Alan Price

Alan has been at the forefront of championing good business practices for over 23 years, from supporting employees with the trade union movement at the start of his career, to now supporting over 110,000 SME’s covering 3 million employees worldwide, in his current position as CEO at BrightHR and Chief Operations Officer at the Peninsula Group.

The Peninsula Group provides people support namely HR, employment law and health & safety transformation to over 75,000 businesses in the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. He is responsible for the leadership of the Group operations strategy, presiding over 250,000 client monthly service interactions and client experience engagements. He also holds a number of non-executive positions across the 11 Group companies, while maintaining a Group operational overview and Group HR responsibilities.

Alan is proud to be a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD with 18 years’ experience in employee relations, a Chartered Manager and Fellow of the CMI, a certified practitioner and Fellow of the AHRI (Australian Human Resources Institute), and a Senior Certified professional member of SHRM, Chartered Professional in Human Resources with the Canadian Human Resource Professional Association

Having demonstrated a significant contribution to business and society, he is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA)

In 2003, Alan was appointed to His Majesty’s Court and Tribunal Service in the UK and was one of the youngest judicial appointments to the Employment Tribunal Service, which he continues to hold.

He formally served for 4 years as a Charity trustee and Non-Executive Director for the world's second largest HR professional body, the CIPD, which represents over 140,000 HR professionals worldwide, as well as a Non-Executive Director for the Chambers of Commerce in Ireland who represent over 10,000 organisations across Ireland also serving on the Audit Committee. Alan is an Ambassador for the North West Air Ambulance Charity, Trustee & Non-Executive Director of an Academy Trust, Parish Councillor and Honorary Industry Fellow at the University of Salford.

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