Governors - CVs - Bedales Schools

MATTHEW RICE BA(Retires from Board 2016)Educated Bedales 1975-1980 Chelsea School of Art and Central school of Art [Theatre Design]. Fourchildren, two educated at Bedales. 1985 Established David Linley Furniture with eponymous OB. Since 1989has worked with his wife running Emma Bridgewater, more eponymy, a pottery employing 250 peoplemainly in Stoke on Trent. 25 years of designing for these companies, books on Architecture, “VillageBuildings of Britain”, Littlebrown and co 1991, “Building Norfolk”, Frances Lincoln 2009, “ArchitecturalPrimer”, Bloomsbury 2009 and “The lost city of Stoke on Trent”, Frances Lincoln. 2011. Member ofNorwich Cathedral Fabric committee and Norfolk Churches Trust council. Lives in Oxford. Interests;Piano, food and fancy fowl.NICHOLAS VETCH ARICS(Retires from Board 2013)Formative years in Mauritius. Educated at Radley College thereafter qualified as a Chartered Surveyor bycorrespondence whilst employed by, consecutively, William H Brown and King & Co, both surveying firms(1981-86). Joined Citygrove PLC,a property developer (1986-89), leaving to form own business EdgeProperties. Edge was listed on the London Stock Exchange(LSE) in 1996 and sold in 1998. Co-founded andis now Chairman of The Big Yellow Group in 1998 which was listed on the LSE in 2000. Took an eightmonth sabbatical in 2003 and sailed across the southern Pacific with family. Married to Katy with threechildren (one at Bedales) and lives in Steep. Travelled extensively, aviator, sports and home in Cornwall.CHARLES WATSON(Retires from Board 2019)Educated at Sherborne School and a history graduate of Kings College London University, Charles Watsonhas spent almost 30 years of his career in the public public relations industry. 22 of these were with leadinginternational consultancy Financial Dynamics (FD), where as CEO he led the 2003 management buy out ofthe business, and its subsequent sale to FTI Consulting in 2006. In 2011 he stepped down as chairman ofFD and has subsequently taken on a number of chairmanship roles in business which include the KarmaCommunications Group (an integrated advertising and digital communications agency group); New Collegeof the Humanities (an independent university college founded by Professor AC Grayling) and the WorldTrade Group, a private equity financed international events organizer.Both his children attend currently or have attended recently Bedales Schools – along with two nieces, onenephew and two cousins. He was closely involved in the creation of the Bedales Schools DevelopmentTrust, of which he currently serves as its first chairman and also chairs the external relations committee ofthe board of governors. Charles' many interests include fly fishing, shooting, sailing, skiing and skimountaineeringNovember 20124