Through a buy-out in 1990, the branch separated from DDB Needham and became International Pacific Consulting (IPC) which would later be renamed to Oxford Leadership Academy.
In 2007 their client list included corporations such as Ford, Ericsson, Coca-Cola, BP, Horwath International, Barclays, Unilever, McDonald's, Sandvik, GE, Fortis, Pharmacia, SAAB, British Aerospace and Volvo.
[6] In 2020 Brian Bacon stated on Linkedin that through their digital courses that Oxford Leadership Academy has been engaging with new clients such as Virgin Media, Sky, Adobe, HSBC, Imperial College, Maersk, Everest, Computacenter and JCET.
He was previously a senior executive with French multinational Pernod Ricard in Asia before joining Oxford Leadership as Director of Client service in 2009.
He is a former visiting scholar at the International Institute of Labour Studies in Geneva and has been an advisor to the governments of Australia, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Thailand and Sweden.
The Supervisory Board of Oxford Leadership Academy comprises Brian Bacon (Chairman) UK, Andre Bischoff (Commercial Director) UK, Cyril Legrand (CEO) France, Thomas Hurley (President USA), Juan Carlos Murillo (President Mexico), Ken O'Donnell (Vice Chair Latin America) Brazil, Juan Rovira (Vice Chair Iberia) Spain, Dr Kim Moller (President Nordic) Denmark, Lasse Wrennmark (Head of Leadership Training)Sweden, Kazemaru Yukawa-Bacon(Zenergy Academy Division) USA, Dr Erika Kleestorfer (Senior Fellow) Austria.