our trustees

Our volunteer Trustees help us be our best for UK military veterans. 

Chairman of the Board of Trustees

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Dick Turpin

Chairman of the Board of Trustees

Dick is a military veteran and responsible for the governance of WWTW.

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Dick Turpin

Chairman of the Board of Trustees

Dick served with the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers and 7th Gurkha Rifles from 1976 to 1988, before leaving the Army to pursue a career in the financial sector. He spent 30 years working in asset management, including Merrill Lynch, Baring Asset Management and ABN Amro. For his last 16 years, he was a Partner of Artemis Investment Management LLP, who were the lead sponsor of the 2011 North Pole Expedition as well as many other events over years including the Balmoral Challenge and Cycle Horsmonden. Dick retired from Artemis in 2018.

Trustees

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Paul Nanson

Trustee

Paul is a military veteran and runs his own leadership and coaching consultancy.

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Paul Nanson

Trustee

Major General (Retired) Paul Nanson CB CBE, was commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers in 1986 and spent his early military career serving in Germany during the Cold War, in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, Cyprus, Zimbabwe, Bosnia and in the First Gulf War.

Later he commanded a company and a battalion on operations in Iraq and served with the United States Marine Corps in Afghanistan. He was Chief of Staff of the 1st (UK) Armoured Division and commanded the 7th Armoured Brigade, ‘The Desert Rats’.

His last post in the Army was as Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Director Leadership (Army), and head of the Army’s Recruiting and Initial Training Command.

He retired from the Army in 2020 and has set up his own leadership business, consulting, coaching and speaking. He is Patron to the Military Preparation College for Training and the charity ‘Deptherapy;’ a trustee for the Desert Rats Association; Leadership Ambassador for the Sir Stanley Matthews Foundation; and Colonel Commandant of the Corps of Army Music.

'Having served in the military for a number of years, I am keen to try and pay something back. Waking With The Wounded has provided me with the perfect vehicle - a hugely committed organisation with shared values and a proven track record of helping those who struggle with life after service.’

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Flora Mclean

Trustee

Flora is a Partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP.

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Flora Mclean

Trustee

Flora is a Partner in the structured and asset finance team at Freshfield Bruckhaus Deringer LLP in London. She also took part in the gruelling Marathon des Sables in aid of Walking With The Wounded in 2018 in order to raise vital funds for our wounded ex-servicemen and women.

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Dr Alan Finnegan

Trustee

Alan is a veteran and Professor of Nursing and MMH at the University of Chester.

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Dr Alan Finnegan

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Dr Alan Finnegan PhD RN FRCN FRSA SF FAAN, is Professor of Nursing and Military Mental Health (MMH) and Director of the Westminster Centre for Research in Veterans at the University of Chester. He served in the British Army and reached the rank of Colonel, with his appointments including: the MoD Nurse Consultant in Military Mental Health (MMH) and the MOD Nursing Advisor in MMH. Alan was Senior Military Nurse and Commanding Officer at the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine during the peak of the Iraq and Afghanistan campaigns. His final appointment was as the first MoD Professor of Nursing. He completed operational tours in Iraq, Afghanistan, Balkans, Northern Ireland and South Africa. Since commencing at the University of Chester in 2016, Alan has been appointed as the principal investigator for over 35 research projects totalling over £8 million.

"I was working at the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine in 2010 when the severely injured casualties from Iraq and Afghanistan were being returned for definitive clinical treatment in Birmingham. The same year saw the founding of Walking With The Wounded. The Charity immediately struck a chord with the country, and ever since their charitable endeavours and commitment speaks volumes of a willingness to improve the quality of life for vulnerable veterans. It is an honour to be a member of the Board of Trustees."

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Louise Kavanagh

Trustee

Louise is a qualified accountant and works for Network Rail as a Financial Director.

