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A Partner in EY for 24 years, Caroline became London Office Managing Partner and a member of the UK and Ireland leadership team. Since stepping down from her role at EY in 2022, she has become a trustee of three charities, including Catch22.
She has a particular focus on social mobility, young people and cancer.
Natasha has extensive leadership, policy and communications experience in the charity sector. She has been Chief Executive of Working Chance since 2019 and previously spent 11 years as Chief Executive of Become,.
Natasha was awarded an OBE for services to children and families in 2019 and has been a Fellow of the RSA since 2007. She has acted as an advisor to two Children’s Commissioners, served five years as a trustee for Children England and has sat on the advisory boards of two national inquiries and on several government taskforces. She currently sits on the Ministry of Justice’s expert group on female offenders.
Matt is a fractional CFO specialising in deeptech and engineering startups. A Chartered Accountant with a PhD in Quantum Chemistry, he has 20 years’ experience building, fundraising and transforming ambitious startups. He has held CFO, COO, and CEO roles across sectors including international development, biotech, AI, medtech, manufacturing, education, property and corporate finance.
He spent several years in the charity sector, working in Nigeria on the impact of oil extraction in the Niger Delta, and was previously a trustee and co-creator of Sidekick, a charity empowering people to support their own mental health.
Dr Emer Sutherland is an experienced A&E and trauma doctor working in London. She leads a large emergency department that was the first in the UK to embed youth workers into the clinical team to support young people at times of crisis. She is passionate about a holistic approach to healthcare and building wellbeing not just treating illness.
Ben is an experienced technology and business leader who has built and led IT consulting and software businesses across the US, Asia and Europe. Most recently, he was a managing director at Accenture, the global technology consulting firm.
Ben is also a trustee, and volunteer van driver, at The Felix Project, one of the largest food re-distribution charities in the UK. He serves on their Operations committee, their People committee and Chairs their Technology Strategic Advisory & IT Governance committee. He has actively supported Felix’s digital transformation as well as having worked as an interim member of their senior leadership team.
Irene began her career as an accountant in the financial services sector. An opportune meeting with the then CEO of the Disabilities Trust introduced her to an organisation whose work she greatly admired, which she soon joined as Director of Finance, before becoming CEO two years later. Since then, Irene has led the organisational and strategic transformation of the Disabilities Trust to ensure it remains the UK’s leading not-for-profit provider of brain injury services. She is also a trustee with VODG.
Irene is passionate about opportunity and fairness and would like to help drive societal change and contribute a more equitable society for all.
Claire Starza-Allen is a Trustee of Catch22 and chairs its Governance, Risk and Internal Audit Committee. In this role, she applies her governance and compliance expertise to support Catch22’s mission and social impact.
Claire is also Group General Counsel at Valtech, a global digital consultancy that partners with organisations to drive business transformation through technology and experience design, where she leads on legal, compliance (including insurance, incident response and AI), and governance matters. She has extensive experience in commercial negotiations, mergers and acquisitions (including post-deal integration), and legal operations.
Alongside her in-house role, she practises as a dispute resolution specialist in arbitration and mediation, focusing on practical and constructive ways to resolve disputes.
Jonathan is a business development professional who has undertaken a variety of senior roles in support of the public sector during his career within Capita since 2005. He has been instrumental in designing innovative service delivery models, the development of public sector strategy and has secured numerous partnerships across Local Government, Health, Central Government and Education, delivering over £400m of savings to the public sector.
Jonathan is passionate about the impact of accessible and well-designed services and has driven innovation and value within the public sector. He has expertise in business transformation, service re-design, business case development, mobilisation, procurement, deal architecture, contract negotiation, commercialisation of services and sustainable growth.
Matt spent 25 years as a management consultant in global consulting firms, including 13 years as a partner at the Big 4 Consultancy EY. He helped UK government to implement major policy priorities and structural change programmes, to improve services and outcomes across most areas of public policy. In recent years, he led EY’s work on justice and homeland security, including major reforms to probation, prisons, courts and immigration. He also led the incubation and growth of EY’s People Consulting business in the UK and EY’s Organisation and Workforce Transformation services globally. Matt was also Vice-President of the Management Consultancies Association.
Matt is passionate about helping social enterprises to grow and extend their impact, and over the last 15 years has brought his skills in organisation strategy and development to a range of social enterprises, as a coach, adviser and more recently Trustee.
Mark is an Executive Technology Advisor and is also undertaking a Doctorate focused on the impact of AI on business models and service delivery. He is a highly experienced Chief Information / Technology Officer and has worked in utilities, central government and financial services, delivering large-scale digital services that support customers and essential public services.
He is passionate about using technology to improve outcomes for people and society and brings a strong commitment to inclusion and social mobility, shaped by his own route into work straight from school. Professionally Mark is both a Chartered IT professional and Chartered HR professional and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is also the recipient of a lifetime achievement award from the IT service management industry for his contribution to best practice.
