Simon was commissioned from RMA Sandhurst into The Royal Tank Regiment in 1977 and spent the next 12 years at Regimental Duty in Germany, Northern Ireland and completing an in-service degree in history at King’s College London. Subsequent appointments included Commanding Officer 2^nd Royal Tank Regiment, Chief of Staff to the UN mission in the Congo, Commander British Army Training Unit Suffield in Canada, Deputy Commanding General Civilian Police Advisory and Training Team in Baghdad and Director Royal Armoured Corps.

He left the Army in 2012 and took up the post of CEO of St Peter’s Hospice in Bristol, a registered charity. He retired from this in 2019 and now fills his time as a magistrate, a committee member of his fly-fishing club, travelling, fishing, cycling, gardening and walking the dog. He and his wife Michele live in Somerset and have a son (an agricultural consultant) and a daughter and 3 grandsons.

Simon says: “Having served as an Army officer for 37 years and then resettled into a satisfying second career in the charity sector I think I am well placed to help HighGround in its next stages of development. I have already seen for myself the valuable work HighGround does for rehabilitation at DMRC and for those considering resettling into the land-based economy, and I look forward to working with the Board of Trustees, staff and volunteers to build on the first 10 years of this excellent charity’s work.”

Originally from an agricultural background, Kathy has recently retired after 36 years of service in the Ministry of Defence. Initially her career was focussed in the Acquisition space, specialising in finance, contract and category management; developing procurement strategies for the Defence Clothing and Textiles Agency and heading up the Armoured Vehicle Support Initiative.  Kathy then moved into the training and education space at the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom where over the last 13 years, she headed up the Technology School, set up and ran the Business Skills Centre and finally for the last five years has headed up the Defence Leadership Centre, providing leadership education for Senior Officers across Defence.  For the last ten years Kathy has been the Chairman of the Shrivenham Equestrian Centre which she recently established as a sub-Unit of the Armed Forces Equine Charity providing welfare, wellbeing, sport and recreation support to the local armed forces community.

Kathy has a degree in Defence Studies, a PGCert in Higher Education and holds an MBA, she is also a Fellow of the CMI and a Member of CIPs.  She has recently moved to her forever home in North Oxfordshire with her husband Paul (an ex-Serviceman) and their two working cocker spaniels.  Kathy loves to be outdoors and is a keen hiker and gardener but is never happier than when training her spaniels on an agility course or hacking around the countryside on her horse Twister.

Tim has spent over 35 years working in the agricultural and construction machinery industry, most recently with Caterpillar, where he held a number of senior roles including Engineering Director, gaining a wide range of experiences in product development, supply chain and operations. He led large global teams based in UK, USA, Mexico, India and Japan giving him a strong perspective on leadership, business acumen and accountability.

Originally from a farming family he enjoys the outdoor life, having played many sports during his younger days and still enjoying riding his road bikes at the weekend. He also enjoys the country life walking with the family cocker spaniel and out in his garden. He is married to Clare a retired community nurse, with whom she has two grown up daughters Laura and Sara.

Tim is also a Member Governor for the Open Thinking Partnership Multi-Academy Trust in Hinckley, previously he also served as Chairman of Governors at Ibstock Community College and was a director of the Construction Equipment Association.

View Tim Green’s profile on LinkedIn.

Jason attended London University with flying and university scholarships from the RAF prior to serving eight years, notably flying in the first Gulf war and subsequently attending the Empire Test Pilot’s School before leaving the service as a Squadron Leader.

He joined the Virgin Group becoming the Director of Safety then latterly Director of Flying. He undertook an Executive MBA at London Business School and was awarded a second-year exchange with Harvard Law School and Massachusetts’ Institute of Technology. On completion he returned to establish businesses in Africa including the airline Virgin Nigeria resident in Lagos.

Thereafter he ran British Airways franchise operations prior to joining the Abraaj Group as Managing Director successfully turning around businesses in the emerging African and Middle Eastern markets. Afterwards he was five years with easyJet plc as part of the executive leadership team transforming its fortunes post the financial meltdown. He was then invited to join Cargolux – Europe’s largest cargo airline – as a Board Member and EVP and latterly was the Chief Executive for Swissport Western Europe – the largest airport handling business in the world. Stepping down after steering the 10,000-people business through the Covid he assisted the UK Government’s efforts as Chief Executive of Test for Covid19.

Jason has degrees in psychology and law, has received various industry and leadership awards and is passionate on doing the right thing for businesses, organisations and their people allowing them to operate at their full potential. He lives in Gloucestershire, remains a loyal advocate of our armed forces and whenever he can he fly-fishes for salmon – largely unsuccessfully, much to the hilarity of his wife Michelle and their two daughters.

Alex is part of the sales team at Databricks. Databricks help solve some of the world’s toughest problems using Machine Learning.

