HIGH PERFORMANCE DEVELOPMENT - Key Persons
Alan is one of the leading practitioners and consultants to Olympic sports, designing and delivering world leading development programmes and systems for elite coaches. He has supported, trained and worked with over 500 high performance coaches, achieving over 19 Gold medals (30 in total) across 5 Olympic Games.
Alan has spent a lifetime working and training specialists to operate in unpredictable environments, initially as helicopter aircrew; commando qualified, trained by the SAS as a survival instructor, a mountaineer and infantry officer. It was then that he made the leap into performance sport, training as a sport psychologist specialising in skill acquisition and decision-making. Since then, he has been working in the heart of Team GB performance sport, training high performance managers, coaches and athletes to apply decision-making principles with gold winning successes from Sydney to Rio.
Alan now has extended his work to include aspiring businesses wanting to get the best from their teams. He leads a small unique team of performance specialists with the ability to accelerate teamwork and leadership in the workplace. We make these leaps by creating powerful learning environments that accelerate emotional intelligence, decision-making and performance cultures. Any of these on their own can make a short-term improvement but when combined they create a powerful formula for high performance and sustained success.
When not in work you'll find Alan racing a hydrofoil sailing dinghy, hanging off a rock face or adventure racing with his daughter and dog in tow. Failing that he believes a restorative cup of tea and a calming yoga session will help to align the universe.
Anna has twenty years experience in training, coaching, sales, customer service and business management. Anna has supported contracts for Lucozade Ribena Suntory as National Training Manager, ASDA and Proctor and Gamble as Operations Executive for field marketing, Pearson Education and most recently Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Ltd.
Years of delivering training and coaching lead Anna to formally study with CIPD in 2017 to achieve her qualification in Learning and Development. Anna became a Queen Scout (equivalent to Gold DofE) in 1998 and has continued in Scouting, currently an Assistant Cub Scout Leader.
She also supports the local schools and youth groups believing in sharing skills with younger generations for the future. After four years living in South Carolina, USA, Anna now lives with her family on the Sussex coastline and loves cars, movies and playing her guitar.
Job Titles:
- Consultant and Motivational Speaker
Forming and leading a team competing in the world's toughest yacht race was a challenge in itself for Clive. The Southern Ocean tested him and his crew beyond anything they could have prepared for, challenging their resolve. Team Stelmar went on to win the Trans-Atlantic leg, capitalising on their experience of adversity, and turn it into victory. Clive tells of building the team, leading them against the odds and how they came through their challenges to achieve this result.
Since the Global Challenge, Clive has gone on to lead other teams competing afloat and, having drawn out the leadership lessons from skippering Team Stelmar in the 2004-2005 Global Challenge, brings his leadership experience and skills to life in the classroom. Recounting the hard learnt critical leadership lessons, tough decision making and inspirational leadership in adversity to multinational, corporate audiences.
Prior to the Global Challenge Clive was involved in a number of other offshore races, leading from the front and even leading from a desk with a career in BT sales team. He lives near the water with his family in Hampshire, UK.
Job Titles:
- Consultant and Motivational Speaker
Damian Cottle has 15 years and thousands of hours of flying experience as a pilot and training officer with British Airways. He draws on his own experience, as well as using dramatic footage, alongside examples and case studies from the aviation industry that make a compelling case for a seismic change in the way many of our professions, institutions and organisations are run, and indeed the way we respond to mistakes in our day to day lives.
Damian will encourage you to question the validity of your assumptions about what works and what doesn't, as well as commonly held perceptions of success and failure.
He will focus on key areas such as decision making, error management and a positive reporting culture. Damian will demonstrate why good communication, open reporting and honest evaluation are critical to continual improvement and success and how the aviation industry has confronted failure and learnt from mistakes, making flying the safest form of travel in the world today.
Damian's thought-provoking, insightful and interactive sessions demonstrate our need to challenge commonly held beliefs and even embrace failure, because that is critical to ongoing development and ultimate success.
Dee Caffari sailed into the record books on 18 May 2006. Dee became the first woman to circumnavigate the world ‘the wrong way' against the prevailing winds and currents, solo, non-stop. It is an extraordinary achievement. Only four men have ever managed to finish this route before. Dee's courage, determination and motivation to complete the 29,100 mile voyage that took her nearly six months to complete has inspired many. Her imaginative descriptions of the wildlife, the conditions and the tough challenges she faced won Dee many fans world-wide as they logged-on to check her honest, and often very humorous, entries in her daily online diary onboard her yacht Aviva.
