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Meet the Senior Partners..

Charlie Lack

Charlie started working for a family run business 10yrs ago in the precious metal industry as the UK Operations Manager. Through this she learnt many skills, administrative, management, customer care, accounts, training and building relationships. After 5 years Charlie became the Personal Assistant to the CEO of what was to be the biggest live interactive TV pub quiz show. Her role involved helping to set-up the business as well as ensuring the business ran smoothly, overseeing day to day activities, logistics, overseeing the company’s HR and health and safety and running large events and exhibitions.

 

Charlie has gained a wealth of knowledge and experience from having a hands-on approach to her work, being involved with decision making and working closely with Directors. As a Senior Partner at Westminster Compliance Charlie oversees the Operations of the business and client accounts, along with helping clients with their health and safety accreditations and getting into the public sector. Charlie maintains a good relationship with all clients and is always more than happy to speak to clients and offer her help.

 

Charlie lives in Hertfordshire with her partner and enjoys spending her time off taking long walks with her Miniature Schauzner round many of the National Trust sites. She also enjoys cooking, shopping and travelling. 

Nigel Lack

Nigel spent the first twenty five years of his life living in Wembley although he was educated at Upper Latymer School in Hammersmith. His first job was with the British Oxygen Company where he was in an administrative role although he soon started market trading at the weekends where he first learned how to sell.

 

Many years were spent in the retail industry, in men’s clothing, hardware and then the garden industry. In the early eighties along with his brother David they took over and increased its turnover by nearly twentyfold in seven years, however the nineties showed no further growth in this area. Having had interests in several other businesses it was in the early part of the new millennium that Nigel became involved with Business Network International and spent five years as a Director of this organisation.

 

As a result of this change in direction Nigel has now helped many small and medium sized business owners, managers and directors with his advice, coaching and training sessions. Now as the Senior Partner in charge of development at Westminster Compliance he encourages the growth of this business whilst still working with both private and voluntary sector organisations.

 

He currently lives with his partner in Essex and has two grown up children. His hobbies are travel, gardening, walking, reading and football. 

 

Helen Marini

Helen started work in the family property maintenance business, working in a number of different departments learning office administration, pricing work, managing teams of operatives and, finally, managing health and safety and staff training. She also found and put together bids for public sector contracts.

 

She continued to work part-time while bringing up her children and returned to work full time nine years later. During this time, she ran a private health and safety consultancy for small businesses, helping them to make sure that they were complying with the legislation and keeping their staff and customers safe.

 

Helen is fully aware of the bad press that health and safety receives and the many misconceptions that there are. The problem lies in the way the legislation is interpreted; some people over-react and make up unnecessary rules because they are worried about being sued. Having investigated some unpleasant accidents, Helen’s main aim is for organisations to manage their business, their staff and their clients in a way that ensures their health and safety as far as possible in order to reduce the likelihood of anyone being harmed.

 

Helen Marini is a qualified trainer (City and Guilds Level 3 Delivering Learning), a Social Enterprise Micro-coach and a registered Foresight facilitator. She also holds a NEBOSH general certificate. 

 

Helen enjoys spending time with her family and her hobbies include walking, theatre, travel, reading and cooking.

Len Cobrin

Having been educated in North West London, Len continued his education at an architectural college, qualifying in building construction and design and therefore spent his primary career in a structural engineers design office. With a change of career Len started in the commercial division of the motor trade and then moved into car sales. This proved to be a good move as Len progressed to becoming company director for a large retail vehicle company taking responsibility for people management as well as the acquisition and then sales of numerous vehicles.

 

The largest part of Len’s career was spent as the owner of various businesses within the motor trade, however Len also developed an interest in the care home industry and also the world of property where he has also become involved with many ventures. Len is a keen networker who has built up many solid business relationships due to his honesty and integrity, he has a keen eye for detail which is of great benefit whilst he audits various premises. Len believes that “communication is the essence of success”.

