As Chief Executive, Nicholas ensures that ECC stays focused on our members, balancing long-term strategic development with a firm commitment to delivering today’s needs.

He has direct experience of many aspects of HR, and has led ECC through a period of significant growth and expansion over the last 12 years.

Nicholas brings 25 years’ of experience of developing and delivering practical and successful strategies and business plans in the public, private and voluntary sectors.

Before joining ECC he spent several years as Head of Strategy and Performance at RNIB, a £120m UK membership charity with 3,000 staff across 40 sites. In his spare time he enjoys travel, and walking a dog he always said he didn't want but is now inseparable from.