BRIEF INFORMATION ON REASEHEATH COLLEGE

BOARD MEMBERS

Nicholas Carey (Dr)

Appointed from 1 April 2001. Currently Vice Chair of the Board and Chair of the Quality and Standards Committee.

Director General of the City & Guilds of London Institute from 1993-2001 prior to which Managing Director of ICI Petrochemicals & Plastics Business. Chairman of Llandudno Dwellings Company.

Member of the Chemical Society, Royal Society of Arts and City & Guilds Association.

Trustee of the Guild of Educators Charitable Trust.

Chairman of the Alzheimer’s Society.

Chairman of Alzheimer’s Brain Bank (UK).

Financial Advisor to the NFWI.

Meredydd David

(Principal & Chief Executive)

Appointed from 10 May 2004. Previously Vice Principal at Sparsholt College, Hampshire and Faculty Manager at Carmarthenshire College of Technology and Art.

Member of the Institute of Agricultural Management, National Farmers’ Union, City and Guilds and National Proficiency Test Council, LSC Employer Task Group, Principals’ Forum North West Region, North West Rural Business Sector Advisory Group, Cheshire Strategic Partnership, Cheshire Rural Enterprise. Board Member of LANDEX, LANTRA Council Member and Member of Board of Directors and Chair of the Audit Committee LSIS. North West Rural Affairs Executive Member.

Carrie de Silva

Appointed from 1 September 2006.

Principal Lecturer (Law and Taxation), Placement Co-ordinator and Post-Graduate Co-ordinator – Land Management at Harper Adams University College.

ASET (Association for Sandwich Education and Training) – Advisory Board Member.

Member of the Agricultural Law Association, Association of Law Teachers, Society of Legal Scholars and British Agricultural History Society, Association of Taxation Technicians, Equine and Animal Lawyers Association. Farmers’ Club member.

Academic member of the Central Association of Agricultural Valuers.

Jon Furber

Appointed September 2008.

Finance Director at AppSense Limited, a company that specialises in the development, sales, marketing and support of user virtualisation software solutions.

Previously partner in family agricultural contracting business.

Qualified as a Chartered Accountant at KPMG.

Honorary Treasurer of Cheshire Federation of Young Farmers’ Clubs.

Roly Griffiths

(Staff member)

Appointed September 2008 – nominated by business support staff of the College.

Currently part-time Student Warden.

Previously Police Officer with Metropolitan and Cheshire Police.

Chairman of Reaseheath Club.

Melvin Johnson

(Staff Member)

Appointed September 2007 – nominated by teaching staff of the College.

Section Manager – Adventure Sport, Construction and Engineering – previously employed at Walford College.

Member of the Institution of Agricultural Engineers (MIAgrE).

External Verifier for EDEXCEL.

Member of IAgrE Executive Committee and Council Education and Training Committee.

Additional Ofsted Inspector (contracted to cfbt)

Chairman of the Institution of Agricultural Engineers (IAgrE) ‘Education & Training Committee’.

Denis Parton

Appointed from 1 September 2000 and nominated by the Cheshire Agricultural Society. Self Employed Farmer. Council Member of the Cheshire Agricultural Society. Member of the National Farmers’ Union. Fellow of the Royal Agricultural Societies.

Gavin Patience

Appointed from 1 September 2009.

Employed Solicitor, Knights LLP.

Member of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Trust and Estate Practitioners, Ecclesiastical Law Society, Agricultural Law Association, North Staffs Law Society, Country Landowners Association.

HND in Professional Horticulture.

Visiting Lecturer, Harper Adams University College.

John B Platt

Appointed on 1 September 1992 but served previously on former Governing Body. Former Chair of the Board.

Self employed Dairy Farmer and Breeder of High Genetic Holstein cattle. Past Chairman of Cheshire Agricultural Society.

Chief Executive of the Cheshire County Show Committee.

Deputy Lieutenant of Cheshire.

President of Mid-Cheshire Sheltered Workshop.

Member of numerous committees.

Fellow of the Royal Agricultural Societies.

