PK PORTHCURNO - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Trustee
- Tax Expert
Chris is a tax expert who was latterly a partner at KPMG and continues to advise clients such as General Motors, with a particular specialism in VAT. He chairs the Audit Committee of PK Porthcurno and has been a trustee since 2014.
Dave held a number of senior management positions during his career with the Cable & Wireless organisation, many of them overseas, before retiring. He has been involved with the museum at Porthcurno from its inception and played a key role in ensuring secure funding from Cable & Wireless in the early days. He was Chair of the Boards of Trustees and Directors of what was then known as the Telegraph Museum Porthcurno.
Deborah is the Archive Services Manager at Kresen Kernow, in Redruth, the new home for Cornwall's archive collections. She has over 20 years' experience as an archivist and was the Project Lead for the Kresen Kernow project.
Job Titles:
- Professor of Physics at Imperial College
Professor Gareth Parry is a retired emeritus professor of physics at Imperial College with a background in optical communications and now an interest in the history of communications. He held professorial positions at UCL and Oxford before settling at Imperial. He is chair of the board of PK Porthcurno.
Job Titles:
- Learning and Participation Manager
Job Titles:
- Head of the Optical Networks Group
Professor Polina Bayvel is the Head of the Optical Networks Group in the Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, UCL. Her research interests are in optical fibre communications and networks ranging from trans-oceanic links to intra- and inter-data centre communications and routing.
Job Titles:
- Trustee
- Head of Subsea Partnerships for Vodafone Carrier Services
Rick is Head of Subsea Partnerships for Vodafone Carrier Services. Previously he was Head of International Network Development at Vodafone. A two-year apprenticeship with Cable & Wireless in 1974, based in Porthcurno, kick-started his career in their foreign-based staff. He was awarded an OBE in 1999 and a CBE 10 years later, both for "Services to the Telecommunications Industry".