Experience

The Clothworkers' Company

• United Kingdom
• Fundraising
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Master

  • Jul 2022 - Present

  Philanthropy through both the Company, established 1528, and the Clothworkers' Foundation, established 1977. Philanthropy through both the Company, established 1528, and the Clothworkers' Foundation, established 1977.



National Rail Bishop Auckland Ltd

• Director

  • Apr 2018 - Present

  Online sales of rail tickets and promotion of the rail network (and buses, where appropriate). This business sells via the Internet now that the Chester-le-Track operations at Chester-le-Street and Eaglescliffe have closed. Chester-le-Street succumbed to the lure on online booking, whilst Eaglescliffe is now run successfully by Grand Central using two of my former team. Online sales of rail tickets and promotion of the rail network (and buses, where appropriate). This business sells via the Internet now that the Chester-le-Track operations at Chester-le-Street and Eaglescliffe have closed. Chester-le-Street succumbed to the lure on online booking, whilst Eaglescliffe is now run successfully by Grand Central using two of my former team.



THE CLOTHWORKERS' COMPANY LIMITED

• United Kingdom

• Master

  • Sep 2020 - Jul 2021

  Livery Company in the City of London, supporting the textile industry and a philanthropic organisation making charitable grants across the UK. It was my pleasure to serve as Master of the Company for 2020/1, and am now First Warden supporting the new Master, Philip Portal. Livery Company in the City of London, supporting the textile industry and a philanthropic organisation making charitable grants across the UK. It was my pleasure to serve as Master of the Company for 2020/1, and am now First Warden supporting the new Master, Philip Portal.



Chester-le-Track

• United Kingdom
• Truck Transportation

• Company Owner

  • Nov 1998 - Mar 2018

  I managed a small business which operated two railway stations in north east England, at Chester-le-Street (open 1999) and Eaglescliffe (open 2012). I use those stations as a platform - no pun intended - to go off and do other interesting work on retailing rail tickets and management of the railway in general. My background is in bus operations, and I have acted as a judge for UK Bus Awards, and am an active shareholder in major public transport plcs. Chester-le-Track launched the website www.nationalrail.com and employed eight staff, excluding myself. For years we sold tickets my telephone and posted them out, but new technologies made that business approach less attractive for all but our many older customers. After revenue went back to the level four years previously, I know this was not reversible and closed the business in March 2018, concentrating on online sales. Show less



Anylex Ltd t/a Mayfair Group Travel

• Director and Company Secretary

  • Jan 1996 - Oct 1999

  Tour operator established to provide packages including travel and accommodation, theatre tickets and attraction admissions throughout the UK and into France, Belgium, Netherlands and Germany. bought in hotels and coaches, and ran many mass transport operations using buses and coaches. MGT expanded into charter trains on the East Coast Main Line with Anglia Railways and GNER. Once Chester-le-Track was established in 1999 it became clear that the two businesses could not be easily managed together and it was sold to Durham City Coaches in October 1999. Show less



Go-Ahead Northern Ltd

• General Manager

  • Jan 1991 - Jul 1994

  Oh, this was a tricky job, running four companies within the group in three industries - buses, coaches and taxis. As it happens it was the various parts of the business now known as Go North East which offered private hire services, but after three and a half years of this and the necessity to report everything to a monthly board meeting it was time to move on after I had a trip to Lesotho. In this job I had so many targets to hit I was bound to get some of them just by chance. The job was completely restructured after I left. Show less

• Operations Manager

  • Sep 1987 - Dec 1990

  A great job in the difficult period after bus deregulation in which I was deputy chief officer in the Commercial (formerly Traffic) Department of Go-Ahead Northern, working with Chris Moyes the Commercial Director. I co-ordinated electronic ticket machine introduction, the National Garden Festival at Gateshead in 1990, overhauling policies and procedures from staff discipline to scheduling agreements. Apart from now, best job I ever did.



National Bus Company

• Railroad Equipment Manufacturing

• Senior Management Trainee

  • 1983 - 1985

• Senior Management Trainee

  • 1983 - 1985

• Senior Management Trainee

  • 1983 - 1985