Our Independent Trustees

A businessman, leader and manager with forty years commercial and public sector experience, managing his own businesses and serving as a director on the boards of public and voluntary sector organisations. He was employed by IBM in several senior roles many of which were about creating new ventures. He set up IBM UK’s Financial Services business, established IBM’s Business School, providing education and training from induction to an MBA programme and the formation of the Consultancy Practice and its offspring the Education Consultancy Business.

He was a non-executive director in the NHS. He was chair of the Community Services business in a Primary Care Trust and oversaw the merger of this unit with others into an Integrated Care Organisation. Geoff is a director of two companies working in the education, health, energy and information communication technology sectors. These businesses are involved with technology innovation, the development of software offerings, bringing them to market via business partnerships: business development and the provision of services for clients.

He coaches senior executives faced with concerns about strategy, business development and organisational change. Geoff chairs the boards of two London charities and is a trustee and treasurer of the Coram Foundation, the children’s charity. He advises several other charities regarding governance, strategies, finance and leadership.

Malcolm has over 20 years management consultancy experience with PwC, Deloitte and EY, as well as founding his own consultancy. In parallel he has held a number of Non-Exec Directorships. He joined the Worshipful Company of Management Consultants in 2014, was clothed a Liveryman in 2015 and joined the Court of Assistants in 2016. He is a member of the Company’s Governance Committee and was elected Fourth Warden in September 2022. His motivation to join the company was twofold: he has always had an interest in education and the development of management consultants; also, he is attracted by ProBono work and the potential to give something back to society. Since joining the Company, he has been pursuing both of these aims.

His most notable contributions to the Company have been in the areas of education and development. He was part of the core team working to develop the Centre for Management Consulting Excellence. He has been the Chair of the Education Committee for the past four years and has helped to rejuvenate the work of that Committee. As a result, he has played a leadership role in a number of Company activities, including: the annual Education Supper/Lecture, the LSL Careers Festival, the Sherriff’s Challenge, our representation at LCSC, oversight of the further development of CMCE, and special events such as the “Future of Education” panel discussion. He has organised and facilitated the "My Most Interesting Whatever" virtual workshop programme during the pandemic.

Malcolm's interests in the NonProfit Sector have continued to expand, both in the Company as an active mentor and elsewhere. He has recently joined the Advisory Board of the Centre for Charity Effectiveness to represent the Company. Outside the Company he is the Chairman of United Response (one of the UK’s larger charities) as well as an active member of the Association of Chairs and other charity networking forums. He is currently leading a major research project on "Tomorrow's Charity Chair".

Andy is an experienced Transport Consultant who, over more than 38 years, has built up a wide range of experience in the Transport Industry. With his wife, Sarah, he set up A S Miles Consulting Limited in 2015 and has worked with a vast array of organisations from both the Public and Private sectors, sole traders to international brands in the UK, Europe and the USA, with turnovers ranging from the tens of thousands of pounds to hundreds of billions.

Andy is a member of the Richmond Group of Independent Consultants. He is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, a Member of the Society of Operations Engineers, a Member of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers and a Member of the Institute of Directors. Andy is qualified as a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt practitioner as well as an ISO 9001:2015 qualified Lead Auditor and a DVSA Approved Auditor for the Earned Recognition Scheme. He is also involved in training transport professionals and is a Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport Subject Matter expert for the Transport Manager Certificate of Professional Competence in both Road Haulage and Passenger Transport. Andy is a sitting member of the CBI SME Council as the sole Transport representative and, since 2018, a member of the Logistics UK Greater London Freight Council.

As well as being a Warden to the Worshipful Company of Management Consultants, where he contributes to the Events, Membership and Pro Bono programme, he is a Liveryman and Assistant to the Court of the Worshipful Company of Carmen.