Neil is Chair at Skills Union, a Singapore based international fast growth business designing and delivering learning solutions globally for the digital age, and at Applied Monitoring Ltd, a UK based pre-revenue start-up developing a bio medical sensor to test for lactate, drugs and alcohol in the bloodstream. In both these entrepreneurial businesses Neil has been asked by investors to use his broad based business skills to help the Founder develop winning commercial propositions, and build out organisations from scratch, to deliver game-changing solutions into their respective markets.

In addition, Neil’s long standing interest in higher and further education is reflected in his pro-bono Non-Executive roles on the Board of the National Skills Academy for Rail, and at Southampton, Solent University where he is also the Remuneration Committee Chair.

With effect from March 2025, Neil also became Chair at Hants & Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, having been selected on the basis of his successful leadership of transformational change programmes in other sectors. Hants & Isle of Wight has just been created by merging several other NHS bodies together to form an new organisation of c£800M t/o and c13000 staff focussed on bringing better community based care, and mental health support, to citizens across this UK region.

Prior to starting his portfolio career in 2021, Neil held Executive level positions over a 25 year period in listed businesses up to an including the FTSE 100 as a Chief People Officer (Booker plc, Serco Group plc, Gallaher Group plc), and in the public sector, both in Central Government (Ministry of Justice) and at nationally significant Arms Length Bodies (Post Office Ltd, High Speed Two (HS2) Ltd). His responsibilities in these roles included strategy and planning, business development and bid management, business transformation, corporate communications and corporate affairs, health, safety and wellbeing, as well as human resources.

Neil is passionate about helping all the businesses he works with succeed creating better quality jobs, service and wealth as they do so. Away from work his interests include walking the family dog, watching cricket, playing golf (badly) and reading (primarily history, biography politics and sport).