Bernard Horn had a varied career with NatWest spanning 30 years, including six years as a Main Board Director of the NatWest Group (FTSE 100 Company). His roles included five years as Chief Executive of the International Businesses, and a similar period as Operations Director, responsible for Operations and IT. He led significant acquisition and disposal activity whilst with the bank.
He is a graduate of the Advanced Management Programme at Harvard Business School. Since leaving...
David Blood is co-founder and Senior Partner of Generation Investment Management. Previously, he spent 18 years at Goldman Sachs including serving as co-CEO and CEO of Goldman Sachs Asset Management from 1999-2003. David received a B.A. from Hamilton College and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Graduate School of Business. He is on the Board of Harvest Power, New Forests, SHINE, Social Finance UK, Social Finance US, The Nature Conservancy, Fondation 1796 and Hamilton College; the Advisory Board...
David Robinson is a community worker, the Founder of Community Links and now its Senior Adviser (www.community-links.org). Community Links work with more than 30,000 people a year through an extensive network of community development projects in East London. This local experience is shared with policy makers and practitioners internationally through publications, training and consultancy.
David is also the...
Geraldine was appointed Chief Charity Commissioner and the Charity Commission's first Chair in 2004, with the remit of making the Commission 'fit for purpose' to implement the new Charities Act. She left the Commission in July 2006, having laid firm foundations for the Charities Bill and with the Commission charged and invigorated to implement it. Before joining the Charity Commission Geraldine was CEO of two major charities, Guide Dogs for the Blind and the National Autistic Society, and...
James is currently a non-executive Director of the Financial Services Authority, Welsh Water Limited, Towergate Insurance Group, Sarasin and Partners LLP, JP Morgan Asian Investment Trust plc, and a Visiting Fellow at the LSE (risk and regulation).
After reading economics and English at Cambridge, he worked in the City both as a commercial and investment banker. Initially with Chase Manhattan, he then spent 13 years at Merrill Lynch, latterly as Managing Director in London and a...
Penny Newman is the new head of Platform 51, the new brand for Young Women's Christian Association in England & Wales. She is the former CEO of Jamie Oliver's chef training academy the Fifteen Foundation and the former CEO of Cafédirect. Cafédirect is the UK's leading Fairtrade hot drinks company which blazed the trail for Fairtrade, taking it from a niche market and placing it into the mainstream. Today a quarter of a million coffee, tea and cocoa producers benefit from Cafédirect's...
Peter Wheeler was Head of Wholesale Banking, West at Standard Chartered Bank until the end of 2010, and is Chairman of IPValue. He is also Chair of The Young Foundation and is a founder of Charity Technology Trust. Previously Peter was a Goldman Sachs Partner and Managing Director.
Victoria is an Executive at the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts and Adviser to the Charles Dunstone Charitable Trust. Her areas of work include disability, disadvantaged communities, criminal justice, the environment, paediatric palliative care, young carers and social investment.
Prior to joining the Sainsbury Family Trusts, Victoria was CEO of an operational international development charity, having previously spent four years living and working in Eastern Europe as Field...
Wol joined ISIS in January 1993 and is Managing Partner of the business. His role encompasses overall responsibility for the strategic development of ISIS and active involvement in investments. Wol initially trained as an engineer, having studied civil and structural engineering at Kings College, London. After obtaining an MBA from Exeter University, he spent three years with Barclays in various head office roles before joining ISIS. Wol is a council member and recent Chairman of the BVCA...