Former Chairman of Man Group and Prudential plc. He is the Chairman of Big Society Capital and an experienced backer of innovative social projects, especially those working with children and young people.

Victoria Hornby is CEO of Mental Health Innovations. From 2011 to 2017, she was Director of Programmes at The Royal Foundation. Before that, she was a Senior Executive at the Sainsbury Family Trusts and CEO of an international development charity. Victoria started her career as Field Director of an aid agency in Eastern Europe. She is a trustee of the Westminster Foundation, the Bridges Impact Foundation, the Lady Garden Foundation and the Dunstone Education Trust. She is also an adviser to the Charles Dunstone Charitable Trust.

Beth is Associate Principal, Head of Primary and Designated Safeguarding Lead at King Solomon Academy (KSA), an AllChild partner school. Beth was the in-school lead for AllChild’s first cohort in the school in 2019. Before joining KSA, Beth was a secondary school English teacher and leader in multiple schools in London.

Carlos is the Director at Becauze, a Community Interest Company that aims to bring people together through community events, tackling issues such as environmental problems and changing mindsets. He is passionate about dealing with social issues that hamper young people achieving their potential. Carlos grew up and attended school in West London, and now works for the civil service in a youth engagement and diversion department in the area, helping to shape the models used to engage with young people.

A chartered accountant and formerly COO of New Philanthropy Capital, Jocelyn moved to the charity sector after a career in finance. She is also Treasurer of the young migrants’ charity, We Belong.

Andrew is a director of Bridges Outcomes Partnerships, and is a non-exec on the boards of 10 social enterprises focused on helping individuals to improve their education, housing and employment outcomes. Prior to his work in the UK, he led a social enterprise in Madagascar working with micro-entrepreneurs. Andrew lives in West London with his family.

Currently a Managing Director at Lazard, a major financial and asset management institution. He has a particular focus on corporate finance and has advised Governments, Private Equity and PLCs. Vasco is an Anglo-Brazilian and helped fund a charity in Salvador, Brazil for kids called GEM. He is a resident of West London.

Farial is the Community Engagement Manager at Imperial College. She was born and grew up in West London where she continues to be a Community Champion building trusted relationships, and has received several awards as a testament to her dedication. Previously, she worked at AllChild where she joined as one of the first-ever Link Workers, based in Phoenix Academy for our Pilot in 2015. In this role, she helped to shape the programme and role, and then progressed to become the Deputy Head of Link Work.

A Partner at Goldman Sachs since 2008, and currently leads its equity franchise in EMEA. John joined Goldman Sachs in 2000 and has worked in London, and New York, where he supported the Harlem Children’s Zone. He now lives in West London with his family.

James is Director of Strategy and Innovation at Wigan Council and has spent his career at the heart of some of the most innovative approaches to re-imagining public services . Part of the team that developed the Wigan Deal, James has recently led a whole place evaluation, reflection and re-set with the communities of Wigan Borough. This work culminated in the development of a new community-led movement for change 'Progress with Unity' as the foundation for the next decade of reforms in Wigan Borough. James' is particularly interested in how public services work effectively alongside communities but crucially know when to get out of the way and focus on creating the conditions for communities to thrive with the effective transfer of real power and resources to do so.

Former CEO of the innovative social business Catch22, Chris originally trained as a social worker and spent much of his early career working in the criminal justice system. Over his career he has become increasingly interested in how to reset public services so that they can become more agile, relational, entrepreneurial, and more local. As well as his trustee role at AllChild he is a Non-Executive Director of Lincolnshire Partnership Foundation Trust, chairs Catalyst Choices and Jobs22, and is a Non-Executive Director of Big Society Capital. He is also a trustee of Unlocked Graduates.