The Board of Trustees is ultimately responsible for the strategic decisions made by the charity. The board has legal accountability for the hospice and a responsibility to ensure our assets are used exclusively to further the objectives of the charity as set out in our Articles.

The board works closely with the Chief Executive and the Executive Team to set our strategy and monitor performance and risk. The board meets quarterly and works through two board committees (Finance & Resources Committee and Patient Services Committee) and closely with the board of our retail subsidiary.

Trustees receive no remuneration for their services, nor do they have any business or personal interest in the charity’s contracts. Trustees normally serve for a maximum of six years and are subject to re-election after three years.

Trinity currently has thirteen trustees from a variety of professional backgrounds:

Professor Suzanne Shale - Chair of the Board of Trustees
Suzanne is an independent ethics consultant with extensive experience advising organisations including charities on the ethical dimensions of their work and governance. She has also worked with policing bodies to help uphold principles of justice, fairness, and legitimacy. Suzanne has over twenty years of Board experience for a range of charities, including as Chair of the national charity Action against Medical Accidents. In addition to her consultancy role, Suzanne has three continuing leadership roles, as a Non-Executive Director of Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; as Chair of the London Policing Ethics Panel and on the governing body of the General Medical Council. Suzanne also previously volunteered as a bereavement support counsellor at Trinity for five years.

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Jonathan Kembery - Deputy Chair
Jonathan is a Partner and General Counsel at Freshfields Bruckhaus Derringer LLP. He is a former trustee of Shooting Star Chase Children’s Hospices.

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James Piper - Honorary Treasurer
James is a Partner at the investment firm TPG, where he focuses on investments in the real estate sector across Europe. Prior to 2019, he was a Partner at Ares Management for 12 years, after previously starting his career in investment banking at Credit Suisse. James joined Trinity as a trustee in April 2018 with aim of bringing his enthusiasm and business experience to the hospice. James lives in Clapham with his wife and two young sons.

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Andrew Dillon - Chair of the Patient Services Committee
Andrew held a number of senior management positions in the NHS, including General Manager of the Royal Free Hospital and Chief Executive of St George’s Health Care NHS Trust. He was the founding Chief Executive of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence until 2020 and now works as an independent advisor.

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Gerard Manley 
Gerry is the Chief Executive Officer of ofi Cocoa and the Chief Sustainability Officer for the group. He has over 35 years’ Board experience in the cocoa world with E D & F Man, Olam International & Olam Food Ingredients. He is currently a Board member of the ECA and the World Cocoa Foundation and has served on a number of International Boards and Associations.

He has a BA Honours in Geography and holds an MBA from the City University in London. He has lived in Clapham and Tooting for over 30 years and is married with three children.

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Alison Petit
Alison served six years as a trustee at Hospice in the Weald and is on the Fundraising Committee for Coeliac UK. She was Marketing Director at NM Rothschild, CMO at VentureFounders and held a number of senior management roles at Barclays, in their investment division.

She is a previous winner of Management Today’s Rising Star of the Year Award. She was recently shortlisted for Ambassador of the Year at the Women in Finance Awards, nominated in the Women in Investment Awards and shortlisted for Woman of the Year at the CityWealth Powerwomen Awards. She is a Member of the Securities Institute.

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Heather Blake
Heather is Chief Executive of Changing Faces, the UK's leading charity for everyone with a scar, mark or condition that makes them look different. Before that, she was Director of Support and Influencing at Prostate Cancer UK, responsible for service delivery and leading the work of the charity to ensure that men have access to the best treatments, care and support.

Heather has held a number of senior operational and strategic management roles in the NHS, including managing community health services in Lambeth and Southwark as part of Guys & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. Before joining the NHS she worked as an economist and policy adviser in the civil service.

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Angela Dawe
Angela was Director Integrated Care at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and a member of the Board and Trust Management Executive until 2020. She was previously Chief Operating Officer at Lambeth Community Health. She now works as an independent healthcare advisor and in 2022 Angela became a Non-Executive Director at Bromley Healthcare. She has been a local Lambeth resident for over 30 years.

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Angela Marcelle
Angela was formerly Regional Operations Manager and part of the senior leadership team at Cancer Research UK for 16 years. Responsible for over 100 shops and 3,000 volunteers in London and the South East UK. Held previous senior leadership roles at M&S and Mothercare. She is the founder of a smaller charity and volunteers for the Charity Retail Association.

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Arvind Tewari
Arvind is Vice President of Technology at atai Life Sciences, an innovative mental health biotechnology group that is listed on the Nasdaq. He is responsible for the development of Digital Therapeutics for use alongside novel compounds, as well as atai’s precision psychiatry engine, which is taking a ground-breaking, personalised approach to mental health treatment. Prior to atai, Arvind was COO and CEO of Oxford VR, a Digital Therapeutics spin-out of Oxford University that was focused on treating Schizophrenia and Bipolar in the NHS. He started out as a Biochemist where he majored in Oncology, after which he worked in healthcare private equity and investment banking.

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David Carmalt
David is Head of Financial Services at ExploreAI, a scale-up which develops custom solutions and products for a range of industry sectors using data science and artificial intelligence. David was previously Head of Debt Capital Markets at Lloyds, and spent over twenty years within UK, US and European investment and commercial banks. He has been an active member of Trinity’s Fundraising Development Group since 2019.

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Stefan Laban
Stefan was formerly Global Head of International at Urban Outfitters, Senior Vice President International at Gap Inc. and Retail Director EMEA at Nike Inc. He is a non-executive director and advisor for several fashion/tech companies and a business mentor at the Prince’s Trust.

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Rebecca Pritchard
Rebecca is currently the Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Co-ordinator for the West London Housing Partnership. Her experience includes CEO of Surrey Care Association, and Director of Services for both Centrepoint and Crisis as well as roles in the drug and alcohol treatment sector. She was embedded within the Department of Communities and Local Government as a specialist advisor on youth homelessness and rough sleeping. 

Rebecca is also a Trustee of Hestia and has been a member of two NICE Guideline Development Groups including improving access to health and social care for people experiencing homelessness.

Meet our executive team