Richard is also currently Vice-Chair of Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice and Chair of the local Tuckwell Chase Lottery. As well as the Chair of The Farnham Society and these activities follow a commercial career involving European and International experience at CEO and Director level gained with several major organisations across the oil industry, aviation and the logistics and supply chain sectors.

In the public sector, he was Chairman of the London Ambulance Service during Olympic and Royal Jubilee years as well as a non-executive with the UK Highways Agency in the early 2000s. Alongside his full-time roles he has served 22 years as an advisor to UK defence and retired as Colonel RE (V) Commanding Officer of the Engineer and Logistic Staff Corps.

He was International President of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport involving a network of 30 countries. Richard was appointed CBE for his contribution to logistics and transport in 2004. All in all, an unexpectedly more varied journey than his initial, early 1970s, training at the College of Air Training as a pilot for British Airways!

R J Hunt CBE