A former schoolteacher, Dee's life changed dramatically when she dared to follow her dream and her love of the sea and become a skipper. In no less than five years, Dee had proven her skills and talents and risen to the top of a very male-dominated profession. Her gregarious, engaging character and her ability to lead and bring out the very best in others became apparent when she was selected to lead a team of amateurs in the tough Global Challenge Yacht Race in 2004/5. The only woman skipper in the race, Dee inspired her crew of 18 by handling the demanding and often frightening conditions of the Southern Ocean. During this leg of the race, Dee oversaw the largest ocean rescue in that area when one of her crew-members had to be airlifted off the yacht. Dee's leadership skills saved his life. Dee won a coveted BP Safety Prize as well as a Media Prize for her ability to write with refreshing candour and creativity in the daily log.
Dee knows the importance of having self-belief and facing your fears. And she knows how important inspirational mentors can be. For Dee, her late father remains one of the most significant figures in her life, not only for giving her a love of the ocean but also for giving her the confidence to take on Nature at her most frightening, and yet her most beautiful, alone at sea. (At one point in Dee's solo circumnavigation, the nearest people to her were Astronauts on the International Space Station.)
Dee was born in Hertfordshire and now lives in Southampton. Dee trained and worked as a schoolteacher for several years before moving on to manage a Sports College. With her sailing qualifications completed, Dee then began working in the sailing industry for a company run by inspirational sailor Mike Golding. This opportunity gave her extensive experience of racing, including a Fastnet race and two trans-Atlantic races.
It was when Dee saw the start of the 2000/01 BT Global Challenge Race that she began to focus on where she wanted to be in four years time. A job as a skipper in Formula 1 Sailing led to an opportunity to manage the fleet in the UK and the Caribbean, giving Dee important experience in big boat racing and increased confidence in her seamanship. She was then selected as one of the skippers for the 2004/5 Global Challenge Race. It was while she was leading her crew during this race that Dee's desire to achieve one of few genuine ‘firsts' began to develop.
Dee has faced the dangers of icebergs; tempestuous storms and the worst the Southern Ocean could muster. Sailing Aviva, a 72ft yacht designed for a crew of 18, Dee frequently missed sleep: at one point getting only 9 hours in 9 days. Without doubt, one of Britain's most inspirational women, Dee tells her dramatic story with great grace, humour and insight. Her sense of fun and positive world-view ensure her presentations are entertaining and her messages about self-belief, motivation, building confidence, leadership, teamwork and over-coming your self-limitations are memorable. If appropriate, Dee's presentation can include dramatic film footage from her round the world voyage. Vivacious. Gregarious. Inspirational. Funny. Courageous. Dee offers ‘An Empower Hour', a keynote and an after dinner speech to remember. As Dee puts it: ‘Dare… Dream… Discover…'
‘I feel I have been preparing for this my whole life. This is my dream. To be the first woman to sail the globe, single-handed, west-about. Sailing against the prevailing winds and currents. It's twice as long and twice as hard. We can do more than we think we can. We just have to dare to dream.'
Delia is a director for High Performance Development. Responsible for marketing and new business initiatives as well as running teamworking and leadership programmes.
Delia has worked predominantly in event management and marketing. She worked in the city for several years as events manager at Investec Bank. Before that she was a founder of London's Vinopolis World of Wines. She was responsible for the initial business set up and then headed up the marketing and operational teams in the corporate department.
She has been working in the training and development field for several years and works with major blue chip companies including BT, Credit Suisse, BCA, Tesco and Benfield Insurance.
Delia has travelled extensively, enjoys property renovation, keeping fit, skiing and sailing. She currently lives in Godalming.
Job Titles:
- Consultant and Motivational Speaker
For the past 30 years, Humphrey has been inspiring and motivating individuals, teams and corporations in leadership and management and the concept of "The Business of Winning".
He has studied both academically and practically all aspects of human nature that motivate and inspire people to succeed and win. Humphrey is unique in that to study teamship and attitudes in a hostile environment, he spent 11 months in a force 10 gale doing the BT Global Challenge - a yacht race sailing the wrong way round the world - having never sailed before in his life!
