After studying for an Advanced National Certificate of Agriculture Andrew Montgomery settled down in his home county of Northumberland to carry on a long farming family tradition. After a period in the agricultural and animal health businesses he attended the Royal Agricultural College and attained a BSc in Rural Estate Management. From here Andrew returned to Northumberland and qualified as a rural Chartered Surveyor dealing mainly with estates, property management and commercial interests. After Northumberland, a long career in Estate Management ensued with some of the most important and historic great estates in the UK and still retains some in Scotland under management, which he runs along with his Isle of Man interests where he now lives with his wife Fiona.

After completing an honours degree in Biochemistry, Fiona worked as an estate agent in the south of England with a specific focus on sourcing & selling premier country properties. A career move in to the Finance sector has seen Fiona hold Senior Global Finance and Business Managment roles in a number of investment banks. Fiona holds an MBA from Warwick university and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment.

Clive Rumbold (MPNLP) With an interest in land, nature and environment, from an early age, taken from his father (hons Zoology, Oxford University), Clive went on to study business & finance and at 21 he started up a successful, new hotel, turning over in excess of £1 million.

From there he was a senior manager opening up the £110 million Oasis Whinfell centre (now Centre Parcs, Penrith), on a 100 acre forest estate. With responsibility for over 300 staff and a wide range of commercial operations, his experience in business and HR management grew. In 2002 he started a recruitment, training and HR consultancy which grew to circa £700,000, before opening Scotland’s first off road motorbike training centre on a 50,000 acre estate. Winning a national award and being rated “Britain’s Best Off Road Motorbike Training School” were just some of the many accolades achieved.