Christopher Tate - Chairman

A motorsports and sports manufacturing industry professional for over 40 years, Christopher Tate is an experienced business leader and a management consultant by training. He has built extensive worldwide contacts across motorsport and the automotive sector and has almost unique experience of every side of the motorsport industry.

Christopher currently divides his time between advising companies across the motorsport, automotive and related sectors, while committing his time ‘pro bono’ to the UK Governing Body of Motorsport; to the education sector as Vice Chair of the Stowe Group of private schools; to advisory boards at institutions including Cranfield University’s Engineering School; to the charitable aims of his Livery Company, the Coachmakers; and now as Chairman of Mission Motorsport. He was elected a member of the BRDC in January 2022.

Career Summary: Christopher was Managing Director at Donington Park race circuit from its re-start in 2011 to December 2017. Among other innovations, he persuaded FIA Formula E to build their global operations HQ on site. He co-founded and was Series Director of Masters Historic Racing to end 2010. Previously, he enjoyed Board level appointments as CEO Europe for the Élan Motorsports Technologies & Panoz Group; and as Group Marketing Director, Lola Cars International Ltd. Christopher was co-founding partner, and Deputy CEO, of Rockingham Motor Speedway, having run his own successful management and marketing consultancy for 15 years, following 5 years with a large UK agro-industrial group working in USA, Latin America, and Spain.

Lieutenant General (Retd) Richard Nugee CB CVO CBE

 General Richard Nugee was commissioned into the British Army in 1986. He completed operational tours of Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, Cyprus and Afghanistan. He also specialised in personnel (HR) roles culminating in Chief of Defence People. He spent his final year writing a Review of Defence's approach to Climate Change and Sustainability, and is now the Non Executive Director for Climate Change for Defence.

He is Chair of the Royal NAAFI Board, Director of his own Strategic Advisory Company, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD, a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute and is Patron, Chair and Trustee of a number of organisations. 

tony compson - beneficiary trustee

Tony is a volunteer beneficiary with Mission Motorsport and has been involved since shortly after the charities launch in 2012. He assumed the role of Powerboat Racing manager that year and also becoming the Crew Chief, primarily responsible for the inclusion of beneficiaries during motorsport and other activities. He was appointed as the Beneficiary Trustee in 2014.

Tony served in the Royal Marines from 1980-1985. After leaving, he went on to work in the yachting industry including worldwide yacht delivery and services. During this time, on varying periods back in the UK, he became involved with motorsport. This led to him working within the industry until a serious powerboat racing accident put too many physical limitations on this career.

Tony lives in Essex and has a partner, Sarah, who also volunteers with Mission Motorsport when possible.

Marc CorneLius

Marc is a highly experienced ethics and compliance leader who has spent the past 25 years at the centre of UK and international financial services and energy trading regulation and compliance and has extensive experience of operating at a senior level within some of the UK’s largest companies.

Having studied European law, Marc was called to the Bar in 1997 and spent the early years of his career in Brussels advising multi-nationals on EU legislation and government affairs before moving to the UK Financial Services Authority in London where he spent 7 years negotiating various pieces of EU and international financial services legislation and regulation. He then joined BP’s trading division where he focused on global regulatory policy issues in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis before moving to Shell where he led the compliance function for the trading division in EMEA and APAC. He is currently Head of Energy and Commodities Compliance at TP ICAP plc.

Outside of work, Marc can often be found at Mission Motorsport track events giving beneficiaries passenger rides.    

Joe Baguley

Joe joined the Board of Trustees following his involvement in a variety of charity events hosted by Mission Motorsport. He first became aware of the charity’s work in 2019 when he demonstrated the acceleration of Teslas to some MM staff at the Fully Charged event at Silverstone, and has gone on to be involved in many ways ever since, introducing beneficiaries and their families to the thrill of EVs.

In his current position as VMware’s Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for EMEA, Joe helps develop and communicate VMware’s strategy and vision with customers and partners, using his wealth of experience to help organizations reduce costs and better support users and business needs. He also leads the Veterans group at VMware in EMEA.

Joe is a recognized leader within the European technical community and is considered one of the world’s most influential IT global leaders, currently positioned 26th on Tenfold’s global list of the top 79 Chief Technology Officers. He speaks regularly at industry events, including The Economist’s Innovation Summit, to the broadcast media, including BBC World News and BBC Talking Business, and appeared in the Computer Weekly UKtech50 and the Information Age Top 50 Data Leaders.

Commander Chris Chew

Commander Chris Chew is a serving officer in the Royal Navy. He has spent most of his career in the Middle East but has also made it as far South as the Falklands and South Georgia, and as far North as the Baltic and Arctic Circle.

As a warfare officer, he has navigated mine hunters, frigates and the aircraft carrier, HMS Prince of Wales, and has been the gunnery and operations officer in HMS Montrose. He has operated with the Royal Marines as the navigation specialist attached to 47 Commando and has commanded patrol vessels, mine hunters and a frigate.  He is currently in Command of HMS Lancaster operating in the Arabian Gulf and Red Sea conducting maritime security and counter narcotic operations.

As a Yorkshire man he is a keen follower of all outdoor pursuits and has recently found a taste for triathlon. He was drawn to the charity by his love for following a variety of motorsports.