People

Michael leads our services and hospitality teams.

Karen manages our student accomodation and guest room bookings.

Femi is a marketing and management professional and currently a non-executive director of University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust. He is chairman of the Charitable Funds Committee and serves on the Audit and Risk Committee and the People and Organisation Development Committee.

He was formerly Executive Director at JP Morgan Private Bank in London and New York.

Femi has over 30 years’ experience at senior levels in a number of top global companies in London, Zurich, Chicago, and New York. He was Chief Marketing Officer of GE Capital in Switzerland, and head of Marketing Operations at Zurich Insurance Company, responsible for leading global marketing and client experience initiatives. Prior to Zurich Insurance, he held various executive roles at HSBC, the last of which was as Director of Brand Development. He started his career with Price Waterhouse in London in 1985.

In addition, Femi is a trustee and co-founder of Stuckton Adventure Centre, a charitable incorporated organisation based in the New Forest that helps young people reach their potential using practical outdoor experiential learning and adventure.

He graduated from University of Oxford with a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in Management Studies, and Bachelor of Arts (BA) first class honours degree in Economics from De Montfort University before entering management consultancy.

Peter is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Adelaide. He has an M.Phil. in Linguistic Science from Reading and a Ph.D. in Pacific Linguistics from  ANU.  After teaching at the Technical University of Berlin, he was University Lecturer in Linguistics and Fellow of Linacre College from 1979 to 1992. He has published extensively on Pidgin and Creole languages, ecolinguistics, pronoun grammar and language revival. He has more than 50 years of fieldwork experience in Australia and the Pacific. For the last 25 years he has worked with the language of  the descendants of the mutineers of the Bounty on Norfolk Island where he is an honorary member of the Language Commission of the Council of Elders. His current project is a definitive dictionary  of the Pitkern-Norf’k language.