Trustee - Susanne Hasselmann Expand Susanne Hasselmann is an experienced board director. She has worked in the public, not-for-profit and commercial sector at both non-executive and executive level. She currently runs her own company providing support services for small organisations, including SMEs, charities and industry organisations. Susanne has a particular interest in quality assurance and user engagement. As a non-executive director in the NHS she chaired local NHS quality assurance committees for 10 years and held the position of deputy chair and audit chair for a Hampshire CCG. She has led a number of public, stakeholder and user engagement programmes and chaired industry and professional networks across the country including the NHS CCG Lay Member network for NHSCC. She is passionate about engaging with her local community. She is a parish councillor and has been involved in local fundraising and community support for many years. Susanne’s background is in the commercial sector where she started in business development and moved on to a more strategic and marketing role before becoming a general manager and chief executive. She is keen to learn more about the charitable sector and add value to Enham Trust and the people connected to it. Susanne has two children and loves walking, gardening and learning new things.
Trustee - Jeremy Parr Expand Jeremy has worked as a London-based international corporate lawyer for the last 30 years and is a partner at Allen & Overy LLP. He regularly advises Boards on transactional matters and on their legal and regulatory obligations and has wide experience of advising on corporate governance and risk management issues. He is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Allen & Overy’s staff pension schemes in the UK and was previously a member of Allen & Overy’s audit committee for 8 years. He serves as an independent governor on the Board of London South Bank University and on its Major Projects & Investment Committee. He is also Chair of its Remuneration Committee. He serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Theatre Royal Haymarket Masterclass Trust, a charity focussed on helping young people develop their careers in the art and craft of theatre. Jeremy lives a few miles from Enham Alamein in Chute with his wife Mary-Vere, who is an arable farmer, and their two children.
Trustee - Simon Vernon Expand Area of Expertise : Commercial and general management. Simon worked for almost 40 years in the Shipping Industry, firstly at a Ship Broker in London and Tokyo, and then for a Ship Owner in Hong Kong. At the end of 1985 he joined a small intermodal container leasing company that today is the largest container lessor in the World (leasing intermodal containers to Container Shipping Lines). He held various marketing and operational roles in the early stage of his career, and was made CEO of Triton in 2003. He currently continues to be on the Board of Triton International Limited (a New York Stock Exchange Company specializing in container leasing) and for the last year he has served on the Board of the Through Transport Club, the world’s leading transport and logistics insurer. Simon spent the first part of his career working in Tokyo, Hong Kong and San Francisco, and for the last 20 years in the UK. He lives near Andover and has three children and four step children.
Trustee - Dawn Fowler-Stevens Meet our Trustee - Dawn Fowler-Stevens Expand Area of expertise: Social Housing and Governance Dawn has a career spanning 25 years across the public and private sectors. Dawn’s other areas of expertise include the creation of value through stock transfers, group structure establishment and corporate structure consolidation. Dawn has also served as a board director of a specialist care provider and currently holds other executive directorships within Aster Group where she has executive responsibility for growth and assurance. Previous experience has included providing support to housing associations and local authorities focusing on: governance, organisational change, strategic partnerships, mergers and acquisitions, as well as, project management consultancy. Dawn is a member of the Chartered Management Institute, the Institute of Business Administrators and ICSA: the governance institute.
Trustee - Stuart Lindsay Meet our Trustee - Stuart Lindsay Expand Area of expertise: Finance Stuart is a Chartered Accountant who worked for 30 years for Deloitte, one of the 'Big Four' accounting organisations. He specialised in corporate finance work, mainly involved with mergers and acquisitions, capital raising and corporate restructuring. Since leaving Deloitte, he has established his own consultancy business and acts as non-executive director or strategic advisor to a number of companies. Stuart has experience of both public and private companies and in equity and banking finance markets. As well as being a Trustee of Enham Trust, Stuart is a Trustee of Citizens Advice Winchester District. Stuart lives in Winchester and has two grown up sons.
Trustee - Marianne Black MBE Meet our Trustee - Marianne Black MBE Expand Area of expertise: Law, Education & Governance Marianne Black most recently held the position of Chair of Trustees of the British School in Tokyo, which she held for 5 years during her residency in Japan, before her relocation back to the UK in 2017. Marianne is a UK and Hong Kong qualified lawyer and started her career at Allen & Overy in London before transferring to their Hong Kong office specialising in corporate insolvency. On moving to Shanghai she focused on the education, training & development of lawyers as a member of the legal HR team for Clifford Chance. It was during this time she took on her first voluntary governance role for Lifeline Shanghai, a telephone helpline for English speakers, which she chaired for 3 years. She was awarded an MBE in 2017 for her services to British Education Overseas. Marianne has an interest in education and disability in the non-profit sector and hopes to expand her work in these areas. She has four primary school aged children, lives locally and enjoys singing, riding and running... when she has time.
