Les Pipe – Member

Les joined the board of Paradigm Trust in May 2018 and was the trust’s link director for Piper’s Vale Primary Academy until 3rd May 2022. He was appointed a member of the Trust on 9th June 2022.

Les currently holds a number of non-executive and consultancy posts, predominantly in the publishing and media production sectors, where he has worked for some decades.

Before stepping down from his last full-time managing director role, Les was director in a number of media production SME businesses, specialising in re-structuring, growth, acquisition and stakeholder value realization. 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.