Dr Roger Downer

Dr Jim McCarron

Shirley Coe

Michael Eavis CBE

Terence Mordaunt

Alastair Cromwell

Jason Dalby

Jeremy Brade

Jeremy Brade was a pupil at Wells Cathedral School for eight years. In his final year he captained the Rugby 1st XV, the Hockey 1st XI and was Captain of the School. He left in 1980 and went up to St Catherine's College, Oxford to read zoology. After taking his degree he entered the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst and was commissioned into the Gurkha Rifles. He served for eight years with the Gurkhas worldwide, led a number of expeditions to Africa, the Himalayas and the Arctic, and took part in the 1991 Gulf War. After leaving the Army, Jeremy spent nine years with the Foreign Office serving as the resident peace envoy in Sarajevo during the war of 1992 and 1993, and later for three years as political first secretary at the British High Commission, New Delhi. In 2001 Jeremy embarked on a career in the City and is now Head of Private Equity at J O Hambro Capital Management.

Jeremy is a non-executive board director of several public and private companies. He has served as a trustee of a pension fund and of charities. He is a trustee and member of the Executive Committee of the Gurkha Welfare Trust. He was awarded the MBE in 1993.

Jeremy's interests are current affairs, natural history, fishing, polar exploration and cricket. He lives in Shropshire with his wife Karen and their two young daughters.

Shirley Coe

Having graduated from Birmingham University in 1989, Shirley went straight into banking and specialised early in private banking with the well known bank, Coutts & Co. As a Senior Private Banker at Coutts, her responsibilities revolve around developing and implementing comprehensive wealth strategies for High Net Worth Individuals, which cut across all areas of personal finance. During her career, she has also had the opportunity to work in private banking in South Africa where she enjoyed 6 years with the prestigious South African Bank, the Board of Executors Private Bank. Shirley is married and lives in Surrey with her husband and her two children, Emma and Harry. Managing her work and family commitments takes up her day but she always finds time for sport and leisure! As a result of her international career, Shirley is well networked and is looking forward to using her experience and contacts for the benefit of the Foundation.

Alastair Cromwell

Jason Dalby

Jason was born in Wells in 1967 and was a pupil at Wells Cathedral School from 1974 to 1985 being Captain of the school in his final year.

In 1985, Jason went to Reading University to read Surveying at the Faculty of Urban & Regional Studies. Following graduation, Jason worked in London for Countryside Properties during which time he became a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and became a Director in the Commercial Development Division.
Jason left Countryside in 1996 to start work in the Midlands for ProLogis, the world's biggest owner and developer of industrial property. Jason became Managing Director of ProLogis UK in 2000 but left to set up his own company, Rosemound Developments, in 2003.

Rosemound became one of the UK's leading industrial development firms and was sold to Goodman Industrial Trust in 2007, where Jason stayed on and is still Managing Director of the UK.

Jason continues to pursue many sporting interests but particularly hockey, cricket and golf. He lives in Lapworth, Warwickshire with his wife Lindsay and two daughters, Georgina and Annabel.

Professor Roger G. H. Downer

Professor Roger G. H. Downer was educated at the Methodist College Belfast, Queens University Belfast (B.Sc., M.Sc., D.Sc.) and the University of Western Ontario (Ph.D.). His career includes appointments as Professor of Biology and Chemistry and Vice-President, University of Waterloo, Canada, President, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand and President and Vice-Chancellor, University of Limerick.

He is author or co-author of five books, over 160 scientific publications and is recipient of a number of awards and honours including election as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Royal Irish Academy and the honorary degrees of LL.D. (Belfast) and D.Sc. (Waterloo). He has served as President, Canadian Society of Zoologists, Vice-Chair, Biological Council of Canada, Chair NSERC Grant Selection Committees in Biology and Food and Agriculture, Chair, Munster Rugby Board, Chair, National Self-Portrait Collection and serves currently as Chair of the Hunt Museum, Limerick, Chair, IRFU, Education Committee, member of the Executive Council, Irish Red Cross and as a non-executive Director of Nucryst Pharmaceutical Corporation, Westaim Corporation, Shannon Development and the Limerick Enterprise Development Board. Professor Downer is married to Jean and they have three children and two grand-children.

Michael Eavis CBE

Michael Eavis was born in 1935 in Pilton, where he still lives. He attended the Pilton village school until he was ten and then for five years he was a pupil at Wells Cathedral School. His education was completed at the Thames Nautical Training College-HMS Worcester, which gave him the necessary qualifications to join the Union Castle Shipping Co. as a trainee deck officer and travelled the world for a couple of years returning to Pilton to help with the farm due to his father's serious illness. Michael's father died when he was nineteen and he had to work as a coal miner (in between milkings) to make the farm viable for a few years.

