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Charles Richmond (The Duke of Richmond and Gordon) is Chairman of the Goodwood Group of Companies and founder of the Goodwood Festival of Speed and Goodwood Revival. He took over management of the Goodwood Estate in West Sussex from his father in 1994 after a successful career as a photographer – a passion which he still pursues today, with exhibitions held worldwide.

Set in 12,000 acres, Goodwood is a diverse portfolio of businesses which include Goodwood Racecourse, Goodwood Motor Circuit; a 4,000 acre organic farm; Goodwood Hotel; two eighteen hole golf courses; Goodwood Aerodrome and Flying School. The Group employs over 750 people and attracts over 1.0 million visitors each year.

In 1990 Sturla created the concept of collaborative supplier management in Norway and teamed up with Colin Maund to found Achilles in the UK in 1993.

Sturla has been involved in numerous business start-ups and turnarounds in various sectors such as IT/information management, oil & gas and defense.

After a 13 year long career with Shell in various senior positions across several geographies he became an active entrepreneur working mostly out of Scandinavia and the Middle East.

He is currently an active partner in a Norwegian Investment company and a Chairman of the Board / non-excecutive Director of various industrial and technology companies.

Colin is the founder and CEO of Hellios, having pioneered supplier information management over 30 years ago. 

Colin was CEO of Achilles Group until 2011 and was responsible for its international growth into 26 countries before leading the sale of the business in 2008. In 2009 Colin was awarded the UK Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for IT Services. 

Prior to co-founding Achilles in the UK in 1993 Colin specialised in procurement and procurement law where he worked for a variety of organizations including HM Treasury, the CBI, and National Power.  

 Colin is closely involved with two charities. He is the Chair of Outward Bound International and a Trustee of the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra where he chairs the Finance Committee. 

Rosemary Maund is Group HR Manager with responsibility for human resources, training and development and general office management. She is also Company Secretary for all our subsidiaries.

For most of her career she has specialised in human resources and joined Hellios after being Group Human Resources Manager for a global business operating across twenty six countries.

A graduate of the University of Warwick, Rosemary has undertaken professional studies in HRM and CIPD.

Her greatest satisfaction at Hellios is developing people to realise their potential within a growing business and the challenge of working with a culturally diverse workforce. 

Colin is the founder and CEO of Hellios, having pioneered supplier information management over 20 years ago.

Colin founded Hellios Information in 2012 as the next generation of supplier information and risk management services, following 30 years’ experience in procurement and having pioneered supplier information management by founding Achilles Group in the UK in 1993.

Colin, a graduate from the London School of Economics (LSE), was CEO of Achilles Group until 2011, and was responsible for its international growth into 26 countries before leading the sale of the business in 2008 to a Private Equity firm, HgCapital. In 2009 Colin was awarded the UK Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for IT Services.

Prior to co-founding Achilles in the UK in 1993 with Sturla Sand, who had pioneered the community concept in Norway in 1990, Colin specialised in procurement where he worked for a variety of organizations including HM Treasury, CBI and National Power. In 2001 he was appointed by the UK Government as one of the two UK representatives on the European Commission’s Advisory Committee for the Opening up of Public Procurement.

He is interested in the interface between professional procurement and the demands of Corporate and Social Responsibility. Colin was appointed a Trustee of The Outward Bound Trust in March 2012.

Steve has worked in both industry and professional practice. In addition to being an advisory and audit partner, from 2008-2014 he was Managing Partner of James Cowper Kreston, leading the firm through recession and on to significant success including many national awards. He was a globally elected member of the Board of Kreston International from 2013-16 providing strategic guidance to an international team of 21,000 people in over 100 countries.

Steve now spends his time as non-executive director and chairman to several companies in diverse sectors, and chairing Invest in Oxfordshire and national education charity, NACE.

Jeremy until recently was a partner at Hogan Lovells providing a wide range of advice in the area of bribery, corruption and fraud. He has extensive experience advising corporates and individuals in bribery/corruption related international investigations and prosecutions. This included leading various internal investigations for companies facing civil and criminal liability and providing guidance on how to minimise the risk of such liabilities in relation to the UK bribery and corruption laws as well as other bribery and corruption legal regimes.

Jeremy was invited (one of three lawyers to receive such an invite) to give both oral and written evidence to the Joint Parliamentary Committee who were responsible for drafting the UK Bribery Act. Jeremy is the co-editor of the leading text "International Commercial Fraud" published by Sweet & Maxwell.

