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Simon Lester

Having "walked the talk" as a member for the last 8 years Simon is well qualified to be a chairman. Simon's Academy meetings are conducted in a serious but lighthearted manner, as he believes that learning should be fun.
Joe Adams
Joe Adams, chairman of Academy Group 11, established his own management consultancy Adams & Associates in 1995.
Tim Anderson
Tim has been a chairman of Academy Group 15 since 1999. During this time has concentrated on working with the single CEO Group.
Barrie Barrett
Barrie believes that everybody joining The Academy is looking for something, but it is not necessarily the same thing for each member.
Robi Bernberg
Robi Bernberg, chairman of Leaders Forum 3, runs medical device manufacturing company Rocket Medical, and has run LF3 since 2000.
Alan Branagh
Alan Branagh, Chairman of Academy Group 55 & Leaders Forum 50, is an executive and performance consultant and coach.
Hilary Briggs
Hilary, Chair of Group 29, is a former MD of a car components company. Her early career in manufacturing, helped her to develop the skills to lead people
Phil Brown
Phil jointly chairs Leaders Forum 13 with Alan Dean, has his own consulting company and is working with two other start up companies.
Mike Burnage
Mike was appointed as Managing Director in January 2008 following on from his original Commercial role.
Pauline Cakebread
Pauline specialises in helping small and medium-sized companies to align their commercial processes,
Brian Chernett
Brian is founder and Executive Chairman of The Academy for Chief Executives. He has 25 years' experience as managing director of private and public companies,
Alan Dean
Alan is Chairman of Academy Group 19 and additionally co-chairs Leaders Forum 13 with Phil Brown.
Richard Furness
Richard Furness, Chairman of Group 1, has a wealth of leadership experience in the service sector.
Jo Gideon
Jo Gideon is founder and Managing Director of The Knowledge Hive, a company established in 2005 to create an holistic model for business success.
Richard Goodier
Richard Goodier, chairman of Academy Group 17 and Academy Group 21 (which he chairs jointly with Pauline Cakebread, runs recruitment company High Growth Ltd with Peter Hills, another Academy chairman.
Peter Hills
Peter Hills, Chairman of Academy Group 18, is co-founder of recruitment company High Growth Ltd. High Growth adopts an unusual business
Karen Humble
Karen is an experienced and qualified marketing and public relations professional based in the North East of England. She jointly owns the license for the North East with Peter Sutcliffe.
Jane Hunt
Jane is an experienced and successful mentor, having focused the last 12 years on executive mentoring and top team development.
Nick Jackson
Nick Jackson chairs Academy Group 16 which covers the full length of Cumbria, from Longtown to Barrow-in-Furness via Carlisle, Penrith and Kendal.
Joanna Jesson
Joanna Jesson jointly chairs Leaders Forum 9, Academy Group 42 and newly launched Leaders Forum 42 with Phil Jesson. She also co-runs management consultancy Business Pulse,
Philip Jesson
Phil's first job as an Army officer stood him in good stead for a career in sales and marketing that followed. Phil co-chairs Academy Group 42, Leaders Forum 9 and Leaders Forum 42 with Joanna Jesson.
Majek Kuyoro., LL.B (Hons)
A trained Lawyer, Majek's early career began in the Training/Public Relations Industry.
Jeff Monks
Jeff Monks is chairman of Harold Fisher (Plastics) Ltd, and also an active business angel.
Heather Montoute
An Exceptional Facilitator/Trainer and accredited coach,
Sandy Murray
Sandy is a Non Executive Director and Business Advisor to a range of businesses across the UK.
Patrick O'Connor
Patrick is passionate about helping businesses and people to grow and succeed.
Eric Peacock
Eric has been an Academy chairman for 10 years having previously been a member. In that time he has worked with members in grooming their businesses to optimise shareholder value either through listing, trade sale MBO/MBI or dividend flow.
Peter Pritchett
Peter Pritchett is an experienced leader having led businesses, MBO teams and now four thriving Academy groups.
Alan Sanders
Alan Sanders is currently Regional Director for the South of the UK as well as Deputy Chairman for Group 1. He is also Chairman of the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability in Putney and is a mentor to a number of SME chief executives.
Peter Sutcliffe
Peter has worked for blue chip organisations for over 25 years and is now passionately focused on supporting SME's to become even more prosperous. He jointly owns the license for the North East with Karen Humble who chairs Academy Group 23.
Richard Tickle
Richard is an experienced and successful business leader having had a variety of careers including eight years as Group CEO of a global European software business.
William Waddington
William Waddington , Chairman of Academy Group 39, was also a founder and still is a member of Academy Group 26.
Trevor Williams
Trevor has recently joined the Academy as Chairman of Group 31 centred in Stockport and the area to the East of Manchester.
Mike Wilsher
Mike Wilsher, Chairman of Group 33 (Bath) & Group 34 (Dorset), has turned around numerous organisations. He believes strongly in the inspiration the Academy provides.



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