Trustee Board
Our trustee board play a vital role in enabling us to achieve the charity's objectives - providing accountability, oversight and governance to help us achieve our goals. With a diverse range of experiences, our board is made up of a mixture of experts from across the charity, higher education, business and health care sectors.
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Dr Nicola Byrom - Founding Chair & Lecturer in Psychology, KCLNicola founded the charity in 2009. She is a lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neurosciences at Kings’ College London. Leading SMaRteN, the UKRI funded Student Mental Health Research Network, Nicola’s research interests focus on student mental health and the influences that Higher Education Institutions have on youth mental health.
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Andrew Nelson - Chief Financial Officer, AmeyAndrew Nelson is Chief Finance Officer and Executive Director on the Amey Plc Board. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant and has worked in investment banking and corporate finance.
During his leisure hours he enjoys competitive skiing, golf and plays squash regularly. |
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Ann Henshaw - HR Director, British LandAnn has held a variety of senior HR roles including HR Director at EDF Energy and Group HR Director at Clear Channel International. She set up Xiena HR Consulting, a company specialising in large scale people and culture transformation programmes. Ann and her associates worked with multiple clients across different industries including Vodafone, Smith News, Virgin Media, the Department of Health and Equinix. She started her career in banking in the UK and Hong Kong and JP Morgan Chase. Ann has a strong interest in mental health in the workplace.
For her own wellbeing, Ann plays in the Viola section of the Basingstoke Symphony Orchestra. |
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Brian Rock - Director of Education & Training/ Dean of Postgraduate Studies, Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation TrustTraining in a local hospice in Johannesburg, South Africa changed his career path and influenced him to study and qualify as a clinical psychologist. Since coming to London Brian has worked in the NHS, before this he set up and led an award-winning clinical service for the Trust in primary care. He is also a psychoanalyst and has an MBA from Henley Business School and has published and presented widely on various topics related to mental health.
Music and running provides avenues for managing his wellbeing and he harbours a not-so-secret wish to be a jazz drummer in band one day. |
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Jaki Booth - Chief Executive, Sheffield Students' UnionJaki has worked in Chief Executive roles for nearly 30 years, mostly in Students’ Unions in various midlands universities, and as General Manager at MAC, one of the Midlands’ leading arts centres. She finds working in Students’ Unions to be incredibly rewarding and very varied - and especially loves working with and for elected student officers, creating change and developing talent. Moving around the country has given Jaki an insight into different institutions and their engagement with their city and community. Jaki has also been a Trustee with Girlguiding UK since 2015.
In her free time, Jaki relaxes by singing in a choir and in the local pubs of Sheffield and Derbyshire, and has recently taken up learning the diatonic accordion. |
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Lauren Young - Partnerships and Corporate Social Responsibility SpecialistLauren has worked in both the charity and corporate sectors, working with a broad range of charities including six years at Cancer Research UK, working across fundraising, marketing and communications teams. More recently, she joined The Royal Foundation to provide secretariat support for The Duke of Cambridge's Taskforce on the Prevention of Cyberbullying, and headed up the National Theatre's corporate development team, leading them to secure a record breaking year's income. From a corporate perspective, she has designed and implemented CSR strategies for Bupa UK TalkTalk Telecom Group, and is working with Chivas Brothers to bring their parent company, Pernod Ricard's sustainability plan to life in the UK.
Lauren tries to make sure there's at least 15 minutes of calm in every day - her current favourites are reading and yoga. |
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Natasha Devon - Writer and ActivistNatasha Devon MBE is a writer and activist. She has been touring schools and colleges throughout the U.K. and beyond for more than a decade delivering talks and conducting research on mental health, body image and gender equality.
She also has an anxiety disorder, which she manages through a combination of medication, running (not well) and cuddling her cat, China Girl. |
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Sue Rigby - Vice Chancellor, Bath Spa UniversitySue is a Professor of Higher Education, with a long history of engagement with national initiatives around learning, teaching and supporting students, including chairing the Learning Gain Steering Group for the Office for Students, chairing the Teaching Excellence Framework Natural Sciences Panel and sitting on the Disabled Students Sector Leadership Group organised by the Department for Education. Her academic background is in palaeontology, where she spent happy years working out the ecology of an extinct group of plankton.
She spends her down-time listening to opera and lieder, travelling Europe to attend performances of her favourite singers. |
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Victoria Goddard - Partner and Head of Universities, Pinsent Masons LLPVictoria started as a trainee lawyer at Pinsent Masons in 1993 and has been a partner there for the past 15 years. She leads the global universities team in providing a full legal service of governance, regulatory, HR, estates, GDPR, tax, financing, IP and student disputes advice to universities as well as new entrants into the sector. Her area of specialism is student accommodation projects and through that she is on the BPFs student accommodation committee and student mental health sub-committee. She is also on UUK’s task force on information sharing in the context of student mental health. She has been a school governor for 5 years.
Victoria has 3 children and enjoys skiing, diving and cycling as well as film and theatre but most importantly spending time with friends and family and trudging through the woods near home. |