Raymond Bradforth was born in Yorkshire, and for the next thirty years lived in various parts of the country before finally settling in Surrey. His management experience covered over twenty-five years as a manager in industry, in business and consultancy, in processing, production, construction, and information systems and technology in the UK. His twenty-five years’ teaching experience as a college and university business school lecturer and tutor covered management, business, marketing, management information systems, computing, and six years in research. This was followed by ten years as an EU management adviser during which time he made fifty visits to companies throughout Eastern Europe. He was educated in production at Birmingham University, in management and business studies at Aston College of Advanced Technology, at Edinburgh University as a Diploma in Management student, as a graduate by examination of the British Institute of Management, at Cranfield College of Aeronautics as a research fellow, and at Henley the Management College where he gained a Master’s degree, and later became a Doctor of Philosophy.