The Steering Group is a body of senior leaders, principally drawn from members and sector experts, which meets informally as required, to provide the Board of Trustees and Executive team with the external, employer perspective. Steering Group members also play an important ambassadorial role for The 5% Club across industry sectors, with the media and in recruiting new members.
Steering Group
Leo Quinn (Steering Group Chairman)
Group Chief Executive
Balfour Beatty PLC
Chris Allam
Chief Executive Officer
MBDA UK
Ben Blackledge
Chief Executive Officer
WorldSkills UK
Andrew Churchill OBE
Executive Chairman
JJ Churchill Ltd
Allan Cook CBE
Chairman – High Value Manufacturing Catapult
Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, chair of the Academy’s Diversity Leadership Group
Rt Hon Robert Halfon MP
Minister of State (Minister for Skills, Apprenticeships and Higher Education)
Emma Hardy MP
Member of Parliament
Nichola Hay MBE
Director of Apprenticeship Strategy and Policy, BPP
Clive Higgins
Chair and CEO
Leonardo
Paul Livingston
Chief Executive Officer
Lockheed Martin UK
Mark Naysmith
Chief Executive Officer
WSP
Air Commodore Dave Tait MBE MA RAF
Head – Training, Education, Skills, Recruiting & Resettlement
Ministry of Defence
Mark Tarry
Business Services Director
Network Rail
Steve Wadey
Chief Executive Officer
QinetiQ