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Our board members
Stephen Bubb - Chair of the Board
Stephen Bubb is Chair of The Social Investment Business. He is also non-executive Chair of the Adventure Capital Fund and Chief Executive of the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO) – a leading voice for Chief Executives in the sector. His work at ACEVO on leadership, sector funding and public service reform has radically shifted attitudes and policies.
In 2007 he became Secretary General of EUCLID, the European Third Sector Leaders Network, and has had major national roles in the TGWU, NUT and the AMA (Association of Metropolitan Authorities), as well as being a Founding Director of the National Lottery Charities Board. Additionally Stephen is a member of the commonwealths civil society advisory committee and the honoured advisory committee.
He is much in demand as a speaker and media commentator both here and abroad, where he advocates a radical role for the country’s civil society sector. Stephen also writes a blog, you can read it here.
Harriett Baldwin MP - Vice Chair of the Board
Harriett Baldwin is the Member of Parliament for West Worcestershire and Vice-Chair of The Social Investment Business. As an influential policy maker, Harriet helped write the Conservative Party policy report on social enterprise zones.
Harriett has enjoyed a successful 20 year career in finance, specialising in currency markets for pension funds. She was on the National Council of Business for Sterling.
Harriett champions a range of charities that help Make Poverty History by giving communities the chance to help themselves. Two examples are Opportunity International which is active in micro-finance in poor countries and CAMFED which helps educate African girls at secondary level.
For more info see http://www.harriettbaldwin.com/
Kevin Carey
Kevin Carey is a Board Member of The Social Investment Business. He is the Chair of the RNIB Group www.rnib.org.uk and the Chairman of the Ofcom/DCMS Community Radio Fund Panel www.ofcom.org.uk. He is the Founder and Director of humanITy www.humanity.org.uk, an e-Inclusion Charity and an adviser to the EU and UK Government on digital accessibility and was a member of the Ofcom Content Board from 2003-2006. He is a regular contributor to Managing Information and Ability Magazine and is a NESTA Fellow in accessible broadcasting, with a Royal Television Society Award for engineering.
He is a writer of religious fiction with two published novels www.sacristy.co.uk/ and is about to publish a volume of biblical commentary. He is a reader in the Church for England.
Fred Worth MBA
Fred Worth is a Board member of The Social Investment Business and North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust, in addition he is a Trustee of the Adventure Capital Fund and The Royal Mencap Society; he is also The Social Investment Business’ Board representative at 3SC.
He held senior executive roles in Mowlem plc and was finance director of Osmetech plc and Anadigm. Fred has extensive strategic and operating experience, along with corporate governance and risk management.
Fred is Chair of Royal Mencap's Finance Committee and at North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust, he is also Chair of the Adventure Capital Investment Committee.
Anne Tutt
Anne Tutt is a Board member of The Social Investment Business, a Trustee of the Adventure Capital Fund, and former Managing Director of RL Poke Europe, UK and Benelux.
Anne is a qualified Chartered Accountant with 25 years of Board level experience in both executive and non-executive roles. Anne has led successful finance and management teams in many different sized organisations from SME owner managed companies to large multinational organisations in the public, private and not for profit sector and has participated in two venture capital backed management buy outs.
Anne is currently non-executive director of the Identity & Passport Service and Chairs its audit committee and is a member of the Home Office Audit Committee as well as a non-executive member of the DEFRA audit committee, the Oxford Radcliffe NHS Trust and Bamboo Innovations, a start-up company specialising in financial education for young people.
John Tizard
John Tizard is an independent strategic advisor and commentator on public policy and public services . He works with a range of public, third, private and academic organisations. His approach is “collaborating and challenging for excellence”.
Previously John was the Director of The Centre for Public Service Partnerships for four years. He has had senior executive experience in the private and third sectors as well as having been a council leader and held several other non – executive roles in the public sector. He has been a senior director at the Capita Group plc and Scope.
John regularly writes, speaks and comments on public policy, and public service reform and practice nationally and internationally.
John currently holds several non-executive and trustee appointments including Entrepreneurs in Action, navca, Tomorrow’s People, the Adventure Capital Fund, The Social Investment Business and Action Space. He is a member of the public services advisory group for the Third Sector Research Centre.
He is an Honorary Senior Fellow at the University of Birmingham. He is a Fellow of the RSA.
John’s web site is www.johntizard.com
Anthony Cann
Anthony Cann is a Board member of The Social Investment Business and a Trustee of the Adventure Capital Fund and a non-executive director of Smiths News PLC and Panmure Gordon & Co. Anthony is a solicitor, now non-practising, and was the worldwide Senior Partner of Linklaters, an international law firm, from 2001 to 2006. Anthony was chairman of Changing Faces, a disfigurement charity, from 2007 to 2009. Anthony is also a Governor of two academies.