Richard Ratcliffe

Appointed from 1 September 2004. Vice Chair of the Board. Chair of the Finance and General Purposes Committee and the Estates Development and Property Group.

Self-employed Farmer.

Member and former President of the British Grassland Society.

Member of the British Cattle Breeders Club, National Farmers’ Union, Country Land and Business Association and L.E.A.F.

Rose Rowland

Appointed from 1 September 2010.

Self-employed Partner at Howard Worth Chartered Accountants. Lady Chairman of Cheshire Rural Business Women. Vice President of Cheshire Agricultural Society. Trustee of various trusts.

Member of Institute of Chartered Accountants, UK 200 Group of Accountants, Institute of Tax Facility, and Women in Rural Enterprise.

Penny Rudd

Appointed from 1 January 2001. Currently Chair of Remuneration Committee.

Currently employed by The North of England Zoological Society as “Registrar and Research Co-ordinator”. Has been employed by NEZS since June 1981, previously as Personnel Manager, Administrative Manager of Animal Division and Editor of Zoo Magazine.

Membership of: World Wide Fund for Nature, Fauna & Flora International, Cheshire Wildlife Trust, International Fund for Animal Welfare, Galapagos Conservation Society, British Chelonia Group, National Canine Defence League, Blue Cross.

Emily Thrane

Appointed from 1 August 2002. Chair of the Board. Chair of the Quality and Standards Committee and the Search and Governance Committee.

Until March 2002 Assistant Director – FE. Support at Learning + Skills Council and served in a number of senior posts in the national predecessor organisation, the Further Education Funding Council. Previous positions were in local government including County Education Officer (Community Services) with Cheshire County Council.

Elected to High Peak Borough Council in May 2007. Deputy Leader and Executive Councillor for Corporate Services until May 2011. Board Member of High Peak Community Housing. Member of East Midlands Arts Council, Derbyshire Historic Buildings Trust, Buxton Civic Association and Chapel and District Riding Club.

Stephen Wilkinson

Appointed from 1 September 2000 and currently nominated by Cheshire East Council. Chair of the Audit Committee.

Retired self-employed farmer.

Former Chairman of Cheshire County Council.

National Farmers’ Union Countryside Member.

Vice President and Council Member of Cheshire Agricultural Society.

Member of Tatton Park Board.

Natalie Wurmli

Appointed from 1 September 2009.

Employed as Group HR Director at First Milk Limited. Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and Institute of Directors. Worked in dairy industry for 25 years.

Pippa Jenkins

(Student Member)

Eliza Waldron

(Student Member)

Officers of the Board

Graeme Lavery

(Director of Finance)

Officer of the Board from 1 December 2008. Previously Director of Corporate Services at the Welsh College of Horticulture and Senior Finance Manager at Welsh Funding Council.

Fellow of the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants (FCCA), Associate Member of the Society of Operational Engineers (AMSOE) and Associate Member of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers (AMIRTE).

Dave P Kynaston

(Vice Principal)

Officer of the Board from 1 September 2001, but previously the Teaching Staff nominee from 1 September 1993.

Currently Vice Principal of the College having previously been Head of Engineering & Construction Sector.

Chairman of the Engineering Colleges Consortium. GNVQ adviser to the Association of Lecturers in Agricultural Engineering.

Member of a number of professional and local organisations.

Margaret Hutchinson

(Clerk to the Board

40% contract)

Clerk to the Board from 1 January 2011. Previously Clerk to the Corporation, Bolton College, 2009 – 2010.

Clerk to the Board, Salford College, December 2002 – May 2010.

Former Assistant Chief Executive (Public and Staff Relations) with the awarding body, NEAB, now AQA.

Rotary District Governor for District 1050, 1 July 2010 – 1 July 2011.

Member of the Rotary Club of Manchester Breakfast.

Chair of Governors at Ashgate Specialist Support School, Wythenshawe.

School Governor at Flixton Junior School.

Magistrate on Manchester Bench.

Examinations Inspector with JCQ.