Our People
Our Lead Ambassadors represent our members and our General Ambassadors are thought leaders who support our mission and vision.
Lead Ambassadors
Dr Charles Woodburn
Group CEO BAE Systems
Kirsty Wilson
Partner and prior Global Exco Member Baker McKenzie
Venkat (C.S Venkatakrishnan)
CEO Barclays
Simon Carter
CEO British Land Company
Susan Gilchrist
Chair Global Clients Brunswick Group
Chris O'Shea
CEO Centrica
Dame Carolyn McCall
CEO ITV
Jean-Pascal Porcherot
Co-Head Lombard Odier Investment Managers
Clare Woodman
Head of EMEA and CEO Morgan Stanley & Co. International
Rick Haythornthwaite
Chair NatWest Group
Susan Davy
CEO Pennon Group
Andrew Heath
CEO Spectris
General Ambassadors
Nick Anderson
NED BAE Systems, The Weir Group, Spectris, prior CEO Spirax Group
Evelyn Bourke
NED Admiral, Marks & Spencer, Bank of Ireland, AJ Bell
Diana Brightmore-Armour
CEO C. Hoare & Co., NED Mercer, prior SID Berkeley Group
Dame Ruth Cairnie
Chair Babcock, SID BT Group
Ann Cairns
Chair TMF Group, CAB Payments, prior Executive Vice Chair Mastercard
Dame Alison Carnwath
NED EG Group (Asda), Paccar, prior NED bp
Simon Collins
Chair Kubrick Group, Decoded, NED Royal Air Force, prior Chair KPMG
Dame Elizabeth Corley
Chair Schroders, NED BAE Systems, LSEG, prior NED Morgan Stanley
Annette Court
Chair WH Smith, SID Sage, prior Chair Admiral
Dame Vivienne Cox
Chair Victrex, NED Haleon, prior NED GSK
Mark Cutifani
NED TotalEnergies, prior Chair Vale Base Metals, SID Laing O’Rourke, CEO AngloAmerican
Irene Dorner
NED (prior Chair) Taylor Wimpey, prior NED Rolls-Royce
June Felix
NED RELX, Hiscox, Iron Mountain, prior CEO IG Group
Dr Nike Folayan MBE
Chair Association For Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE-UK)
Perdita Fraser
Chair National Numeracy, NED Digital Catapult
Sir Rupert Gavin
Chair The Living Room Cinema, prior CEO Odeon Group
Dr Nicola Hodson
Chair (prior CEO) IBM UK&I, NED Beazley
Wol Kolade
Managing Partner Livingbridge, prior Deputy Chair NHS England
Jeannette Lichner
NED ICO, prior NED FCA
Helge Lund
Prior Chair bp, Novo Nordisk
Jen Mair
Strategic Initiatives Lead Innovation Franklin Templeton Group
Katie Murray
CFO NatWest Group, NED Phoenix Group
Sophie Neary
MD Retail & Consumer Goods Google, prior Group Director UK&I Meta
Sharmila Nebhrajani
Chair NICE, NED Severn Trent, ITV, Halma, Coutts & Co
Orna NiChionna
SID Burberry, Chair Eden Project
Kathryn Parsons
Founder and Co-CEO Decoded
Dame Anne Richards
Vice Chair (prior CEO) Fidelity International, Chair Coutts, NED Landsec
Gill Rider
President Marine Biological Association, prior Chair Pennon Group, NED Intertek
Paula Rosput Reynolds
Chair National Grid, NED GE Vernova
Suki Sandhu
Founder & CEO Audeliss and INvolve
Roni Savage
Founder and MD Jomas Associates
Tim Score
Chair Bridgepoint Group, NED Football Association, prior Chair British Land
Dominic Schofield
Chair and Senior Client Partner Board and CEO Services UK Korn Ferry
Sam Smith
NED Griffin Markets, Sumer, Solid State
Sharon Thorne
NED Rio Tinto, prior Global Chair Deloitte
Jen Tippin
NED Morgan Sindall, HMRC, prior COO NatWest Group
Anne Marie Verstraeten
Prior Vice Chair BNP Paribas UK
Sara Weller
NED BT, Chair Money & Pensions Service
Air Chief Marshal Sir Mike Wigston
Prior Chief of the Air Staff Royal Air Force
Board of Directors
Tara Cemlyn-Jones
Chief Executive Officer
Tara was previously NED Crossword Cybersecurity Plc; a Fintech Advisor; Head of Capital Markets Espirito Santo Investment Bank; Head of Corporate Development lastminute.com; and Head of Capital Markets Schroders (Citigroup). Tara is committed to improving sustainable best practices and data measurement.
Paras Anand
Non-Executive Director
Paras was prior Chief Investment Officer at Artemis Investment Management, previously Chief Investment Officer Asia-Pacific at Fidelity International based in Singapore. Paras is a long-term sponsor of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and sustainable investment.
Simon Collins
Non-Executive Director
Simon is Chair Kubrick Group, Decoded. Simon is also NED at the Royal Air Force and was previously Chair KPMG. He is a long-term advocate of gender-balance
Gillian Elcock
Non-Executive Director
Gillian is the founder of Denny Ellison. Currently NED Melrose, International Biotechnology Trust, STS Global Income & Growth Trust, Octopus Apollo VCT. Gillian was previously a Board Member at CFA UK and an Equity Research Analyst at Putnam Investments and Insight Investment
Karin Hoeing
Non-Executive Director
Karin is the Group ESG, Culture & Business Transformation Director BAE Systems, previously NED at Smiths Group plc and was at Schlumberger, an oil & gas company, where she was President of Wireline. Karin is an expert on organisational culture and transformation.
Tracey McDermott
Non-Executive Director
Tracey was prior Group Head, Conduct, Financial Crime and Compliance at Standard Chartered, and acting Chief Executive at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and chaired the Net Zero Banking Alliance. She cares deeply about ethics, fairness and social mobility.