Alan Coppin

Alan Coppin has had an extensive career in private, public and non profit sectors. After leaving a senior management consultant role at KPMG, he became CEO of international leisure company Wembley plc where he led its turnaround. After that he joined the executive board of FTSE 100 company Compass Group plc as CEO of their global operating division, before becoming CEO and government accounting officer of Historic Royal Palaces where he oversaw an organisational culture change. He has chaired the Princes’s Foundation and was a member of the RAF Board as well as being a NED on FTSE 100 and 250 companies. He currently holds a number of advisory roles as well as chairing the Sports Grounds Safety Authority being a Trustee of the RAF Museum and Patron of the Windsor Leadership Trust. He is the co-author author of Timeless Management and editor of Great Britons on Success.

Sir Gerry Grimstone, Chair of Standard Life, Deputy Chair of Barclays says of Alan and his July 2017 book (the Human Capital Imperative) '"Alan Coppin is a rare individual. His experience and insight span private and public sectors, charities, and the Armed Forces. The vital importance of human capital is the thread which has bound all this together. His book is a rich goldmine of data, research, wisdom and anecdote."