THE CAPTAINS' CLUB - Key Persons
Ali Nash MBE is a mountain expedition leader and rock climbing instructor. He currently also works for the National Diving and Activity Centre, Chepstow, where he is responsible for Health and Safety policies regarding High Wire and Rope Management and logistical support including equipment provision and managerial control of staff.
Ali has a vast amount of mountaineering experience. He has climbed the North Face of the Eiger and has been employed as a mountain guide in the Alps
Previously Ali spent over 20 years in the British Army serving in Hong Kong, Germany, Poland, Canada, Brunei, USA, Belize, and Norway. While serving he spent 2 years at the Army School of Apprentices where he was responsible for the discipline and training of over 700 students, and provided welfare support to 150 dependant family members of serving soldiers. He also organised and led numerous expeditions worldwide. Whilst in Kenya, Ali was mentioned in dispatches for organizing and implementing a large scale clean up of Hells Gate National Park.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Analysis Board
Alistair provides advice and consulting support to professional service firms in the area of people development. He focuses particularly on the organisational and structural aspects as well as advising on career development, selection and promotion processes, performance management and recruitment at all levels. Working with Patrick Stone Associates he provides advice for firms which are reviewing their Business Continuity/ Disaster Recovery arrangements. After retiring from the Army in 1993 he joined the Norton rose M5 Group of commercial law firms as its Training and Development Director. In 1998 he was pointed as the Professional Development Director of Eversheds with a seat on its operational executive responsible for driving the integration of the seven member firms into a single partnership.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Analysis Board
Charles has worked in the City for 30 years holding positions ranging from Senior Partner to Executive Director. Until recently Charles has been an Executive Director at Morgan Stanley Quilter, a division of Morgan Stanley ™s Private Wealth Management. Other roles that Charles has held within Morgan Stanley include Head of Marketing where his major achievement was the introduction of a repositioning strategy for the business and Team Leader for a group of fund managers. He was also an investment committee member.
Prior to Morgan Stanley, Charles was a Director with Greenwell Montagu Stockbrokers and before that a Director with Scrimgeour Vickers (Asset Management) Ltd. He is active in the charity sector and has chaired a selection panel for the appointment of a new Chairman for three charities with approximately £100m funds under management.
Job Titles:
- Executive Director
- Member of the Analysis Board
Christine is an Executive Director who has held senior roles in a number of blue chip companies including ICI, Shell and Nokia. Prior to taking on her current position, she was Vice President Human Resources and Organisation Development for Nokia, based in Helsinki. Her specialist area is major cultural and organisational change and she works at main Board level to design and implement strategic change. Christine has recently been appointed as Executive Director of Cancer Research UK and is a Non Executive Director for the Bath Consultancy Group. She has a Masters degree in Organisational Learning.
Job Titles:
- Business Development Manager for the Captain 's Club
David Bainton is the Business Development Manager for The Captain's Club and is responsible for ensuring projects are delivered to the client's satisfaction. David is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, a qualified test user and member of the British Psychological Society. He had extensive experience in both Human Resource Management and in Line Management prior to becoming a consultant. He has worked for many years with major organisations in the UK and Europe on the design and delivery of programs that assess and train potential leaders. Among the clients he has worked with in this capacity are British Airways, Continental, DHL, Nokia, Prudential, The NHS and Whitbread.
Huw runs his own outdoor pursuit company based in Wales. He provides training and support to groups in all aspects of mountain craft. He provides tailored activities for individuals and corporate groups, who benefit greatly in the mountain environment which offers great opportunities for training in team building, personnel development and leadership.
Huw's experience of leading groups in the mountains is considerable and ranges from rock climbing in Norway to crossing high passes in the Himalayas. In the winter of 1999 Huw was part of an expedition that made a West-East and back crossing of the Arctic island of Spitzbergan. The following year he was part of a team which forced a new crossing of the Darwin Range, Patagonia. Huw also has experience of leading and instructing expeditions in various locations including South Africa, Borneo, and Karakoram. He is based in Snowdonia, Wales.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Management Team
Josh Lewsey, MBE is the inspiration behind The Captain ™s Club. Having seen the value of making objective assessments of people outside their normal environments he recognised that the approach was equally applicable in the business world. He believes that this is essential if organisations are to make the most of the talent they have at their disposal. Josh has won every major honour available within Rugby Union and is the only professional rugby player to have undertaken formal leadership training by combining his sport with his officer commissioning at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He also holds post graduate degree in law.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Management Team
- Manager for the Captain 's Club
Katherine Allenby is the Course Manager for The Captain's Club, and is responsible for the detailed course planning and delivery of the programs. Katherine is a graduate in Spanish with Business Studies. She has managerial, planning and administrative experience and has been trained in Assessment and Development Centre Design and Management and is a qualified Occupational Tester. Prior to her current role, Katherine was an office manager and set up and established the London office for a US private equity firm moving from New York. Prior to this she spent five years as an officer in the British Army undertaking a wide variety of roles, mostly involving the recruitment, development and career management of soldiers.
Job Titles:
- Chief of Staff, UN Force, Balkans 1994 - 95
œIdentifying leadership qualities and using them most appropriately is key to preparing a winning team."
Job Titles:
- Member of the Analysis Board
- Consultant to the Police Service and to Sonic Communications ( International ) Ltd
Michael is currently a consultant to the Police Service and to Sonic Communications (International) Ltd, a technical and communications company. He is also Vice president of the Police Mutual Assurance society where his responsibilities include the recruitment of the Chief Executive and the Executive team, Chair of the remuneration committee, and audit committee, and the recruitment and assessment of Non Executive Directors.
Michael is a highly experienced, former Senior Police Officer with proven operational and management skills having served at all ranks from uniformed officer to Assistant Chief Constable of the National Crime Squad for England and Wales responsible for Special Operations. While acting as Senior Investigating Officer he received a Police Authority Commendation for outstanding leadership and dedication.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Analysis Board
Richard has held a senior executive role in sales within the IT industry. He has significant experience of managing large and complex sales, and a record of successfully correcting out of line P&L environments. Richard was most recently one of the founding members of Aspective Ltd, in which he built the ASP infrastructure in 6 months and between 1999 and 2003 built the business from £2m to £20m turnover. His team was awarded the ˜Best Management Team ™ in The Sunday Times Tech Trak 100 in 2002. Prior to this Richard was UK and European VP for Data Warehousing within NCR, having been UK Managing Director of Teradata Ltd when it was acquired by NCR. Teradata ™s client base was blue chip FTSE 100 companies, primarily in the Telco, Banking and Retail sectors. Richard had earlier spent 20 years with IBM.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Analysis Board
- Leadership Coach and Non Executive Director
Vic Luck is a leadership coach and Non Executive Director who has a blend of senior line leadership experience in large global businesses and strong business advisory skills gained through a career in management consultancy. Vic also brings wide ranging experience in assessing individuals for recruitment and promotion gained during many years in leadership roles, including as Global Board Chairman of Coopers & Lybrand/PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) consulting. As a General Manager with IBM he developed many staff through a personal coaching style of leadership. Vic personally pioneered development programmes, such as Fit to Lead and Consulting with the Board, both of which were applied globally in PWC and IBM to enhance individual and collective leadership capability and performance.