Role in the Lloyd's Register Group

Ian is responsible for defining Management Systems/ LRQA strategy and ensuring the business plans of each business centre will achieve the strategic objectives on a global basis. His role is to oversee worldwide business development, the production of products portfolio and the definition of commercial, technical and marketing policy, giving direction for global capability and performance.

CV

Ian joined Lloyd's Register in 1984 as a Specialist Surveyor in the Quality Assurance Department, and transferred to the new venture LRQA Limited when it was set up a year later. For the next five years he undertook assessments of over three hundred companies. In the early 1990's his role was the development of LRQA services into new areas of industry and in particular the service sector.

As a member of the LRQA Senior Management Team, he played a key role in the devolvement of LRQA services into a global network. This included development of the LRQA Technical Committee set up to provide regulators with confidence in the integrity of LRQA services. In 1998 Ian was appointed Managing Director of LRQA Limited, charged with the responsibility of continued development of LRQA services as an integral element of the services provided by the Lloyd's Register Group.

In 2000 he became Management Systems Business Stream Director operating from the Business Stream Centre in Coventry and a member of the Lloyd's Register management team.

Previous employment
Ian's first appointment was with a valve manufacturer (Glenfield) in Scotland as Works Chemist and subsequently as Works Metallurgist. He moved to become Chief Metallurgist in an organisation producing steel forgings for the petro-chemical and power generation industries in the late 1970's. It was here, through the UK nuclear power programme, he first became involved with quality assurance.

Qualifications
Born in Lancashire UK in 1948 and brought up in Yorkshire where he was first educated at Bradford Grammar School, Ian Hodgskinson graduated from University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1969 with a degree in metallurgy.