He is also very involved in sports and helped the World Cup winning England Rugby Team with their team development (they won by 35 seconds!). More recently, he was involved in helping JCB break the world land speed record in a car with two digger engines!
He has also run over 30 marathons for charities!
With a degree in Business and Finance, Julie started her training career at the UK Sailing Academy co-ordinating the training programmes of work experience students and teaching management skills on their Business Management courses. After three years she took the position of Staff Training Manager on the 1998 World Cup programme, recruiting and training hospitality staff for one of the major sponsors. She has also been involved in the training of hospitality staff prior to the Sydney Olympics in 2000 and product training for instore staff at The Body Shop.
Since 2003 Julie has been co-ordinating and facilitating leadership and team development courses for many private and public sector organisations which included health and wellbeing sessions for Tesco, Credit Suisse and BT Graduates.
Julie lives on the Sussex coast and is a qualified Nutritional Therapist and Fitness Instructor.
Lee Spencer BEM joined the Royal Marine Commandos in 1992. He completed operational tours of Northern Ireland and Iraq where he led a section in the first wave on the assault of the Al Faw peninsular. Lee then served as a troop Sergeant before qualifying for special duties and subsequently undertook 3 tours of Afghanistan often working in an undercover and covert role.
In January 2014 whilst helping motorists who had crashed into a motorway central reservation, Lee lost his right leg below the knee having been hit by debris from a further crash. Conscious throughout, Lee was able to utilise his military training to save his own life by instructing a passer-by to apply a tourniquet. Lee was awarded the High Chief Constables award for his selfless actions on the night.In 2015 as a crew member of Row2Recovery's all amputee crew of four, Lee rowed across the Atlantic from La Gomera in the Canaries to Antigua and into the Guinness world record books as the first physically disabled crew of four to row any ocean. In January 2019, after several postponements due to a family bereavement and adverse weather conditions, Lee set off from Portimao, Portugal to attempt rowing solo and unsupported from mainland Europe to mainland South America. 60 days, 16 hours and 6 minutes later he rowed into Cayenne, French Guiana not only becoming the first physically disabled person to do so and completing the longest solo row of any disabled person, he also beat the able bodied record by an astonishing 36 days: A further 3 Guinness World Records.
In December 2019 Lee was awarded the British Empire Medal for services to charity. A natural and engaging speaker, Lee's incredible personal story of courage, leadership and overcoming adversity has captivated a range of audiences: From business conferences to after dinner gala events and the England football team in their pre 2018 World Cup training camp.
For the past 20 years Lisa has been coaching and supporting others to reach their goals. Lisa specialises in performance coaching and she has a wealth of experience in health and fitness, training delivery, facilitation, leadership and management.
Having always had an interest in human behaviour, psychology and sport, Lisa completed a degree in these subjects and a successful career as a personal trainer and fitness specialist followed.
After ten years, and establishing her talent for coaching and supporting others, Lisa qualified as a life coach and then took the leap into training and development. This step gave Lisa invaluable experience working as a trainer, coach and facilitator on both a national and international stage.
Over the last 8 years Lisa has partnered senior leaders, managers and individuals at all levels, passing on the required knowledge, skills and behaviours to help them to maximise the performance of individuals, teams and their business overall.
Lisa is also a qualified Insights Discovery Practitioner, NLP Practitioner and NLP Sports Practitioner. Lisa believes fostering highly effective relationships is essential for success and she is passionate about delivering exceptional training to support teams and businesses to achieve their desired outcomes. Lisa's delivery style is experiential and embraces accelerated learning techniques for maximum impact.
In addition to the above, Lisa works with individual sports performers, in particular with Equestrian's. She is currently coaching a Junior GB three day eventer and she sponsors two riders competing at local and national level.
Job Titles:
- Consultant and Motivational Speaker
Mark is a Senior HPD Consultant, leadership expert and celebrated keynote speaker with vast experience navigating turbulent waters. In his former professional sailing career he's competed in countless races and sailed over 80,000 miles across the worlds' most hostile oceans. The pinnacle was leading a diverse amateur team to success in the ‘world's toughest' round-the-world yacht race, the BT Global Challenge 2000-01.
