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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
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NEXT GROUP CHAIR RUPERT MOON
Penderyn Distillery, Swansea - the location of our next ULTRA group chaired by Rupert Moon. Pictured with Jamie Breese
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ULTRA Match Sponsor Cardi f Devils, January 2024
Group Chair Profle 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 General Staff (Head 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 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.
Group Chair Profle Steve Dalton OBE CDir FIoD(Dip) CCMI
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 inspiratonal and visionary senior executve and transformaton leader, with a unique skill set of operatonal 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 communicaton and infuencing skills, working efectvely with stakeholders, strategic partners, vendors, industry regulators, PR/media connectons and Government. He is a qualifed Chartered Director through the Insttute 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.
RECENT SPEAKERS
Guest Speaker Martn Thatcher
In 1904, William Thatcher founded Thatchers Cider on his Somerset Farm in Sandford. Today, his great- grandson Martn Thatcher runs the fourth-generaton family business, which stll has its home on the very same farm where William made his cider. Maintaining the heritage of the family business remains close to Martn’s heart and now with the ffh generaton joining the business, together they are proud to be carrying on the family traditons 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 afeld as Australia. The growth of its range of premium ciders contnues 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: 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 natonal team. As head coach of Wales from 2007 to 2019, he won three Six Natons ttles, including three Grand Slams, and reached the semi-fnals of the 2011 and 2019 Rugby World Cups. Gatland was also head coach of the Britsh & 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 tme.
Guest Speaker : Mrs Peaches Golding OBE CStJ
Peaches Golding OBE CStJ was appointed His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant for Bristol in 2017. 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-executve 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 Afliaton 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 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 (Cardif), CEng, CITP, FIET, FIMechE, FBCS, SMIEEE
Rossi Setchi is Professor in High-Value Manufacturing and the Director and Principal Investgator of the Research Centre in AI, Robotcs and Human-Machine Systems (IROHMS) at Cardif, which she founded in 2019. IROHMS is a collaboraton of the Schools of Engineering, Psychology and Computer-Science and Informatcs. IROHMS currently involves over 100 academics and postgraduate researchers and 35 PhD students. For many years she led ASTUTE Cardif, a team of 20+ academics and researchers helping Welsh manufacturing companies to develop more advanced and sustainable engineering solutons. Rossi has a distnguished track record of research in a range of areas including AI, robotcs, systems engineering, additve manufacturing, industrial sustainability, Cyber- Physical Systems and Industry 4.0, and, in partcular, has built an internatonal reputaton for excellence in knowledge-driven symbolic AI, computatonal semantcs and human-machine systems. Her edited books on Sustainable Design and Manufacturing are among the top Springer publicatons in 2019 and 2018 that address important United Natons Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
For a full bio, please see:
htps://profles.cardif.ac.uk/staf/setchi
Guest Speaker : Michael Wiper
Michael Wiper wanted to make cider, and even put down roots with the planting of his own orchard. Whilst waiting for the trees to mature the Founders started to experiment with making beer, and their homebrew actually tasted pretty good. The feedback from friends and family - including those who usually avoided beer - was motivation to keep brewing. A few months into their home brewing experimentations, a family friend was sipping on Michael’s latest batch in the garden (an Australian hopped IPA) and murmured, “cor, that’s a beautiful beer”. This was the moment of realisation for Michael and Al; the catalyst for pursuing their passion. From then on, they poured everything into Beautiful Beer - including their surnames. Initially, all Wiper and True beers were brewed nomadically. Over a decade into the Wiper and True journey, we still love brewing as much as we did making those frst homebrews. Our colossal new brewery a mile up the road in Old Market, Bristol unlocked the next stage of our journey, providing the tools and space to reach a new level of quality.
THE ALLIANCE INFORMAL MEET
Please make use of the ULTRA Wales Group 2-way WhatsApp chat
Alliance
ULTRA WALES Launch Event, January 2023 - Speakers Ian Price, CBE Wales + Anne Jessop, CEO Royal Mint
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 beneft 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.
Confdentiality 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 fnancial reward, IP or compensation etc. No Member can be held liable for advice given either.
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