SENDAT Directors

Alan Maltpress, MBE

Alan Maltpress is a chemistry graduate with considerable senior management experience in the private and public sector.  Up until 1991, Alan worked for Ciba Geigy, the Swiss Multinational company, as Managing Director of the large Plastics Division Site based at Duxford, Cambs.  The site employed 1200 people with 3 business units turning over well over £100 million.  The facilities included Research, Production and Marketing with all necessary support functions such as HR, health and safety, engineering, logistics etc.  Whilst in that role, Alan also chaired the steering group in the setting up of the Training and Education Council for Cambridgeshire (CamsTEC), leaving Ciba Geigy in 1991 to become Managing Director of CamsTEC.

Since retiring in 1998, Alan has served as Chairman of a number of public sector, education and charitable organisations including:  Cambridge Housing Group (a Housing Association); Grafham Water Centre (an outdoor education centre) and the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award for Eastern Region.

He has served up until 2012 as a Vice Chair of College Heath Middle School and Chair of Finance at that school.  Since 2012, Alan has been an Independent Member of West Suffolk College Corporation, and also sits on the Audit and Risk Management Committee.

In 1998 Alan was appointed an MBE for  his contribution to business and education in Cambridgeshire