Meet our Trustees
Our Board of Trustees works closely with our Chief Executive Director to guide decision-making on strategic issues and hold them to account for their leadership of the organisation.
Dr Alan Begg
Dr Alan Begg recently retired as Senior Vice President of Technology for SKF, the world’s leading bearing company. In...
Paul Doble
Paul graduated with a degree in engineering from Leicester University. After graduation for some years he was a research engineer designing automatic control and measurement systems for industrial machines.
Trevor Gill
Trevor Gill is an independent telecommunications consultant. He is former chief scientist of Vodafone Group R&D and a...
Gavin Thompson
Gavin has been in engineering design practice since 1987 and joined The Smallpeice Trust as a trustee in 2015 where he...
Rear Admiral Ian Jess
Ian Jess served at sea as a Marine Engineer Office in HMS CARDIFF, HMS NOTTINGHAM and HMS INVINCIBLE which took him to...
Professor Richard Folkson
Professor Richard Folkson graduated from Imperial College, London with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and spent 30...
Professor Alison Halstead
Professor Alison Halstead is currently a Trustee at City and Guilds and became a Trustee of Smallpeice in September 2018...
Glynis Dean
Glyn Dean recently retired for the second time from the Royal Air Force where she was responsible for the strategy and implementation of the RAF’s Youth and STEM Programme and all aspects of Diversity and Inclusion in the youth space.
Jacqueline Newsome
Jacqueline Newsome is former Head of Science and an experienced school leader who has held several positions at senior level including that of Headteacher.