1990 - 2009 news

Jonathan Frank	1990	A quick catch up on the last 20 years (having only just joined the OEs now that they're not charging through the nose!) Having read maths at Oxford I worked for IBM, CPAS (an Anglican church charity), Caret (strategy and leadership consultancy), and the NHS, before in 2009 moving to Worthing to become Chief Executive of a Christian charity called Feba Radio, which uses media to bring life-changing hope to hard-to-reach communities, including places through the Middle East, Africa and central and south Asia. Married to Liz in May 1999. Three daughters now, who in the first few months of 2012 will turn 10, 7 and 4.
Oliver Heslop	1990	Along with Rowit Kushwaha (1990) and Miles Parker (1990), I took part in the fastest ever tricycle expedition across the Atacama Desert. Miles was in charge of steering whilst I had Rowit to my rear, as in the old school days. We raised well over Â£300 for charity in total and once Miles has recovered from a significant bout of Fibromyalgia, we intend to attempt to row a 6ft dinghy in early 2012 from Sri Lanka to East Timor, blindfolded, within the record time of 41 weeks and 1 day. This time we hope to raise over Â£500 for AIDS and hope any Old Edwardian friends of ours would contribute.
Simon Thomas	1991	Corinne and Simon are happy to announce the birth of Ilona Thomas born on 23 April 2011. She has two older brothers, Zachary (6) and Adrien (3).
Mohammed Belal	1992	Having left Birmingham for London and Australia, I have returned to be appointed as a Consultant Urological Surgeon at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham.
David Newman	1993	Became the very proud father to Jessica Grace Newman on 15th July 2010. Married Kirsten Thursfield on 13th December 2008 - think I forgot to send that update in. We started dating when I was doing A-levels at KE!
mark adderley	1993	Qualified as Chartered Dirrector (CDiR) Became Fellow of the CIPD Stated new job as HR Director for Heriot-Watt University - Scottish University of the Year
Nick Hockley	1993	Head of Commercial Negotiations at the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games. Married to Lauren (Nee Sandler) in Sydney, Australia on 17th October 2010.
Hugh Houghton	1994	Also, in May I was appointed secretary of the Birmingham Cathedral Old Choristers' Association. Any OEs who used to sing in the Cathedral Choir and would like to be kept in touch with news of the Cathedral (St Philip's) and former colleagues are invited to contact me at: bcoca.mail@gmail.com
Hugh Houghton	1994	I have been awarded a European Research Council Starting Grant of â‚¬1.5 million to lead a team of researchers investigating the biblical text of the earliest commentaries on the Pauline Epistles in Greek and Latin. I am also principal investigator of the Arts and Humanities Research Council Workspace for Collaborative Editing" project. Both of these are based in the Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing at the University of Birmingham (www.birmingham.ac.uk/itsee)." The initial fascicle of the Vetus Latina Iohannes, the first critical edition of the earliest Latin versions of the Gospel according to John for over 250 years, was published in July 2011; I was a member of the team working on this since 2002. Polly Margaret Mayer HOUGHTON was born on 1.1.11
Ishtiaq Rahman	1994	Appointed as Specialist Registrar and Academic Clinical Fellow in Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Bristol Royal Infirmary and had second daughter, Romaisa, on 22nd August. Both mother, Hina, and baby are fine and older sister Tamara (born 17th September 2009) is over the moon with the arrival of her new younger sister.
Rishi Das-Gupta	1995	A lot has happened in the last year. I've moved to the USA (Boston), married Zofia (nee Prokopowicz) and we're expecting our first baby before 2011 is out.
William Cadbury	1995	Oliver Joshua James Cadbury was born on 11th December 2010, a brother for Benjamin.
David Torbet	1996	None
James Barraclough	1996	3 years to go until finish Training as an ENT surgeon. got married to Danielle Shennan
Tom Armitage	1996	Spent eight months in Kabul working in the Influence and Outreach Branch of Headquarters International Security Assistance Force- Afghanistan.
