Alan is currently Chairman of Redstone plc, a leading provider of IT and Communications solutions for businesses and organisations. He is also Non-executive Director of Berkeley Group Holdings plc and Capital &Regional plc and Non Executive Director of Air Command (Royal Air Force).

His previous roles have included: Chief Executive Officer of Historic Royal Palaces and Wembley plc; a Member of the Executive Board of Compass plc; a Non-Executive Honorary Chairman of INCLUDE (charity) and NW London Training and Enterprise Council; a Trustee of The Prince's Foundation and the Greenwich Foundation; a Member of the Advisory Forum of Saïd Business School, Oxford University and Non-executive Director of Carillion plc; Metroline plc; and KPMG.

Alan's new book Great Britons on Success (Kingsham Press, 2009) is now available. He is also co-author of Timeless Management (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002). He is a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is also currently a member of the Greening Management steering group set up by the Chartered Institute of Management. He has lectured at universities and spoken on leadership, organisational structure, culture and change.

Alan has been a Patron of the Windsor Leadership Trust since 2003 and supports the Trust because of its unique approach to leadership development through peer learning with a cross-public/private sector cadre in a historic setting, which facilitates thinking.