But Mark also draws on 20+ years of consulting with some of the worlds' greatest organisations, helping to reshape their cultures and improve their resilience to deliver better, faster and more sustainably, especially in times of disruption and change. He's also an expert on building psychological safety, the foundation of high performing teams, and is a recognised partner with Amy Edmondson's' ‘Fearless Organisation'.
It's the unique combination of this experience that's encapsulated in Marks signature speech ‘Navigate the Storm', and led Mark to win a coveted IVCA Gold Award for this ground-breaking multi-media keynote and interactive ‘Masterclass'. Consequently he has spoken at thousands of events in over 31 countries, achieving consistent 5 star reviews from all who have been educated and enthralled.
"A highly skilled coach and a very capable speaker who prides himself on striving for excellence in all that he does whether in business or sport - I totally recommend him"
Nicholas Holbrook joined High Performance Development in August 2014. He has spent the last ten and a half years selling, and delivering, programmes for The Complex Sale, a leading US-based Sales Effectiveness firm, and The Mind Gym, a well-known L&D organisation based out of London.
Nick brings with him fifteen years of sales and management experience gained in the software industry. Prior to joining The Complex Sale in 2003, Nicholas worked with companies that include Visio Corporation, Brio Technology, WhiteLight Systems and Crystal Decisions. At Visio, he was the first corporate salesperson invited to join the company in Europe, and he successfully built a European Corporate Sales team who exceeded their team target for 4 consecutive years.
Nick has focused on selling into Fortune 500 companies in both the UK and mainland Europe. His industry knowledge comes from working with large organisations in sectors as varied as Telecommunications, Retail, Media and Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare. His sales management skills have been developed through coaching teams of salespeople engaged in both Account Management of existing clients and in securing New Customers. As a Coach and Facilitator, he is well known for his very high energy levels - and a strong sense of humour as well!
Nick was educated at London University and completed his post-graduate degree at Sheffield University, where he qualified fully as a teacher. He taught English and Modern Languages for four years up to University Entrance Level before moving into the IT industry.
Nick is fluent in both French and Spanish, and speaks regularly at European Conferences and Sales Meetings on "The Sales Landscape" and "The Changing Face of Sales".
Rebecca Stephens is the first British woman to have climbed Everest and the first English speaking woman in the world to have climbed the highest mountain on each of the seven continents, the so-called Seven Summits.
Trained as a journalist, today she writes, contributing articles to a number of newspapers, and, most important, she lectures, drawing on her experiences and delivering inspirational keynote addresses and master classes to business audiences around the world. For each talk, Rebecca talks extensively to the client to establish their exact needs. Sometimes it will be simply to tell her story as it is and at other times a light-hearted address for after dinner. But most often it will be to share lessons drawn from her experience - about self-motivation, teamwork, leadership, and communication skills - pointing the way for all of us to achieve more than we could have imagined possible, both as individuals and as working teams. She is a regular guest lecturer on leadership at Ashridge Management Centre, and has shared a stage alongside President Bill Clinton.
Rebecca has appeared as a regular presenter on Tomorrow's World and a science series for BBC TV's Science Zone. Her books include an ascent of Everest, ‘On Top of the World', a children's book entitled ‘Everest', published by Dorling Kindersley, and more recently ‘Seven Summits of Success', co-written with business guru, Robert Heller.
She is a trustee for Sir Edmund Hillary's Himalayan Trust, a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a member of the Alpine Club. She also regularly returns to the Himalayas leading treks.
Job Titles:
- Chairman, British Aerospace
Ruari is the managing director of High Performance Development. He specialises in designing and delivering leadership and teamworking programmes for organisations within the public and private sectors, as well as international sports teams.
He started his career as a full time sportsman representing his country in sailing. Ruari then moved on to join the Royal Marines where he gained invaluable experience working in, and leading teams within a challenging environment. He specialised in amphibious operations and maritime counter terrorism. After leaving the Marines ten years later, Ruari became the Training Manager and Principal of the Leisure Management College at The UK Sailing Academy, where he was responsible for all vocational courses in leisure management and careers in the watersports industry.
In 1998 Ruari moved into training within the corporate world, gaining valuable experience designing and delivering programmes for major blue chips companies. During this time he was project manager for an army and civilian initiative running programmes at Sandhurst Military Academy.
