Dennis Sherwood is currently the managing director of The Silver Bullet Machine Manufacturing Company Limited, specializing in creativity, innovation, and systems thinking.

His previous positions include:

-- Consulting Partner, Deloitte Haskins + Sells, and subsequently Coopers & Lybrand

-- Executive Director, Goldman Sachs

-- Managing Director, UK operations, SRI Consulting (Stanford Research Institute).

He has been using systems thinking since 1984 and is one of the UK's leading experts.

He is the author of many journal articles, and their modern equivalent, blogs. In addition, he has authored 14 books on a variety of subjects, including systems thinking, creativity, innovation, and financial modelling.

He holds a degree from Cambridge (Natural Sciences, Part II Physics) as well as an MPhil from Yale (Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry) and a Ph.D. from the University of California at San Diego (Biology). He is a Sloan Fellow (with distinction) of London Business School.