Jack Perschke » Background http://www.newderbymp.co.uk Conservative Candidate for Derby South Thu, 13 May 2010 12:01:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Background http://www.newderbymp.co.uk/2009/03/background/ http://www.newderbymp.co.uk/2009/03/background/#comments Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:51:32 +0000 Jack http://www.newderbymp.co.uk/?p=210 shooting1997 – 2004 Soldier:  In 1998 Jack commissioned from Sandhurst as a 20 year old Infantry Officer.   He went on to serve for 6 years with The King’s Own Royal Border Regiment (now The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment).  He served in Canada, Bosnia and Cyprus.  Working as a platoon commander, recruit instructor and a battalion training officer.  He left in 2004 as a Captain.

    dscf10052004 – 2006 Aid Worker:  On leaving the Army, Jack went on to work for British charity The HALO Trust.  With HALO, he helped run humanitarian mine clearance and bomb disposal operations in Afghanistan and Somalia.  He was subsequently recruited by The United Nations to provide risk management support to their refugee operations in Sudan and The Democratic Republic of Congo.Consulting

 

 

2008 – Date Business Advisor:  After completing his masters degree on 2006/7, Jack now works for professional services giant, Ernst & Young, as an advisor to businesses and government departments.  He specialises in implementing complex and high value change programmes.

 

Ongoing – Education:  Jack was originally educated at his local comprehensive school, Chichester High School for Boys, before taking a year out aged 16 to work as a gamekeeper.  Afterwards, he went on to complete some rather undistinguished A-Levels before joining the Army.  More recently, he returned to education and passed (with Merit) MSc Sustainability and Management at The University of London.

 

 

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