Michael was always crazy on Pop music from the Bill Haley- Elvis days, and regularly smuggling a transistor radio under his pillow at boarding school and listening to the top 20 on Radio Luxembourg late into the night.

In 1970 Michael ran the first Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Arts at his family's farm in Pilton, and in the ensuing years the festival has become internationally renowned and a Somerset institution.  At the beginning the festival didn't make a profit but these days aims to raise £2million to support good causes around the world.

Toby Hiscock

Toby Hiscock retired as Chief Financial Officer, Henderson Group plc in September 2009, a post he held from May 2009. He has also been an Executive Director since August 2003. Prior to that, Mr Hiscock held a number of senior internal audit and finance roles since joining the Company in 1992. He is a qualified chartered accountant with 26 years' experience in the accounting profession.

Prior to joining Henderson Investors, Mr Hiscock was Senior Audit Manager at Midland Bank, London, for three years. From 1981 to 1988, he worked for Binder Hamlyn, Chartered Accountants, in London.

He attended Wells Cathedral School as a 'serious' musician from 1973 to 1978 and won an organ scholarship to Hertford College, Oxford, where he graduated in Music in 1981.

Christopher Jackson

Christopher Jackson was educated in Edinburgh and St. Andrews University, Scotland before joining the Hong Kong Government in 1976 which he served until 1997 and was awarded the OBE. He than worked for the new Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, heading its representative office in Washington DC until 2001 and then became the SAR's Special Representative to the European Communities in Brussels.

He was awarded the Silver Bauhinia Star upon retirement in 2004. Christopher has since joined the Hong Kong Trade Development Council where he is the Director, Corporate Development.

Dr Jim McCarron

Terence Mordaunt

In 1991, Terence, together with his partner David Ord, purchased the Avonmouth and Royal Portbury Docks from Bristol City Council. This was being subsidised by Bristol ratepayers to a level of £10m a year. Since then, the business has become the fastest growing port in the UK and now handles some 13m tonnes of cargo and has a turnover of £70m and 600 employees.

Terence was educated at Wells Cathedral School, after which he went to sea and is a qualified Master Mariner. During his career he has worked as Operations Manager of Sagunay Shipping; chartering broker for the Alcan Group; Distribution Manager of Alcan UK; and Director of Bellway Plc, before setting up his own business in 1985.

In July 2000, Terence was given an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Bristol University.

He is Chairman of The Bristol Port Company, Chairman of Pendennis Shipyard Ltd., a member of the Patrons Company of The Outward Bound Trust and a member of The Society of Merchant Venturers. He has served as Chairman of the UK Major Ports Group and as a trustee of the SS Great Britain Trust and is a Trustee of Teenage Cancer Trust.

General Sir John Reith

Adrian Scott

Adrian Scott was educated at Rugby and at the University of North Carolina, where he was one of the first British students to be awarded a Morehead Scholarship. After an early career as a reporter, producer and presenter in both radio and TV, he was asked by his then employer ITN to take up a three-month assignment to help commercialize a Newsroom Computer System whose developing company ITN had acquired and whose product Adrian had used at TV-am. The three months turned into a permanent career shift as the system, BASYS, rapidly grew to become the world's leading broadcast automation system, and the company was eventually acquired by Avid Technology. As Avid's VP of Marketing, Adrian was instrumental in spreading new technology into broadcast newsrooms the world over.

Since 2002 he has run his own Somerset-based consultancy company and advises broadcasters, electronic media companies and manufacturers on a wide range of issues from Sales & Marketing to Product Management to M&A.

Adrian has a strong interest in music, and is married to the flautist Cathrine Saunders. They both sing in the Oratorio Society, and (with their son Rory) in the Beaumont Singers. Rory was Head Boy of the School in 2008-9.

Ann Willis

Ann is Managing Director of the Spafax Inflight Entertainment, a small international company specialising in entertainment, custom publishing and media sales on behalf of the world's leading airlines. Based in the London office, Ann is responsible for a team of 20 people looking after clients from the UK and Dubai offices including British Airways, Emirates and Qatar Airways. Ann's responsibilities include creative strategy development, new business, production, acquisitions, operations and client service. Ann has worked at Spafax since 1992 and her initial role was running the British Airways dedicated entertainment team.

A graduate of London University in English and Drama and Theatre Studies, she joined the media graduate trainee scheme at Saatchi and Saatchi Advertising in 1984. After two years, Ann moved into Account Management at BMP DDB Needham for the following five years working on major blue-chip clients including ICI Dulux and Brooke Bond before joining Spafax. Ann was boarding at Wells from 1972-1980 and loved (almost) every minute!