Trustees
The EAC Trustee board is made up of an interdisciplinary experienced team who help to guide and inform the work of the charity. The board is drawn from business, disability inclusion, bioengineering, engineering science fieldwork and education as well as health and sport.
The board ensures that we deliver to our core values using best practice methods to allow for the most impact and legacy possible on any project or charity activity.
Suresh Paul – Volunteer and Director of Equal Adventure Ltd
Suresh Paul, founder and director of Equal Adventure, is an Industrial Design graduate with extensive knowledge of disability, social inclusion, coaching and sports science. With over ten years of experience in inclusive design, he has run research and development projects in the UK and abroad which have combined a range of methodologies and user involvement strategies to produce sports equipment for people with a wide range of impairments. His current research into inclusive adventure considers gaining consent and integrating therapy with community participation. He currently lectures in design, sports engineering and outdoor studies on a range of undergraduate courses across the UK, and mentors graduates during their internships at Equal Adventure. He is a Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor at Harper Adams University supporting inclusive practices in farming.
Kieron Conlan – Chair (Director) | BSc (Hons), IEng MIET
Kieron is an experienced field maintenance engineer and workshop manager, having served in the British Army in the Corps of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers for 23 years, retiring in 2015 at the rank of Warrant Officer Class 1 (Artificer Sergeant Major).
Kieron’s involvement with Equal Adventure began in 2013, whilst participation in the Army Battleback injury rehabilitation programme at Lilleshall National Sports Centre, over a chance conversion with Suresh Paul whilst assisting him in packing away the adaptive watersports equipment after an activity session. That conversation led to several years of voluntary consultation advising on project governance and safe engineering practice in both the workshop and in the field, and eventually to a role as an EAC Trustee. He took up the role of Chair of Trustees in the summer of 2025.
Kieron resides in West Lothian, and is currently employed as a Project Manager in the financial sector. In his spare time, he enjoys walking with his dog, Carter, an Australian Labradoodle with a character that is louder than his deafening bark, riding his scooter, and repairing vintage record players and amplifiers.
Kamran Noel Khan – Treasurer
GP & Prehospital Doctor | Expedition Medic | Board Trustee | Director | Veteran >>Building a strong, supportive, and resilient community for those involved in remote, expedition, and wilderness medicine.
Kam served as a GP in the British Army for 31yrs providing Primary Healthcare and Prehospital Emergency care in remote, arduous, and sometimes hostile environments. He has led and delivered care on operations, exercises, expeditions, and adventures on 6 continents (and has firm plans for the seventh with a trip to Antarctica). His passion has always been travel and expedition medicine and he has been closely involved in the development of the speciality from early in his career. He formed and led the Special interest group in Remote & Disaster Medicine and was a founding full member and Training & Education lead for the Expedition Medical Advisory Group (EMAG). He was made a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (FRGS) in 2016 and awarded Fellowship of the Academy of Wilderness Medicine (FAWM) in 2021.
Kam is a member of the Scientific Exploration Society, a trustee for the charity Equal Adventure, and has worked with The Not Forgotten and the Royal British Legion supporting Veterans & injured Service Persons.
Kam loves the wilderness and struggles to choose his favourite environment from mountains, deserts, and jungles (but on consideration diving in tropical coral seas probably wins out)
Neil Ebberson – EA Trustee
Director | Trustee | Veteran | HQ Hunter – Ch4 Hunted
Neil Ebberson is an experienced trustee and director. After a successful career as a senior aviator in the Royal Air Force, he led the introduction of civilian Search and Rescue helicopters to the UK, delivering world class commercial SAR operations to HM Coastguard as the Director of UK SAR. He was later responsible for leading all SAR helicopter operations in the UK, the Falkland Islands, Eire, The Netherlands and the Dutch Caribbean. Drawing on over 30 years of aviation experience, Neil is also a trustee of Cornwall Air Ambulance.’
Spencer Holmes – EA Trustee
Spencer began his career in spinal cord injury rehabilitation, creating unique training programmes and contributing to the development to the Aspire National Training Centre. Since then and for the last 20 years he has been involved in large scale organisational change projects in banking, pharmaceutical and engineering businesses around the world. Spencer has started up two successful businesses and enjoys entrepreneurial and innovative challenges. Spencer is delighted to be involved in the area of accessible physical activity again in this capacity.
