Alistair Watson – Member
Alistair became a member of Paradigm Trust in May 2018.
He retired from the international law firm Herbert Smith Freehills in 2017 where he was partnership secretary for 22 years.
Prior to joining Herbert Smith Freehills he was in government service, principally with the Royal Navy serving at sea, in NATO Headquarters in Brussels and in the Ministry of Defence, London. He was Equerry and Assistant Private Secretary to HRH the Prince of Wales from 1989 to 1991.
Alistair has experience of contributing to and supporting a number of boards and senior committees during expansion and times of change.
Pauline Wallace – Member
Pauline joined the board of directors of Paradigm Trust in October 2013 and in addition to her director role was the chair of the audit and risk committee and the link director for Solebay Primary Academy. Pauline served for a period of two terms which concluded in October 2021. On standing down, Pauline expressed an interest in becoming a Member of the Trust. The Members resolved to appoint Pauline as a Member in November 2021.
Pauline is a Chartered Accountant who, prior to retirement, was a senior partner in PwC and their UK head of public policy and regulatory affairs. She is now the inaugural chair of the UK Accounting Standards Endorsement Board and a member of The Pensions Regulator’s Determinations Panel. She is also chair of the governing body of Middleton School, a special needs primary school in Ware, Hertfordshire.
Les Pipe – Member
Les rejoined the board of Paradigm Trust in July 2023 after previously serving one term of office from May 2018 – May 2022.
Les currently holds a number of non-executive and consultancy posts, predominantly in the publishing and media production sectors, where he worked for some decades.
Before stepping down from his last full-time managing director role, Les was a director in a number of media production SME businesses, specialising in restructuring, growth, acquisition, and stakeholder value realisation. He has been involved in start-up companies, growing from base to multi-million pound organisations.
Les is also a business mentor for the Prince’s Trust.
Dave Hughes – Director
Dave joined the board of directors of Paradigm Trust in January 2017.
Dave holds a number of consulting, non executive, and executive roles. He is Non Executive director for Health Enterprise East, an NHS based Intellectual property company, Director of Castle Crag Communications, a Digital Communications Consultancy company, and a trustee of both the Suffolk Community Foundation and Lets Talk Reading, an Ipswich charity focussed on improving literacy in the town. He is deputy chairman of the board of Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation trust, where he is also chair of the performance committee and chair of the strategic projects committee which oversaw the recent move of the hospital to the Cambridge Bio Medical Campus.
Prior to this, Dave held a range of executive roles at BT over a 35 year career.
Dave’s term of office is four years. He was appointed as a co-opted director by the Trust Board on 11 January 2017. He is the trust’s link director for Murrayfield Primary Academy.