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Allegiance
  
United Kingdom

Service/branch
  
British Army

Awards
  
Royal Victorian Order


Name
  
Matthew Sykes

Years of service
  
1975 - 2010

Rank
  
Major-general


Commands held
  
3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery Royal Artillery

Battles/wars
  
Northern Ireland Bosnian War Kosovo War

Battles and wars
  
Northern Ireland, Bosnian War, Kosovo War

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Major General (Richard) Matthew (McQueen) Sykes CVO is currently involved in a number of executive, non-executive, advisory, consultant and voluntary roles. From 2010 to 2014 he was Group Chief Executive of Elizabeth Finn Care, a large charity providing relief from poverty in the UK. A former British Army officer, his military career culminated as Assistant Chief of Defence Staff (Personnel) in the UK Ministry of Defence. At the same he served as the Defence Services Secretary from 2007 to 2010 in the Royal Household. He is currently Chief Executive of The Sir Simon Milton Foundation, a charity helping young and older people in the City of Westminster and across London.

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Military career

Sykes was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1975. He became Commanding Officer of 3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery in 1994. He went on to be Strategic Policy Chief at NATO’s Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe in 1997, Chief Co-ordinator of Joint Firepower for the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps in 2000 and Director of Corporate Communications for the Army at the Ministry of Defence in 2002. After that he became Director Royal Artillery in 2005 and then Defence Services Secretary in 2007 as well as Assistant Chief of Defence Staff (Personnel) from 2009 before retiring from the Army in 2010. He served on operations in Northern Ireland, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo. During his time as Defence Services Secretary, he was responsible for the introduction of the Elizabeth Cross awarded to families of the British Armed Forces killed in action or as a result of a terrorist attack since the Second World War.

Post military career

After leaving the Army, from 2010 to 2014 he was Group Chief Executive of Elizabeth Finn Care, a British charity helping people in the UK struggling with financial hardship. During the same period he was a non-executive director of Elizabeth Finn Homes Limited, a company owned by the Charity, responsible for the running of 9 care homes and 11 almshouses. He is now Chief Executive of The Sir Simon Milton Foundation, a charity helping young and older people in the City of Westminster and across London.

He holds a number of other executive, non-executive, advisory, consultant and voluntary posts, including advising on residential property development, Gentleman Usher in the Royal Household and he is Honorary Regimental Colonel of the King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery.

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Matthew Sykes Wikipedia