THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS
BOARD ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE
ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY - BOARD OF GOVERNORSIndependent Members / Period of Office Ends / Term / Committees/School/Sponsors
Lord Tomlinson / 23 April 2014 / 2nd / Chair of the Board of Governors, Finance and General Purposes, Remuneration, Nominations
Dr P Geoghegan / 28 October 2012 / 1st / Capital Projects Steering Group
Ms M Hyde / 23 November 2014 / 2nd / Employment, Student Matters, Remuneration
Mrs S Jamieson / 15 October 2012 / 3rd / Chair of Student Matters, Employment
Mr I McManus / 5 July 2015 / 3rd / Finance and General Purposes, Capital Projects Steering Group
Dr C Nicholls / Extended to:
3 April 2013 / 3rd / Capital Projects Steering Group Chair, Finance and General Purposes, Nominations, Remuneration
Mr R Swain / 5 July 2015 / 3rd / Audit and Compliance, Student Matters
Mr J Swan / 27 April 2013 / 2nd / Audit and Compliance Chair
Mr J Spence / 21 April 2013 / 1st / Finance and General Purposes
Sir D Rowlands / 23 November 2014 / 2nd / Capital Projects Steering Group, Employment Chair, Remuneration
(10/12)
Co-opted Members
Dr J Booth / 14 September 2014 / 1st / Finance and General Purposes
Dr N Brown / 11 July 2015 / 1st / Audit and Compliance Committee
Mr M East (Support Staff) / 3 December 2013 / 1st / Student Matters Committee
Mr M Lloyd / 29 September 2013 / 1st / Capital Projects Steering Group
Dr A Pirali / 14 September 2014 / 1st
His Honour Judge Seymour / 23 November 2014 / 1st / Audit and Compliance Committee
Mrs J Spence / 23 November 2014 / 1st / Employment Committee
Ms S Wright / 14 September 2014 / 1st / Employment Committee
(8/8)
Teaching Staff of the University
Ms R Jackson / 25 November 2012 / Academic Staff / Student Matters
Dr T Carter / 11 July 2014 / Academic Staff
(2/2)
Student of the University
Miss F Rust / 31 August 2013 / Student / Student Matters, Nominations
(1/1)
Vice Chancellor
Prof M Thorne
(1/1) / - / VC / Finance and General Purposes, Employment, Nominations
Section 2:1
August 2012
THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS
PEN PICTURES OF THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS
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Jerome Booth
Jerome Booth is a co-founder, Head of Research and a member of the Investment Committee at Ashmore Investment Management, the specialist emerging markets asset manager.
He holds four degrees, including a doctorate in economics from Oxford and an honorary doctorate from Anglia Ruskin University. He was also a lecturer in economics at Christ Church, Oxford.
Jerome is an amateur singer and double bass player, a director of the Lloyds insurance broker CBC, a trustee of the Fitzwilliam Museum Development Trust and a Director of the Britten Sinfonia.
Nigel Brown
Toby Carter FLS FHEA
Dr Toby Carter is a Principal Lecturer in the Faculty of Science & Technology and the Faculty Director of Learning, Teaching and Assessment. He is a double alumnus of Aberdeen University and has worked as a researcher and academic in Universities and the Scientific Civil Service. He came to Anglia Ruskin University as a lecturer in Animal Behaviour and Welfare in 2000 and has become increasingly involved in pedagogical research in the last 6 years, particularly in the use of technology to support learning and teaching, culminating in his current position and the award of a University Teaching Fellowship. He has previously served as an elected staff representative on the Faculty Board and for 2 terms on the University Senate.
Toby is an academic staff member of the Board of Governors.
Matt East
Matt East started at Anglia Ruskin University in 2005, studying a BSc in Audio Music Technology and Creative Music Technology. He was elected in his final year of study as SU President in 2009, and re-elected in 2010.
Matt is now the Learning Technologist for the Faculty of Science and Technology, driving forward the use of technology to enhance learning and teaching for the faculty.
Matt is also an elected member of the National Executive Council for the National Union of Students, the main political body of NUS, representing over 7 million students across the UK.
Patrick Geoghegan OBE
Patrick is a Chief Executive of the South Essex Mental Health & Community Care NHS Trust.
He was appointed to the Board in October 2009.
