Keynote speakers
Tyrone O’Sullivan
Tyrone O’Sullivan was the National Union of Mineworkers Branch Secretary at Tower Colliery for over 20 years and led the workers buy-out of Tower Colliery in 1995 following the decision by British Coal to close the mine. The £2M required to buy the colliery was raised when each of the remaining 239 miners invested their £8,000 redundancy money into the venture.
Tower Colliery
remained profitable for the following 13 years providing much needed
jobs in the area. It recently closed after all the coal from the seams
had been worked out.
Tyrone O’Sullivan was awarded the OBE in 1996.
Andrew Davies AM
Andrew Davies is the Welsh Assembly Member for the Swansea West constituency and Minister for Finance and Public Service Delivery in the Welsh Assembly Government. Elected to the Assembly in 1999, he previously held the positions of Enterprise, Innovation and Networks Minister and was also eMinister in the Assembly Government with responsibility for co-ordinating the Assembly Government's ICT policy.
He is a former member of the Wales Labour Party Executive Committee and was a regional official with the Welsh Labour Party in the 1980s. He is a member of the Transport & General Workers' Union.
John Pepin
John Pepin (JPA Europe Limited Director) has over 15 years experience as a Chief Executive of a variety of charities; experience as a consultant including trading/social enterprise development and growth, revenue generation, collaboration/strategic alliances, governance, change management, and sales; and as a facilitator, trainer, mentor, board trustee and board chair; and he has published articles on social enterprise and venture philanthropy; research on collaboration in the non-profit sector; and a booklet providing guidance on social/commercial enterprise.
Peter Davies OBE
Peter Davies is the Sustainable Development Commission’s (SDC) Vice Chair for Wales. The Sustainable Development Commission is the independent advisory body on sustainable development to the UK Government and the Devolved Administrations.
Peter’s career background began in the education sector, initially as a teacher before being appointed Southern Area Director of the CBI Education Foundation. He was subsequently appointed by the DTI to set up the National Teacher Placement Service. It was here that he received an OBE in recognition for his work.
Peter also coordinates
the work of The Prince’s Charities in Wales
and is chair of the West Wales branch of The Institute of Welsh Affairs.
