TRUSTEES
LORD DERWENT
Former Diplomat and Merchant Banker. Since 1985 director of various UK companies with world-wide interests. Currently Deputy Chairman of Hutchison Whampoa (Europe) Ltd. A former Deputy Lieutenant of North Yorkshire and former Member of the North York Moors National Park Authority. Descendant of Sir John Johnstone MP the patron of William Smith.
- Chairman of the Board of Trustees.
PROFESSOR PETER RAWSON
Emeritus Professor of Geology, University of London. Lectured in University of London, at Queen Mary College (1966-83) and University College London, until taking early retirement in Sept 2003. Research interest is the Cretaceous Period, particularly its ammonite faunas. Chair of the International Subcommission on Cretaceous Stratigraphy (1994-2004); Associate Editor, Cretaceous Research; serves on several international and national scientific committees, and has published over 100 books and papers. More locally: President of the Yorkshire Geological Society (2002-2004); has long researched on the Jurassic and Cretaceous rocks of the Yorkshire Coast and is joint author of the Geologists’ Association guide to the area.
- Deputy Chairman of the Board of Trustees.
- Member – Geology and higher education.
RALPH COYLE
Solicitor. Trained at British Leyland; joined the Fairey Group in 1974 as legal adviser (promoted to Company Secretary in 1977), Quaker Oats in 1981 as Company Secretary and Head of Legal and Public Relations, and Yorkshire Television in 1985 as Senior Legal Advisor and Company Secretary (appointed a main Board Director in 1990). Administered the YTV part of three ITV Telethons in 1988, 1990 and 1992 (raising over £6 million for regional charities and causes). Joined CANAL+ the French-based pay television group in 1996, carrying out a company secretarial and legal advisor’s role, and Commercial Union in 1998. Currently based in the York office of Rollits, solicitors, as a partner specialising in commercial law. Director of Leeds Media Initiative, a Yorkshire Forward-funded company formed to promote media businesses in and around Leeds.
- Company Secretary.
LADY (SYBILLE) DERWENT
Landowner, garden and landscape designer.
- Member - Valley Gardens and Rotunda Museum environs and exhibition areas.
MARK SINGLETON EVANS
Worked on the Stock Exchange, London (1957-93), partner Laing & Cruickshank (1964-93). Specialised in Corporate Finance. Member of North Yorkshire County Council (1993-2001). High Sheriff of North Yorkshire (2002-03). Chairman of St John Council for North Yorkshire (1997-2004)
- Member - Legal and Financial.
COUNCILLOR TOM FOX
Tom Fox has been Leader of Scarborough Borough Council since 2006.
CLAIRE INGHAM
Head of Marketing & Development, London’s Transport Museum since 2000. Responsible for the strategic management of marketing and press activity in support of commercial and museum objectives. Prior to 2000 various posts with English Heritage, including Marketing Manager of the London region. Member of London Parks and Gardens Trust (on management team for annual ‘Open Garden Squares Weekend’).
- Member - commercial sustainability, marketing communications, capital and revenue development and managing stakeholder relations.
MICHAEL PITTS
Scarborian. Scarborough Borough Councillor for 35 years (Mayor of Scarborough 1984/85), North Yorkshire County Councillor from l989 to 2005. Founder and some-time Chairman of the North York Moors Historical Railway Trust. Founder and Chairman of Scarborough Enterprise Agency.
- Member - Dinosaur Coast Project, networks with other local and regional organisations.
COUNCILLOR DAVID JEFFELS
Scarborough Borough Council member since 1973, and Cabinet member for Tourism, Leisure and Community Services for the past four years.
He is currently Chairman of the British Resorts Association and of the York and North Yorkshire Playing Fields Association, Trustee and Council Member of the National Playing Fields Association, vice chairman of the Yorkshire Rural Community Council, and represents the Borough Council on the Board of the Stephen Joseph Theatre, North York Moors National Park Authority, the Yorkshire Tourist Board Council, and on the North Yorkshire Cultural Partnership.
A journalist working for regional newspapers, he was born and educated in Scarborough. He lives at West Ayton and is married to Marilyn and has two children, Lyndon, a barrister with the UNHCR in Sri Lanka, and a daughter, Siobhan, a legal executive in York.
PROFESSOR NORMAN MACLEOD
Keeper of Palaeontology, Natural History Museum, London; Honorary Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, University College London; Board of Directors, Coquina Press; Associate Editor, Geodiversitas; Associate Editor, Systematic Biology; Emeritus Editor, Palaeontologia Electronica; Creator/Manager of PaleoNet; Executive Editor of PaleoBase; Section Editor (Earth History), Encyclopedia of Geology; Member, Publications Committee, Geological Society of London.
- Member - Geology, link with NHM and other national museums.
GeoffREY Winn
Chartered Accountant. In practice in Scarborough for 41 years until retirement at the end of 2003. Served as President of the Humberside and District Society of Chartered Accountants in 1991/92 and on the National Council of the Institute from 1995 to 2003.Director of Scarborough Building Society from 1984 to date, chairman from 1994 to 2002. Currently vice chairman.Chairman of North Yorkshire Moors and Coast Business Advice Agency which deals with business start ups in the area. Chairman of Scarborough Flower Fund Homes from 1986 to date. The charity provides housing for those who have given voluntary service to the community and currently has built 86 units. Member and past Chairman of the Rotary Club of Scarborough Cavaliers.
- Treasurer.