Out of this World

Board of Directors

photo Patrick Andrews - advises individuals and organisations who are exploring better and more honest ways of doing business. He helps them achieve clarity in their business relations, using his 16 years experience as a lawyer and manager. Patrick loves food, doing most of the cooking at home and baking bread each week. He lives in north-west London.
photo Bob Fisher - is a passionate jogger and participates regularly in the Great North Run. He runs 'The Green House' an ethical food business in Harrogate. In his spare time he is a regular orienteer, meaning he practices the "art of being lost" in a defined area only equipped with a map and compass.
photo Rhona Howarth - is a self-employed trainer and consultant in small business and NGO development in the UK, Africa, India and the Middle East. She was a founder member of a wholefood co-operative in Durham in the '70s, and active in ICOM (Industrial Common Ownership Movement) and ICOF (the national revolving loan fund for co-operatives) in the 80's. In the '90s she helped found Border Wind, a wind farm development company. She is an associate of the Foundation for Small and Medium Enterprise Development at the University of Durham.
photo Ian Liddell - is a marketing consultant working primarily in the field of fair and ethical trade, having previously spent many years involved in the marketing of major food brands. Ian joined Out of this World's board in 2003 and has managed the process of changing the Society's identity.
photo David Smout - spent most of his working life in the food industry. He ran his own business for many years. For five years before his retirement he was Administrator - Bursar of Ely Cathedral.
photo Jon Walker - is Out of this World's Business Development Director. He has a background in wholefoods and co-operatives. After doing a degree in engineering and a doctorate in cybernetics, he left academia to establish a wholefood shop in Huddersfield. Then he worked with various recycling projects, a small-scale wholefood processing co-operative, and the wholefood wholesalers SUMA.

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