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| Chris Keen - Chairman
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| Christopher Keen began his career as a stockbroker and in 1975 he joined the United Bank of Kuwait, a UK Bank owned by Kuwaiti institutions. becoming its Chief Executive in 1986. At the end of 1998 he joined Culross Global Management to pursue his interest in Alternative Investing. He also holds various Non Executive Directorships. Born in 1950, he was educated at Lancing and the LSE and is a Fellow of the Association of Certified and Corporate Accountants (FCCA). |
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| Alan Shelley - Vice Chairman
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| Alan Shelley is a chartered surveyor who spent nearly fifty years working in the property business in the UK and Nigeria. He retired in 1992 as the Senior Partner of estate agents Knight, Frank and Rutley. He was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Mansfield Settlement in 1991 and was the Chairman of the board at the time of the merger with Aston Charities. He lives in Rutland and occupies his spare time with academic research for a PhD, golf, squash and the theatre. He is a former Governor of the Royal Shakespeare Company and Chairman of the West Africa Committee and is still a General Commissioner of Income Tax and a member of the MCC |
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| Bill Lall - Treasurer
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| Having arrived in the UK with very limited resources, Bill gained an accountancy qualification and worked his way up to senior auditing positions in both the private and civil service. He built up his accountancy practice in Newham and it became the largest in the borough. He retired from this in 2003. He has written two books about his story which have been particularly successful in India. He is on a number of committees and is also a mentor with the Prince's Trust. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of East London in 2003 for his services to the community. |
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| Karen Blakeley
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| Karen is Assistant Director of the Centre for Leadership, Learning and Change at Cass Business School, City University. For the last ten years, she has run a consultancy specializing in senior executive coaching and leadership development. Her clients include multinational audit companies, international banks, charities and large government departments. She recently gained a PhD looking at how adults respond and adapt to change. Her particular interests include how to accelerate the learning of leaders and how to develop leadership throughout organizations. |
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| Catherine Brett
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| Catherine Brett joined HSBC as a Managing Director, Sector Head for European Banks in June 2004. Prior to HSBC she has worked in the financial services sector, in both London and New York for Barclays and more recently, for Citigroup. She currently works at Canary Wharf. She is married with 2 young children and has lived in Leytonstone since 1996. In her spare time, Catherine is a keen orienteer, and also sails on the River Blackwater in Essex. Catherine joined the board of Aston-Mansfield in December 2002 |
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| Revd Elwin Cockett
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The Revd Elwin Cockett is the Archdeacon of West Ham. He has also been, for the past 16 years, Chaplain to West Ham United Football Club. The Archdeaconry of West Ham includes the London Boroughs of Barking & Dagenham, Havering, Newham, Redbridge, and Waltham Forest and as passionate East Enders, he and his wife Sue have experience of all the Boroughs of the Archdeaconry. |
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| Ihona Hirving-Barnett
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| Ihona Hirving-Barnett joins us with a vast range of experience in the private, public and voluntary sectors, including five years as Project Director with London Action Trust and a 15 month period running a women’s community development programme in Bangladesh (as part of Voluntary Service Overseas). She is currently Programme Director for the Women into Work Programme, a European funded project run by the national voluntary agency SOVA. |
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| Harry Singha
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| Harry Singha was appointed at the September 2006 Board meeting. Harry brings a vast range of voluntary sector experience locally, nationally and internationally. Among a wide range of other things he was instrumental in the development of In-volve (formerly known as Newham Drug Advisory Project), EKTA (an Asian elders charity) and Harmony (a BME Mental Health charity); the last two still operate on our premises. More recently he has moved into coaching and is the founder and Chairman of the UK’s Youth Coaching Academy, based at the University of East London. He is a local man. As a child, he attended the playgroup at St Michael’s (on the site of the current Froud Centre) and then went to Avenue and Little Ilford schools. He still lives locally with his family, though his work takes him all over the world. |
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| Bernard Tyler
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| Bernard Tyler is a Social Sciences Graduate. After brief work experiences elsewhere, he joined Ford Motor Company in Human Resources (Personnel), where he worked for 35 years in variety of Management roles, with local, national and European coordinating responsibilities. 'Met' A-M during Company community initiatives in 1997, and has been involved since. He retired from full-time work in 2002. Now does 'pro bono' work for a number of health & community agencies |
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| Andrew West
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| Andrew West is Head of Equity & Prime Brokerage Operations with Barclays Capital. |
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| Stephen Wright
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| Dr Stephen Wright is a chartered aeronautical engineer who has spent twenty years in various R&D and production management roles within British Aerospace. His PhD is in the area of Computer Vision and Robotics. Currently he works for a large Swiss bank as an analyst in their equity research department advising clients on how to manage risk in their investment processes. He is married with two teenage sons, and his main hobby is tinkering with old cars and motorcycles. |
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