Robert Thomas
Chair of Trustees
Rob joined CBIT as a Trustee in 2004 and became chair in 2012.
Having grown up on a farm in the mining valleys of South Wales he is a graduate of Reading University and has studied at Iowa State University in the USA and the University of Glamorgan where he completed his legal studies. Rob is a director and Court of Protection deputy with NewLaw Solicitors specialising in brain injury personal injury cases for adults and children.
He is well travelled having spent time in Canada, the USA, Mexico, Australia and throughout Europe. His early career as a solicitor also took him from Swansea to Basingstoke via Reading and finally back to Cardiff where he now lives with his wife and two children. Having spent many hours doing 10k runs, half marathons, sprint triathlons and excessively long walks in the name of charity, Rob now prefers to spend his down time watching rugby, skiing and cooking.