Ruari now works in all areas of leadership and team development and specialises in experiential training. He has worked with high performing sports teams such as The England Rugby and Netball teams, The English Cricket Academy and Great Britain Girls Ski Team. Ruari has also worked developing race teams for the BT Global Challenge Yacht Race and was responsible for the skipper selection process for the 2000 BTGC race.
In his spare time Ruari enjoys keeping fit, participating in all watersports and other adrenalin sports such as skiing and skydiving. Ruari is also qualified in sports psychology and is a personal trainer.
Ruth is an experienced and versatile consultant who has been designing, leading and facilitating training programmes and experiential workshops in the field of personal and organisational development since 1990, with particular emphasis on people and behavioural issues. She has also works extensively as an executive coach.
She gained her extensive knowledge of management psychology, attitudes and techniques through eight years working as an independent development consultant, before being invited to join AON Consulting in their Culture Change division. She has completed a 4-year post-graduate course in Transpersonal Psychotherapy and a 1-year training course in Transpersonal Leadership and Team Management.
Ruth specialises in helping companies get the best out of their people and in helping people get the best out of themselves. She is a creative and articulate speaker and known for her ability to communicate with all levels of the company from senior executive to the shop floor.
Her training style is individual, stimulating and enthusiastic, using an experiential and interactive approach. She works both systematically and intuitively to help delegates get the most from the training process. She has the ability to creatively implement new courses and to adapt existing training materials to suit course requirements.
She has worked with many top companies including: British Airways, BUPA, British Telecom, Compass Group, Close Bros, EMC Computer Systems, Gerling, Miller Insurance Services and the Ogilvy Group.
Job Titles:
- Consultant and Motivational Speaker
- Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
- HPD Consultant
HPD Consultant, Sean Chapple combines over 20 years of practical experience of leadership in challenging situations as both an Officer in the Royal Marines and an expedition leader to the North and South Poles. The valuable insights he has gained into how individuals and teams function from a lifetime at the edge of human endurance provide a powerful dimension to our development programmes.
In 2006/07 Sean planned and led one of the longest unassisted polar journeys in history. Remarkably, Sean had just returned from leading another team to the North Pole earlier in the year. After hauling to the South Pole and raising the Union Flag, Sean and his team then retraced their steps, and in doing so completed the longest military overland journey in Antarctic history and, for Sean the first Royal Marines Commando to walk unaided to the pole. His team faced near starvation, suffered from frostbite and snow blindness and during the return leg Sean fell and dislocated his shoulder whilst using one of the giant kites that provided wind traction. Committed to success Sean continued to motivate and lead his team, and through determination and exceptional teamwork they completed the gruelling 2,200 km journey in 71-days. Live updates broadcast direct from the ice engaged a global audience attracting international media interest, and generating 2 million pounds in advertising for the commercial backers of the expedition.
Leaving school at seventeen, Sean joined the elite Royal Marines, successfully completing commando training, the longest and toughest training course in the world. Sean soon displayed a natural talent for leadership and was swiftly promoted through the rank and file, receiving a commission into the Officer Corps. During Sean's extensive career he has been deployed on active service across the globe, becoming a specialist in mountain, Arctic and desert operations. Parallel to his military career Sean has forged a record breaking expedition career, becoming a pioneering figure in pushing the envelope of military polar exploration setting world records in the process and earning himself the nickname ‘Ice Man' along the way.
This unique career is a testament to his ability to motivate and inspire those around him, even under the most demanding circumstances. Sean's belief is that we each have the spirit of adventure coursing through our bodies and by tapping into this energy the seemingly impossible becomes possible. Combining 20 years of leadership and team working skills, Sean really does ‘walk the talk', with his keynotes bringing home the real challenges of leadership and team development.
Sean is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and an accredited TMSDI practitioner in the Team Management Profile, Linking Skills Profile and Team Performance Profile, City & Guilds Graduateship in Leadership & Management and Associate of the Professional Speakers Association. As a professional speaker Sean interweaves his lifetime of extreme adventure with a coherent message to businesses and he has spoken to audiences ranging from primary schools to board-level directors of multi-nationals, focusing on self-motivation, team dynamics, leadership, risk-assessment and tackling seemingly overwhelming challenges.
