CIR

Justin founded Cambridge Investment Research (CIR) in 2001. In 2010, he continues to direct the company. A list of research and business papers by Justin is here.
Justin enjoys walking, cycling and skiing. He and his wife have two sons, and live in Cambridge.

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Mike McCreary

Mike has been a CIR Associate Consultant since 2004. Mike creates value for CIR clients in the areas of high value manufacturing, particularly in electronics and instrumentation. In 1992, Mike joined Aeroflex (formerly IFR and Marconi Instruments) as Manufacturing Director. He served his Apprenticeship at Standard Telephones and Cables, then working for Marconi Avionics, Hunting Engineering and Rank Xerox. After his role as Manufacturing Director, Mike was appointed as Managing Director in 2000. He is married with two grown-up daughters and enjoys golf, hill walking, reading and music.

Nick Coutts

Nick has been a CIR Strategy Consultant since 2008. Nick is working in our team on energy efficiency and stakeholder modelling so as to enable larger organisations executives to optimise the problem of minimising energy use, emissions, and cost of energy, as well as cost of energy management. He also advises on printing and ICT sector consulting projects CIR has taken on. Amongst other aspects in a long career, as Vice President, Global Distribution Channel Strategy for IBM, he was responsible for channel strategy and development and the effective use of distribution channels for IBM around the world. Nicholas has a masters degree in economics taken in 1975-1978. He is married with two grown-up daughters and enjoys motorcycling and flying.

CIR open collaboration

As a dynamic, flexible, service company, CIR has a number of two-way agreements with partner expert consultants and analysts. These partners are themselves independent companies or individual consultants. They are mainly based in the Cambridge, East Anglia, and London areas. CIR has agreements with printing, displays, electronics, sustainable and high-value manufacturing, small-scale technology, energy, biotech, and ICT industry experts. It forms teams in these sectors, to solve the problems, most often, of technology and brand-owner companies or their supporters. CIR also has good connections with investors: ranging from business angel, venture capitalist, private equity, and corporate investors.

As a well-connected virtual company, CIR can expand quickly for bigger projects. The company tries to make its 'footprint', as well as its internal structure, more and more efficient, embracing step changes like those of its clients' innovations. CIR and its shareholders themselves do not own any other shares or securities, nor do they plan to: so both upstream and downstream, ownership is kept simple. And CIR has been fortunate to have a spread of clients, some listed below. When not working on client projects or marketing, the company's team will be networking, training or learning.
CIR offers solutions at high levels of rigour, but at business speed and focus.

Summary

These factors help CIR to add the greatest improvement the client condition: in particular, the highest value created compared to price of project, most independent, unbiased, and flexible.

Example A-Z of CIR Ltd's Clients

A - Amadeus Capital Partners Ltd;
B - BMW Group; Bluegnome Ltd; BCI Electronics Ltd; BPAE; BritonEMS Ltd;
C - Cambridge Display Technology plc; Cambridge Silicon Radio plc; Cambridge Broadband; Close Brothers Private Equity; Cambridge Consultants; Cambridge Design Partnership; Cube 6 Comms; Cametrics Ltd;
D - Domino Printing Sciences; Diboride Semiconductors Ltd; Dystar AG; Deloitte & Touche; Datel
E - Epson (UK) Ltd; East of England International; EEDA; EEF; EDF Energy;
F - Fujifilm Electronic Imaging; Fujifilm Photo Film; Ferro Ltd; First Capital;
G - Golden Web; Glunz & Jensen; GB Innomech Ltd; Greater Cambridge Partnership; GO-East; Green Energy Options Ltd;
H - Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG; HSBC Bank plc;
I - Inkski Ltd; INNOS Ltd; Institute for Manufacturing, Cambridge University; i10; IET;
J - Jaltek Ltd;
L - Lemur Software; Linx Printing Technologies Ltd; London Stock Exchange plc;
M - Marshall Motor Gp, Marshall Specialist Vehicles; Marshall Aerospace;
N - Norgren Ltd; Nordson UV Ltd; Nanosight Ltd; NPL; NH3 Ltd;
O - Oxford Diffraction; Oxford CC; OXON CC;
P - Plastic Logic Ltd; PIRA Printing Research;
Q - Qinetic Nanomaterials;
R - Rapidguard Ltd;
S - Spectra Inc; Smith & Nephew plc; Siemens; SDA; SEEDA;
T - Thomas Swan Scientific; Thomas Swan; Thermoteknix; Teich AG;
U - UKTI;
V - Virata plc;
W - WestLB Panmure; WACOM Europe plc;
X - Xaar plc; XJTAG Ltd;
Z - Zeiss SMT Ltd;