Graham was born into a large Shropshire farming family and followed a career in engineering. In the 1980s Graham was appointed a Magistrate for Shropshire serving on the Telford bench.

In the 1990s, Graham and his wife, Jenny, founded Telford based TTC Group, the largest driver education and retraining organisation in the UK. Graham also served on the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety.

In 2006, he was awarded the OBE for services to Road Safety.

Graham and Jenny retired from the TTC Group in 2017.

In 2011 Graham joined the board of Marches Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) serving Shropshire, Herefordshire and Telford &Wrekin, he was appointed Chairman in 2013. In addition, Graham also served on the Midlands Connect Board and the board of the National LEP Network representing six West Midlands LEPs. He stood down in 2019 after serving his full six-year term as Head of the LEP.

Graham was a founding member of Telford Business Partnership, and former Chair of Telford Business Board and various growth companies for Telford. In 2016, Graham’s work with Business and Entrepreneurship regionally and nationally was recognised by the University of Wolverhampton and he was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Business Administration.

More recently, Mr and Mrs Wynn have created the Wynn Foundation, a charity to support community needs and create opportunities for groups and individuals across Shropshire and support them to prosper.

Graham is an Owner/Director of Wynn Developments, a property management and investment company, and Elmhurst Care Home in Prees.

Currently, Graham Chairs the Telford Town Deal Board, securing Government growth funds to bring major projects forward to secure the future growth and development of Telford.

Other interests include competing in motorsport.

Shaun Davies is the Member of Parliament for Telford, first elected to Parliament in May 2024.

Lee Carter was elected as Leader of the Council in 2024 having previously been Cabinet Member for Neighbourhood Services, Regeneration and the High Street. He was first elected to the Council in 2015 as Member for College Ward in Wellington where he was born and lives. He was appointed as Lead Member for Finance and Service Delivery in 2015 and in his first year he oversaw one of the most extensive budget consultations ever held with the local Community and was instrumental in developing the ‘Telford & Wrekin Partnership Deal’ which protected Community Centres and other Community facilities from closure.

He oversaw the regionally and nationally recognised Pride in Your High Street Programme which promoted regeneration of High Streets in Telford & Wrekin and he instigated the development of Community Action Teams which helped continue Telford’s excellent reputation for clean, green neighbourhoods. He oversaw the development of the first Council run bus services in a generation including a new work express service designed specifically to get residents to work in the Town’s major industrial estates. He was also involved in the implementation of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Exploitation in Telford & Wrekin and the implementation of recommendations from the Inquiry. The Councils work in this area has been recognised as the best in the Country.

For 12 Years Lee served as the Chairman and Managing Director of AFC Telford United, having lead the campaign to resurrect the club as a community owned football club in 2004. He became Chairman of AFC Telford United at the age of 26, and led the development of the club from a start-up business to a fully functioning successful Social Enterprise through growing membership, extensive engagement with the local community and excellent partnership working.

Lee was made Honorary Freeman of the Borough of Telford and Wrekin in 2005. He is a recipient of the Supporters Direct Outstanding Contribution to the Supporters Trust Movement Award and the Robert Owen Group Outstanding Contribution to Communities Award.

Ollie Vickers is the current Cabinet Member for the Economy at Telford and Wrekin Council, focussing on economic development and public transport within the borough.

He was elected to the Council in 2023 as a Member for Donnington ward, becoming the youngest ever Councillor to be elected to Telford and Wrekin Council. Following a year of co-chairing the Joint Health and Overview Scrutiny Committee between Telford & Wrekin and Shropshire Council, he was appointed to Cabinet in May 2024.

In his current role, he has announced a £1 million boost to the Pride in Our High Street programme, which has seen direct investment into Telford and Wrekin's market towns, making them attractive and vibrant places to be. He has also announced an extension of the Pride in Our High Street programme to cover local centres too, expanding our business support across the borough. In addition to this, he launched the Council's Demand Responsive Travel initiative in January 2025, which aims to ensure all communities across Telford and Wrekin are well connected and have access to affordable and reliable public transport.

