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ULTRA is a confidential business club specifically for MDs, CEOs, Directors and Owner/Operators from a wide range of sectors. It is a trusted ‘club of peers’ for ambitious, like-minded people. Our mission is to create a network of game-changing leaders. Each group of 12 meets monthly for 3 hours to support each other, workshop challenges and ideas, network and hold each other to account. Most groups meet from 7.30 to 10.30am in private dining rooms in The Ivy restaurants in England and Wales.
ULTRA WALES Launch Event, January 2023 - Speakers Ian Price, Director of CBI Wales + Anne Jessop, CEO of The Royal Mint
Andrew is the CEO behind one of the most exciting and largest developments in Europe - The YTL Arena - and is the Chairman of The Prince’s Trust
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Group Chairs
Group Chairs
Wales National Rugby Coach - Warren Gatland CBE - speaking at ULTRA Beacon in August 2023
Please make use of the ULTRA Wales Group 2-way WhatsApp chat INFORMAL MEET BEACON ULTRA Wales Alliance Group First Meeting
Group Chair Profile General Sir Peter Wall GCB, CBE, DL
Sir Peter Wall is the co-founder of Amicus, a specialist leadership consultancy. He was the Commander in Chief of UK Land Forces and subsequently, Chief of the British Army, retiring in 2014. He has an engineering degree from the University of Cambridge and has extensive experience in dealing with British and foreign governments at the highest levels, as well as a proven track record in the strategic leadership of large and complex organisations. He is a visiting professor at Exeter University and is a recognised speaker on geopolitics and leadership techniques in business. Peter is an independent director of General Dynamics in the US and president of Combat Stress, the UK military mental health charity.
He is an avid follower of sport, sails, skis and plays the occasional game of village cricket.
Steve Dalton OBE was part of Sony for 40 years. Until recently, he was an Executive Advisor at Sony Europe and concluded his role as Managing Director for UK Tec Operations. In addition, he was Chair of the Board of Directors of the Football Association of Wales for nearly 4 years. Steve is an inspirational and visionary senior executive and transformation leader, with a unique skill set of operational and change management skills, developed turning around and growing business in crisis. He received his OBE for this work in Wales. He excels with strong and credible communication and influencing skills, working effectively with stakeholders, strategic partners, vendors, industry regulators, PR/media connections and Government. He is a qualified Chartered Director through the Institute of Directors and enjoys several external board roles of Industry bodies. Steve was a Board Director of Sony UK from 2005 to 2015. Steve enjoys playing football himself and lives in Bridgend.
Group Chair Profile Steve Dalton OBE CDir FIoD(Dip) CCMI
ULTRA Summer Social, at De Vere Tortworth Court, July 2023
ULTRA September Social, Sept 2023. Fine Wine pairing with Tom Ford at Harvey Nichols.
ULTRA January Social: Match Sponsor Cardi ff Devils, January 2024
ULTRA Summer Social, at De Vere Tortworth Court, July 2022
Wales Group 4
July ULTRA Meeting
Wales Group 2 (Alliance)
RECENT SPEAKERS
Peaches Golding OBE CStJ was appointed His Majesty’s Lord- Lieutenant for Bristol in 2017.
Guest Speaker : Mrs Peaches Golding OBE CStJ
She is Vice President of the Royal Society of St George; Chair of the Bristol Water Challenge Panel and Deputy Chair of WaterShare + Panel; Trustee of the SS Great Britain Trust; Trustee of Bristol Zoological Society; Non-executive Consultant to Moon Exec Search among other charitable and business roles. She is an Honorary Captain of the Royal Naval Reserves and President of the Affiliation between Bristol and HMS PRINCE OF WALES. She was graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Biology and awarded Honorary Doctorate degrees by the University of the West of England (2017) and the University of Bristol (2018).
Guest Speaker Martin Thatcher
In 1904, William Thatcher founded Thatchers Cider on his Somerset Farm in Sandford. Today, his great- grandson Martin Thatcher runs the fourth-generation family business, which still has its home on the very same farm where William made his cider. Maintaining the heritage of the family business remains close to Martin’s heart and now with the fifth generation joining the business, together they are proud to be carrying on the family traditions and making great cider sustainably. Thatchers is best known for its leading cider brands including Thatchers Gold and Thatchers Haze, sold throughout the UK and as far afield as Australia. The growth of its range of premium ciders continues to out-perform the market, with Thatchers now not only the UK’s number one family-owned cider maker in the UK, but also the UK’s second largest cider maker.
Guest Speaker: George North
George has emerged as one of the most talented players in the modern game. He was just 18 when he was named in Wales' squad for the 2010 November internationals having burst on to the professional scene with a two-try haul for the Scarlets in the Magners League earlier that season. The teams he has played for are the British and Irish Lions, Northampton Saints, Ospreys, Scarlets and of course - Wales. North, with 121 caps, is third on the all-time list of men’s most capped players behind Alun Wyn Jones (158) and Gethin Jenkins (129). The 31-year-old is also second on the list of all-time men’s try scorers for Wales with 47, behind Shane Williams on 58. George was inducted into the RugbyPass Hall of Fame in 2021.
