April 21, 2020

UK Branch Committee Bios 2020

/ Old Boys / United Kingdom Branch

Chairman -Sean Lumley (Baines, 1994)
Sean has been the Chairman of the UK Branch Committee since November 2014 and has lived in the UK since 1998. After Michaelhouse, he went on the study a Bachelor of Arts at Rhodes University. He then attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and served as an Officer in the British Army (Royal Signals) from 1999-2006. After leaving the Army, he worked in Kuwait and London for global security companies before starting his own counter threat business (Torchlight) in 2011.

He now sits as a Non-Executive on the TorchlightBoard and is the Chief Operating Officer of CybSafe – a Cyber Security Software as a Service business based in Canary Wharf. He lives in Cotswolds in SouthWest England, is married to Julie & has two boys, George (11) &Edmund (7).As well as being Chairman of the UK Branch, Sean is also a member of the Central Committee of the Old Boys’ Club and a Trustee of the Michaelhouse UK Trust. He is supported by Secretary -Rory McKenna (West, 2002); Treasurer -Ryan Maree (West, 2002); Elder Statesmen -Rick Peacock-EdwardsCBE, AFC(Pascoe, 1961); Committee Member -Dave Hudson Bennett (Farfield, 1997) and the Member for Scotland -Nicholas Llewellyn Palmer (Founders, 2016).

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