Mark was previously the chief executive of Network Rail from 2014 to 2018. During his tenure as chief executive Network Rail carried out the biggest programme of capital upgrades to the country’s railway in a hundred years. Over £15 billion was invested in huge projects such as the rebuilding of London Bridge and Birmingham New Street stations, electrification of hundreds of miles of track. Previous to his rail career, Mark had worked in the international oil and gas industry, mostly for Royal Dutch Shell in a number of countries around the world. .

He was made a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2018 and was appointed CBE in the Queens Birthday honours list in June 2018 for services to the rail industry. He is married with three grown up children, all themselves married.

Barbara is an ex-Managing Director of The Body Shop International and of Dorling Kindersley publishing as well as a former trustee of The Body Shop Foundation and international charity Children on the Edge. More recently Barbara has advised new company start-ups, mentored the founder of The Aspire Foundation and is a trustee of Cornwall Air Ambulance Trust. She also runs her own consultancy business.
Barbara was the New Heli Appeal Board Chair and a driving force behind the campaign.

Chris has over 30 years of experience in the food industry having worked for Unilever, primarily in frozen foods and ice cream, since 1971 in the UK, Trinidad, Brazil, France and the Netherlands. Over this period, Chris held a number of positions largely in marketing and general management with global, regional and national responsibilities. He left Unilever in 2004 in order to focus on a number of other interests and runs his own Marketing and Sustainability consultancy firm.

Chris was Chairman of the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Local Enterprise Partnership, appointed in early 2011, and an Advisory Board member of the European Centre for Environment and Human Health (part of the University of Exeter Medical School).

He was appointed a Trustee of CAAT in late 2012.

Robert joined the charity in 2015. He is a Chartered Accountant who worked for Francis Clark in Truro for more than thirty years and continues to consult for the firm. Robert is a Governor and Chair of the Finance Committee of Truro School among other charitable commitments.

His Honour Judge Simon Carr, Recorder of Truro. Called to the Bar 1984. Appointed a Circuit Court Judge 2009. Appointed Resident Judge at Truro 2016. Was a trustee of the Jane Goodall Institute UK (JGI) 1997 to 2017 and for the last seven years at a Chair of Trustees. Also sat on the Global Board of JGI as Chair of the Ethics Committee from 2012 to 2017. ECB accredited club umpire and amateur beekeeper.

Dougal joined the charity in 2019. He lives in Devon and works as a business advisor. His career has been in the telecoms and media sectors, spanning a broad range of roles. He most recently worked for Sky TV where he led the analytics, data operations and data technology divisions, and led a large post-merger integration between pay TV operations in UK, Germany and Italy. His early career was in corporate strategy, including 10 years in management consulting.

Married to Helen with two girls at school, Dougal is passionate about the outdoors and loves sailing and walking around the coastline of Devon and Cornwall.

Ben moved to Cornwall in 2015 after a 16 year career as an officer, fast jet pilot and flying instructor in the RAF. He now runs his own consultancy business, specialising in risk management, training and technical innovation, primarily in the aviation sector.
He joined CAAT as a Trustee in 2018, and is enjoying applying his aviation, risk management and analytical skills to the running of the charity.

Daisy has worked across radio, TV and digital media for 20 years. Her first job was as a news reporter at Pirate FM, going on to lead various regional, national and international news teams at ITN, ITV, Al Jazeera and the BBC. Since 2010 she has specialised in digital and social media, helping organisations get to grips with new technologies and ways of messaging and figure out how best to make these new platforms work for them. She's worked with international brands and global ad agencies as well as a large number of small business and public sector clients. She is currently Commissioning Editor in Factual Commissioning at the BBC. Daisy lives between Falmouth and the Helford with her husband and two young sons.