Windsor Leadership Trust
Trustees
Mr Christopher Rodrigues CBE (Chairman): Chairman of VisitBritain and Executive Chairman of International Personal Finance plc. He had been President and Chief Executive at Visa International from 2004-2006. Between 1996 and 2004 he was Group Chief Executive at Bradford and Bingley, from 1988 to 1996 he was Chief Operating Officer and Group Chief Executive at Thomas Cook. Earlier in his career he was a Manager at McKinsey and Co, before spending nine years with American Express.
He was a founder non-Executive Director of the Financial Services Authority (1997-2003). He has been a non-Executive Director at Ladbrokes plc (formerly Hilton Group plc) since 2003, and is an Executive Committee Member of the World Travel and Tourism Council and was a member of the Council and Executive Committee of the National Trust. A graduate of Cambridge University and the Harvard Business School Rodrigues is a past-Chairman of Leander Club and is a Steward of Henley Royal Regatta.
Sir David Omand GCB (Deputy Chairman): was the first holder in 2002 of the post of UK Security and Intelligence Coordinator, exercising overall direction on behalf of the Prime Minister of the national counter-terrorism strategy and building national resilience (“homeland security”). He was the Government’s chief crisis manager for civil contingencies. Omand has spent much of his career in the Ministry of Defence, including as Deputy Secretary for Policy, as Under Secretary in charge of the defence programme, and as Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State. He was particularly concerned in MOD with the reshaping of the long term equipment programme, for the British military contribution in the former Yugoslavia and for the recasting of British nuclear deterrence policy at the end of the Cold War. He served for seven years on the UK’s Joint Intelligence Committee and as Director GCHQ (1996-1997) and as Permanent Secretary of the Home Office (1997-2000).
Mr Manish Chande, Chief Executive, Mountgrange Capital plc: Chief Executive and co-founder of Land Securities Trillium Plc (LS Trillium), the UK’s leading total 'property outsourcing company', Manish was responsible for the strategy, direction and implementation of all aspects of its business. Manish was also a main board member at Land Securities PLC, which purchased LS Trillium (then Trillium) in November 2000.
When it was formed in 1997, LS Trillium it won its first contract to own and manage the majority of the Department for Work property portfolio, and a BBC property partnership and British Telecom contract which had an acquisition value of £2.8billion and over 8000 properties. Manish resigned from the Land Securities Group in March 2002 to form Mountgrange Capital plc with Mr Martin Myers focusing on real estate and other investments. These have included interests in National Car Parks, where he is non-Executive Chairman and MITIE Plc where he is a non-Executive Director. In September 2003, he was appointed by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport as a Commissioner of English Heritage. In November 2003 he became a member of the Corporate Development Board of the National Society of the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC).
General Sir Richard Dannatt KCB CBE MC ADC Gen, Chief of The General Staff
Mr Martyn Lewis CBE, Chairman, Teliris Limited
Sir Laurie Magnus, Vice Chairman, Lexicon Partners
Dr Chai Patel CBE FRCP
Rt Hon Lord Smith of Finsbury, Director, Clore Leadership Programme
Mr James Smith Chairman, Shell UK
Dame Sue Street DCB, Strategic Adviser, Deloitte
Former Chairmen
From 2001 until 2007: Sir Claude Hankes KCVO, Advisor to Iraq
From 1997 until 2001: Field Marshal the Lord Peter Inge KG GCB DL, former Chief of Defence Staff
From 1995 until 1997: Sir Geoffrey Holland KCB, former Vice-Chancellor, Exeter University
