 years in the university sector, he has been involved in the development, management and delivery of many postgraduate academic programs and in-company training courses for corporate clients. He has undertaken an extensive range of consulting projects in both the private and public sector in the UK, Europe and Middle East. He lectures in the fields of information strategy, IT infrastructure development, information systems development methodologies, e-business and databases.