FORMER MARKETING MAN JOINS TRUSTEES' TEAM AT BTO

 Simon Francis - knows Cornwall's bird well

CONGRATULATIONS to Simon Marquis on becoming a trustee 

of the BTO following his election at its  annual meeting earlier this month.

Simon was brought up in Hertfordshire and now lives in Cornwall and London.  

He spent most of his career - more than  40 years - working in advertising, marketing, PR and journalism.

He was also, until 2017, a director of the Isles of Scilly Steamship Company. 

Simon was educated at Lancing College in Sussex and has a history degree from Cambridge University.  

He has had an interest in and love of birds since childhood and became a trustee of the RSPB in the 1990s, chairing its education and membership committee.  

He was also on the panel responsible for the appointment of a new chief executive.  

Now that he spends much of his time in Cornwall where he is involved with the Cornwall Bird Watching & Preservation Society (CBWPS) whose quarterly newsletter he has edited for the past 13 years.

The CBWPS is at:

https://www.cbwps.org.uk/cbwpsword/