Simon Slater – Chairperson

Chief Executive Officer, Thomson Snell & Passmore

Simon spent the first ten years of his working life in the school of hard knocks – sales. Since then, he has acquired 28 years’ experience of professional service firm leadership.

His career has spanned marketing, brand management, business development, operations, general management and governance roles with global, national and regional practices across the legal, accountancy and property professions. These include Eversheds Sutherland, Taylor Wessing, Charles Russell Speechlys, PKF Littlejohn and DTZ (now Cushman & Wakefield).

During his career, Simon has also founded, built and sold his own advisory business and until recently was deputy chairman of a leading college of further education. He has served as non-executive director with a number of organisations in recent years and is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, the Institute of Directors and the Royal Society of Arts.