Karen Freer
Karen was brought up on Charnwood Forest and attended Coalville High School. After graduating from the University of Cambridge with an Engineering Degree and a Masters in Manufacturing Technology, she struck out to Scotland to become a Process Engineer in the expanding semiconductor industry. Her subsequent career encompassed running an Injection Moulding factory, Operations for […]
Ex rugby international Tim Stimpson touches down at the Rutland Biz Club
Ex rugby player Tim Stimpson spoke to the Rutland Biz Club about the values and determination that saw him earn him 20 England caps and play a pivotal role in securing two Heineken Cup wins during his time at Leicester Tigers. Tim told attendees at the lunch, held at the Falcon Hotel in Uppingham, […]
Tim Stimpson
Tim Stimpson enjoyed a career in top-flight for some of Europe’s most dominated clubs. Perhaps best known for his spell at Leicester Tigers, Tim played an elemental role in the side’s rampant success in both domestic and continental competition. Tim also played 19 times for England and represented the British Lions on the 1997 tour […]
Peter Bone MP says PM needs to quit at Rutland Biz Club lunch
Wellingborough MP Peter Bone used a speech at the Rutland Biz Club to urge Theresa May to quit as party leader to help break the Brexit deadlock. The MP spoke at The Rutland Biz Club’s annual St George’s Day lunch, held at the George Hotel in Stamford on Friday 25 April. He warned attendees that […]
Peter Bone MP
Peter was born in Billericay in Essex in 1952 and was educated at Westcliff-on-Sea Grammar School. He lives in Wellingborough and is a chartered accountant by profession, having qualified in 1977. He has also run both a public company and a family business. Peter is heavily involved in the local community. He is the founder […]
The Rt Hon Sir Alan Duncan MP – 22nd March 2019
Changing the PM would bring ‘carnage’ says Sir Alan Duncan MP at the Rutland Biz Club Plans by Tory plotters to force a leadership challenge over Brexit would bring ‘absolute carnage and division’, according to Sir Alan Duncan MP, speaking at the Rutland Biz Club on Friday 22nd March 2019. A record number of attendees […]
The Rutland Biz Club hosts leading economist Roger Bootle at the Oriental Club in London
Roger Bootle, one of the City of London’s best-known economists addressed the Rutland Biz Club at their February lunch, held at the Oriental Club in London. Roger, who founded Capital Economics in 1999, has a long and distinguished record of successfully forecasting major events and market movements, often in contrast to the prevailing orthodoxy of […]
Brexit vote driven by a nostalgic view of British history claims bestselling author at the Rutland Biz Club
The Rutland Biz Club welcomed the distinguished historian and bestselling author Professor Norman Davies at their monthly lunch at the Falcon Hotel in Uppingham on (Friday 25 January). Professor Davies, who has published xx books on the history of Europe, Poland and the UK, offered a view on the electorate’s backing for Brexit in the context of history. He […]
Roger Bootle
Roger Bootle is one of the City of London’s best-known economists. As well as running Capital Economics, which he founded in 1999, Roger is also a Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Treasury Committee and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries. He was formerly Group Chief Economist of HSBC and, under the […]
Professor Norman Davies CMG, FBA, FLSW, FRSL, FRHistS
Norman Davies, born in 1939 in Bolton, Lancashire was educated at Bolton School, Magdalen College, Oxford, the University of Sussex and at several continental universities including Grenoble, Perugia and Kraków. His formative years created a lifelong European outlook.00 His special interest in Central and Eastern Europe was unusual among contemporaries. It started in 1958 when […]