Our trustees are responsible for setting our organisational strategy, ensuring the funds we raise are used to create the greatest possible impact for our beneficiaries.
Dr Andreas Raffel Chair
Andreas has served over the past 15+ years in a range of board and trustee roles, primarily in education, health, and the wider not-for-profit sector, including ten years as a non-executive director of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. He has an impressive executive career of over 30 years in Financial Services. He is a Senior Advisor at Rothschild & Co, having previously been Executive Vice Chairman. Andreas also spent thirteen years at Morgan Stanley as a Managing Director. He has a keen interest in supporting his local community, demonstrated by his other board positions as Chair of London Southbank University and Trustee of the Independent Schools Inspectorate. He also holds a number of Senior Adviser roles in early stage ventures.
Christiane Elsenbach Deputy Chair & Trustee
Christiane is an investment and finance professional with over 25 years’ experience in wealth management and investment banking, having worked in capital markets at several leading international banks. For over a decade she has been a senior portfolio manager at a large international wealth manager.
Christiane is a member of the Board of Trustees at the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association where she serves on the Finance and Investment Committee, and she is also trustee and treasurer at the Knightsbridge School Education Foundation, an ambitious social mobility charity.
Bob Alexander Trustee
Bob is the Vice Chair of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, a Non-Executive Director of London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust and a Non-Executive Director at London Ambulance Service NHS Trust. Previously Bob was the independent chair of the Sussex Health & Care Partnership Integrated Care System and held a number of national NHS posts, including Deputy Chief Executive and Executive Director of Resources at NHS Improvement. He is an Associate (advisory) Director with CIPFA, a Non-Executive Director and Audit Chair of Community Health Partnerships Ltd and a trustee of the Demelza Children’s Hospice charity. Bob was also Chief Executive and Director of Finance at NHS Trust Development Authority, Finance Director of NHS South of England SHA cluster and Director of NHS Finance at the Department of Health where he led on NHS financial policy and performance as well as being responsible for the national tariff programme and advising ministers on NHS financial matters. Bob was a Strategic Health Authority (SHA) Finance Director from 2002 to 2007, first with Kent and Medway SHA then with South East Coast SHA. Bob has an MBA and is a fellow of both the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy and the Healthcare Financial Management Association.
Felicity Cooper Trustee
Felicity has over 30 years of experience in the financial services industry, including senior leadership roles in IT, risk management and audit and HR. Most recently she served as People Operations and Business Management Director for Lloyds Banking Group. She is passionate about collaboration and innovation in a regulated environment and has spoken at a range of conferences and industry events.
Felicity has 10 years’ experience as a charity trustee with Citizens Advice Hillingdon where she chairs the Staffing and Resources Committee and is also an independent trustee at the Association of Anaesthetists where she serves on the Finance, Audit, Risk and Investment Committee.
Michelle Dixon Trustee
Michelle has over 25 years of experience as a professional communicator in the health and wider public sector.
Before joining the Trust in 2014, she was director of communications at the British Medical Association. She has also held the posts of Interim Director of Communications at the Cabinet Office, Director of Communications at The King’s Fund, Head of Public Affairs at the Royal College of Nursing and Director of Communications and Fundraising for homelessness charity Crisis.
Babs Evans Trustee
Babs began her career as a graphic designer and worked for advertising agencies in London, Manchester and Nairobi. She changed career to work in the charity sector and has specialisms in grant-making, HIV, children and young people, and behavioural change programmes. After being diagnosed with AIDS in 1994, Babs was chair of an HIV support organisation and has spoken out about the stigma and discrimination affecting people living with HIV. She is thankful to those working in the healthcare sector who saved her life.
Dr Sandra Husbands Trustee
Sandra has over 30 years of experience working in healthcare, research and academia – both in the UK and around the world. She has held a number of senior public health roles in the NHS, local government and Public Health England, and is currently the Director of Public Health for the City of London and London Borough of Hackney.
Previously she was Executive Director of Public Health at Abertawe Bro Morganwg University Health Board and Swansea Bay University Health Board in south Wales, and served as a trustee of the Swansea Bay NHS charity.
Tingting Peng Trustee
Tingting is the Chief Transformation Officer at Moove, a global mobility fintech, and has significant experience in financial services and alternative investments across EMEA and the US.
With over 20 years of professional experience, Tingting has spent more than a decade in private markets focusing on investor relations, fundraising and business development. Prior to her current role at Moove, she held senior leadership positions at ESO Capital, Real Asset Partners, Euro Asset Management and the Global Institute for Tomorrow.
Prof Julian Redhead Trustee
Specialising in emergency medicine, Julian was first appointed as a consultant at Ealing Hospital in 2000. He joined Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust full time in 2004 and became Chief of Service for Emergency Medicine in 2008. Since then he has held various roles, including Clinical Programme Group Director for Medicine, Divisional Director for Investigative and Supporting Sciences, Associate Medical Director for Professional Development and Interim Chief Executive.
Julian is currently also Medical Director of the Fortius Clinic, trustee to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, secretary to the British Association of Immediate Care for London and a Care Quality Commission specialist adviser.
Arun Sharma Trustee
Arun has over 20 years of experience in IT and leadership positions in Global blue chip, consulting and financial services organisations.
With a keen interest in corporate governance, risk management and commercial oversight, Arun specialises in delivering digital transformations through incremental strategies, guiding organisations to harness technology, enable business efficiencies and enhanced customer experiences, in an approachable manner.
Arun is a Board Trustee for the Union of Brunel students where he chairs the board and strategic funding & risk committee. He is a mentor to young people starting out on their professional careers, and an avid fundraiser through mass participation events.
