Originally from Lincoln, Larry served 20 years with the Plessey Company as an Electrical and Mechanical Engineer, specialising in ‘Quality Management Systems’.

As a Member of the ‘Institute of Quality Assurance’ and an Accredited Assessor of Management Systems to International standards he has published several papers and lectured at a number of universities.

Larry came to Guernsey in 1987 and was Quality Director of ‘Offshore Electronics Ltd’ until December 2010. He was appointed Director of the CGi in January 2009.

Martyn is the son of a tomato grower, and has always had a keen interest in horticulture. Early schooling was at the Forest School, and then later at the Grammar School for Boys.

Having this interest in horticulture, Martyn furthered his career by studying in St Albans at the Hertfordshire College of Agriculture and Horticulture, taking a three year Diploma in Glasshouse Production. He worked for a year in New Milton in Hampshire for Hugh Stevenson, growing spray and pot chrysanthemums.

On returning to Guernsey, and wanting to use his horticultural knowledge in a commercial way, he worked for R J Le Huray Ltd (a horticultural merchant) for 12 years, as buyer and a Sales Manager. He subsequently moved to Express Air Freight (subsequently called Channel Express) as General Manager to look after the companys’ air freight and flower distribution business. The company soon developed into RoRo freight when this was introduced to the island, and in July 2006, Channel Express became part of the Ferryspeed Group of companies. Ferryspeed (Guernsey) Ltd employs 52 full time members of staff based as its’ depot in Bulwer Avenue, and is the largest transport and distribution company on Guernsey.

Martyn has served on the BBC Radio Guernsey Advisory Council, been a member of the States Traffic Committee, and is Chairman of the Guernsey Growers Co-Operative.

The company ran successfully for 17 years before he sold it and moved to Amsterdam where his wife was setting up a subsidiary of a Canadian Bank. They then moved to Guernsey in 1994 where the have resided ever since.

In 2002, he was recruited by the CGi committee to take over the role of Director. He subsequently was elected Chairman and spent 3 years in that role. At the 2011 AGM he stood down as Chairman but was elected as an ordinary committee member.

I am the vice president and honorary treasure of the G.G.A (GUERNSEY GROWERS ASSOCIATION) and in this role I act as their representative on the CGI committee. I have been a horticulturist for the majority of my career and I am now the production director for CIP (GUERNSEY) LTD formerly known as Channel Island Plants Ltd. I am a qualified horticulturist having attended Writtle agricultural college in the late 70’s after having completed a local horticultural course at Guernsey’s college of further education.

After a brief spell at the Horticultural Advisory service as an assistant horticultural advisory officer I left to start my own growing business. The business has grown substantially and employs 6 permanent staff and 15 temporary workers at our peak production time. The company has recently changed ownership and is owned by a fellow director. We export unrooted cuttings of a wide range of patio/basket plants to the U.K. and we are now looking to increase our exports to the European market and this last season this accounted for 10% of our turnover.

I feel that higher education is an integral part of our society and indeed our future here in Guernsey. It is so important that our young people have skills and continue with further education be it locally or in the U.K. I am a local person and am involved in my St Andrews parish floral Guernsey group and I am very passionate about our community.

Mark was born in London and first became involved in newspapers 20 years ago working for Newsquest, one of the largest publishers in the UK and a subsidiary of Gannett Co. Inc., the largest publisher in the US. He has been running newspapers since 2001 when he took control of The Richmond & Twickenham Times and was appointed Director & General Manager of The Guernsey Press in 2007, moving from London to take up the position with his partner and children.

He was then appointed Managing Director of the company in 2009. Difficulties running community newspapers in areas that do not really care about their communities and the island being such a fantastic place to bring up children Mark gives as his main reasons for coming to the island. He has been a member of the CGi committee since 2009.

David has been in Business for thirty years and has broad management experience at all levels, He have three grown up children and two grandchildren. David established POS Interiors (originally Point of Sale) in 1983, having previously worked for an interior fit-out company in Guernsey, he recognised key opportunities available and this coupled with his desire to run his own business led to the formation of the company.

Over 28 years later he takes great satisfaction from seeing what he has created and still enjoys the day-to-day running of the business. As well as running the commercial side of the business he still deals with his long established clients, many of whom he has known from when he first formed the company.

David is Procurer for the Poor, Constable (x2) and Douzenier for Torteval. He is also a member of the Bowmen of Guernsey management committee, a member of La Societe Guerniase and the Guernsey Chamber of Commerce. His interests are Golf, Archery, music.

Brought up in Wigan, Guy Ellis has a degree in Civil Engineering from The University of Birmingham. Following undergraduate studies he became a Chartered Management Accountant (CIMA) whilst training with Boots The Chemist in Nottingham. He has spent his subsequent career to date in the retail sector, with experience working in India, China, Hong Kong and the USA as well as in the UK.

Following spells with Asda and Mothercare, Guy joined Specsavers as Finance Director for Group Finance in January 2011 when he moved to Guernsey with his wife and children. He was elected to the CGi committee at the 2011 AGM.