I retired in 2024 after a 25 year career at the management consultants Accenture, where I was a Managing Director, working across multiple countries and projects, most recently helping set up a successful Engineering Services business. In retirement I am a Governor at 2 schools – Imberhorne and Lingfield College – which gives me a great opportunity to help improve the collaboration between State and Private Schools. My ambition in retirement is to give back to the state sector which educated me and help address some of the opportunity imbalance between state and privately equated pupils.
I also have a strong interest in encouraging more young people to train up in skilled trades where we lack sufficient workforce in the UK, from Engineering to Tradespeople. I am training up as a plumber myself and have established a local charity, Triple B Community Plumbers, which provides free and subsidised plumbing services to the elderly and social housing residents.