Member’s Story: Lee Grabham
Lee Grabham Member login Back to dashboard Lee Grabham has been a Member of the Company since 2022 and is the founder of the Merchant Adventurers’ Charity Beer Festival and is chair of its committee, he also sits on the Charity Committee. He is a successful brewer and co-founder of Brew York. Occupation and business: […]
Member’s Story: Laura Cotter
Laura Cotter Member login Back to dashboard Laura Cotter joined the Company in 2025 and is a Chartered Manufacturing Engineer, working for the last eight years at York Minster as Consultant Research and Innovation Manager. Occupation and business: I’m a Chartered Manufacturing Engineer and a Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, and my […]
Member’s Story: Susan Palmer OBE
Susan Palmer OBE Member login Back to dashboard Susan Palmer OBE has been a Member of the Company since 2021 and is Chair of the Charity Committee, steering the Company’s many charitable iniatives. Occupation and business: At retirement I was International Marketing Communications Director of Grant Thornton International, an accountancy federation operating in over 100 […]
Member’s Story: Richard Shaw
Richard Shaw Member login Back to dashboard Richard Shaw joined the Company in 2013 and has served on the Company’s Charity Committee and was Governor in 2025-26 Occupation and business: Manufacturing Engineer. I have spent my career working in manufacturing businesses, mostly in the UK but also in the USA, Mexico, Holland and Hungary. The […]