South West RDA: Board Members

Nick Buckland

Nick lives near Launceston, Cornwall. He spent 20 years working as a senior manager in the UK IT industry, mainly for US companies. In 1996 he took a career change taking an interest in a number of activities. He holds a number of non executive directorships in a variety of companies including a veterinary clinical pathology laboratory, an integrated marketing company, an IT integrator and a rural tourism company. He is Chairman of Tamar Science Park and is Managing Partner of an IT headhunting organisation, management consultancy and sponsorship management consultancy. He represents the RDA on the Objective 1 Programme Management Committee and the Devon & Cornwall Learning & Skills Council and was appointed to the Technology Strategy Board in 2004. He is an observer on the Regional Science & Industry Council.

He also sits on the boards of Finance Cornwall, Finance South West, Cornwall Enterprise and is a Governor of Plymouth University. Since 1989 he and his wife have run a working organic farm in Cornwall. He has a BSc in Mathematics, is a Fellow of the British Computer Society, the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications and the RSA, and is a member of the Chartered Management Institute, the Institute of Directors and the Royal Institution. He is a Chartered Engineer, Chartered Information Systems Practitioner and a European Engineer.

South West Regional Development Agency

Board Members

Nick Buckland