Who

Executive Director

Tamzin Ractliffe

Tamzin is an award-winning venture catalyst and entrepreneurial leader in charitable and social development, philanthropy and impact investment. She has worked across the public, private and civil society sectors, driving a greater impact in the allocation of capital to the greater good. With foundation degrees in Commerce, Anthropology and Economics, Tamzin spent three years working with ex-political prisoners in South Africa during the release phase in the early 1990s. She subsequently refocused her career to engage the corporate sector for the greater good.

In 1998, Tamzin was the creator of the GreaterGood/GreaterCapital group, working to build a bridge between the financial and the social/ environmental/ philanthropic sectors. Recognised as one of the ten most trusted non-profits in South Africa, Tamzin subsequently established the South African Impact Investing Network (SAIIN) under GreaterCapital’s ambit, laying early foundations for unlisted impact investment and ultimately establishing the world’s first regulated impact investment exchange board in collaboration with the Stock Exchange of Mauritius, in June 2011.

Tamzin completed an MPhil in Climate and Development with ACDI in 2014, focusing on environmental citizenship and sustainable consumption. She is currently completing her PhD at the Centre for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Surrey. Awarded the GIBS Social Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2007 and appointed an Ashoka Fellow in 2008, Tamzin won the Thomson Reuters 2012 TrustLaw Innovation Award for the Impact Exchange and was a finalist in the Buckminster Fuller Award for the design of solutions to address 21st Century challenges in 2009 and 2010 and a Finalist in the Global Development Network Award for the Most Innovative Development Project (2009).

TRUSTEE, PARTICIPANT OBSERVER, EFFECTIVENESS ADVISOR

Gerry Salole

Dr Gerry Salole has been the Chief Executive of the European Foundation Centre (EFC) since 2005. The EFC is an association of over 200 public-benefit foundations and corporate funders active in philanthropy in Europe and elsewhere. His previous posts have included serving as Representative at the Ford Foundation’s Southern Africa office, based in Johannesburg, and Director of the Department of Programme Documentation and Communication of the Bernard van Leer Foundation, based in The Hague. He has also worked for Save the Children Federation (USA) in Ethiopia and Zimbabwe, and Redd Barna (Norwegian Save the Children) and OXFAM UK and UNHCR in Ethiopia.

Gerry studied Social Anthropology and African History at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He holds an M.A. (Econ.) and Ph.D. from the University of Manchester. Gerry sits on the board of the Impact Trust, the Advisory Board of the Barilla Centre for Food and Nutrition (Parma), the Supervisory Board of the European Cultural Foundation (Amsterdam), The Board of the Firelight Foundation (Palo Alto) and the Advisory Board of the African Centre for Philanthropy and Social Investment (Johannesburg).

Trustee

Anthony Notcutt

With a background in finance and ten years experience in the banking industry, Tony switched to fulfil a career in leisure and hospitality management, establishing his own business in the New Forest in 2007.

Passionate about securing South Africa’s future, he has spent the last three years committed to supporting development initiatives that unlock the potential of youth and vision a resilient future.

Trustee

Shaun McInerney

Shaun is an innovative school leader, who forged a 25 year career as teacher, Principal and Executive Principal across a range of inner city schools in the UK and in the international sector. He established and led The Studio, a tech-sector inspired, state school for 14-19 year olds in Liverpool, England that was successful in turning around the lives of young people who were previously at risk of disengaging from education, according to government inspectors (Ofsted).  He was Director of Learning Innovation at UWC Atlantic where he designed a ‘Changemaker’ curriculum to complement the IB Diploma Programme.  Shaun is now at the University of Worcester, where he coaches and develops senior leaders and is weaving ecosystems to help schools meet the emerging needs of young people in a rapidly changing world.  Shaun is an Associate at the Edge Foundation, a Trustee of Impact Trust UK, Vice-Chair of Governors at his local Primary school.  Nationally, he co-leads ‘Rethinking Leadership’ a network of system leaders advocating for more transformational approaches to leadership development within the English school system.  In recent years, Shaun has worked closely with international NGO Ashoka on a leadership development framework to help ‘Changemakers’ to unlock their potential and has pioneered a New Capabilities for a New World approach to leadership development and strategy to support school leaders in England respond to the emerging needs of young people.

Trustee

Dr Walter Wehrmeyer

Dr Walter Wehrmeyer MA PhD MIEMA CEnv FRSA is Associate Professor in Environmental Business Management at the Centre for Environmental Strategy of the University of Surrey. His career is marked by significant contributions to environmental business management and strategy. His work explores innovative organizational approaches to change, sustainable development, and decision-making processes.

Walter’s research interests include organisational approaches to innovation and sustainable development, participatory approaches to decision-making, and foresighting / backcasting as national strategies towards long-term change in environmental management, including measurement systems to support benchmarking in these areas. His exploration on preventative strategies to avoid youth organised crime and the integration of ethics into Community Policing with notable experience in regions like Northern Ireland and Jamaica demonstrates his multidisciplinary approach to system transformation.

Walter was Director of the Entrepreneurship in Technology, IT and Business undergraduate programme, Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of Business of Curtin University of Technology, Perth, WA, and is full Member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment. He was awarded the University of Surrey’s Vice Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence in 2011, was Postgraduate Research Director for CES for 7 years and Academic Integrity Officer for 12 years.

Trustee

Sean Bellamy

Sean Bellamy is the co-founder of the Sands School, and the Phoenix Education Charity. He is an Ashoka Foundation Change Leader, a top 50 Varkey Foundation Global Teacher nominee, and an adviser to the Wellbeing Project. He is a full time teacher of psychology, sport, cooking and history at Sands, but also helps design and establish new democratic schools globally and coaches young teachers from Europe and Asia in democratic and relational teaching styles.

Most days, he can be found teaching psychology, history, cooking or sport at Sands. ‘It helps the other work make sense,’ he says.