Gerald Michaluk
Gerald Michaluk is the Conservative Party candidate for the Ochil & South Perthshire seat at the 2010 General Election[1]. Michaluk is the CEO of [[Marketing Management Systems International], a merketing consultancy with satellite offices in Chicago, Houston and Silicon Valley[2]. He is also a "high profile member" of the Chartered Institute of Marketing[3][4]. In 1996 he was listed as a spokesman for Scottish Track Renewal Company[5]. Marketing Management Systems International won a £500,000 contract to conduct customer research for Tandem Computers in 1998[6].
Nuclear Power
In an article co-authored with Faisal Choudry in the Glasgow Herald Michaluk argued:
- The argument for nuclear generation is that it produces no greenhouse gases, is efficient and offers high capacity. Against this is set the waste, the decommissioning problem, and public opinion. Wind farms, hydro-electric schemes and solar power have their advantages and disadvantages. They are renewable and non-polluting, but they offerlittle capacity and long time scales for return on investment. These renewable sources also have opponents - after all who wants to look out onto a sea of windmills, and to generate the nuclear equivalent there would have to be seas of windmills. Finally, our traditional fuels - oil, gas and coal - all generate greenhouse gases. There is no easy answer. However, all energy experts agree that a diversity of power sources is desirable. The door has been opened for nuclear energy to be considered once again as one of these sources[7]
Oil Industry Business Connections
According to a 2001 report in the Aberdeen Press & Journal:
- The UK's eighth-largest marketing firm yesterday said it was looking for offices in Aberdeen as part of plans to expand its energy-consultancy operations, possibly creating up to 150 jobs. Glasgow-based Marketing Management Services International (MMSI), which employs about 170, is in talks with Aberdeen's council to find a city-centre location and hopes to move into a site next year. Managing director Gerald Michaluk correct said MMSI, which advises companies on business strategy, wanted to recruit former oil executives to become consultants as well as recent graduates for junior consultant posts and students for part-time work[8].
Affiliations
Conservative Party | Marketing Management Systems International | Chartered Institute of Marketing | Scottish Track Renewal Company
Notes
- ↑ People, Gerald Michaluk, The Conservatives, Accessed 03-March-2010
- ↑ Sharon Ward, A MAN ON A MARKETING MISSION, Scotland on Sunday, 11-November-2001
- ↑ MMSI, Welcome to MMSI, Marketing Managements Systems International, Accessed 03-March-2010
- ↑ Beverley Lyons, Rising Empire, The Herald, 21-August-1995
- ↑ Other News, Scottish track renewal firm expands with jobs in South, Construction News, 9-May-1996
- ↑ Kirstey Dorsey, BUSINESS: TANDEM RESEARCH CONTRACT SECURED BY MMS: CONSULTANCY, The Herald, 19-February-1998
- ↑ Faisal Choudry & Gerald Michaluk, Necessity provokes opposite reaction: Energy Minister Brian Wilson is visiting Washington to study US pro-nuclear energy policy. Gerald Michaluk and Faisal Choudhry say Britain may soon contemplate construction of new power plants, The Herald, 11-July-2001
- ↑ msimlett, Marketing, Aberdeen Press & Journal, 17-October-2001
