Stephen O'Regan

Stephen O'Regan

Dr

  • 213 Queen's Building, Southlands

20182018

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Personal profile

Biography

Dr Stephen O'Regan is a former economist for the Australian Treasury ( Annual Budget and Finance).  After postgraduate studies in Economics,  Information Technology in Australia and an MBA with distinction at Warwick University Business School Stephen joined a start-up Management Consultancy.

This led to senior consulting practice management and business development roles for Texas Instruments, Computer Associates and Micro Focus. Stephen served as Country Manager in Denmark and Regional Director for EMEA. Qualifying as a Chartered Marketer Stephen was awarded Fellowship of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.

Stephen O'Regan became a full-time academic in 2008 completing a PhD in Economics in 2016 at the University of Reading/Henley Business School.  Stephen has given several conference papers on Entrepreneurial decision making. 

While at the University of Roehampton Stephen has been awarded over £150,000 in grants and contributes regularly to consultancy, bids and other business engagement projects for the Business School.

Qualifications

Academic:

PhD University of Reading/Henley Business School.

PG Certificate of Education University of Greenwich.

MBA (Distinction) University of Warwick Business School.

PG Diploma Information Systems University of Canberra.

BA (Hons) Economics Lancaster University.

Professional:

Chartered Marketer.

Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Research interests

Behavioural Economics

Serial Entrepreneurship.

International and Global Business Development.

Start-Up Venture Funding and Development

 

Research projects

1)    O’Regan, S. (2019) Serial Founder Entrepreneurs: Are they different from Portfolio Entrepreneurs? BAM Conference Birmingham September.

2)    Declan S. Meng, L O'Regan S. (2018) Makerspaces as an incubation model: implications for policy and practice. ISBE Conference - Birmingham City University.

3)    O’Regan, S. (2017) Serial Founder Entrepreneurs: Toward a Theory of Serial Entrepreneurship Presented at the ISBE Conference Belfast December. (Nominated for Best Track Paper).

4)   O’Regan, S. (2015) Life in the Corridor: Venture Selection by Serial Starter Entrepreneurs. Presented at the ISBE Conference Glasgow December.

Working Papers

  • O’Regan, S. Serial Founder Entrepreneurs: Entry and Re-entry Strategies 
  • O'Regan, S. How do Successful Entrepreneurs Think? 
  • O'Regan, S. A Theory of Serial Diversification 

 

Professional affiliations

Chartered Marketer and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing

Consultancy work

Stephen's consultancy projects span a wide range of international companies including Shell, Rolls Royce Aerospace, Lloyds TSB, Maersk Containers, Statoil, Deutsche Bank, Guinness Group, EADS Aerospace, Telenor and Tele Danmark. Stephen's consultancy, business development and management roles for Texas Instruments, Computer Associates and Micro Focus have taken him around the world including responsibility for country operations in the UK and Denmark and regional responsibility for Europe, Middle East and Africa. Stephen has delivered numerous strategic projects covering stock exchanges, global shipping logistics, bond trading, national citizen identity management, customer loyalty, customer relationship management and retail banking. These include a number of world firsts such as the first paperless national share and bond register and the first global point to point shipping container tracking system.

In higher education Stephen has won funding and delivered two consultancy projects for HEFCE (JISC) on the application of new techonology to enhance business community engagement by UK universities.