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Simon Albert: Simon is a seasoned fundraiser having jumped out of planes, bungey jumped, trekked, biked and mountain climbed throughout the world in the name of charity. He is the Managing Director of Charity Challenge whose company have helped over 1000 charities to raise in excess of £26m from adventure challenges. |
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Simon Barker: Simon is Client Development Director at Rensburg Sheppards, primarily on the Charity side. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG before managing charity and private client portfolios at Schroders and GAM. After consulting in Guernsey with ARC he returned to the UK in 2009. He is a CFA member. |
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Mike Basketter: Mike has been running his own consultancy business since 2008. He has over 5 years experience implementing solutions for the NFP sector. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and a PRINCE2 practitioner. Previously Head of Membership Services with Associa Ltd., he was recently appointed Managing Director of the Membership Management Company Ltd. |
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Nick Brooks: Nick is one of the leading UK advisers concerning audit, accountancy and tax for charities. He has over 20 years’ experience and was one of the first group of practitioners to obtain the joint ICAEW and Cass Business School Diploma in Charity Accounting. He has recently been awarded a fellowship by the Institute of Fundraising. |
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James Carmody: James is a solicitor specialising in employment law and set up Reculver Solicitors (www.reculversolicitors.co.uk ) in 2004 as a niche employment law practice. Although James frequently helps employers extricate themselves from a variety of difficult employment situations, he says that prevention is better than cure and regularly gives training on employment law. He is married and lives in London with his family. |
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Steve Cast: Steve is the founder and current Managing Director of Redbourn Business Systems Limited, suppliers of the Advantage Fundraiser integrated fundraising, membership and alumni database solution for the not-for-profit sector.
Steve is a “techno guru” and relishes every opportunity to guarantee that his team provides high quality solutions on time and to an agreed budget. When he’s not in the office Steve enjoys spending time with his wife and two sons and is a practising Christian. He has a long term commitment to the sector, having developed charity databases since 1985, and as a long standing volunteer leader within the Scout Association. |
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Mark Child: Mark leads the technology risk management team at Kingston Smith Consulting. He is a highly respected senior IT auditor and information security risk professional and has developed and directed international audit and risk functions in a range of sectors, including the not for profit sector. He is an acknowledged specialist in risk management and information security. |
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Michael Collins: Michael Collins worked in education, as a cultural diplomat, and as a charity director, commissioning editor and arts consultant before embracing information technology.
i-Publishing Consultants provides strategic consultancy and works with communications, content management, online community and back office systems providers, to help publishers, charities, professional associations and the like work more effectively and more interactively. |
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Roger Cook: Roger heads up Blacktower’s Employee Benefits Division and has over 20 years experience within the financial services sector, helping employers formulate employee benefit programmes. Roger works with employers to design tailored benefit programmes which are relevant to the requirements of both the employer and employee population. |
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Joanna Cowie: Joanna is a practising Solicitor, specialising in employment law. She has a wealth of experience advising businesses and employees on all work-related issues. Previously, Joanna has worked in-house for a major insurance company and also for a City law firm. |
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Sandra de Lord: Sandra has over 10 years’ experience working in the not for profit sector with a wide range of charity clients. She has particular interest in the arts field, looking after performing arts clients, museums and art galleries. Her experience as a trustee has developed her interest in good governance practice. |
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Kathryn Engelhardt-Cronk: Kathryn is founder, CEO and President of Community TechKnowledge, Inc.(CTK) - providing case management and outcomes reporting software that is utilized by over 7,000 nonprofit organizations and hundreds of thousands of users in the US and the UK. Prior to starting CTK, Kathryn built over twenty-five years of experience in the executive management of large human service organizations–working with both funding organizations and service providers. Kathryn has a professional history of designing award-winning, comprehensive database systems for the not-for-profit sector. |
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Peter Flory: Peter is an independent IT consultant dedicated to helping Not for Profit Organisations get the most out of modern technology. He specialises in CRM database system reviews, strategy and selection. |
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Sue Froggatt: Sue has over 25 years experience in marketing and over the last ten years has specialised in working with membership organisations on member recruitment and retention issues. She is passionate about helping associations strategically, operationally and tactically with member recruitment and retention issues. She is a firm believer in practical, commonsense approaches that are backed up by evidence. |
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