Peter is a serial entrepreneur and is currently the CEO of Goodwin Development Trust, a community led social enterprise based in Hull. He has overseen its growth from a small volunteer led community organisation to one of the country’s most entrepreneurial and successful Development Trusts with a turnover of £12m, 300 staff and over 100 volunteers.

Goodwin now operates on both a national and international basis and has a diverse portfolio of interests including conferencing & hospitality, childcare, education & training, healthcare, offender management and property development. The organisation is currently developing opportunities in both the social care and technology sectors and has recently established an innovative joint venture transport company with the HCT Group.

Peter completed an innovative psychological profiling research project at the University of Cambridge studying a cohort of the UK’s leading social entrepreneurs and is a visiting lecturer at the University of Hull.