Jeremy is recognised by Chambers UK as a `'senior statesmen" and described by Legal 500 "a powerhouse in the field".

Steve New is Associate Professor in Operations Management at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, and a Fellow in Management Studies at Hertford College. Steve began his career as an engineer, working for Rolls Royce while completing a degree in physics at Southampton University.

After a spell in management consultancy, he completed his doctorate at Manchester Business School (MBS). This work was sponsored by the Eaton Corporation, for whom Steve worked while studying. He subsequently taught at the Manchester School of Management, UMIST (now merged with MBS), before joining Saïd Business School in 1996, where he has served as Vice Dean of the school.

Steve has published extensively in the fields of procurement, supply chain management and quality improvement, with his work appearing in journals ranging from the Harvard Business Review to the British Medical Journal. Much of his work is inter-disciplinary, and he collaborates extensively with colleagues from across disciplines. He regularly works as a consultant with a wide range of clients in the private, public and third sectors.

Les Mosco had a 40-year career in senior procurement, contracting and supply chain roles, both public and private sectors. After a 1st Class Honours degree in Physics, he started work in British Coal and has subsequently headed up the procurement function in The Scottish Office (UK Government in Scotland), NatWest Bank, Amerada Hess Oil and Gas, Railtrack/Network Rail and the Ministry of Defence, where he oversaw 2,500 staff and £20Bn annual spend.

He now provides board level independent strategic and objective advice and has a portfolio of Non Executive Director roles, Charity Trustee roles, consultancy and as Senior Advisor to (amongst others) the Bank of England and a part of the Engineering Employers Federation (EEF).

Rosemary Maund is the Support Services Manager with responsibility for human resources, training and development, finance and general office management. She is also Company Secretary for Hellios Information.

For most of her career she has specialised in human resources and joined Hellios after being Group Human Resources Manager for a global business operating across twenty three countries.

A graduate of the University of Warwick, Rosemary has undertaken professional studies in HRM and CIPD. She enjoys the challenge of developing people to realise their potential within a growing business.

Colin is the founder and CEO of Hellios, having pioneered supplier information management over 20 years ago.

Colin founded Hellios Information in 2012 as the next generation of supplier information and risk management services, following 30 years’ experience in procurement and having pioneered supplier information management by founding Achilles Group in the UK in 1993.

Colin, a graduate from the London School of Economics (LSE), was CEO of Achilles Group until 2011, and was responsible for its international growth into 26 countries before leading the sale of the business in 2008 to a Private Equity firm, HgCapital. In 2009 Colin was awarded the UK Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for IT Services.

Prior to co-founding Achilles in the UK in 1993 with Sturla Sand, who had pioneered the community concept in Norway in 1990, Colin specialised in procurement where he worked for a variety of organizations including HM Treasury, CBI and National Power. In 2001 he was appointed by the UK Government as one of the two UK representatives on the European Commission’s Advisory Committee for the Opening up of Public Procurement.

He is interested in the interface between professional procurement and the demands of Corporate and Social Responsibility. Colin was appointed a Trustee of The Outward Bound Trust in March 2012.

Rosemary Maund is the Group HR Manager with responsibility for human resources, training and development and general office management. She is also Company Secretary for Hellios Information.

For most of her career she has specialised in human resources and joined Hellios after being Group Human Resources Manager for a global business operating across twenty three countries.

A graduate of the University of Warwick, Rosemary has undertaken professional studies in HRM and CIPD. She enjoys the challenge of developing people to realise their potential within a growing business.

Mike Hanlon has over 10 years’ experience working in the supplier information and risk management sector. Mike has led the development of many relevant product solutions across multiple communities spanning many sectors and geographies.

Mike is head of Hellios’ product and systems portfolio. Mike and his team work across the business to ensure customer requirements are managed and delivered effectively and ensuring our systems are compliant with current regulations.

Outside work, Mike’s passion is water sports. He also loves to run, regularly involved in endurance races, he has taken part in marathons, ultra-marathons, swim-run races around the Scilly Isles.