Job Titles:
- Consultant and Motivational Speaker
Shirley Robertson is the only British female athlete to have won gold medals at consecutive Olympic Games. She is already the greatest female Olympic sailor in history
Shirley started sailing at the age of 7 in a Mirror Miracle on Loch Ard in the Trossachs in Scotland. By the 1990s she had won silver medals at the 1998, 1999 and 2000 Europe World Championships. Her excellent form continued into the millennium Olympic Games in Sydney.
Following her success in 2000, Shirley turned her attentions to a new challenge. In 2001 she switched to the new Yngling class and her team finished 14th at the World Championships. Over the next two years they improved rapidly, finishing third at the 2002 Olympic Test Event and winning the 2003 Pre-Olympic regatta. This new direction was rewarded with Shirley's historical second Gold Medal at the Athens 2004 Olympics.
In 2005 Shirley took a year off Olympic sailing to focus on big boat sailing, a budding TV career, and as an athlete delegate to the successful London 2012 bid. She returned to the Olympic trail, for Beijing, and the quest for another gold in 2006, with new crew mates, Annie Lush and Lucy Macgregor.
Shirley speaks about the highs and lows of campaigning at the highest levels in sport as well as linking in the lessons she learnt when moving from a single operator to leading a team. Her presentations range from after dinner speaking to day-long leadership and teamworking masterclasses.
Simon has over 20 years' experience in coaching, training, development and operational management. Simon's career pathway was through one of the worlds leading maritime training organisations, The UK Sailing Academy.
As the Director of youth development, he implemented strategies and training programs across all aspects of the organisation. Instigating youth development programmes that delivered exceptional results for young people affected by unemployment or criminal offences.
He also successfully project-managed the UKSA's overseas training centres in Australia and the Middle East.
Simon developed his coaching skills further when he was part of the British Blind Sailing Team, as the sighted tactician. They won two team Gold medals at the world championships both in Weymouth and in Miami. He is a keen competitive sailor, racing dinghies and yachts at international events.
Simon has an extensive understanding of the skills needed when leading a variety of different projects and teams, bringing a wealth of knowledge and experience to the table.
Simon is highly qualified within the watersports and maritime training sector and also enjoys spending time in the outdoors cycling, mountain biking and stand up paddle boarding.
As a renowned speaker, Clive delivers thought provoking, engaging and entertaining keynotes tailored to the requirements of each organisation he works with. Carefully crafted to inspire, motivate and challenge, Clive's presentations blend practical tools with inspiring video insights from his career as a businessman, athlete and coach acting as a storied backdrop.
Tim has over ten years of experience in the training and development world. Before joining HPD he was Director of Operations for The United Kingdom Sailing Academy (UKSA), one of the world's leading watersports institutes, where he was at the forefront of industry development for all aspects of marine training and leisure activities.
Tim's career path has led him to run marine operations around the globe, including the Caribbean, Middle East, Mediterranean and Australia. Diverse environments such as leisure and tourism, local education and professional training means that he has a broad commercial experience with a positive customer driven service ethic.
His experience leading teams and projects in demanding and difficult situations means he brings a wealth of knowledge on how to deliver team performance at the highest level.
Tim works with companies such as BT, Credit Suisse and Mouchel Parkman at all levels specialising in leadership and team development.
He is a highly qualified watersports instructor but also enjoys spending time off the water participating in outdoor sports such as off-road motorcycling, skiing and spending time with his family.
Job Titles:
- Consultant
- Director of Business Development
After attaining a degree in Politics from Exeter University, Tom spent 25 years trading Government Bonds and Interest Rates in The City of London. During that time he worked for several major investment banks, including Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, UBS and Royal Bank of Canada. As a result he has learnt the importance of teamwork, a common ethos and shared values to achieve goals. The financial trading environment requires mental agility, adaptability and a necessity to work under very stressful conditions. Tom was instrumental in setting up the interest rate trading platform at Royal Bank of Canada, which involved developing enduring relationships with large corporates, sovereign institutions and supra national agencies. Latterly, Tom also mentored and coached incoming graduate trainees to banking, sharing his experiences and helping to develop the skills required in that industry.
In his spare time Tom enjoys all sport and is also Chairman of a Royal Marines charity. The charity supports injured Royal Marines and helps them transition into civilian employment. He recently abseiled down the BT Tower to raise money for The Royal Marines and Sport Relief. He has travelled extensively around the world, as part of his business commitments, and also as a tourist. Tom is happily married with 2 teenage children and lives on the Surrey/Sussex borders.