 

Len lives in the Stanmore area with his wife of many years, (although he thinks the number of years could never be enough) has two sons and 2 delightful grandchildren and is always keen to enjoy a chat along with a glass of wine with his friends and colleagues. Len has a keen interest in modern politics, modern history, history of aviation, and enjoys continental travel with a particular love for Italy and Spain.

Having now retired from the daily running of the business Len now spends a lot of his time travelling Europe and the UK with his wife visiting towns and places of interest he never had time for previously. Having been instrumental in setting up Westminster Compliance he can now proudly sit back and enjoy watching the company’s continued growth.

 

Len says he has never experienced such a successful business partnership as with Westminster. He is immensely proud of the combined effort over the last 2 years which has produced rapid growth and also the remarkable harmonious relationship established with Helen, Charlie and Nigel . Westminster’s reputation is rapidly gaining recognition within industry due to its unique policies and approach to a difficult subject. He says he will certainly miss us all.

Meet the Partners..

Richard Blight

Richard went to school in rural Devon, where is love for the environment started. This was followed by a trip to the University in Sheffield. He started work as a systems engineer  and learnt a great deal about lean manufacturing and supply chain techniques.

Since then he has worked primarily in a range of manufacturing, supply chain and logistics roles. During this period he studied part time for an MBA at Warwick University. He was fortunate to be able to travel with his work and spent time running 2 companies in India.  In later years he was Managing Director of a steel frame housing company, and a balcony manufacturer.

Richard has an MSC in Environmental Decision Making, and has helped SMEs to improve their environmental footprint, tackle their waste stream, reduce their energy consumption and not fall foul of increasingly stringent environmental legislation. He has implemented a number of Environmental Management systems, including ISO14001. In addition he advises on quality and H&S matters. This has been in a range of industries including retail, logistics, construction and charitable organisations.

He currently lives with Margaret in the wilds of North Hertfordshire, near Baldock. He enjoys travel, walking, gardening and helping his son play Hockey.

Ray Bosdet DMS MIFireE

In 1975 Ray joined the Surrey Fire Brigade and started what was to be a thirty year career which saw him rise to the position of Deputy Chief Fire Officer.

Ray’s main strength is with dealing with people, in team building and with operational command, however this is equally matched by his expansive knowledge of legislative Fire Safety issues. He was the Senior Instructor at the International Wray Park Centre where he was responsible for ensuring the quality of training for all Fire Service related courses as well as the renowned industrial and commercial Fire Safety training. He has further skills in developing and implementing initiatives that comply with both corporate and legislative requirements. Ray was involved in the formation of the New Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 and he has been commended for his Fire Risk Assessments.

Ray is married and has one daughter. He lives in West Sussex where he takes time to follow his favourite pastimes such as walking, sub-aqua diving, boating and he also enjoys a round of golf when he has the time.

Bob Broad

Sean Keeliher

Sean worked in the construction and utility industry for twenty five years, in operations, senior management and technical roles. He began his career in the groundwork industry before moving in to the waste water industry working for Anglian Water Services where he trained as a civil engineer.  During this time Sean took up various roles managing waste water assets such as large scale treatment plants, pumping stations and sewer networks, picking up valuable experience in contract management and developing safety performance. During the last two years of his employment he was charged with the responsibility of driving the implementation of a companywide COSHH management system, organising an approved lifting register under the requirements of LOLER 1998 and implementing a maintenance schedule of works for the company’s remote assets.

Since leaving Anglian Water in 2003, Sean has taken up various project management and technical advisory roles including large scale construction management, overseeing the development of high value (£50m) construction projects, through to providing technical advice for smaller businesses. Sean continues to see the value that small to medium size enterprises bring to the supply chain and focuses upon helping them gain a foothold by improving their market strength in developing quality management, risk management and helping them achieve ISO and Achilles accreditation. Sean also provides onsite support for the construction industry tailoring their site inductions, training and implementing safety plans to ensure companies are doing their upmost to protect their workforce enforcing their duty of care.

In his spare time Sean describes himself as very much a family man and is also very interested in most sports and is also keen on dog rescue.

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