JIM MAY was appointed to the Board in 2006 and was elected Chairman with effect from 1 January 2012, having served as Deputy Chairman since 2007, and is also a Director of Sussex Port Forwarding Limited. He has a background of over thirty years banking experience and was latterly Managing Director, RBS Commercial Banking South, responsible for running the NatWest and RBS mid-market businesses in the South of England and South Wales. Jim is currently Chairman of Sussex County Cricket Club and has Non-Executive Director roles with Rix & Kay Solicitors LLP and with NHS Brighton & Hove. He lives in Brighton and has many links with the local community, having spent a spell as a Brighton Councillor, and is a Governor of Brighton Aldridge Community Academy. Jim is a firm believer in the benefits to the Port’s many stakeholders that derive from Shoreham being a trust port.
FIONA MORRIS was appointed to Shoreham Port Authority Board in 2006 and was elected Deputy Chairman with effect from 1 January 2012. She is also a Director of Sussex Port Forwarding Limited and is Chairman of the Port Authority’s Remuneration Committee. She represents the Board on both the Local Authority Liaison Committee and the Port Users’ Group. She has an extensive background of over 30 years of commercial, operational and business continuity experience and been responsible for driving through major technological and organisational change and development. She held six Directorships for Guardian Newspapers, including Business Projects, Facilities Management and IT. She was the first female Production Director and the first female Managing Director of a press centre responsible for printing and distributing two national newspapers. She is currently Deputy Chairman of The Printing Charity and is a member of its Investment Committee. She chaired a strategic two-year review programme part funded by the Department for Trade and Industry and partnered by Cass Business School. She has lived in Brighton since 1993. Fiona believes that a successful Port is vital to the local and regional economies and secures jobs for local people. She has been a committed supporter of the recent £30 million investment programme undertaken by the Board to ensure that Shoreham Port is able to build on its tremendous past and compete in a very challenging market – now and in the future.
STUART CONDIE was appointed to the Board in January 2011 and was made a Director of The Port of Shoreham Trustee Company Limited and Sussex Port Forwarding during 2011. He has spent most of his working life with BAA, latterly as Planning Director and Director of Economics and Regulation. Stuart also held roles as Chairman of BAA’s £2bn Pension Fund, Director of Heathrow Express Operating Company, and a Board member of SESAR, a Brussels based airspace R&D undertaking. Prior to this he was a Non-Executive Director of companies running Perth and Northern Territories Airports in Australia. Stuart currently runs his own aviation consultancy (James Aviation), and is an associate at two SMEs - Helios Technology and First Economics. He is also a trustee at Cranfield Trust which provides management advice to small charities. Stuart is Head Coach at Burgess Hill Runners, a fluent French speaker, and a student of creative writing at Sussex University. He has lived in Burgess Hill since 1986.
JAMES FANSHAWE CBE was appointed to the Board in 2006 and is Chairman of The Port of Shoreham Trustee Company Limited and a Director of Sussex Port Forwarding Limited. He retired from the Royal Navy in 2005 after 35 years’ service, during which time he commanded HMS Hurworth, Cleopatra, Fearless, the United Kingdom Task Group and the Devonport Flotilla. He also held several multi-national and joint appointments, which included Coalition Maritime Component Commander in the Middle East and Director of Plans at the UK Permanent Joint Headquarters (PJHQ). He is the Chairman of Marine One Stop Technologies (MOST) and Omega Power Ltd and works as an advisor in various commercial sectors, notably defence and information technology. He has chaired and written for various RUSI conferences and publications. He was admitted as a Freeman of the City of London in 1999 and was appointed CBE in the New Year’s Honours 2004 for services to the Royal Navy. He is a Member of the Nautical Institute and the Institute of Directors. He lives near Chichester.
RACHAEL HENDERSON has been appointed to the Board with effect from 2012. For the last six years she has been Executive Human Resources Director for Norland Managed Services, the fastest growing private FM Company in the UK and Ireland. She has worked in Human Resources for over 20 years in a variety of organisations including National Grid, the Halifax and US based company Johnson Controls, where she was also Director of Johnson Controls Pension Fund Ltd. Rachael also has her own HR consultancy business ‘HRRH’. Rachael lives locally on Shoreham Beach and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and a qualified member of the British Psychological Society. She also has a BA (Hons) in Anthropology from the University of Hull.
HARRY LOOMES was appointed to the Board in July 2007 and is Chairman of the Audit Committee. He is a Director of The Port of Shoreham Trustee Company Limited and of Sussex Port Forwarding Limited. He spent his entire working life in public sector finance and retired in July 2007 from the post of Head of Financial Services at Adur District Council where he had worked since local government reorganisation in 1974. He is currently working as a public sector finance consultant. He was born in Sussex and has lived in the Worthing area since 1972.
IAN POSTLETHWAITE was appointed to the Board in 2011. He lives in Shoreham and has many links within the area, having worked with a number of local companies. He is also an executive director on the Board of Allergy Therapeutics Plc, based in Worthing, (having joined in April 2002) as Finance Director. Allergy Therapeutics is listed on the LSE alternative investment market. Prior to this he worked for Ellerman Investments (1997-2002), a UK private equity house, undertaking the roles of Chief Executive Officer with AFS, which was one of the largest independent finance houses in the UK, and Finance Director with a number of successful start up technology companies. Previously he held senior finance positions with Ericsson and Philips Electronics. He is a qualified accountant and a Fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants. Ian has a BSc (Hons) in Geological Sciences from Aston University.
JOHN RODWAY was appointed to the Board in 2004 and was Chairman of the Audit Committee during 2006. He is also a Director of Sussex Port Forwarding Limited. He is a former Sussex Police Officer and previously the Corporate and Public Safety Manager for Adur District and Worthing Borough Councils. He is a company director specialising in Risk Management and Business Continuity and registered with the OSHCR as a consultant. John is a Fellow of the International Institute of Risk and Safety Management and a member of both the Emergency Planning Society and the British Safety Council. He advises the Board on matters relating to The Civil Contingencies Act, including emergency plans and preparedness, and also supports the Board on Health and Safety matters. As a contributor to Sussex Resilience Forum he was a member of County workgroups responsible for planning in relation to mass casualties, pandemic flu, severe weather and environment. John is a keen supporter of voluntary groups associated with the Port, including National Coastwatch and the RNLI. With the support of elected Council Members he was instrumental in the designation of Shoreham Beach as a Local Nature Reserve as a measure to protect vegetated shingle and the beach environment. As a local resident he is aware of the impact that Shoreham Port has in terms of employment and contribution to the local community and is keen to ensure that after over 250 years of port activity Shoreham retains viability as a working port.
ROBERT STILES was appointed to the Board in January 2010, having been a co-opted Member during 2009, and is also a Director of Sussex Port Forwarding Limited. He is a Chartered Surveyor in private practice with extensive experience of advising a wide variety of property owners and occupiers, on the acquisition, disposal and development of property in South East England. He has advised on major developments in Sussex and project managed development schemes for property companies of which he is a director. He has held non-executive directorships of regional building societies and an NHS Hospital Trust and has served as a member of the London & South East Industrial Development Board. He lives in Brighton and is Vice-Commodore of the Brighton Marina Yacht Club.