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 a 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 a 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. 

Marc CorneLius

Marc first became involved with the charity in 2019 as a driver giving beneficiaries passenger rides around Silverstone at what has now become the National Transition Event. Since then, he has been a constant presence at our track events, as well as having raced at Race of Remembrance. 

Marc is a highly experienced ethics and compliance practitioner and senior leader who has spent the past 25 years at the centre of UK and international financial services and energy trading regulation and compliance. Having spent his early career negotiating EU financial services regulation in Brussels, Marc has held senior compliance roles in the trading divisions of BP, Shell and CEPSA (now Moeve). Marc is currently Global Head of Compliance at Amius in London.

Marc is able to draw upon his extensive experience to support the Board and the charity on governance, risk and assurance matters.  

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

Ian Burgess

Ian is a successful finance professional and adviser with over 30 years’ experience in the City of London in banking and finance with a wide-ranging knowledge from working with multi-national clients to small and medium-sized enterprises.  He has worked for organisations including Kleinwort Benson, HSBC and NatWest providing advice and successfully delivered products to numerous public and private equity clients ranging from bank debt, leveraged finance to debt and equity capital markets and structured products.

Prior to this, Ian studied engineering at the University of Bath when he was also an Army Reservist.   He then served in the Regular Army, attaining the rank of Captain in the Corps of Royal Engineers.  After leaving the Army, he then qualified as a Chartered Account, with EY, which enabled him to pursue a successful career in the City. 

As a keen motorsport enthusiast, the Charity enables him to pursue this interest as well as helping veterans and their families.