Guest Speaker: Warren David Gatland CBE
Warren David Gatland CBE (born 17 September 1963) is a New Zealand rugby union coach and former player who is the head coach of the Wales national team. As head coach of Wales from 2007 to 2019, he won three Six Nations titles, including three Grand Slams, and reached the semi-finals of the 2011 and 2019 Rugby World Cups. Gatland was also head coach of the British & Irish Lions on three tours, to Australia in 2013, when they won the Test series 2–1; New Zealand in 2017, when the series was drawn; and South Africa in 2021, losing the series 2–1. He has previously coached Connacht, Ireland, London Wasps, where he won three Premierships and the Heineken Cup, and Waikato, with whom he won the Air New Zealand Cup. He has also coached Chiefs between 2020 and 2022 before returning to Wales in December 2022. As a player, he played as a hooker and was one of Waikato's longest-serving players, playing 140 games for the province – a record at the time.
Guest Speaker : Martin Roberts
Martin is an entrepreneur, travel journalist and property expert who has presented over 3,000 episodes of BBC1's 'Homes Under the Hammer', was recently on E4's 'The Big Celebrity Detox', was a contestant on 'I'm A Celebrity’, and was the Celebrity Mastermind UK champion in 2022. He is heavily involved in the Rhondda Tunnel project as its Patron and is making a TV show about his guest house called 'Opps I Bought A Pub' in the Valleys. Martin owns a property portfolio, writes children’s books and is a Member of ULTRA Mercury group in England. He spoke at the launch event for ULTRA Wales.
See The Sun article about the Tunnel and the TV Show here.
See Mail Online article here.
See Wales Online article about the Pub in The Valleys here.
Guest Speaker: Professor Rossi Setchi MEng (Moscow), PhD (Cardiff), CEng, CITP, FIET, FIMechE, FBCS, SMIEEE
Rossi Setchi is Professor in High-Value Manufacturing and the Director and Principal Investigator of the Research Centre in AI, Robotics and Human-Machine Systems (IROHMS) at Cardiff, which she founded in 2019. IROHMS is a collaboration of the Schools of Engineering, Psychology and Computer-Science and Informatics. IROHMS currently involves over 100 academics and postgraduate researchers and 35 PhD students. For many years she led ASTUTE Cardiff, a team of 20+ academics and researchers helping Welsh manufacturing companies to develop more advanced and sustainable engineering solutions. Rossi has a distinguished track record of research in a range of areas including AI, robotics, systems engineering, additive manufacturing, industrial sustainability, Cyber- Physical Systems and Industry 4.0, and, in particular, has built an international reputation for excellence in knowledge-driven symbolic AI, computational semantics and human-machine systems. Her edited books on Sustainable Design and Manufacturing are among the top Springer publications in 2019 and 2018 that address important United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
For a full bio, please see:
https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/setchi
Guest Speaker: Dr Sue Barnes CEO Wales Air Ambulance
Sue has been CEO of Wales Air Ambulance since Dec 2020. Wales Air Ambulance is the largest air ambulance charity in the UK and operates four H-145 helicopters which provide coverage to the population of Wales 24/7. A scientist by background, with a first class degree and PhD from Cardiff University, Sue’s career has spanned multiple public and private sectors. Moving away from a research career and into managerial roles in the scientific and health arenas saw Sue being the only female to run a “CSI” department in the early 90s. Increasingly senior roles saw her become a Board Director of the Audit Commission and heavily involved in developing performance and value for money regimes for local government. A theme which has remained constant – with later appointments in senior roles in a number of local authorities in England. A “siren call” to return to Wales in 2012 saw Sue taking a position with a global technology/transformation company. Initially working in a public sector transformation role, Sue’s responsibilities quickly morphed into a wider UK and occasionally global business development role. Having come full circle – and being astonished by the privilege afforded by her current role – Sue’s sole interest is about how do the best she can every day for her ultimate audience….the people of Wales.
THE ALLIANCE INFORMAL MEET
Please make use of the ULTRA Wales Group 2-way WhatsApp chat
Alliance
Attendance Attendance isn’t mandatory, but ‘subs’ cannot attend in a Member’s place. We politely ask Members to try not to leave early, as we will usually conclude a meeting with an accountability round in preparation for the following meeting. To get the full benefit of the tried and tested peer group system - we strongly recommend treating each meeting as a client meeting and ring fencing the dates in your diary.
Confidentiality We ask all members to follow the commonly understood ‘Chatham House Rules’. Each Member agrees not to discuss any ULTRA Member’s business with anybody outside the of the group or disclose who the other Members are. Equally, all ideas are shared/given by Members freely with no expectation later of any form of financial reward, IP or compensation etc. No Member can be held liable for advice given either.
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