Margaret Hyde
Margaret is the Chair of the Ixion Group and is a Non Executive board member of Business Link East. Her other main activities include being a former Chair of Essex Crimestoppers, a trustee of Essex Community Foundation and a former president of Soroptimist International's London Anglia Region.
Born in West London, she lives in Chelmsford and Cambridge, is married to a former Daily Mail journalist and has one daughter.
She has been a Non Executive Board Director of the Ixion Group since 2001 and became its Chairman in 2005.
Margaret was Managing Editor of BBC Essex between 1995 and 2007 and coordinated the BBC's Charter Renewal activity in the East of England under the key theme of “Building Public Value".
She previously managed BBC Radio Cambridgeshire, was Head of Programmes in Lancashire and in 1979 became the first woman News Editor in English Local Radio at Radio Merseyside. Earlier in her career she presented and produced the station's breakfast show and she's also worked in network radio news and television management in Manchester.
Ruth Jackson
Ruth is the Deputy Dean Academic Partnership Development and Director of the Postgraduate Medical Institute, based in Chelmsford.
She is the academic staff member of the Board of Governors.
Shirley Jamieson
Shirley is Head of Marketing for Cambridge Enterprise Limited, the University of Cambridge's commercialisation office which exists to help University of Cambridge inventors, innovators and entrepreneurs make their ideas and concepts more commercially successful. There are three main activities: technology transfer, consultancy services and seed funds. The office is ranked as the number one technology transfer office in the United Kingdom and has a portfolio of over 70 companies in which the University owns shares. The consultancy services are for University of Cambridge staff and research groups wishing to provide expert advice or facilities to public and private sector organisations worldwide
In 1999 Shirley co-authored the successful £2.9 million bid on behalf of the University of Cambridge to create the Cambridge Entrepreneurship Centre. Shirley was Head of External Relations at the Centre which in 2004 evolved into Cambridge Enterprise Limited and the Judge Business School's Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning. Shirley has extensive experience of start up companies from her experience of working for over fifteen years in executive search. First for Egon Zehnder International as a Researcher and then for six years she was Managing Director of Scientific Resources, part of the Generics Group. During the mid 1990's she ran her own consultancy firm specialising in senior appointments for technology based companies. In 2002 she was the Cambridge Evening News "Business Woman of the Year". She has been a Governor of Anglia Ruskin University since 1993.
Shirley is Chair of the Student Matters Committee.
Mark Lloyd
Mark Lloyd became Chief Executive of Cambridgeshire County Council in March 2008; prior to that he was Chief Executive of Durham County Council.
Mark started his career as a civil servant. In 1990 he joined the Powys Training and Enterprise Council (TEC). In 1993 he worked on the Scott Inquiry into the export of arms to Iraq. In 1994 moved to the Central England TEC. He left to join Bolton and Bury TEC and Business Link in 1996 as Group Deputy Chief Executive. In 1999 he moved to County Durham where he spent 12 months as Chief Executive of County Durham TEC and Business Link before joining Durham County Council in 2000.
Mark is also: Company Secretary of Cambridgeshire Horizons; Honorary Secretary of the Association of County Chief Executives; and, a Trustee of Arthur Rank Hospice Charity.
Ian McManus
Ian has operated at Main Board level in major multinational companies, as well as working in number of blue chip agrochemical and pharmaceutical companies.
Chris Nicholls CBE – Deputy Chair
Chris Nicholls has been Head teacher at Moulsham High School since January 1991. He graduated from London University and was awarded a PhD (Physical Sciences) from the same university in 1974. His teaching career began in the London Boroughs, but for most of his career he has worked in Essex.
Chris is currently a member of both National Council and Executive for the Secondary Heads Association and is their elected Pay and Conditions Officer. As such, he continues to be involved with the development of performance management and pay systems. He was awarded a CBE for services to education in June 2001.
Chris was appointed as Deputy Chair of the Board of Governors in December 2007 and is the Chair of the Capital Projects Steering Group.
Asaf Pirali
Dr Asaf Pirali is the Founder/President of School of Accounting and Management in Trinidad since its inception in 1984. He is both academically and professionally qualified holding a B.Sc. in Management and an M.Sc. in Strategic Business Information Technology. He is a Chartered Management Accountant and a Chartered Accountant. He holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Construction Management, and another Post Graduate Diploma in Strategic Business. Apart from his contribution to education, Dr Pirali is a regular host on radio and television and is also a Minister at a local church. He has also trained world Christian leaders since 1991.
