General Committee
The control, care and maintenance of the Club is vested in, and is the responsibility of a General Committee of ten Ordinary Members, who are elected for a one-year term at each Annual General Meeting, held usually in March each year
The General Committee for 2022-23:

Simon Davies
Chairman

Simon Davies
Chairman
Simon joined The British Club in January 1991 since when he has been continuously resident in Thailand having enjoyed a longstanding career within The Global Shipping Industry. His sporting interests cover Rugby, Football, Golf and playing Squash albeit at a slower pace than yesteryear. Having a keen eye for detail and being service minded Simon looks forward to working with the GC and Club Management for the benefit of all members..

David Williamson
Vice Chairman

David Williamson
Vice Chairman
David joined the British Club in 1983 after selling his restaurant interests in the UK. David became GM of the BC from 1984-1989 and has previously represented the club at soccer, cricket, tennis, golf and was a founder and previous national champion of the Bangkok Spoofers.
David has previously managed 8 private membership clubs In Thailand, Bahrain, Malaysia ,Indonesia, and Taiwan and has owned and managed catering establishments in Bangkok, Hua Hin, Pattaya and Chiangmai. Married to Supisa they have three daughters and two grandchildren who all enjoy using the BC.

Ceri Weaver-Berthet
Honorary Treasurer

Ceri Weaver-Berthet
Honorary Treasurer
Ceri is a relatively new member of the Club, having joined in early 2020 when he arrived in Thailand.
Since joining, he has been passionate about the Club and its community. Ceri is currently on a career break so wanted to use his time to serve the Club and the members. He is an enthusiastic walker, swimmer & skier and enjoys watching other sports from the side lines.
Ceri read Mathematics at the University of Bath and then became a Chartered Accountant. He has lived and worked overseas for over 20 years in Europe, South America, Middle East & Asia..

Paul Cheesman
Honorary Secretary

Paul Cheesman
Honorary Secretary
Paul joined the Club in 1999 and is now serving his seventeenth term, since 2000, on the General Committee as Honorary Secretary and he was also Vice-Chairman 2001-2003. In addition, Paul has chaired the Club’s Constitutional Reviews in 2005-2007 and 2017-2019, and became the Club Historian in 2020 having researched the Club’s history over many years (see The Club-History- Club Official Documents & Photographs).
Paul was elected twice as a London Borough Councillor in the London Borough of Southwark. In 2005. Paul was elected as an Honorary Alderman of the same borough, although he and his partner of 40 years have recently moved to West Sussex for retirement.

Kathryn Gavin
GC member

Kathryn Gavin
GC member
Kathryn is a new member of the British Club but has lived in Bangkok for over 19 years. Since leaving the UK in 1999, Kathryn has worked as an international geography teacher in four countries, before settling in Bangkok. She joined her current school 15 years ago, has nurtured hundreds of students to academic success and is now an active member of the senior leadership team. In addition, Kathryn led numerous geographical, environmental and beach clean-up trips as well as a range of community service projects both locally and in Mae Sot.
Kathryn is a keen tennis player, cricketer and golfer and loves to spend time at the club with her husband, Carl and her two girls, Eleanor and Annabelle. She looks forward to contributing to this year’s General Committee, representing the members’ ideas and suggestions, and to building on the excellent legacy of previous administrations to ensure that the club continues to flourish.

Colin Hasting
GC member

Colin Hasting
GC member
Colin Hastings is a 50-plus year career journalist, writer and publisher who started on local newspapers in his home town of Kingston, Surrey, UK, then moved to national dailies in Fleet Street including the Daily Express and the Daily Mail before joining the Bangkok Post in 1975. After a short break in the UK, where he worked for the pre-Murdoch Sunday Times, Colin was a Bangkok-based partner in a Singapore publishing company in the 1980s. He then rejoined the Bangkok Post in 1991 to launch and edit Thailand Tatler until 1998. Since then, he has published his own magazine, The BigChilli, the country’s leading expat publication.
Colin has represented the British Club and the Royal Bangkok Sports Club on a regular basis at football, rugby, cricket and squash. He is the proud father of five daughters.

Bryce Martin
GC member

Bryce Martin
GC member
Bryce Martin is a high school mathematics teacher who is now retired and residing in Bangkok. Whether he’s teaching, advising the government, or serving the community, Bryce has always been passionate about making a difference. In his early career, Bryce worked as a business to business salesperson in the technology industry, helping companies leverage technology to optimize their operations. He also served as a government advisor in Sydney and Malaysia, providing guidance on critical matters such as cybersecurity and data protection. Bryce’s dedication to serving others has continued throughout his life, as evidenced by his involvement in the British Club, where he enjoys connecting with members and supporting initiatives that promote the well-being of the community.

Simon Matthews
GC member

Simon Matthews
GC member
imon Matthews is a Chartered Engineer having lived in Thailand for 31 years he is married to a Thai with 3 children at present, he is Regional Manager Southeast Asia for ManpowerGroup based in Bangkok.
He was previously Chairman for the British Chamber of Commerce Thailand.
Currently ManpowerGroup Southeast Asia has over 25,000 associates and with more than 1800 clients, supported by over 600 permanent staff.
ManpowerGroup®, the leading global workforce solutions company, helps organizations transform in a fast-changing world of work by sourcing, assessing, developing and managing the talent that enables them to win.

Chris Watt
GC member

Chris Watt
GC member
Australian-born and having lived in New Zealand for many years, Chris has over forty years of experience in architecture and construction in New Zealand, Australia, Britain, and Thailand culminating in an associate partner for a progressive firm of architects in Auckland before venturing into the world of graphic design while continuing with architecture. Chris has been an active member of the British Club since 2000, and served on the General Committee for seven years, three of which as Vice Chairman from 2011 to 2013. An active member of the Tennis Section, he has serviced on their committee for many years and is currently the Secretary of the Tennis Section. Chris can be found in the Sala with his wife Nattaya many days a week. As a keen photographer he has contributed many photographs for the Club’s magazine along with photographing the annual Tennis Championship for twenty years.

Jeremy de Sausmarez
GC member

Jeremy de Sausmarez
GC member
Educated in the UK but growing up in South America, Jeremy worked with the fledgling Virgin group for nearly a decade, moving on to study programming and systems analysis before transferring to Granada TV and subsequently independent television distribution. Itchy feet prompted a relocation to S.E. Asia distributing educational and HRD training materials, then with his Thai family to build and run a bungalow resort, 2 bar restaurants, and a leisure centre in the south of Thailand.
Moving to the Bangkok region for the kids’ schooling, Jeremy was the editor of Outpost magazine and became a member of the British Club in 2011, later joining the staff for 5 years. Since then, Jeremy has indulged his passions for music, film, history, cooking, his Mac, engineering, and innumerable tv documentaries.