Mark Rose joined Hellios in 2022 and has enjoyed getting to grips with the different challenges which come with working in a fast growing, exciting company. Mark brings a broad Finance experience in a number of different roles and industry sectors. Mark is head of Hellios’ finance team and is responsible for all areas of finance including transactional processing, budgeting / forecasting and all external and internal reporting. Outside of work, Mark has been running a local Cub pack for a number of years, takes part in his local Park Run and plays viola in a local orchestra.

Lucy Slater joined Hellios in December 2021 as Head of Group Marketing, after more than a decade leading corporate communication and global marketing within a large multinational business operating across sixty countries. A Graphic Design graduate from Brighton University, Lucy has undertaken professional studies in Marketing and Business Management achieving the Level 5 CIM Diploma and Global OneMBA from Erasmus university, Rotterdam. A keen gardener and walker Lucy is always happiest in nature - with the added bonus of some quiet time away from the family!

Kevin Thomas is the Managing Director for Hellios Ireland, he has 30 years of experience working with technology companies. Kevin has had a number of roles ranging from Software Developer, Systems Designer and Software Architecture but in the last 20 years’ he has been in senior management and leadership roles where he managed large numbers of technology teams and projects. He has a B.Sc.(Hons) in Computer Science from Technological University Dublin, an M.Sc. in Computer Science from Staffordshire University and an MBA from Imperial College London. Prior to joining Hellios Kevin was Chief Technology Officer with Sportdec and was also Chief Technology Officer with MMX, Data Electronics and Voice Logics.

Paul joined Hellios in October 2023, which he saw as an exciting next step in a 30-year career within Financial Services, building on my more recent work in Third Party Risk management leadership.
He leads the team here at our HQ in the UK, and is also responsible for the Buyer and Supplier facing teams across our UK and Ireland communities. He has worked intensively within supply chain management, and sees the community model we have here at Hellios as a game-changer in driving supplier and buyer value. 
Outside of work he loves film and music and  lives in a converted bakery – although in what is a great disappointment to the rest of the Hellios team, he is a very poor baker! 

After spending over 10 years of his career within customer services, and 6 years directly in Supplier Information and Risk Management, the move to Head of Supplier Management at Hellios in 2022 seemed like the perfect opportunity – and he's glad to say he was right. The supportive ethos here at Hellios allows Mannie to use his experience of driving improvements with cross-functional teams to make a real difference for our customers – something that’s very important to him.
Outside of work, travel is very close to his heart, and he's recently entered the wonderful world of fatherhood with equal parts coffee and chaos! 

Tom has worked at Hellios for almost 10 years, and it’s been quite a ride! He began in the Supplier Support team, working with suppliers to complete our questionnaires, then worked in ALL roles within Buyer Management – helping to integrate our systems and data into our buyer accounts.
And now, with Hellios’s support, he has relocated to Australia where he's the Country Manager. As well as helping set up our offices here in Australia, he also oversees the Australian JOSCAR community – when he's not being a dad to his three daughters or jet-skiing. 

Phil joined Hellios after graduating in English Literature at Queen Mary, University College of London. Phil worked in the UK supplier and buyer management teams before relocating to Amsterdam to launch Hellios Netherlands during lockdown in 2020. Following the expansion of the system to other European clients, Phil now manages the Northern European region including the Nordics. Outside of work, Phil can be found despairing over his beloved Manchester United or taking on international adventures. Every year he runs a half marathon and in 2022, he hiked to Everest Base Camp in aid of the company charity, Outward Bound.

Ted graduated with a Degree in History from Liverpool University before going on to achieve a Masters Degree in Media Journalism from Manchester Metropolitan University. He was hired as a Customer Service Advisor in 2017 providing first line support to our supplier customers. There were only 20 members of staff when he first joined the business, which gave him the opportunity to really learn about each area of the Company and opened up prospects for him to manage his first account. He progressed within Hellios to become a Service Delivery Manager looking after four accounts in the banking sector. After a year in this role, Ted further progressed his career and was promoted to be responsible for our services in two sectors, Retail and Financial Services. He has recently been appointed to leadership role at our new office in Spain. Ted was drawn to Hellios by the challenge of learning about supplier information. He also believes in the Company’s ethics of helping eradicate modern slavery. Ted’s journey with Hellios has been positive as he continues to develop his knowledge and skills. A few words from Ted himself on his experience with the business and to prospective graduates:“The company is warm and welcoming with many opportunities for progression and training is provided to enhance your skills. As a small growing business everyone is listened to, and you have the opportunity to influence decisions with your input.”