Our People

The Lord Lingfield is the former Pro-Chancellor of Brunel University…

Olga Bottomley was educated at St Thomas More RC Secondary School and Mackworth College…

Keith Baldwin is an experienced manager and business advisor with strong financial skills, excellent technological awareness and strategic thinking capability…

Born in 1951, Paul Luker joined the Royal Air Force direct from school through the RAF College Cranwell cadetship scheme in 1968…

Martin Doel was appointed as the first Further Education Trust for Leadership Professor of Leadership in Further Education and Skills at University College London (Institute of Education) in April 2016…

John has recently retired after 24 years as a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers.  During this time he was the global leader of their M&A Integration and Separation business…

CVQO Chief Executive Guy Horridge was born in 1957 to a service family. After a relatively traditional…

Michèle Parry graduated from Newcastle upon Tyne University with a BA with Honours in Modern Languages…

Clinton spent 27 years working for a number of Government Departments. He resigned from the Civil Service to join CVQO in 2005…

Martin Passmore joined CVQO in 2005 having spent twenty-one years as a secondary school History teacher…

After 20 years in the manufacturing and engineering sectors, Ian retrained as a teacher…

After graduating as a teacher in 1979, Paul spent thirty-four years working in maintained schools as music teacher…

Dave is an extremely experienced deliverer of Human Resource Training and Development having been involved in this field for nearly forty years…

Jade joined CVQO in 2017 as a management accountant and has since broadened her responsibilities as Finance Manager…

Melanie was born in Liverpool and after 5 years at university graduated with an MA in Criminal Justice…

Mark is a skilled design and project management professional with a Post Graduate Certificate in Charity Management from St Mary’s University…

Christina joined CVQO in 2008 and gained experience in a variety of roles within the charity; firstly in the Adult Awards Department…

Sylvia Brunner graduated from the University of Strathclyde and following a career in the hotel industry in Germany and the UK, she moved into education and training…

Simon was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, and studied Media Writing and Journalism at Southampton Solent University, graduating with a BA (hons)…

At 13 Andy joined Cheshire Army Cadet Force, and after 5 years as a cadet he became an adult volunteer…

Steve’s career background is in staff training, sales and quality assurance management…

Richard lives in Kent. He joined the Army in 1984 as a musician in The Band of The Life Guards…

Jim Black was born in Motherwell, North Lanarkshire in 1962. He was educated at Buckie High School. At 15 Jim joined the Army (Gordon Highlanders then Highlanders)…

Ranveer graduated from Buckinghamshire New University with a BA (Hons) Degree after studying Airline and Airport Management…

Born and based in Southampton. In 1998 Debbie joined a local Army Cadet Unit and in 2010 got roped in to becoming an Adult Instructor…

Lou joined Cheshire ACF in January 2006 as an instructor. She currently holds the rank of Major and is Officer Commanding Messines Company…

Originating from South Wales, Lynne joined the Air Training Corps in August 1992, taking her commission in 2000…

Kerry joined the Army Cadet Force as a cadet at the age of 14, then became an adult instructor in 1997.  She currently runs a successful Detachment within Dorset ACF…

Mitch lived life until 1989 in Germany moving to Retford in Nottinghamshire where she has stayed since joining the Army Cadet Force as an adult instructor in the summer of 1989…

Juliane was born in Aberdeen, although she grew up in East Anglia and joined the Air Training Corps in 1998. She gained her commission in 2004 and spent time in both Wales & West and London & South East Regions…

Peter joined CVQO as an ILM Instructor and is now Regional Manager for the South Midlands. He is an experienced trainer and leader…

Miranda owns her own flooring company as well as working on the CVQO Schools Project.  She is a Captain and Company Staff Officer in the Army Cadet Force…

David Barr was born in Scotland and now lives in Hull after a career of 40 years in the Army and the MOD…

Karen Barr was born and raised in Hull, Yorkshire, where at 17 she joined the WRAC a driver. After serving at Bicester and in Belfast, Karen married a soldier and moved to Germany…