The BizClUB UPPINGHAM - The cOmmittee

Ian is a  business consultant working in the East Midlands, and occasionally in the West Midlands and London. Prior to this Ian  worked as an in-house finance graduate trainee to Finance Director at PLCs and then Finance Director at a Nottingham SME called Blackburn Starling. Ian brings considerable networking and management skills to the team. A keen cricket enthusiast Ian is still known for spending a little time at the crease.

Amy hold joint US & British citizenship and is a successful business leader, political and charity activist. After co-founding and developing an International Media Marketing Company DMS, Amy has been active in the political and charity sectors this has included working with Five Talents, a Microfinance charity and Women 2 Win which seeks to elect more women to Parliament. In her spare  time Amy can be found sailing, tending her garden or walking  her two rescue dogs. Amy brings considerable organisational ability and flair to the Club. 

Chris is Chair of the UK Afghanistan Veterans Community and brings warmth and energy to her voluntary work. She helped establish a successful free school,, chairs the Asbestos Task Force, and serves as an Ambassador for Mesothelioma UK. She is a Leadership Fellow at St George’s, Windsor Castle.

Chris’s career included major high-risk projects; Rail Privatisation, and non-executive roles on several boards, HS2 Ltd, and two local health trusts. She enjoys working with multi-faceted teams and takes real pleasure in projects she can visit today, including the Channel Tunnel, St Pancras Chambers, and Liverpool Street Station. Her work with MPs has taken her to Rwanda, Uganda, and Kenya. She hopes to return to all three.

When asked about retirement, Chris laughs that it sounds lovely, but she is not sure she could fit it into her diary. 

Terry Forsey has spent more than 40 years helping software companies grow up, behave themselves and, in most cases, make some money.

He now chairs The Travers Foundation, a 100% volunteer-led charity helping local young people achieve their potential in sport, music and the arts by removing financial barriers and building confidence, resilience, skills and ambition.

He also serves as Vice Chair and keeps a watchful financial eye on The Core at Corby Cube Theatre, while continuing to advise and invest in ambitious technology businesses.

When not in a board meeting, funding discussion or minor village controversy, Terry creates and produces music. His album Smokestack suggests that, after decades advising other people on their products, he has finally launched one of his own.

He remains passionate about young talent, live theatre, vinyl records, straight talking and making things happen. Retirement was briefly modelled, stress-tested and rejected as a high-risk, low-interest proposition. 

Bob trained as an actor just after the earth cooled and has consistently trod the boards for the past few years although now mainly as a producer / director. In his real life Bob was a successful businessman and entrepreneur, who together founded, ran and subsequently sold the media Company DMS.   

Bobs hobbies apart from drama include motorcycling, sailing, classic cars and flying, gardening and his wonderful family.