Bath Probus Club | Elected Management

Elected Management

David Judd

Chair

I am a retired Civil Servant having retired from the Ministry of Defence (MOD) Abbey Wood, Bristol back in December 2012 after nineteen years service where I had been employed as a Commodity Manager supplying the Royal Navy (RN) with Water Purification plant and equipment as well as compressors, valves and pipeworks. I have been a member of the Bath Probus Club for many years and also a member of the Bideford Probus Club in Devon for about two years or more. The Bath Probus Club is most welcoming and we have different speakers each month providing a most interesting selection of topics.

Kate Seeley

Vice Chair

A graduate in Biochemistry and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, I have held various senior Human Resources roles in the UK, Europe and globally for companies such as Unilever, Hewlett Packard and the Royal Bank of Scotland. As a family we have lived in Dubai, Egypt, Singapore and Indonesia where I was Vice-Chair of Governors at a large British International School. Following retirement I was Chair of Governors at our local primary school in Bath for several years.

Janet Reed

Secretary

My main career has been in teaching. After retiring early, I worked as a Counsellor to those seeking to overcome drug and alcohol addiction.

Since then, I have been involved in voluntary work. I chair the Mid-Somerset Festival Music committee and as such am responsible for the administration of the music section of the Mid-Somerset Festival. I am also the Honorary Secretary of other organisations within Bath.

In my spare time I enjoy playing bridge, choral singing and gardening.

Spike Parker

Treasurer

Committee Members

John Tucker

Richard Griffiths

A graduate in International Marketing, I held two jobs in marketing and export sales before joining an employee-owned communication training company, Canning, in 1983.

For 32 enjoyable years I delivered negotiation and presentation courses all over Europe, Japan and Indonesia. Since retiring in 2016,

I retain a part-time ISO Quality role with them and am the Treasurer of its registered charity, The Canning Trust.

Stephen Lusty

Following a degree in Modern Languages I did an engineering apprenticeship with Wadkin Ltd, Leicester, Europe’s largest woodworking machinery manufacturer. My subsequent sales and management career in industry (machine tools, dust filters, ball bearings) included a 7-year period managing a subsidiary in Germany, and culminated in senior posts managing SME’s for European multi-nationals, the most recent one being MD of Airmaster Engineering Ltd in Leeds.

I retired in 2006, and set up a walking tour company, made appearances on Radio York, became trustee of several trusts and took on the Chair of Probus in York in 2022 and 2024. My other interests include rugby, squash, music, history and art.