Richard Finn – Associate Non-Executive Director

Richard Finn joined the Trust Board in November 2019. He is currently Managing Director of Richard Finn Ltd, an international management consultancy, where he specialises in providing advice on change, organisation development, governance and leadership. Previously he was Managing Director at Penna PLC, a director at Crane Davies and Marketing Director at Henley Distance Learning, a division of Henley Management College.

Richard has a London BSc (Econ) and Cert Ed (FE), an MA in Management from the University of Kent and CDir from the Institute of Directors.

He has been a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, Institute of Directors and the Chartered Institute of Marketing.

Since 2019 Richard has been Chair of the Detling Communty Interest Company. In November 2023 he also became a trustee of Demelza Children’s Hospice.

Richard was a member of the Kent Business Advisory Board from 2014 to 2020 and Chairman of Kent Music from 2007 to 2017. He was a member of the Nominations and Governance & Audit Committees of the Lord’s Taverners until 2023 and as a Liveryman of the City of London, was Chairman of the Pro-Bono Committee of the Livery Company of Management Consultants.

Richard has lived all his married life in Kent and currently lives in Detling.