Board of Directors

	Peter Jones – Chair Peter has a number of non executive roles as trustee or investment advisor to pension schemes and charities. He became Chairman of Foundation East in 2009. He spent many years working in financial institutions in the City of London. Until his retirement from full time work, he was Investment Director of Friends Provident. He is Deputy Chair of Havebury Housing Partnership based in Bury St Edmunds.
	Tom Cook Tom is a solicitor and Partner with the East Anglian firm, Kester Cunningham John. He is a member of the management committee of West Suffolk Headway, a Treasurer of Mid and West Suffolk Crossroads and Governor of Westley Middle School, Bury St Edmunds. He has an MBA in Legal Practice. He specialises in catastrophic and medical accident claims and is a Public Guardianship Office Panel Receiver, working alongside colleagues who provide a full range of property, commercial, business and personal advice and support to clients from offices in Bury St Edmunds, Thetford, Cambridge and Norwich.
	David Bell David studied Law & Economics at Durham University, graduating in 1995. From 1996 to 2001 he worked in the banking industry in London, latterly as an equity derivatives trader. In 2002 he and his partner returned to Suffolk and acquired a small retail business in Bury St Edmunds.
	Jolyon Larkman - Treasurer Jolyon Larkman is a thirty eight year veteran of commercial banking, much of which was spent in internationally focussed business with Barclays Bank and Standard Chartered Bank. Jolyon finished his full time banking career as Deputy Chief Executive and Chief Operating Officer of The Charity Bank Limited. As a Community Development Finance Institution, Charity Bank afforded Jolyon the opportunity of gaining management experience in a CDFI; he has been a presenter at the CDFA Annual Conference. His volunteering experience includes Chair of Heritage Care, a not for profit care organisation serving the needs of people with learning disabilities, mental health needs and the issues of old age and trustee of the London Chamber of Commerce Commercial Education Trust.
	Mark Gipson Mark Gipson is a Partner at Birketts LLP, one of the region's largest law firms. He read English at Oxford University and then qualified as a solicitor in 1997 after training with Birketts, where he has remained ever since. He is a corporate lawyer with particular interest in data protection, contract and company law. He recently spent much of his time advising new businesses in the e-commerce sector. Mark also acts for many of the firm's major business clients on company commercial and transactional matters.
	Richard Glinn Richard has thirty years experience in the vehicle, rental industry commencing with Avis, followed by four years in the Middle East, assisting UK Avis franchisees, a regional role for Cowie (later Arriva) Rental. He started Anglian Self Drive in 2000; it has six depots, four with workshops, nearly 4000 vehicles and 137 personnel. Richard lives in Horringer with his wife Sandy. He is an aging rock music aficionado, a West Ham supporter, loves travelling and British history (BA Hons). He has a five-year old granddaughter who could ask him for anything and get it.
	Martyn Rouse Martyn Rouse is Managing Director of BTS Business Service Ltd which offers a range of employment and management services to small businesses. Prior to founding BTS Business Service, Martyn worked across East Anglia as a senior operations manager for Royal Mail and is very experienced in dealing with issues confronting small businesses in the rural area. He is an active member of several local business organisations including ISSBA; as well as giving his time to Suffolk Pro-help.
	Chris Storey Christopher Storey is a chartered surveyor and proprietor of SB Surveyors. Chris offers independent surveying advice, from purchase through management and development to disposal, on a wide range of property to primarily rural clients across Suffolk and North Essex. Prior to establishing SB Surveyors Chris worked for Suffolk County Council managing their 14000 acre rural estate as well as providing other specialist advice within the council. Chris also chairs a rural parish council and is involved with other local organisations.
	Deborah Wildridge Deborah Wildridge is a Director of Sunskai Ltd a company supplying energy and environmental products to domestic users, businesses and social enterprises. She has an MBA and a number of qualifications collected over the years including a licence to drive articulated lorries! Previously she worked at Business Link for Suffolk as Director of Business Services where over 6000 local businesses were assisted each year to start, survive and thrive. She is Vice Chairman of Suffolk ACRE (Action for Communities in Rural England).
	Nicki Hayes Having served time within the worlds of publishing, training and development, PR consultancy (five years as an account director with Mid-Anglia’s largest PR consultancy)and IT journalism, Nicki Hayes now works as an independent communications consultant, focusing on helping individuals and organisations identify and communicate their strengths to the wider world. Current clients include, Microsoft UK, Waterstone’s, BT Lynx, Stratus Technologies, Cambridgeshire Consultancy in Counselling, The Fountain Centre, Talent Network, The Strengths Way and Intuitive Brands.
	Jim Murray Jim Murray is an independent consultant researcher living in Suffolk and co-author of the report making the case for the development of the Suffolk Regeneration Trust (SRT). He is interested in developing a strong community finance sector to counter urban and rural social and financial exclusion. Previously, he worked as an academic and in public sector housing in London and has been an active credit union member for many years.
	Steve Clarke Steve Clarke is a qualified housing professional and is the Chief Executive of Suffolk Housing Society. After moving from South Wales to Suffolk in 1982 he has overseen a tenfold growth in business. Suffolk Housing Society owns and manages over 1,700 affordable rented and shared ownership homes in the county and in neighboring Norfolk, Essex and Cambridge. It has an ongoing programme to increase its housing stock by 70-100 new homes a year for the next 5 years. He is also a director of Linnet Property Management which provides management agency services to the private rented sector and Iceni Homes, an affordable homes development company