Andy Muinonen-Martin	1997	Awarded a Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Training Fellowship. PLoS One. 2010 Dec 14;5(12):e15309. An improved chamber for direct visualisation of chemotaxis. Muinonen-Martin AJ, Veltman DM, Kalna G, Insall RH. Source CRUK Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, Glasgow, United Kingdom. a.muinonen-martin@beatson.gla.ac.uk
Milan Thomas	1997	Milan Thomas married Rebecca Morgan on 18th March 2011.
Peter Ellison	1998	Royal Navy Officer. During the last 12 months I completed my tour as the RN exchange officer with the Italian Navy, I attended ICSC (Intermediate Command and Staff Course) and a navigation course. I also served as the Operations Officer on board HMS CLYDE the Falkland Islands Guard Ship. I am presently enjoying a bit of late summer leave.
Philip Wheatley	1998	Recently moved to the North East to take up post as an assistant head teacher in charge of the sixth form at Whickham School and Sports College, Gateshead.
Dr Humayun Ayub	1999	Re: 'International Journal of Clinical Skills' (IJOCS) In 2011 this successful & innovative international medical journal reached its 5th year in publication. With international reach, having been accessed in over 130 countries, the success of the IJOCS has been evident from its reach in all major health disciplines, including medicine, dentistry and nursing. The IJOCS has been support by eminent health professionals such as Sir Liam Donaldson and Lord McColl. Created and managed by OEA Dr Humayun Ayub (1999)
David Ault	2000	Last summer, I travelled 20,000 miles across the US and Canada on my Astrotour 2010, looking at how science communication is done in North America's museums, science centres and planetaria. The trip took four months, and as I travelled, I paid nothing for accommodation by couchsurfing from May to September. Blog: http://astrotour2010.blogspot.com or www.davidault.co.uk
Richard Head	2000	I became an Accelerated Freefall Basic Instructor back in May 2011. This is essentially a probationary rating; I am hoping to get become a full instructor within the few months. The birth of my son put a hold on my training, but Im back at full swing now. Maybe Ill see a few Old Eds. learning to skydive over the next year. Currently based at Target Skysports in Lincolnshire on the weekends.
Richard Harris	2001	I am currently undertaking a fellowship in Head and Neck Surgery at The Royal Melbourne Hospital.
Vikram Banerjee	2002	I am getting married on 29th October 2011 in Poole to Lydia Carter, whom I met at Cambridge University.
M Tabish Ahmed	2003	Graduated with a PhD in Molecular Microbiology from the University of Birmingham. Paper: Hu Y, Henderson B, Lund PA, Tormay P, Tabish Ahmed M, Gircja SS, Besra GS, Coates ARM (2008) A Mycobacterium tuberculosis mutant lacking the groEL homologue cpn60.1 is viable but fails to induce an inflammatory response in animal models of infection. Infect Immun, 76 (4), 1535-1546.
Royce Chan	2003	2nd year of qualifying. Working at Newham hospital.
Saqib Bhatti	2003	In the past year, I qualified as an ACA and a member of Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. I qualified at Big 4 firm, Deloitte, and have recently moved to my own company, Younis Bhatti & Co. Ltd specialising in audit, taxation and accounts preparation. In addition I have recently been elected to the Institute of Asian Businesses' Executive Committee and as a committee we are part of the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce and represent Asian Businesses across the Midlands.
David Wheatley	2005	KES gave me a love of foreign languages, particularly German, which I read at Durham. After spending time living and working in Germany - working in the field of strategic consultancy, I returned to the UK last year and established a translation company called Dot Comma Translations Ltd. We have grown very quickly, and now have three members of staff. We cover a variety of languages, from German to Chinese, French to Arabic, and have helped a number of companies, including Birmingham-based ones, to translate their marketing materials for use in overseas markets.