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Louise Kavanagh

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Louise is a qualified accountant (ACMA, CGMA), and works for Network Rail as a Finance Director. As well as financial management, Louise has a diverse range of experience, including business strategy and planning, commercial and supplier management, and organisational change delivery. Louise joined Walking With The Wounded as a trustee in December 2019, having previously been a trustee for the Charter Quality Institute.

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Luke D'Arcy

Trustee

Luke is UK President of Momentum Worldwide, a global experiential agency.

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Luke D'Arcy

Trustee

Luke has over 25 years of experience in advertising and marketing. He is UK President of Momentum Worldwide, a leading global experiential agency, and is a Harvard Business School alumni. Luke previously worked at Virgin as Partnership Director of their Formula 1 team.

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James Hibbert

Trustee

James owns bespoke tailoring business Dress2Kill.

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James Hibbert

Trustee

James owns bespoke tailoring business Dress2Kill and has developed ideas in partnership with House of Fraser including The Great Retail Revival Foundation. James founded Walking With The Wounded Christmas fundraising campaign, Walking Home For Christmas, in 2013. This successful campaign has become one of our biggest annual events and has raised life-changing funds for wounded veterans.

“At the moment more veterans die of suicide than in actual combat and this is preventable. It is also a shocking statistic which needs to change. Walking With The Wounded works tirelessly to support the mental wellbeing and welfare of ex-Forces personnel and I am passionate about helping this great cause.”

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Adam Hughes

Trustee

Adam was the Global Head of Transformation and a Board Director at PA Consulting.

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Adam Hughes

Trustee

Adam was the Global Head of Transformation that represented over a third of PA Consulting Group and a Board Director at PA Consulting, the innovation and transformation consultancy. He is an experienced international business leader with an exceptional career built over the last 25 years. His significant international experience has been through leading teams focussing on the introduction of transformative technology and managing client relationships in the UK, Europe, the Nordics and MENA.

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Damian Beeley

Trustee

Damian is a Partner at Haggie Partners, a leading financial PR consultancy.

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Damian Beeley

Trustee

Damian is a Partner at Haggie Partners, a leading financial PR and corporate communications consultancy in the City of London. Having begun his career in the City in 1990, he was then a financial journalist in Asia from 1994 to 1998. Since then he has been advising companies and individuals on public relations and media engagement.

“Coming from a military family and having many friends who have served, Walking With The Wounded represents to me the very best opportunity to give something back to the incredible veterans' community. Too often we take their service for granted, and assume that once they leave the forces, their journey is done; WWTW has taught me that is not the case, and those veterans have earned the very best support”.

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Susan Walton

Trustee

Susan is executive director and advisor to companies in media, tech and defense.

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Susan Walton

Trustee

Susan, (American/British dual national) was a C-Suite senior finance and media executive with over 20 years of experience running the global institutional investment research franchises of top tier investment banks in London, New York and Hong Kong. Susan was educated at Harvard University, London Business School and UCL. Since her career in the City, she focuses on her role as executive director and advisor to promising high-growth, international companies in the media, technology, security and defense sectors; she was founder and executive director of three niche media outlets specializing in geo-political and geo-economic, and geo-financial content; CapX, Reaction and UnHerd.

“I am a board member of Walking With the Wounded because: as a daughter of a veteran, I understand, and I am committed with all of my heart to supporting those who defend our way of life, our values, and our country, with their lives.”

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Guy Disney

Trustee

Guy is a military veteran and consultant for conservation NGO in Africa.

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Guy Disney

Trustee

Guy served with the Light Dragoons and was wounded in Afghanistan in 2009 after being hit by a rocket propelled grenade, resulting in having his right leg amputated below the knee. Guy was one of the team who skied to the North Pole in 2011, the charity’s first endeavour to show the remarkable determination and courage of our servicemen and women. Thereafter Guy started working for the charity to assist in the operational side of the South Pole Allied Challenge in 2013. Guy carries out consultancy work in central and Southern Africa for conservation NGOs.

He received an MBE in the New Years Honours List 2020 for services to Veteran's Charities.

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