Kurren is a marketing consultant and lecturer and has worked as marketing and sales director in the telecoms, new media, property and food sectors.  Kurren has wide international experience that includes posts in the UK, Iran and Dubai.  He holds an MA in Strategic Marketing Management from Kingston University and the CIM Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing.

Kurren lectures on a wide range of full and part time modules across all levels of the CIM and CAM programmes, including Customer Communications, Marketing Research and Information, Marketing Management in Practice and Managing Marketing Performance.