Scott Sharman – EA Trustee
MCPara GCGI, Search and Rescue Winchman Paramedic
Scott joined the Board of Equal Adventure in June 2025, bringing with him extensive expertise in emergency medicine and high-stakes outdoor operations. Professionally, Scott serves as a Search & Rescue Winchman Paramedic, a role that places him at the intersection of technical rescue, risk management, and acute care in challenging environments.
Based in Scotland, Scott’s background is naturally aligned with Equal Adventure’s mission to make the outdoors accessible and safe for everyone. His frontline experience in search and rescue provides the Board with vital insights into safety protocols, inclusive expedition planning, and the practical realities of managing health and wellbeing in remote settings.
Scott is committed to the belief that adventure should be a universal opportunity. As a Trustee, he applies his specialized skills to help steer the charity’s governance, ensuring that Equal Adventure continues to break down barriers to participation while maintaining the highest standards of safety and support for its beneficiaries.
Chris Swift – EA Trustee
Director at CNS-Pro, Equal Adventure Trustee
Chris Swift is a valued Trustee of Equal Adventure, contributing experience from his background in the medical device and mobility sector. He brings skills in business planning, entrepreneurial finance and organisational development, together with a thoughtful and supportive approach to teamwork.
With strong social and interpersonal skills, Chris enjoys working with others, sharing ideas and helping teams stay motivated. He has a genuine interest in learning and research and appreciates being involved in new and meaningful projects.
As a Trustee, Chris offers steady guidance, practical insight and a positive commitment to Equal Adventure’s mission of increasing inclusion and access for all.
Chris Ramsden – EA Trustee
BA(hons), MSc, Cert. Ed., DipCFHP, DipBMEC, FPSPract, MIPEM, CSci, AFPH, FLS, FCIEHF, C.ErgHF, FIMMM, FRSM, FCSD, PPCSD, FRSA
Consultant Clinical Scientist, Biomedical Engineer, Chartered Scientist, Chartered Ergonomist & Human Factors Specialist, Industrial Designer,
Past President: The Chartered Society of Designers (2 terms)
Past Senior Vice-President: European Institute of Design & Disability (Design for All Europe)
President: The Chartered Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors
Chris has a multidisciplinary background as an Industrial Designer, Ergonomist, Biomedical Engineer and Clinical Scientist. He has extensive experience of working in industry, academia, third sector and healthcare as founder and Director of University research departments, biomedical R&D Institutes and in healthcare as Clinical Head of Department specialising in complex physical and neurological disabilities. He has a wide range of international experience from consumer product design, the development of ‘Barrier Free’ technology for disabled people, medical devices to the design and construction of biomedical flight hardware for both the ESA/NASA Space Shuttle and Russian space programmes. At Advantage West Midlands, the West Midland’s Regional Development Agency, Chris successfully established the 1st and UK’s largest Medical Technologies Cluster commissioning over £10.5 million of innovation and infrastructure projects within a 3 year period.
Chris’s lifelong passion is in improving the quality of life for people with disabilities through design, a mission he shared with the late Professor Heinz S. Wolff, with whom he would go on to co-found the Brunel Institute for Bioengineering and also to establish the ‘Tools for Living’ programme, designing aids for daily living.
Chris then moved to The Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability in Putney, an Internationally recognised specialist centre for the management of profound physical & neurological disabilities, ultimately becoming Head of Clinical Engineering & Design Systems, establishing Bioengineering, Rehabilitation and Research Engineering departments. At the hospital, Chris established the 1st Design & Human Factors led Clinical service.
Chris went on to help found The European Institute of Design & Disability, with Paul Hogan and Prof Dieter Phillipen, which grew to a network of 28 national networks of organisations involved with ‘Barrier Free Inclusive Design’.
In Public Health, Chris established the UK’s largest design led Health Action Zone programme, AHEaD, in Sandwell, West Midlands with Dr John Middleton, former President of Royal College of Physicians, Faculty of Public Health.
Chris continued to bring together the skills and resources of Academia, Business and Clinical communities to focus on healthcare needs by co-founding Medilink, which has grown over almost 20 years to be the UK’s National network for SME’s involved in Life Sciences.
Building on his own personal experience of mobility impairment, Chris has latterly trained in Podiatric Biomechanics and Orthotics and regularly works with patients with biomechanical lower limb problems.
It is now an honour to work with Dr Suresh Paul, the other Trustees of EA and of course the staff, who all share the same passion to make a real positive difference and to improve the quality of life for all.