Trustees

Sir Gerald Acher, CBE LVO, Chairman

Sir Gerald is the Deputy Chairman of The Camelot Group - the National Lottery Operator and until 2010 was a non executive director of NHS London.  He is President of the National Centre for Young People with Epilepsy (NYCPE). He is Vice Chairman of Motability and until recently was chairman of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), he also chairs the London Climate Change Partnership and is a Trustee of the KPMG Foundation.

He was a member of the Board of KPMG and the Senior Partner of its London office until the end of 2001.

Richard Hardie, Deputy Chairman

After qualifying as a chartered accountant in 1975, Richard joined SG Warburg & Co. whose business is now part of UBS Investment Bank and where his last executive role was as COO in Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Richard is now Chair of UBS Ltd. in London, and of The Learning Trust (TLT), Hackney’s education provider and the only not-for-profit independent Education Authority in the UK. Richard is co-led UBS's sponsorship of The Bridge Academy, Hackney, a new school for 1,150 students aged 11– 19, and is a Governor. Richard was named The Prince of Wales’ Business in the Community Ambassador for London for 2007 and is Business in the Community's London lead on education. He is closely involved in UBS’s sponsorship of the London Symphony Orchestra and its Discovery outreach programme, and is a member of Julian Lloyd-Webber's In Harmony Committee.　

Cathy Jones

Cathy is Head of Community Outreach for international law firm Clifford Chance LLP. Cathy leads the firm's award-winning activity in the community, focusing on the themes of access to education, finance and justice. She also sits on the management group of the Clifford Chance Foundation, the body which manages the firm's global charitable donations. Cathy has been a reading volunteer at a Tower Hamlets school for 17 years and has been involved with Heart of the City since its early days. She is fully committed to encouraging partnerships between business and the not-for-profit sector, believing each has much to learn from, and offer, the other. 

Sushil Saluja

Sushil Saluja has over 20 years’ experience of consulting, outsourcing and business management across a variety of blue chip clients in Financial Services in the UK and globally.  He joined British Rail in 1984 and has been at Accenture in London since 1988. He is currently Managing Director in Accenture responsible for Financial Services in UK/Ireland, with overall client and business unit management responsibilities.

He is a specialist in banking and insurance; financial services strategy, technology and change management and has undertaken market-significant initiatives that cover aggressive cost reduction, two start-ups, mergers & acquisitions and organisational re-engineering/restructure.

Sushil is a board member of TheCityUK (the promotion body for Financial Services in the UK) and is a board member of the Scottish Financial Enterprise, the representative body for Scotland's financial services industry.

Liz Skelcher

Kate Cavelle

Kate Cavelle is Head of Corporate Citizenship UK and Global Coordinator of Education Programmes at Deutsche Bank.  She is responsible for community development, employee programmes and impact investment. Kate has led the expansion of the Bank's community activities and of the CC UK team and is also responsible for Deutsche Bank’s sponsorship activities. Several of the Bank's UK flagship community programmes have been recognised by various awards for their innovation and effectiveness.  Kate is also a trustee of the Augus Lawson Memorial Trust & Wessex Youth Trust.

Prior to this, Kate worked at The Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum where she delivered training initiatives on CSR and building cross-sector partnerships in Mexico, Ghana, South Africa and Central and Eastern Europe.

Ian Rodger

Ian is the secretary of the Wincott Foundation. He is also the chairman of a large residents’ association and, as such, is actively involved in some difficult social issues in south Westminster. He was Head of Communications at the Financial Reporting Council, the UK's independent regulator responsible for promoting confidence in corporate reporting and governance, until 2008.

He came to the UK in 1975 as a correspondent for the Toronto Globe and Mail and joined the Financial Times in 1980. Over a 25-year career at the FT, he was bureau chief in Tokyo and Zurich, international news editor and Co-Director of a recent project to bring in a state-of-the-art publishing system for FT.com and the newspaper.

Gill Parker  

Gill Parker is Joint Managing Director at BDGworkfutures. During her career at BDGworkfutures, Gill has worked with a world-class client portfolio of projects around the globe. Gill’s experience spans the US, Asia and EMEA.

BDG’s CSR agenda is something that Gill cares deeply about and has worked to hard to integrate it through her business with great success. She is Chair of Trustees Board the Whitechapel Mission – a charity that cares for the homeless of London.

Through her word at BDG, Gill has gained tremendous insight in to modern business of all sizes. However, operating an SME herself, Gill understands the unique challenges faced by smaller businesses especially when it comes to Corporate Responsibility. Her background in commerce and marketing enables Gill to bring a sense of perspective along with practical advice and encouragement for productive CR programmes.

Vicky Mirfin

Vicky Mirfin is Corporate Social Responsibility Manager for Lloyd's of London where she oversees their community involvement programme in East London and their three grant-making charitable trusts. Vicky is also responsible for co-ordinating the Corporate Responsibility activity for the Corporation of Lloyd's and co-chairs the Environmental Steering Group and is deputy chair of the Diversity Steering Group. She sits on the Advisory Group for Tower Hamlets Education Business Partnership and is also a member of the Main Committee for the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service.

Before joining Lloyd's in 2003, Vicky spent four years at Business in the Community where she was manager of the Cause Related Marketing campaign. Her time at Business in the Community also included a secondment to set up a framework for a new national employee volunteering programme for the recently merged HBOS.

Nina Kowalska

Nina Kowalska is a communications specialist in the sustainability, corporate social responsibility, social enterprise and not for profit sectors. Most recently she co-founded the online activist organisation www.38degrees.org.uk. Over the last 19 years she has

developed a social enterprise in the Brazilian Amazon, created award winning corporate social responsibility (CSR) programmes at St Luke's Communications and worked at Business in the Community promoting the benefits of Cause Related Marketing.