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Jocelyn Stuart-Grumbar

Jocelyn Stuart Grumbar

Personal biography
My career has involved travelling for up to 100 days a year for over thirty years, building international business and brands. Now, at last, I no longer spend Sunday afternoons at Heathrow! Home is in Gloucestershire but my dual role at The Clothworkers' (Company and Foundation) mean I spend the week in London. My wife, Catherine, has recently left the NHS after around thirty years (mostly in Oncology). She has just joined Cancer Research UK. Our adult children are in their late twenties - one a freelance set designer (inter alia); her twin brother, in Shipping, based in Singapore; and the youngest a trainee Patent Attorney.

Professional/voluntary biography
Following thirteen years with GrandMet (now Diageo) opening up international markets (mainly for J&B Scotch) and developing brands (including Bombay Sapphire), I spent fifteen years working with James Dyson, responsible, at different points, for market entry into Spain, Italy, the USA and China (where I was MD); also for reconfiguring and running Dyson's Customer Service internationally. Always drawn to 'disruptive technologies' with a real-world application, I then moved to Sheffield, to a University of Leeds spin-out, Xeros Technology Group plc. I was recruited to develop its marketplace internationally and found myself closely involved in the floating of the company on the AIM market. Since 2015, I have had a dual role, as Chief Executive of The Clothworkers' Foundation and Clerk to The Clothworkers' Company.

Why I am a Trustee
Now finally being physically located in the UK and - from a career point of view - having an exciting full-time role with a major grant-maker, I felt that I could, at last, try to make time to see if I could help a really innovative and impactful charity where, just possibly, some of my experience in the commercial world might prove useful!