Members

Our current membership now totals some of the most influential business people in the Tunbridge Wells area. They are:

(Sponsors are highlighted in red)

Julie-Anderson

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Nik Askeroff

Nik Askaroff

Organiser

Nik is EMC’s founder and chief executive, and one of the highest profile businessmen in the South East with extensive experience....

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Steve Bass

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Louise Clark

Louise Clark

Louise has been Chief Operating Officer at The Brew House Hotel for the past two years, having joined the business shortly after it opened. Prior to running the hotel she ran large health & fitness clubs for nearly 15 years and continues to work-out every day as a member of a local gym.

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Andrew Deadman

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John Elliot

John Elliott

John Elliott is a self made man. When the property company he was working for ran into trouble in the 70s, he sold his family home, put the furniture into storage and moved into a rented property in order to raise the money to build a pair of semi-detached houses in Millwood Road, Orpington, and a new company was born.

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Paul Fleming

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Nick Gordon

Gordon Hotels Ltd owns The Queens Hotel in Bournemouth. With its head office in Tunbridge wells, GHL was formed in 2006 with a view to purchasing hotels, the first being The Queens Hotel. The Hotel has proved to be extremely successful.

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John Goss

John Goss

Coutts & Co is the UK private banking arm of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group and has over 60,000 high net worth clients across the UK. Founded in 1692...

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Peter Gould

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Phil Hart

Phil Hart

Phil Hart is managing director of MEP Ltd, a specialist manufacturer of complex plastic and metal parts mainly for the aviation and defence industries. The company was started up in 1972 by Phil's father who ran it from his garage.

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Jake Judd

Jake Judd

Jake is the Creative Director of Judd Associates, a leading independent web design and graphics company.

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Brian Keeley-Whiting

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Duncan Leslie

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Gill Levett

Gill Levett

Gill Levett is an award-winning businesswoman with an impressive background in creating and building businesses. She founded her first company...

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Stephen Mason

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Marc Matthew

Marc Matthew

Marc was raised in Winchmore Hill North London and has an MSc in strategic retail management from Loughborough University.

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Nick Moore

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Richard Phillips

Richard Phillips

Richard's restaurant career began at London's famous Savoy Hotel; going on to work alongside the Roux Brothers at Le Gavroche and then becoming Head Chef for Marco Pierre White at The Criterion, Mirabelle and Les Saveurs. Richard owned his own Michelin starred restaurant, Thackeray's, by the age of 29.

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Stewart Pierce

Stewart Pierce

Steward Pierce is the Finance Director of both Parker Building Supplies, Sussex and Kent’s leading independent Builders’ Merchant and Parker Ceilings, one of the South East’s largest installers of suspended ceilings and demountable partitions.

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Andy Potter

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Toby Raphael

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Emma Roberts

Emma Roberts

Emma is the Chief Executive of Creaseys, a leading independent firm of business and tax advisers in South East England.

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Paul Rowland

Paul Rowland

Paul graduated from university in 1982 after completing a BA (Honours) degree in Business Management and then joined B&Q, spearheading their store development program until 1988.

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Victoria Sampson

Victoria Sampson

CooperBurnett Solicitors are very pleased and indeed proud to be a key sponsor of the Royal Tunbridge Wells lunch club. We have been part...

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Matthew Sankey

The Sankey family have been operating businesses in and around Royal Tunbridge Wells since 1961...

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Andrew Scott

Aston Scott Group plc is a Risk Management and Commercial Insurance Broking Group, with its main office in West Malling, Kent.

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Paul Smith

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Polly Taylor

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Diane Thomas

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Beric Webb

Beric has a postgraduate Diploma in Management Studies and is a fully qualified Independent Financial Adviser. He moved to Tunbridge Wells in 1975 and has been...

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