STAFF BIOGS
Roger Lynch
Roger Lynch is founder and chief executive of both Robust Training and Ruskin Private Hire, its parent company. Roger's interest in accessible transport followed a crippling achilles injury, which ended his career as a champion athlete. He set out to raise standards in the industry, winning a major award doing so. The same insistence on the highest quality led him to start Robust Training when other providers failed to attain his demands. Now a leading figure in the passenger transport and training industries, consulted by government and industry bodies, Roger continues to strive for ever higher standards. He was declared Entrepreneur of the Year at the 2008 Black Business Awards.
Jonathan Hunt
Jonathan is a special adviser, dealing with corporate communications, media relations and strategic matters on a consultancy basis. A financial journalist by trade, he held positions on the Observer, the Financial Times, Today and the Daily Mail among other publications. Gained knowledge of the training industry as editor and communications adviser at the former TEC national council. Has acted as consultant and speechwriter for a number of leading companies, government departments and professional practices.
Kevin Taylor
Kevin leads on relations with external organisations, including partnerships, leasing and contracts. He has wide experience of working within the Welfare to Work agenda, with specialist knowledge of Department of Work & Pensions commissioning and procurement strategies. While working within the external relations field for the DWP he was tasked with forming partnerships with strategic and private sector partners to adopt and take forward Jobcentre Plus objectives. This included extensive work with LSC; LDA and Local Authorities.
Samantha Hanmer
Samantha is a sector consultant concentrating on maintaining high delivery standards within the NVQ work based learning arena. Samantha has wide experience working for National award bodies as a trainer and assessor while offering specialist support as an external verifier, moderator and approvals auditor to education centres. Her main areas of competence are transport and logistics, health and social care and all aspects within the security industry.