Ollie graduated from the University of Birmingham in July 2024 with a Bachelor of Laws and is putting his skills from his law degree to work in local government in Telford and Wrekin.

Guy has over 20 years’ experience in property. He is an Executive Director at Sovereign Centros from CBRE, working in a property development and asset management capacity. He currently oversees major development projects. Guy has worked on The Telford Centre since Sovereign Centros were appointed to asset manage the Centre in 2012.

After graduating in 2004, he worked at Sanderson Weatherall, DTZ and Montagu Evans Channel Islands prior to joining Sovereign Centros.

Maria has been instrumental in the success and development of Midlands Connect since helping to set up the partnership in 2014. She has led the growth of the organisation in to one of the largest and most successful partnership programmes in the country, bringing together 23 local authorities, 9 local enterprise partnerships, 8 chambers of commerce, Birmingham and East Midlands airports, HS2 Ltd, Network Rail and Highways England.

In March 2017, Midlands Connect published a landmark 25 year regional transport strategy that set out a vision to grow the Midlands economy by £5 billion a year, contributing to the Midlands Engine’s Vision for Growth.

The priority projects Midlands Connect is taking forward for more detailed development were updated in July 2018 with the publication of Our Routes To Growth.

The partnership, together with government, is driving a multi-million pound programme to accelerate the delivery of its transport priorities to 2020 and beyond.

Maria has also worked as Interim Director of the Midlands Engine, a partnership which aims to generate a step change in productivity, economic growth in the Midlands and help drive Britain’s post-Brexit growth.

With a degree in Law and an MSc in International Transport, Maria has spent the last 20 years working in the UK transport industry.

Prior to joining Midlands Connect, Maria held senior positions in local government, including the West Midlands Combined Authority where she led the authority’s input in to the landmark HS2 Hybrid Bill and was senior advisor in master-planning activities around proposed HS2 stations in the West Midlands.

Amy is a strategic communications specialist and managing director of PR and stakeholder engagement consultancy Be Bold.

A former business journalist, Amy now advises organisations across the UK in the development and delivery of impactful market engagement and stakeholder relations programmes,with a focus on inward investment and economic development.

Beyond her role at Be Bold, which is based in the borough, Amy contributes her expertise to several regional initiatives including as a member of the Midlands Constructing Excellence Shropshire board.

She's also a trustee of Community Resource, Shropshire's largest charity, which works to support rural communities across the county.

Claire Skidmore has worked in NHS finance for over 25 years and is an experienced NHS Chief Finance Officer; who for the last 14 years has held executive positions in commissioning organisations in the Black Country and Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin. She currently holds the position of Chief Finance Officer & Deputy Accountable Officer for Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care Board and sits on the Board to represent health services in the County.

Professor Ken Sloan joined Harper Adams as Vice-Chancellor on 1 November 2021.  Ken has extensive national and international experience in strategy, leadership, governance, professional, business development and commercial activities. In all roles he has focused on how institutions contribute to their place and make a positive contribution to social and economic outcomes. 

Previously, Ken was at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, serving as the inaugural Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Enterprise and Governance). As a member of the University Executive, he was responsible for providing University-wide leadership and strategic support for the creation and acceleration of major partnerships, government relations, precinct development, new revenue creation, commercialisation, innovation, entrepreneurship, strategic intelligence, group governance and institutional risk.  He was the senior executive responsible for the Monash Precinct, supporting collaboration across Precinct organisations, making the case for infrastructure investment, and encouraging inward investment.

Ken has previously held roles as Registrar and Chief Operating Officer at the University of Warwick; as a Business Development Director, Universities and Higher Education, with SERCO; and as Special Advisor to the Stephen A. Schwarzman Education Foundation, based at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. He continues to serve as a panel chair for the Schwarzman Scholars annual selection process.

Ken has chaired and served on the boards of a number of institutional subsidiary companies, boards and international fundraising and development trusts. Professor Sloan currently serves on the Chair of Guild HE and on the Board of the Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA) where he is also Chair of the Finance and Audit Committee.