Trustee - Neil Palmer Meet our Trustee Neil Palmer Expand Area of expertise: Residential Property and new start-up businesses "Enham Trust is an essential charity for disabled people and the Trust requires support throughout the community. I relish the opportunity to work with this worthwhile organisation." Neil has developed small-scale property developments since a road traffic accident left him paralysed in 2001 and unable to continue his career in the lithographic printing industry. He owns a portfolio of local property and is a Director of a residential letting agency based in Hampshire, which was set up in 2015. Recently, Neil has set up a micro-brewery in Broughton in the heart of the Test Valley and he has a real passion for supporting local businesses, especially new start-ups. His role within the brewery will be within sales and marketing. Due to his complete spinal injury, Neil understands the challenges that disabled people can face; he believes that physical and mental challenges is a complex and ever changing issue. The only way we can begin to meet these needs is through educating the wider community. Neil lives in the Abbotts Ann with his wife, 2 young children, Cockapoo, 2 cats and 4 chickens. His wife is a Specialist Paediatric Physiotherapist with an interest in Neonatology.
Vice Chair - Liz Wallace Meet our Trustee Liz Wallace Expand Area of expertise: Talent and Leadership Liz Wallace has a particular interest in talent and leadership development, ensuring people have the opporturtunity to achieve their potential across both the commercial and charity sectors. She was Director of Talent & Leadership for the BT Group and Head of Talent for Vodafone’s emerging markets where she worked in Africa, Asia and the Middle East to identify and develop the future leaders of the business. Her original background is in marketing of software, computers and telecommunications. She is currently Vice Chair of the Board of Naomi House and Jacks Place and Chair of their Remuneration Committee, a Trustee at Winchester Science Centre and their Chair of the Remuneration Committee and finally, Chair of Newbury Choral Society. She also sits on the Governance Committees of both Naomi House and Winchester Science Centre. Liz loves the theatre, her garden and walking. She is married with one son and three gorgeous grandchildren.
Trustee - Matthew Samuel-Camps Meet our Trustee Matthew Samuel-Camps Expand Area of expertise: Commercial and Residential Property "My first impression when visiting Enham Trust was the infectious passion from everybody involved with the Trust to improve all aspects of disabled people's lives." Matthew is a member of the RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) and an equity partner and board member of Vail Williams LLP. He has 25 years’ experience across the commercial and residential property industry. His operational speciality is in property receivership for lending banks, where his team currently manages around £250 million of impaired loans in the UK. He also heads a Social Housing team, which provides valuation, development and occupational advice to a number of major social housing providers in central southern England. Matthew lives in Meon Valley with his family. His wife is active in the local voluntary field.
Chairman - Ben Merrett Meet our Trustee Chairman - Ben Merrett Expand “Enham Trust is an important part of our heritage to support disabled people become more independent. The need to do this has not reduced over the last 100 years since we were created and every day the Trust is providing vital care and support that makes a difference” Ben was born in Herefordshire in 1962. He attended King’s School Gloucester and Hereford Sixth Form College before graduating from Warwick University. He was commissioned with the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry and did his MBA at Cranfield Business School. He lives in Lyme Regis with Heidi, who is training for ordination, and has six children. Ben has had a very successful commercial career - his first CEO role was the turnaround of Gladstone Plc where shareholders achieved a six-fold increase in value over 4 years. He was later selected for another turnaround at the charity DEBRA, (supporting those affected by the genetic skin condition Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB)), and led the organisation for 12 years. He was profoundly moved by the suffering of the EB community and DEBRA was transformed from a small unknown charity that required restructuring, into a top 1,000 UK charity as turnover tripled. With the very successful growth of its Retail presence awareness grew to 15% of the UK population. The medical research program migrated from basic genetic understanding to the creation of 3 clinical trials with large investments made possible by the financial success; a national community care team was developed, and a strong partnership was created with the NHS. This included significant additional staffing to enhance the quality of care with the integration of community support and the funding for the rare disease centre at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital. DEBRA entered the pandemic with exceptionally strong financial reserves that had been built up over many years. In terms of wider not for profit experience, Ben chaired the Charity Retail Association (CRA) which represents 11,000 UK Retail sites and 220,000 volunteers; was a Trustee, for 8 years, at a leading state school, and was on the Board of DEBRA International which is the affiliation of 50 Worldwide national DEBRA charities.