Prior to joining Databricks, he was part of the Entrepreneur First accelerator, the top pre-seed technology accelerator in Europe. Here he worked on commercialising machine learning for toxicology to de-risk the drug development lifecycle.

Before EF he was part of the investment team at Mercia Asset Management, a leading Venture Capital investor. Whilst at Mercia, he led investments into software and life science businesses. He sat on the board of some of these companies including Refract, the revenue enablement platform.

Alex graduated from Bristol University with a bachelors in Pharmacology.

In his spare time, Alex plays Waterpolo and competes in triathlons – having recently completed a half ironman he has set his sights set on a full ironman.

Alex’s LinkedIn can be viewed here.

John first became aware of Horticultural Therapy at DMRC Headley Court whilst a member of the Army Welfare Working Group. He has first-hand experience of physical and mental trauma management and understands the importance of rehabilitation where life-changing injury is involved. He left the Army in 2016 after an enjoyable 26 years which included service in Hong Kong, Nepal and Germany plus operational tours in the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan. He spent a further 5 years leading major projects and programmes in the highways sector before embarking on a portfolio career as a consultant, advisor and NED.

Serving as a Trustee gives John the opportunity to help HighGround grow into an exemplar charity that offers increasingly important support to Service leavers and veterans.  He is a professionally qualified Director, Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute and the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, APM Chartered Project Professional and member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations. He also volunteers as an Armed Forces transition mentor.

John lives in Hampshire and has enjoyed a strong bond with the countryside since his childhood.  His LinkedIn profile can be viewed here.

Now semi-retired, Jon is a former Naval Officer with a career spanning some 33 years both afloat and ashore.  Following a degree in Politics and early service in the Royal Naval Reserve he joined the RN in 1980 and served in a wide variety of roles spanning navigation, warfare, communications and intelligence. His staff appointments embraced both the RN and Joint Service communities and encompassed Capability Development, Acquisition & Support as well as Personnel and Training & Education posts. He was fortunate to have undertaken a full time MBA and subsequently been selected for a period of secondment as a management consultant with KPMG. Leaving the RN in 2013, Jon joined QinetiQ where he held several posts including Business Development, Account Management and Transformation; his last year with the company was spent on secondment to the UK Home Office as part of the Joint Security and Resilience Centre.

Jon’s home is a Small Holding in rural mid Devon where, with his wife Gloria, he keeps a menagerie of dogs, cats, horses and sheep. His passion is working with Gun Dogs, currently 3 misbehaved Golden Retrievers, seen regularly on several shoots in his area. In addition to his work with HighGround Jon is also a volunteer for the Dogs Trust and an active member of the Royal British Legion.

Having trained as an accountant before joining the Army, where he served for 3 years on Short Service Commission with the 14/20H with BAOR in Germany. Robert has then spent the last 33 years in the City in a number of Sales, Business Development and Management roles within the Institutional market at Morgan Grenfell, BZW, CSFB, ABG Sundahl Collier and BNP Paribas. He then helped set up Libra Investment Services, which provided a visual quantitative valuation, risk and market timing tool for Institutional investors before then joining Asset Match, the online market place for Private Equity as Head of Sales & Marketing. Over the last 3 years he has been a Business Development Consultant in the Charity Sector working for amongst others CCLA (Church, Charities & Local Authorities), the second largest UK Charity Investment manager and most recently for the last 18 months as Head of Business Development for Charities at the Wealth Manager Charles Stanley. He has been a Charity Trustee for a number of years and on a personal basis has been involved with a number of military charities including H4H & HighGround since their inception, as well as CRY and Contact the Elderly. Married to Jo for the last 33 years, they live in the Vale of Belvoir in Nottinghamshire and  he currently has a son serving in the Navy.

Sue spent 11 years as a civil servant, 9 of which were working as a Senior Community Development Worker for the Army Welfare Service across Salisbury Plain.

Before taking up post with Our Wilton in February 2016, she was the SO1 MCI at HQ SW (formally HQ 43 Wx Bde and then HQ 1 ARTY Bde and SW), heading up a team of military and civilian staff to shape the development and delivery of Civil Engagement activity.

During this time she was involved in the delivery of a number of work strands, including OpFortify, Rebasing and The Armed Forces Covenant.

Positive relationships built with the military community and local authority made her the ideal candidate to take the veterans’ project at Our Wilton forward. She worked closely with Wiltshire Council and HQ SW to ensure that the project addressed the needs of both veterans and the local community. She delivered an innovative new project, including 44 homes for veterans with training space, coffee shop and plans for an enterprise hub to create a platform for positive transition for veterans to integrate and support the regeneration of the area.

In March 2019 she took up post as Head of Fundraising and Charity Support at The Almshouse  Association, supporting member charities to deliver affordable housing across the UK.

In September 2021, Sue moved back to her home county to take up a new role as CEO, Age UK Hereford and Localities, supporting older people across Herefordshire.