Ian ODonnell MBE – Roles as Director, Non-Exec, Lecturer, SME Advocacy

Exec Business Roles

• 2001 – present: Director, Real Point Design & Real Point Business Technology
• 1993 – 2001: Sole Trader

Non-Exec & Trustee Roles

• 2024 – present: Non-Exec Director, Engage Dementia
• 2018 – 2021 & 2023 – 2026: FSB Non-Exec Director
• 2018 – present: Non-Exec Director, Arden:Twenty – T/A connectMyClub
• 2015 – present: Trustee of Lapworth Community Church
• 2007 – 2016: Director and Chair of Five of Hearts (charity)

Small Business Advocacy Roles

• 2026: Chair of SME Emissions Reporting Group – Comittee of Net Zero Council
• 2024- present: Project Perseus Council (also member of Delivery Oversight Committee)
• 2025: Member of 2030 Clean Power Supply Chain Forum
• 2024 – present: SME Digital Adoption Task Force (Department for Business and Trade)
• 2022 – present: FSB Deputy Chair of UK Policy
• 2022 – present: FSB Policy Champion for Sustainability and Net Zero
• 2021 – 2022: FSB Chair of English Policy Unit
• 2019 – present: UKAS Policy Advisory Council
• 2016 – 2020: FSB WMCA Policy Lead
• 2010-2016: Various local FSB roles in Coventry and Warwickshire

Lecturing

• 2016 – present: Entrepreneurship Lecturer at School of Management, Coventry University