Speaker Profiles
Stuart McGreevy, Founder and Chairman, TBN
Stuart is the TBN Chairman and is the founder and former CEO of a leading UK financial services group which was successfully listed on the London Stock Exchange. He is a social entrepreneur, managing businesses that include finance and administration outsourcing in India, a social venture capital fund and an ethical investing business.
Brian Griffiths, Vice Chairman, Goldman Sachs International
Lord Griffiths is an international advisor to Goldman Sachs on private equity strategy, UK and Asian operations and worldwide business development. Prior to this, he was head of the Prime Minister’s Policy Unit and as special advisor to Margaret Thatcher he was a chief architect of the privatisation and deregulation programmes. He is a member of the House of Lords Select Committee on Economic Affairs and has published various books on monetary policy and Christian ethics.
Terry Winters, Executive Chairman, Opportunity International Network
Opportunity International Network is a microfinance organization operating in more than 25 countries. Terry has spent over 40 years in the global telecommunications and IT sectors, founding Link Telecommunications in Australia in 1982 and leading creation of Optus Communications, Australia’s second telecommunications carrier.
Ken Wathome, Chairman, Faulu Kenya
Faulu Kenya is a leading East Africa microfinance business with 280,000 clients. As well as this role, Ken owns a real estate business and is a director of Afrika Investment Bank and Opportunity International’s microfinance businesses in Uganda and Tanzania. He chairs the global board of Food for the Hungry and is part of a team helping the Kenyan government develop a moral framework to underpin economic and social development.
Jerry Marshall, General Manager, TBN
Jerry is a Cambridge economist, a Chartered Marketer and an entrepreneur, establishing a marketing consultancy, social enterprise and a marketing technology company. He initiated several business projects in Palestine to create employment, bring hope and support peace, including ‘TeamStart’, which helps Palestinian entrepreneurs develop high potential businesses with links to Israeli technology companies. He has been a TBN Partner since 2004.
Andrew Richardson, CEO, Metalrax Group plc
Andrew joined Metalrax in October 2007 as Group Chief Executive and has particular experience of company turnarounds. Previously the Divisional Chief Executive of Water Management at Halma PLC, Andrew is a Cambridge University engineering graduate, started his career with Rover Group and has worked with Webasto Roof Systems, Automotive Products and Mars.
Terry Snow, National Director, YWAM Haiti
Ever since the earthquake hit Port-au-Prince, Youth With A Mission has been working long and hard to coordinate and provide immediate and long term aid to the Haitian people. From rescue teams providing first aid to people on the streets in Port-au-Prince, to handing out emergency meal food packets, YWAM is working some of the most coordinated efforts in the earthquake relief.
Richard Frost, Executive Officer and Co-founder, Motivation
Since foundation in 1991, Motivation has worked in more than 30 countries, improving the quality of life of disabled people in developing countries by addressing health and survival, mobility, employment and inclusion. Motivation also operates Worldmade, a social enterprise that produces and distributes wheelchairs for 45,000 people a year who need but were previously unable to obtain them.
Julia Middleton, Founder and Chief Executive, Common Purpose
Since foundation in 1988 over 25,000 leaders have completed Common Purpose programmes, which help provide the inspiration, knowledge and connections needed to produce real change. Julia wrote Beyond Authority: Leadership in a Changing World, and helped found Demos (independent think tank), Impetus Trust (developing venture philanthropy) and Alfanar (venture philanthropy in the Arab world).
Peter Hinton, CEO, Summit Development Group
Peter is CEO of SDG, a fund which invests in and transforms financial institutions in Africa to focus on SMEs, the unbanked and low cost housing finance. He is also a director of Bean There Coffee Company. He is a Chartered Accountant and previously worked in strategy and planning with BhS plc before running Africa Trading and making and managing private equity investments in Africa with CDC.
Mike Perreau, Managing Director, PI Management Ltd
Mike is a founding board member of TBN. An industrial psychologist and entrepreneur, he serves on the board of several business enterprises and has been CEO, MD and strategic coach of a number of international organisations. He also acts on behalf of governments and international institutions in peacekeeping, conflict resolution and strategic facilitation roles.