Sir David Rowlands KCB FCILT
Sir David retired in May 2007 as Permanent Secretary at the Department for Transport after 33 years in the Civil Service. During that time his responsibilities covered most aspects of transport and in the latter years included the creation of Network Rail as well as of public private partnerships for the London Underground and for NATS, the national air traffic control service.
He is currently Chairman of both Gatwick Airport and Angel Trains Group and is a senior adviser to Global Infrastructure Partners, a US infrastructure investment fund. Sir David is a Vice President of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport and also a member of both the Regional Growth Fund Advisory Panel and the RAC Foundation’s public policy committee.
He is married with two adult sons and lives in Chelmsford.
Francesca Rust
Gerald is the President of the Anglia Ruskin University Students’ Union.
Gerald is also a member of the Student Matters and Nominations Committee.
His Honour Richard Seymour Q.C.
Richard Seymour is a Senior Circuit Judge permanently assigned to the Queen’s Bench Division of the High Court. He obtained a First Class honours degree at Cambridge University, and practised as a barrister based in London until appointed a judge in 2000. He was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1991. At the Bar he specialised in professional negligence claims and international arbitrations; as a judge he tries civil cases, primarily involving contractual disputes. He and his wife, Clare, who until 2009 was a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at ARU, have jointly written Courtroom Skills for Social Workers, 2nd edition 2011.
John Spence OBE DL
Born in Edinburgh, with education there and in Dublin and Harvard, John’s career with Lloyds TSB spanned 32 years from 1973 to 2005. Senior appointments included Managing Director of Business Banking, Chief Executive of Lloyds TSB Scotland, and Managing Director of Retail Distribution encompassing UK branch networks, ATMs, telephony and internet banking. He finally took responsibility for policy and risk, where he forged industry-wide solutions on key issues, such as responsible lending.
John is NED and Audit Chairman at HM Revenue & Customs and chairs the SE Local Enterprise Partnership as well as Spicerhaart Group Ltd. He is NED of Capital for Enterprise Ltd and has been Deputy Chairman of Business in the Community since 2000. He is a governor of the Church Commissioners and chairs their Audit Committee; he is Chair of Chelmsford Diocesan Board of Finance and a trustee of St Paul’s Cathedral Foundation.
John is blind and has been chairman or president of various national disability charities. He is President of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland and chairs Essex Community Foundation. In 1999 he was awarded the MBE for services to the community, and in 2006 the OBE for services to charity. HRH The Prince of Wales appointed him as Business Ambassador in 2005. In 2008, he was made a Deputy Lieutenant and received an Honorary Doctorate from Anglia Ruskin University in 2009.
For leisure he loves cooking and dinner parties, sport and the theatre, gardening and swimming – and his motorbike!
Julie Spence OBEQPM DLBEdLLB MA MBA
Julie after taking her ‘A’ Levels,spent four years atLiverpoolUniversityand I M Marsh College of Physical Education where she trained to teach PE and Biology.
Teaching was not for her so in 1978 shejoinedAvonand Somerset Constabulary where she rose through the ranks to Superintendent. As an advocate of lifelong learning she continued her personal development and undertook part-time and distance learning degree courses in law, police studies and management.
In 1999 shewas appointed to Assistant Chief Constable for Thames Valley Police; in April 2004 she was appointed to Deputy Chief Constable for Cambridgeshire; and on1 June 2005Julie was appointedActing Chief Constable and subsequently appointed to Chief Constable on10 December 2005.
In the Queen’s 80thbirthday honours list she was awarded an OBE for her management of complex and contentious organisational issues, leadership of Thames Valley’s contribution to the operations to protect Heathrow and the Queen Mother’s funeral, her work for the ACPO Terrorism and Allied Matters Committee on Royalty and VIP Protection and her strong leadership and determination in taking forward the Gender Agenda and the development of the British Association of Women in Policing (BAWP), which have both become major drivers for gender equality in British policing.
In 2008 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws byAngliaRuskinUniversity: then inthe 2010 New Years Honours list she received the Queens Police Medal (QPM).