Board Members

Richard Oliver - Chair of the Board

Commissioned into the Royal Engineers he saw regimental service in the Far East, Germany and Northern Ireland. He commanded the Berlin Infantry Brigade either side of the fall of The Wall and completed his career with three senior appointments in personnel and logistics, retiring in the rank of major general. He is a graduate of the Army Command & Staff College (1975-76) and the Royal College of Defence Studies (1991). He was appointed OBE in 1985 and CB in 1999.

In 2000, he was appointed as Chief Executive of Year Out Group, an association of leading gap year providing organisations. The same year, he was appointed as a Cranstoun Trustee and Chairman the following year.

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Hugh Morris - Vice Chair

Hugh was appointed to Cranstoun's Board as Vice Chairman in 2007, having previously been Chairman of Odyssey Trust."

He joined Arthur Andersen & Co. Management Consultants in 1980 and became a partner in 1991. He held a series of management positions from 1993 including being one of the firm's Global Managing Partners from 1997 - 2000. In 2001, he then moved to QA plc as Operations Director.

In 2003, he joined Xchanging and became the CEO of Xchanging HR Services until 2005. He then became Executive Director, Global Delivery and a member of the company's management board. Hugh left Xchanging in early 2009 to found Laureate Legal Services, where he is CEO.

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Katherine Patel - Honorary Treasurer

Katharine was appointed to Cranstoun's Board as a Trustee in January 2006, becoming Honorary Treasurer at that time. As part of her role as Treasurer, she is also the Chair the Audit Committee.

Katharine Patel is an ACA qualified accountant and currently a Partner at Buzzacott LLP.
She has worked with Buzzacott for approximately 15 years, starting off as a trainee accountant. Throughout that time, Katharine has worked with charitable organisations ranging from convents to universities to international development charities. Most of her time is spent overseeing the audit process for these charities and providing financially related advice.

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Gary Davis

Gary became a Trustee of Cranstoun as drugs and alcohol have been associated with his career experience for most of his life. Involved with Media, Film, Events and the Rock & Roll industry, he has first had experience of people who have been drawn to drugs and alcohol culture.

Gary has 30 years experience in the media sector running businesses at the sharp end with extensive experience in operations, sales and marketing. Gary has had full P&L responsibility for businesses in the SME sector as well as a being a main board director of a fully listed public company which was grown from a start up.

Coming from a technical engineering background and has worked with numerous blue chip clients as well the concert touring and exhibition sectors.

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Esperanza Desouza

Esperanza was appointed to Cranstoun's Board as a Trustee in 1997, with a previous association with the charity (Cranstoun Projects) as a Trustee for a number of years.

Esperanza Desouza trained and worked for many years within education as a teacher. Following a change in career a number of years ago, she qualified in Law and is now a serving Barrister. In 2001, Esperanza retired from the Crown Prosecution Service.

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Cees Goos

Cees was appointed to Cranstoun's Board as a Trustee in Sept 2003.

Cees Goos has had a distinguished career with the World Health Organisation (WHO) undertaking work related to substance abuse, mental health and health in prisons. He acted for several years as the Director of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention and developed the European Alcohol Action Plan and the WHO 'Health in Prisons Project'.

Since his retirement from the European Office of WHO, he lives in Vienna and is a freelance public health consultant with assignments of several governments, the WHO, the EC and UNODC.

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Wayne Haywood

Wayne wanted to contribute on a more regular/meaningful basis with an organisation where his recent experiences might be most of use. As Wayne had gained first hand experience of drugs and alcohol during his time with the Police, in terms both of preventative programmes run, he joined Cranstoun as a Trustee in 2010.

Wayne Haywood joined the RAF after graduating from the University of Wales. In his 24 years of service, he undertook a variety of posts including Protocol Officer at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe. His last post, in 2007,was as Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff, Permanent Joint Headquarters, Middlesex.

In 2006, Wayne joined Surrey Police as Neighbourhood Policing Manager. In 2007, he became an interim Director at Mole Valley District Council before leaving to work as an Interim Project Manager on Bedfordshire County Council's Transforming Adult Social Care programme. In 2009, he joined the London Borough of Haringey as Interim Project Manager.

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Faith Jenner

Faith became a Trustee of Cranstoun as she wanted to be involved with a charity which she feels connected with. She has hand on experience of alcoholics and, through her parent's profession (Pharmacists), has an appreciation of drugs - in the past Pharmacists dispensed narcotics to drug addicts.

Faith Jenner started her HR career in 1971 with Arthur Andersen. In 1998, she was promoted to UK Director of Personnel and Recruiting. In 1995, Faith joined Ernest & Young as Head of Human Resources London Offices & National Director of Recruiting and appointed Director of Human Resources & Quality at Northgate Information Solutions the following year. End of 2000, she was appointed Head of Group Human Resources of Credit Agricole, Calyon Corporate & Investment Bank (formerly Credit Lyonnais).

In 2006, Faith formed her own consultancy providing technical HR support and advice to business managers and HR professionals.

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Linda Moir

She got to know the work of Cranstoun during a belated gap year in 2008 when she volunteered as part of the Positive Futures programme supporting the development of young people in Roehampton.

Linda Moir is one of the team at London 2012 planning the spectator experience for millions of visitors to London and the UK for the summer Olympic Games. She has worked in a variety of customer service and HR roles including Virgin Atlantic where she was Customer Service Director and NATS (Air Traffic Control) where she was HR Director.

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Richard Pertwee

After seeing the effect of addiction, he worked as a volunteer at the CRI-run Tier 2 drop-in centre and needle exchange in Winchester. When Cranstoun advertised for a new Trustee from a legal background, Richard just couldn't resist bringing all the threads together.

Richard Pertwee is by background a lawyer, who specialised in helping clients to buy and sell businesses. In 2006 and after hitting the dizzy age of 50, he decided to go part time and to do more in the voluntary sector. Richard sits as a Magistrate in Portsmouth and in the Youth Court in Fareham.

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Diana Whitworth

Diana is a Trustee of Cranstoun's Board.

From 2004-2007, she was co-director of Grandparents Plus, a charity that aims to raise awareness of the importance of grandparents and the extended family in the lives of children. Her career has included eight years at Citizens Advice, ten years at the National Consumer Council and five years as chief executive of Carers UK.

Diana is a member of the Council of the Advertising Standards Authority and is a member of the Big Lottery Fund Board (BIG).

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