Simon is a trainer and governance and board evaluation consultant. He stepped down as CEO of ICSA: The Chartered Governance Institute on 30 June 2019, having held the role since 1 October 2011. That role followed 8 years as Joint Head of ICSA Board Evaluation, a role to which he has returned. Simon is a Fellow of the CGI, having qualified first as a solicitor. He worked as in-house counsel for 30 years in the railway industry, latterly as Company Secretary & General Counsel, and then as a main board executive director, of the former Railtrack Group PLC. Simon is now an Executive Fellow with the London Business School Leadership Institute. He delivers training programmes for company directors and is a member of the International Corporate Governance Network (he is immediate past chair of ICGN’s Bylaws & Procedures Committee and a founder member of its Business Ethics Committee). He is a vice-president of a charity, the Railway Benefit Fund of which he was previously the deputy chairman. He has served also as a NED of a boutique media and events company, as a member and chair of the Audit Committee of The Law Society of England and Wales and as a member of the Audit Committee of a major City of London law firm.