Executive experience with Air Products and FTSE 100 private equity 3i Group plc where he was Communications Director, a member of its Operating committee and Chair of its Operational Risk forum.
Member of the Higgs review and author of the award winning “Boards” he has also helped to establish many successful courses on board skills. Co-author of Five Generations at Work: How We Win Together, For Good.
Visiting Professor at Cranfield School of Management and former member of the General Council of the University of Warwick.
Founding Chair of social mobility charity the EY Foundation, Chaired the youth and conflict charity Leap Confronting Conflict and was founder of Warwick in Africa and ESSA both active in education and youth employability in Africa.
Awarded an OBE in the King’s 2023 Birthday Honours list for services to charity and philanthropy in Africa and the UK.
Experienced Chair, Serial social entrepreneur, VC and PE Investor. Chair of board consultancy Boardelta and the charities Royal Voluntary Service and ESSA- Education Sub Saharan Africa.