Jamie Scott	2007	In an entertaining tussle in glorious August sunshine, members of the Class of 2007 got together to play some cricket at the Old Ed Memorial Grounds, off Streetsbrook Road. Congratulations go to The Birmingham Badshahs" for defeating "Puffin Party" with five wickets in hand; they claimed the victory but the real winner was of course cricket"
Nirad Vinod Solanki	2007	Graduated earlier last year with a 1st class honours in Technology and Material engineering. Went into business and set up two travel agencies. My wife, Payal Solanki and I got married on 29th January earlier this year. She is Czech and I met her whilst I was living and studying in Prague for 4 years. We both live in Solihull and are happy together. Being the first Old Ed in my year to get married, I feel very old now... :)
Gaurav Vohra	2008	Hello there, I don't know if this is too recent for inclusion, but I graduated this summer from Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge with a 1st in Economics (BA Hons), ranking 7th in the university. I'm currently working for Oliver Wyman (strategy consulting) in London. Best, Gaurav
James Taft	2008	I'm currently studying at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, on my year abroad from King's College, London. I have been taking time out throughout the year to film a protagonist's role in an independent film. A team from King's College have written and filmed the feature length production in black and white, based on the works of Menorcan poet PonÃ§ Pons. The film is set in both London and Menorca and filming is due to finish in December. The film is expected to be released for festival viewings.
Mohammed Saqib	2008	Shaved all my hair off and ran the Bristol 10k for a charity called Childrens Villages and raised Â£1350.
Philip Neale	2008	Have continued to play Warwickshire CCC second XI cricket.
vivek shah	2009	Just to let you know I have successfully completed by gold duke of edinburgh award and will be going to the palace on the 8th november this year to collect my award.
Charles Karu Singleton	Art 6th 2005	It has been a busy one! As a serving officer with the 2nd Battalion Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment based in Woolwich London we have been heavily involved in ceremonial duties. Having served on a number of ceremonial guards at Windsor Castle, the Tower of London and Queen's Guards at Buckingham Palace I have had the privilege of conducting the Ceremony of the Keys, the Changing of the Guard and to carry the Regimental Colour on Parade. The opportunity to hosts guest in St James' Palace has been memorable too. The highlight this tear for Ceremonial events though was obviously the Eoyal Wedding during which I commanded one of the Half Companies of men who lined the route for Prince William and Kate Middleton. . It hasn't however just been ceremonial duties this year as I spent the summer in the Falkland Islands commanding a Fire Support Group with our A Coy. Whilst there we conducted patrols to outlying settlements (both East & West Falklands) as well as the more well known places like Stanley and Goose Green. We also spent a significant amount of time on Onion Ranges as I trained my guys on the General Purpose Machine Gun. The 18mile march back to camp in the snow of a Falklands winter proved interesting... Probably why we finished in 5 hours! One of the highlights proved the opportunity to visit South Georgia courtesy of HMS Edinburgh. So with 9 soldiers I departed for the 4 day journey to the islands. Located 850 nautical miles from the Falklands, S Georgia lies in the Artic circle. Home to the Grytviken whaling station (disused) and the Science station there were 10 peopleon the islands when we arrived after an eventful sea journey (soldiers don't have sea legs!) Disembarking we conducted a Coastal patrol past Sir Ernest Shakletons grave, the whaling station and down Penguin River. Passing through numerous fur seal colonies the wildlife highlight proved to be a trio of penguin chicks who decided to join us for lunch! Sadly with temperatures dropping to -15 with a wind chill around -25 we had to cut the patrols down and return before the seas caught us out. After a very rocky first night at sea we settled in for the return journey including a underway resuming from HMS Black Rover. After that a week on exercise conducting live fire training and we returned to the UK. After a short summer leave I travelled to California for a two week course in Advanced Free Fall skydiving at Perris Valley. The course took us from zero to hero in skydiving. Jumps were at 13,000 ft for 45secs of free fall with initially two instructors then one then solo after level 7. To pass though you needed to achieve a dive exit, back flip left and right 360 turns, a track and a track turn! The exits varied from backwards off the skyvan to climbing outside the Otters to then fall off. All in all terrifying but a great rush! Work will kick in the day after I get back as I take 9 gun teams to the Salisbury Plain to train as Machine Gunners for the battalion in preparation for our future tour to Afghanistan. The end of the year will also see me hand over my Platoon and start a staff job in preparation for the Olympics. 2012 I feel will prove as eventful as this year!