Michael Joseph

Michael is an alumnus of Stonyhurst. Michael left the college in 1959 having been a member of the 1st XV, an altar server and a Committee Member.   He then joined the family business in Birmingham

He is married to Frances and they have 6 children, now very much adults.   The oldest and youngest are both girls with 2 sets of boy twins, Antony and Richard and Peter and Philip, who went to the College.

Michael has previously served as a Stonyhurst Governor and is both a past Chairman and past President of the Stonyhurst Association.   For 20 years he has believed that a permanent endowment is needed to finance bursaries and fee assistance so is delighted to join the Stonyhurst Foundation as a Trustee.

John Browne

John is Headmaster of Stonyhurst.  He was appointed as Headmaster of Stonyhurst in 2016.   Stonyhurst is John’s 3rd Headship in independent day and boarding schools.

Prior to joining Stonyhurst John was Headmaster of St Aloysius’s College Glasgow and Deputy Headmaster of Ampleforth.  He is a former Headmaster of Westminster Cathedral Choir School. John is an alumnus of St Ignatius’s College Enfield, a Jesuit voluntary aided secondary school in London.

John obtained his BA (Hons) in Music from the University of Bristol.   He has a post grad LLB from City University, London and an MBA from the Open University.  He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists.  John is a Governor of St John’s Beaumont, a Jesuit independent day and boarding school in Old Windsor. John is married to Marie and they have a son, William.

Stephen Withnell

Stephen is an alumnus of Stonyhurst and a parent of two current pupils.   Stephen serves as Deputy Head (External) at Stonyhurst.  Stephen is an experienced executive and non-executive director with a background in economics, finance, and governance.

In March 2020 Stephen was appointed an Honorary Professor in the Department of Economics and Finance of Durham University.   He is a member of the Dean’s Advisory Board of Durham University Business School and of the Investment Committee of the British Province of the Jesuits.   He is a former Governor of Stonyhurst and of Westminster Cathedral Choir School.

Stephen is a former Managing Director of Goldman Sachs International.   He joined Goldman Sachs in 2006 and retired in 2018, having been Head of Metals & Mining Investment Banking for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.  Stephen has advised on over US$150 Billion of strategic reviews, board assignments, mergers and acquisitions, corporate takeovers and equity and debt capital markets transactions.   He is a Freeman of the City of London.   Stephen is also an alumnus of St Ignatius’s College Riverview, an independent Jesuit secondary school in Australia.

Stephen obtained his BA (1st Class Hons) in History from Durham University, where he was JCR President of University College.  He is currently completing a DPhil in Architectural History at the University of Oxford.

Stephen is married to Victoria and they have two sons, both of whom attend Stonyhurst St Mary’s Hall.

Fr Keith P. McMillan, SJ

Fr. Keith is a Jesuit Priest.  He is the Treasurer of the British Jesuit Province.   He has a PhD in Accounting.

He first arrived in Britain in 1989 to read for a Bachelor of Divinity at Heythrop College, University of London.   After a forth year of Theology in the United States, and following Ordination as a Catholic Priest in 1993,  he returned to Britain to undertake a PhD in Accounting at the London School of Economics.  After completing that degree in 1997 he taught in the Missouri Province for three years.   In 2000, he returned to Britain as a Lecturer in Accounting at the London School of Economics.

In 2005 when Fr. Keith took his final vows as a Jesuit he became a member of the British Jesuit Province.  In 2007, he left academia for Sacred Heart Church in Wimbledon and in 2009 became Parish Priest.  In 2014 he became the Assistant Catholic Chaplain at Oxford University.   Fr. Keith became the Treasurer of the British Jesuit Province on Palm Sunday 2019.   He was a Stonyhurst Governor from 2004 to 2012 during which time he was a strong supporter of creating a dedicated bursary endowment.

Christine Keunen

Christine is a Governor of Stonyhurst and a parent of two alumni.

Christine joined the Governing Body in 2017.   She chairs the Libraries, Archives and Collections Committee and sits on the External Affairs Committee.

After studying Modern History at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, Christine qualified as a solicitor in 1985.   In 1992, she co-founded Moorhead James, a commercial law firm in the City of London, where she became Joint Managing Partner in 2008.  In 2015, she joined Hewitsons LLP as a Partner and Head of their London office, where she worked with colleagues in the sport, education and charity sectors.

She retired from Hewitsons in 2019 to focus on her mediation practice. She remains a solicitor, now non-practising, and is an accredited commercial mediator.  Christine’s husband Victor and their 2 children all attended Stonyhurst College.

Eugene Nealon

Eugene was educated at McQuaid Jesuit High School and St Bonaventure University in New York.    He is a parent of two alumni.

He has spent his career in international insurance underwriting, primarily with AIG first in New York and from 2002 in the UK.   He began his own business in 2010 and now works in London managing an insurance underwriting agency specialising in global insurance for consumer and commercial activities with Lloyds of London.

Eugene is married to Jenny a teacher at Donhead Prep School and is the proud father of a son and daughter, both OS. Eugene holds a passionate belief that the Ignatian way of encouraging children to be “men and women for others” is paramount, it is why he ensured that his children followed the established family tradition of receiving a Jesuit education and why he is so keen to assist the Stonyhurst Foundation in its mission.

Winton de St John-Pryce

Winton is an alumnus of Stonyhurst.

Winton is a Managing Director in the Investment Banking Division at Morgan Stanley. He has been based in Hong Kong for the last 12 years.

He arrived at Stonyhurst from St John’s Beaumont in 1994, spending five years at the College, where he was active in rugby, CCF, orchestra, and the choir.

Following this, Winton obtained a B.A. (Hons) in Economics & Management from Oxford University (Lady Margaret Hall).

Richard Saunders

Richard is an alumnus of Stonyhurst.

Richard works for Inalytics, a performance analytics firm that examines and evaluates portfolio manager decision making for institutional investors and asset managers.

Prior to joining Inalytics in 2019, Richard was Head of Equities for the Church Commissioners for England, the endowment fund for the Church of England and one of the largest charitable investors in the UK.   At the Church Commissioners for England, he was responsible for fund manager selection and portfolio construction in the £3 billion equity portfolio with a specific focus on global and emerging markets mandates.   Prior to working at the Church Commissioners for England in 2006, Richard worked in equity research at Unicredit based in Milan.  Richard graduated in Economics from the London School of Economics in 2002 and is a CFA and CIPM charterholder.

Richard is a member of the Investment Committee of the British Province of the Jesuits and also of the John Slater Foundation.   Richard was a pupil at Stonyhurst College and St.Mary’s Hall from 1990 until 1998.