Trustees

• Tim Foster

  JLCT Chair

  

  A highly experienced business lawyer who worked at the John Laing Group. Having graduated from Cambridge University in law, Tim specialised in business law across a range of industries. He joined the John Laing Group in 2013 as in house lawyer; he retired in 2019.

  He has been an active member of the Trust Board since 2018 and his contributions have been invaluable in many areas – legal and otherwise. Tim has always taken a keen interest in the Welfare operation and attends the team conferences.

  Tim said it was ‘ an honour and a privilege’ to take over as Chair in 2021 and to ‘ build on Sir Martin Laing’s long and excellent leadership’.

• Christopher Laing OBE

  Vice Chair

  

  Christopher joined John Laing plc in 1971. After a number of projects in Scotland he moved to Rochdale Central Area Redevelopment and then to Milton Keynes where he managed part of the Central Shopping Centre contract.

  In 1998 he was appointed Environmental Director for John Laing plc since when he has maintained a keen interest in Sustainable Construction and environmental matters. He retired from John Laing plc in 2002.

  He was President of The Chartered Institute of Building in 1993, served as High Sheriff of Hertfordshire in 2001/2002 and is Vice-President of the National Playing Fields Association (now known as Fields in Trust). He has been a trustee of the British College of Osteopathy and was a Trustee of The Lord's Taverners until 2010. He was appointed Patron of The Chiltern Centre in June 2022

• Chris Waples

  

  Chris has been a trustee board member since 2007, nominated by John Laing Group where he worked as an Executive Director until 2019.

  His extensive business career has involved global experience of managing the acquisition, construction and divestment of infrastructure projects. He now focuses on a Non-Executive career to help other businesses succeed.

• Alex Laing Gregory

  

  Alex has been a JLCT trustee since 2016.

  She has worked closely with the John Laing retirement clubs for 15 years and took over as clubs’ president in 2025.

  Alex gives up her time to speak to as many club members as she can whilst attending events including AGMs and lunches.

  Alex has a lot of experience in the charity sector as she continues to serve on a number of Trusts, taking executive responsibility on many.

• Lynn Krige

  

  Lynn Krige has spent an illustrious career in high level finance, currently Chief Financial Officer at City & County Healthcare Group, based in Manchester.

  She has served on the JLCT Board for more than a decade and previously worked for the John Laing Group as CFO.

• Stewart Laing

  

  Stewart has been a JLCT trustee since 2016.

  He is also a Vice President of the John Laing Retirement Clubs.

  He has worked for a London based sports charity as a Special Needs Teacher as part of their management team. This year he has also joined the board of Trustees for a London based Youth Club for disabled people.

  He enjoys a challenge, including swimming the Channel to raise money for charity.

• Pam Orchard

  

  The latest recruit to the JLCT Trustee Board was chosen following a full consultation in 2024.

  Pam Orchard brings 30 years of experience in the voluntary sector and is the current the Chief Executive Officer of The Connection at St Martins. Pam has also held senior roles in homelessness charities since 2003 including Edinburgh Cyrenians (Deputy CEO).

  Pam also takes on occasional projects to support charities to confront and overcome difficult situations and provide coaching/ mentoring for senior leaders.

  A key aspect of JLCT’s work in which Pam has experience is ‘young people’ having run a youth work programme at the YMCA with the Princes Trust.