We currently have eleven trustees governing the Ship’s Company. The trustees meet four times a year to discuss their individual responsibility areas.
The Trustees
Sean McMillan (Trustee & Chair of the Board)
Sean has spent the last thirty five years designing and building wooden yachts with about a hundred currently on the water. He was the founder and CEO of Spirit Yachts…
Martin Carver (Trustee & Chair of the Witan)
Amongst other things Martin has been an Army officer between 1959 and 1972, a freelance archaeologist between 1972 and 1975, the creator and director of the Birmingham University Field Archaeology…
Jonathan Lea (Trustee & Treasurer)
Jonathan is a qualified accountant, was previously the CFO of an FTSE 250 PLC and has wide international experience of business in Europe, Asia and Latin America. He is currently…
Simon Steel (Trustee)
Simon lives a short walk from the Sutton Hoo site when he isn’t working as a consultant in advertising, design and brand strategy, such as London’s Oyster card. So his…
Nicola Stacey (Trustee & Corporate Fundraising)
Nicola Stacey has 25 years experience of working in the heritage sector, including in the Museum of London and English Heritage and has been Director of the Heritage of London Trust (HOLT) since 2015.…
Sharon Kindleysides (Trustee & Community Fundraising)
Sharon is a Global Expert in Intelligent Transport Systems and Future Mobility with over 19 years experience in the industry including as ITS Director for Transport for New South Wales,…
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Andrew Fitzgerald (Trustee)
Andrew was formerly a finance director and more latterly the successful founder of a number of small technology companies dealing with print control systems and optical AI. He is a…
Joe Startin (Trustee)
Joe trained as an engineer and moved to Suffolk with his job at BT in 1974 and from 1995 he worked as an independent IT consultant in the UK, Belgium…
Angela Care Evans (Trustee)
Angela Evans is the ‘Grande Dame’ of research on the Sutton Hoo Ship, assembling the definitive report in 1975 (Chapter V in The Sutton Hoo Ship Burial). A member of the British Museum’s Sutton Hoo…
Helen Geake (Trustee)
Helen is an archaeologist who has worked for the Portable Antiquities Scheme in East Anglia for the last 25 years. After working on the Sutton Hoo excavations from 1987 to…
Damian Robinson (Trustee)
Damian Robinson is Director of the Centre for Maritime Archaeology at the University of Oxford is a Classical Archaeologist who has specialised in maritime research in the classical Mediterranean. He is especially interested in…
Pete Clay (Founding Trustee)
Pete sadly died on Monday 16 January, having been part of the Ship’s Company from the start. His energy and enthusiasm for building the ship will be sorely missed. In…