PR Manager of the company, before becoming Sales Director in 1992. In 2009, having taken the Harvard Business School General Management Program he joined the main board.“ It’ s about learning boundaries and how you can push them. The most important question is‘ why?’”. Perhaps a bit of that same sense of controlled rebelliousness had filtered down to his son, Henry, who was given entirely free reign as to which house he would like to join when coming to Winchester. Of his own accord, without fully knowing his ancestral connection, he happened to choose Trant’ s.
“ The fact that we’ re still going there is a testament to the school,” says Henry, now studying an MA in Theatre with Innovation at Bristol University.“ I knew my father went to Win Coll, but I didn’ t know which house, nor did I know the historical connection. I went to Trant’ s because I liked Trant’ s.” Henry’ s journey through Winchester found him spending most of his time between the books and QEII Theatre, rendering his decision to choose the particular course he has chosen to study at university a testament to the confidence he learned to have in himself through his experiences.“ If I succeed as an
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