The following are the Officers of the Company for 2025/26.
The Master: Mr Stefan Hay
Stefan currently serves as the Master and Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Wheelwright’s Charity.
In his professional role, he is the Chief Executive Officer of the Association of Manufacturers of Domestic Appliances (AMDEA), a position he has held since July 2025.
Over the past 27 years, he has worked at senior levels with trade associations, membership bodies, and not-for-profit organisations. Before this, he held various operational and training roles in the corporate security sector. Stefan’s early career included local radio presenting and show production management with P&O Princess Cruises and DFDS Scandinavian Seaways.
His main hobbies include Genealogy and Family History, (where he has traced most of his family lines back to the 1600s), Numismatics, Rugby (which he now enjoys watching), and spending time with his Birman and Ragdoll cats.
Stefan has been married to Nancy since 1993, and they have three sons and two granddaughters.
The Upper Warder: Mr Nick Dutt
Nick has been a member of the Worshipful Company of Wheelwrights since 2014. Since joining he has been actively involved in many difference aspects of the Company, including being Court Usher, on the Education and Membership Committees, editor of the Hub & Spoke and more recently acting at the Military Liaison Officer. He has been a member of the Court since 2021.
In addition to a number of roles in the UK, he spent more than 26 years living and working overseas in the US, Asia and Middle East, working in senior leadership roles for major global and regional players in the Financial Services, Business Process Outsourcing, Loyalty and Gaming industries.
Aside from the Wheelwrights, among other things, he is also currently the Immediate Past Chairman of the Royal Society of St. George, a worldwide English patriotic society and Chair of Trustees of the Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity.
Nick currently lives in Sussex and has two grown-up sons and 4 grandsons.
The Renter Warden: Hon Group Captain Sally Bridgeland BSc ARCS FIA FRSA FSIP
Sally is Chair of the Development Bank of Wales, Nest Invest Ltd and BelleVie Care. She is a non-executive director at insurers Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC) and Intact Insurance UK (formerly Royal & Sun Alliance).
She won the FTSE AIM NED Award in 2023 for her work as Chair at Impax Asset Management Group plc. Her non-executive portfolio has also included roles at the Nuclear Liabilities Fund, NEST Corporation and the Lloyds Bank pension schemes and as Chair of the first local government pensions pool, Local Pensions Partnership Investments (LPPI) Limited. She was CEO of the BP Pension Scheme in the interesting years of 2007-14 after twenty years with Aon Hewitt working as a pensions consultant and in investment research and innovation.
Sally is an actuary and a mother and passionate about responsible investment and creativity. Sally is an Honorary Group Captain in 601 Squadron of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force, where her role is to introduce diverse ideas to the way that the Senior Leadership Team of the RAF think and work, and provide advice and access to her broader network. This currently includes topics such as HR and digital transformation and the RAF’s Net Zero activities.
She is a mentor and a mother and passionate about responsible investment, cycling and innovation. Sally is currently writing a book on inclusion aimed at helping businesses become more creative and resilient by getting a mix of drama club and chess club thinking.
She recently discovered that her great grandfather and great great grandfather were working wheelwrights in Fordingbridge.
The Clerk: Mrs Susie Morris
Susie has been our Clerk since 2016. The Royal Navy is clearly an important part of her life. She is married to David who was a Submariner, captaining a number of boats in his career. Her father was also a submariner (but had been invalided out by the time she was born) and her grandfather was also in the Navy, reaching rank of Rear Admiral.
They have two daughters, one recently married and living in Zambia and the other working in Vancouver. No stranger to Livery Companies, prior to becoming our Clerk, she spent 5 years with the Worshipful Company of Skinners administering their main Charity. On leaving the Navy, David, became Clerk of the Worshipful Company of Salters, but has since retired.
Before this, Susie spent 18 years in the wine trade in administration, buying and sales followed by Finance Director roles with Financial PR company and two head-hunters.
Her first memories of the Wheelwrights are the friendly nature of the Company and the terror of a table plan for 220 people at Mansion House. That number seems nothing after the recent Mansion House banquet of nearly 300 attendees!
And if she is not busy enough, she is also a serving JP and has been doing that for 30 years.
She likes to relax gardening and if there is no one else she will act as crew for David’s 40 ft wooden classic boat “Kalbarri” which provides day charters on the Thames.