Gerald Michaluk

Gerald Michaluk is the Conservative Party candidate for the Ochil & South Perthshire seat at the 2010 General Election. Michaluk is the CEO of [[Marketing Management Systems International], a merketing consultancy with satellite offices in Chicago, Houston and Silicon Valley. He is also a "high profile member" of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. In 1996 he was listed as a spokesman for Scottish Track Renewal Company. Marketing Management Systems International won a £500,000 contract to conduct customer research for Tandem Computers in 1998.

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

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.

US Treatment of Prisoners

In 2002 Michaluk wrote to The Herald regarding U.S. treatment of al Qaeda prisoners, he concluded:

GPW Article 3 requires that insurgent captives be humanely treated and forbids violence to life and person; in particular murder, mutilation, cruel treatment, and torture. It is quite clear the US Army is not breaching the rules in this regard; however, the article further forbids committing of outrages upon personal dignity, taking hostages, passing of sentences, and execution without prior judgment by a regularly constituted court. While some may argue that photographs depict a violation of personal dignity, all in all the US is not even close to breaching Article 3; none the less, the international community is watching and the US Army by not paying attention to its own policy documents has as they noted provided grist for al Qaeda's propaganda mill.

Iraq Business Intrests

According to a report in The Herald:

US plans to invade Iraq have proved a godsend for Managing Marketing Services (MMS), a Glasgow-based marketing consultancy which is helping military intelligence services analyse battlefield information. The company was forced to shelve a planned flotation last year and suffered a hammer blow when Compaq, its largest client, was taken over by Hewlett Packard. Military work is booming now and MMS is considering two bid approaches from US companies keen to gain control of its sophisticated analysis software. Sums of up to £6m are being talked about as defence forces around the world knock on the company's door, seeking help to analyse satellite data, avoid naval minefields and interpret the sounds picked up by clandestine listening devices.

"If we are bought, it will be in the next two to three months," said Gerald Michaluk, MMS managing director, who still harbours hopes of being able to grow the business independently.

MMS and its offshore subsidiaries generate global revenues of nearly (pounds) 4m and employ 24 people around the world, from Scotland to the US, Pakistan and rebel-controlled areas of northern Iraq. These are backed up by a team of 150 part-time researchers.

Affiliations

Conservative Party | Marketing Management Systems International | Chartered Institute of Marketing | Scottish Track Renewal Company