Help for Heroes Trustees
Hadyn Parry, Chairman of Trustees, is CEO of Oxitec Limited, a company developing an effective and environmentally sustainable approach to control insects that spread diseases such as Dengue Fever and Malaria. Hadyn has a finance and commercial background and has been the Chief Executive of a number of life science businesses both in the UK and overseas. Hadyn is married with three children.
Alex Scott-Barrett qualified as a chartered accountant after leaving university and then worked for over 20 years at Cazenove, the City investment bank. He is currently a non-executive director of a range of companies, both quoted and private, and a trustee of a number of charities in London and East Anglia.
Sir Robert Fry KCB CBE is chairman of the McKinney Rogers Group. He is also a director of companies in Abu Dhabi, Qatar and New York. During his military career he held a variety of posts including Director of Operations in the MoD and Commandant General of the Royal Marines; his final operational post was Deputy Commander of Coalition Forces in Iraq. He retains the role of Colonel, the Special Reconnaissance Regiment. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Politics and International Affairs Department of Reading University and a fellow at Oxford.
Richard Constant MBE was an officer in the Royal Green Jackets for 13 years. He is now the President and CEO of Kreab Gavin Anderson, a leading Global Communications Consulting Firm advising companies, governments and other organisations around the world on their communications issues. His brother served in the same regiment, and his son Tristam is destined for Sandhurst, having previously completed a Gap Year Commission, hoping to join The Rifles.
Stephen Oxley is the Senior Partner of Wilsons Solicitors LLP and the head of its employment department. He qualified as a solicitor at Withers in London. He joined Wilsons in 1985 and was the Managing Partner for 7 years. He specialises in advising schools, charities and businesses on all aspects of employment regulation. He is a trustee of a number of charities and the Chairman of Odstock Private Care Limited.
Steve Harman is a Vice President in Shell, and has held a number of leadership positions in the Energy business, currently leading part of the transformation in Shell Downstream. As CEO of Pennzoil in the USA 2006-9, Steve became exposed to and involved in the extensive US Forces rehabilitation, recovery and re-integration programmes. Steve is married with 3 children.
Alex Northcott is a non-executive director of Gorkana Group and is currently involved in the media industry. He was the founder and CEO of Gorkana, the media database business, which was sold in 2010. Prior to this, Alex was at Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan, which he joined having served in the 7th Gurkha Rifles. He is married with three children.
His Honour Judge Jeff Blackett, Judge Advocate General - Graduated in law from University College London and was selected to read for the bar before completing a Master of Studies in Legal Research 2000 at Oxford. He prosecuted, defended and sat as judge advocate at Naval courts martial throughout his career and latterly sat in part time civilian judicial appointments when Service commitments permitted. Later appointments in the Royal Navy included the Commander of HMS COLLINGWOOD, the Director of Navy Pay and Pensions and the Chief Naval Judge Advocate and Director of Naval Legal Services from which he retired in the rank of Commodore in October 2004. His judicial appointments have been Naval Judge Advocate, Acting Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate and Recorder. He was appointed as a Circuit Judge on the South Eastern Circuit and Judge Advocate General of the Armed Forces on 1 November 2004. He became a Senior Circuit Judge in 2005 and was elected Bencher of Gray's Inn in July 2008. He was appointed Special Professor of law at Nottingham University in 2010.