CURRICULUM VITAE

Career Outline:

Mr McCann gained a grade "A" A’level in Computer Science at the age of 14 and, before taking his first degree, gained computing experience working for a commercial software house for two years. After graduating, he worked for the Small Business Research Centre in Cambridge before moving to Graham Bannock and Partners Limited (GB&P - now Bannock Consulting Ltd) in early 1991, where he stayed until May 1996.

Responsibilities included:

• analysis and report writing for regular surveys of business confidence.
• management of the collection and analysis of statistics for the European, British and French Venture Capital Associations’ Reports on Investment Activity. These annual reports present authoritative figures for fund-raising and investment activity of venture capitalists in 17 European countries.

Other work undertaken included:

• for the European Commission, whole economy estimates of the total number of firms in the UK and their distribution by sector and employment size band.
• for the UK Department of Employment and the Department of Trade and Industry, similar estimates for the size distribution of UK firms.
• establishment of a new journal, the NatWest Review of Small Business Trends, containing statistics relevant to the small business sector.
• ad-hoc economic analysis and statistical support and project management for other Graham Bannock and Partners Ltd projects, with clients ranging from various DGs of the European Commission to the Brewers’ Society.

In May 1996, Mr McCann left GB&P to found his own consultancy, McCannics. Through GB&P he retains responsibility for the production of the NatWest/Small Business Research Trust Quarterly Survey of Small Business in Britain, the 3i Enterprise Barometer, the NatWest Survey of Smaller Exporters and the Association of British Insurers’ Quarterly Inflation Report. McCannics has also carried out other economic research projects, including, with Profundus Consulting, a study on segmenting the European SME Telecomms Market.

McCannics has also established itself as a web-site design company. Its first major commission was the Central Banking site (www.centralbanking.co.uk). In July 1997 McCannics also launched the isurvey (formerly the e-survey), a monthly survey of UK businesses, carried out by e-mail and published on the web (at www.isurvey.co.uk).

"How Many Small Firms?" (with Michael Daly), in Employment Gazette, February 1992

"The UK Enterprise Population, 1979-91", in NatWest Review of Small Business Trends, June 1993, reprinted in Small Business Statistics, Paul Chapman Publishing, 1994

"More Small Firms?", in NatWest Review of Small Business Trends, June 1994

"Estimating the Number of UK Exporters", in NatWest Review of Small Business Trends, June 1995

"A Business Register - the way to count small businesses", in NatWest Review of Small Business Trends, December 1995

"Adding Value to Business Intelligence Data Through The Use Of Modelling Techniques", paper presented to conference, Business Intelligence Strategies in Telecomms, IIR Limited, 24^th October 1996

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