Paul Boissier

Paul Boissier, chief executive of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, has told the Times newspaper that David Cameron’s Big Society agenda has contributed no added value to the voluntary sector, repeating his criticisms of the Big Society in this month’s Charity Finance’s Chief Executives Survey.

The RNLI has recruited the Royal Navy’s former chief operating officer as its new chief executive. Paul Boissier (pictured) recently retired from the Royal Navy in which he served for 35 years, reaching the rank of Vice Admiral. In 1999 he attended the London Business School for the Sloan Fellowship Masters Programme, for which he earned his MSc. Over the last two years, he was the Royal Navy’s chief operating officer, integrating the functions of HR, support, training, logistics and procurement to ensure that the Royal Navy could deploy around the world when required.