Mr. Colin Tilley has been Board Member of Unilava Corporation, Inc. for four years. He has over 30 years of general management experience. Having started his career in municipal government in London, where he rose to the position of Deputy Director, he went to work for international management consultants Pannell Kerr Forster Associates (PKFA) as a senior management consultant for five years. He left to establish the first of two companies he has successfully co-founded. The first, Whiteley International, was a management consultancy of which he was a partner for some 12 years, which specialised in strategy development, business planning, organizational reviews and business monitoring and evaluation. During this time, he also co-founded Creating Excellence, a multi-faceted management and marketing company, with UK clients such as Nike, Reuters, the BBC, Comic Relief, Sport England, UK Sport and the British Heart Foundation. He has been involved in all aspects of the business, especially strategic direction, business planning and development and client development. He remains as a director of that organization in a mainly non-executive capacity. In 2004, he formed Tilley and Associates, to offer consultancy and interim management services.
In a non-executive capacity, Mr. Tilley has been appointed twice to the boards of The Princess Alexandra Acute Hospital Trust in the UK and the World Leisure Organization, which is a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) of the United Nations. In 2006, he was appointed to the board of Usport at the University of Sheffield in the UK. He has co-authored two books and numerous articles on many aspects of management, especially leadership and motivation.
Mr. Tilley has a Bachelor of Education (Hons) degree from Loughborough University in the UK and a Masters degree in management from the University of Oregon, USA.