ALISTAIR COLE FRGS
Managing Director
Having served with the Parachute Regiment and Royal Army Medical Corps, Alistair worked as an expedition leader and overseas project manager before returning to the UK and founding Lifesigns. Alistair has led over 35 overseas expeditions and is a Mountain Leader and qualified Trauma Medic. Alistair is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and is the current membership secretary of the Expedition Providers Association. Alistair is also a guest lecturer at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and is chief instructor of the faculty at the Expedition Care Program. In his spare time Alistair likes to climb and race huskies.

IAN FORBES FRGS
Company Manager
Ian served for over 25 years with both the Regular and the Territorial Army, and has a solid background of working with a wide range of youth groups. Ian is an experienced and highly effective team leader, capable of identifying, planning and producing training packages to the needs of the customer. Ian is a qualified Mountain Leader and has led over 50 overseas expeditions and has worked in training centres though out the world. Ian is a keen power boat racer, sky diver, mountaineering.

SHERRY STONE
Financial Manager
Sherry has been in the accounting field all her working life and has gained vast experience in all aspects of the financial world. Updating her computing knowledge by doing an HND in Business Information Technology, which she passed with Distinctions. Sherry enjoys travelling, having backpacked around Europe before having her two children, she then travelled with her son and daughter through France and Portugal, finally settling in Spain for two years. Now she enjoys looking after and riding her New Forest Pony.

KEV HAWKS
UK Training Coordinator

After a full military career, Kev joined Lifesigns Group as the training coordinator, he is a qualified mountain leader and climber as well as an experienced First Aid trainer. Kev holds a combination of City and Guilds qualifications including the 7303 in Adult teaching. He has had a life long passion for outdoor education especially kayaking for which he holds the BCU level 4 qualification for sea and whitewater kayaking.

KERRIEANNE FORBES
School Programme Coordinator
Kerrieanne joined Adventure Lifesigns in 2006. She has travelled extensively, and spent her gap year travelling South East Asia, India and Nepal. More recently she has lived with the Massai in Tanzania and becoming an Open Water Diver in Vietnam. As a Basic Expedition Leader Kerrieanne has assistant led expeditions to Borneo, Tanzania and Nepal and is currently working toward her Mountain Leader Award. Kerrieanne is a first aid at work instructor and has attended the off-site safety management course.

ROWENA DODSON
Educational Advisor
After leaving Exeter University with a degree in Biological Sciences, Rowena went on to do a PGCE at Reading. She spent three years in the maintained sector and during this time took on the role of Duke of Edinburgh Award co-ordinator, widening its appeal to incorporate a much greater range of students. She went on to become a school co-ordinator, facilitating an expedition to Tanzania, before moving into the independent sector. Having worked on both sides of the education system she is aware of the unique pressures that now exist when organising any activity for young people.