Board of Trustees

Daphne Pullen
Chair

Daphne Pullen joined CLIC Sargent as Chair in April 2006. A retired local authority lawyer by profession, Daphne is no newcomer to the voluntary sector.  She has completed a three-year term as chair of Samaritans. She continues to be a helpline volunteer, something she has done for more than 20 years. Daphne has also been vice chair of a branch of Victim Support.

She is married and lives in Hertfordshire.

Rachel Billsberry-Grass
Rachel Billsberry-Grass has almost 20 years experience in fundraising and management, working for a variety of voluntary and arts organisations.  A specialist in corporate fundraising, Rachel has secured and managed numerous charity/corporate partnerships.  Notably, Rachel was responsible for initiating and leading award-winning partnerships between the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign and Tesco and Mencap and Transco, each worth in excess of £1 million.

She is a contributing author to the CAF series on corporate fundraising and delivers fundraising training for a variety of organisations.

In the past eight years, she has worked freelance, offering strategic consultancy, management support and hands-on fundraising input, for charities including Age Concern England, Alzheimers Society and Dreams Come True.

Rachel is married to Richard and they have three young daughters, Mathilda, Betty and Jemima.

Tim Holley
Tim spent 30 years in the computer and communications industry where in the 1970s he built the largest computer services business in Europe.  Later he created a data communication service business from scratch which was subsequently sold for £1 billion.  He became the first chief executive of Camelot Group plc, where his achievements included leading the successful bid against seven other competitors to run the UK National Lottery, setting up the new company and supervising the implementation.

Meriel Jenney
Meriel undertook her medical training at Sheffield University and her subsequent postgraduate training in Sheffield, Australia and Manchester.  She was appointed to a consultant post in paediatric oncology in Manchester in 1993 and moved to Cardiff in late 1996 as a consultant paediatric oncologist.  Meriel was awarded a Harkness Fellowship to the United States and spent 12 months in Minneapolis undertaking research into the assessment of quality of life in children. 

Henry Kenyon
Treasurer
Henry was appointed Treasurer of CLIC in 2003.  A chartered accountant by profession with board experience in accounting and finance, IT and risk management, he is a partner for Price Waterhouse Coopers and has worked in many parts of the world.  Henry has been an active supporter of a number of charities in the South West, including CAFOD and Action Research.  He is also a treasurer of the Bristol Music Suzuki Group.

Jonathan Plumtree
Jonathan is Head of Zurich Corporate Risk, a dedicated unit within Zurich's UK Life business providing life and income protection insurance to employers for their staff. He was previously the Finance Director for another insurer, UNUM, having begun his career working for Coopers & Lybrand in the UK and USA. Jonathan is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. He first became involved with CLIC Sargent when his son was diagnosed with leukaemia in 1999 and was supported by the charity.

Chris Wathen
Chris has spent more than 30 years in the financial services sector. At Midland Bank, his roles included general manager of Asia/Pacific, group strategy director, group personnel director and, after the takeover by HSBC, managing director of branch banking. Chris subsequently moved to NatWest where he served as director of group human resources for six years. He has also been a European partner at Mercer Human Resource Consulting, as well as a non-executive director in various companies, including Mastercard and Thomas Cook. Chris is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers and brings extensive experience of business management, finance and human resource management. Chris was also a trustee of Victim Support in Surrey where he was vice-chairman.

Dr. W Hamish Wallace
Hamish Wallace is currently working as a consultant paediatric oncologist, RHSC, Edinburgh since 1992.

Hamish qualified at St George’s Hospital Medical School in 1980. He was also trained in paediatric oncology at Great Ormond Street, Birmingham, Edinburgh
 
Hamish was a leukaemia research fund research fellow under the guidance of Professor Shalet in Manchester in the late 1980s when he developed his interest in the late endocrine effects of the treatment of childhood cancer.

Currently Hamish is the chairman of the UKCCSG Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Working Group and president of the European Network for Paediatric Hodgkins Lymphoma.  He is also the director of the HEBA Research Centre in Edinburgh which is committed to ongoing research into the effects of the treatment of childhood cancer on fertility, bone health and the vascular endothelium. 

Hamish is co-author of over 100 peer-reviewed publications and three books. Most recently, he co-edited with Professor Dan Green a textbook on the late effects of the treatment of childhood cancer.

Since the mid-1990s with Professors David Baird and Richard Anderson, he has offered a service of harvesting ovarian cortical strips for young women at high risk of infertility following their treatment of childhood cancer.

Hamish was appointed lead clinician for the Children’s and Young People's MCN for Cancer in Scotland in November 2007.

Alison Arnfield
Alison's background is as a registered sick children’s nurse, with many years' experience in the NHS and outside. She worked at Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital in London first as a nurse, then as a manager, and latterly as clinical director of the children’s cancer unit. For the last 14 years she has run her own management consultancy, working exclusively in children’s services across a wide range of care areas, from policy and practice to strategy and service improvement both in the UK and overseas. She is also a magistrate with a particular interest in family work. Alison is married and lives in West London.

Keith Exford
Keith is group chief executive of the Affinity Sutton Group, one of the largest providers and developers of affordable housing in England. 

During a career in housing spanning over 30 years, Keith was previously chief executive of Affinity Homes Group, Broomleigh and Wandle Housing Associations.  He has also held senior positions at South London Family Housing Association and the Housing Corporation, as well as a spell in local government. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Housing, a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and vice-chairman of G15, a group of London’s largest housing associations.

Outside housing, Keith has held non-executive roles in a number of charities and other bodies, including Croydon’s NHS Primary Care Trust where he was chair of the Audit Committee. Until recently he was a trustee for Preset, an organisation which helps young people achieve their potential.  Married with a grown-up son, Keith lives in West Sussex.