Lester Porter was appointed a Non Executive Director of QVH in September 2011.

He has been Chairman of the Thomas Cook Pension Trust since 2005, and has his own executive coaching practice working with individual executives and company boards. He also spent over ten years as an ‘angel’ investor in startup businesses based in the south east and holds board positions with several of these companies.

Previously he spent 30 years in a variety of management roles in the healthcare, publishing and financial services sectors, and was latterly with the Thomas Cook Group as Corporate Development Director.