My role as Managing Director is to provide corporate governance, financial oversight and production executive guidance, with the support of the excellent production team who drive the company's production work for commissioners including BBC, Channel 4 and BSLBT. This includes BBC's Life & Deaf documentary, five Magic Hands series for CBeebies, C4's Extraordinary Lives: School of Life & Deaf and several new formats for BSL Zone including Food Fighters, the children's cookery series; OMGenius, the children's science series and; Watch Us Roar!, documentary following GB Deaf Women's Futsal Team at the Deaflympics.

Standing up for the rights of children with epilepsy. Offering research, health services, specialist education, digital information and support for young people, families and professionals. Children with epilepsy are missing out. We can change that, together.

My role was principally to lead on business development, set the culture and direction of a company with 42 staff, £2.4m turnover. Remark! initially a deaf-led media company, having diversified to offer a wide range of services (BSL Training, BSL interpreting provision, events and supported Living for young and older deaf people, Media and Access). Following a corporate strategic review and in agreement with the Shareholder, I led a buy out of the Media function to establish a specialist media company, Flashing Lights Media.

I headed up Bioregional's income generation activity (£2m per annum), overseeing the development of new projects and initiatives to win investment, grow collaboration with partners and provide support on the corporate business planning process. This included partnership work with Sutton, Bicester, Cherwell, Brighton & Hove and Middlesbrough Councils on One Planet Living initiatives. Funders successfully brought on board included: DECC for district heating, Mark Leonard Trust, Technology Strategy Board, Mayor's Outer London Fund for regeneration of Hackbridge high street.Bioregional champions a better, more sustainable way to live under the One Planet Living concept. This involves working with partners to create better places for people to live, work and do business.

Associate of The Mappin Group, founded by respected businesswoman and former international tennis player, Sue Mappin. I supported clients on finding their competitive niche with smart business planning, project development and bid development.

My principal responsibility was to lead on Government income, develop partnerships and funders in this sector and influence key Government decision-makers. I built a team of four, achieving a three-fold growth in income from Government and managed the Strategic Partnership with the Cabinet Office, a principal backer behind Do-it, the national volunteering database. Major successes include very large funding awards secured for: a volunteering legacy project around the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games with investment from the Cabinet Office and Government Olympic Executive, bringing on board vInspired as a backer for Do-it's youth volunteering work, Department of Health for several projects including mental health advocacy. I also sat on the Department of Health's steering group shaping their new volunteering strategy for health and social care. YouthNet continues to provide information and emotional support for young people in the UK, enabling their users to make the right choices for them. Under their new brand name The Mix, they believe digital is a force for good, helping young people get to their services wherever and whenever they need them. Do-it, YouthNet's creation as the national volunteering database, was transferred to the new Do-it Trust after 12 years of huge growth.

I worked in a voluntary capacity for GB Deaf Tennis, supported wonderfully by the LTA and the Tennis Foundation and a dedicated committee of volunteers. This was the first example of a National Governing Body of Sport taking a positive lead to integrate deaf and wheelchair tennis into its core activities and adopt best practice for doing so. A great legacy is the high number of talented Deaf coaches working for a living today at tennis clubs across the UK, fully accredited with the LTA. During my time with GB Deaf Tennis, we became one of the most competitive nations globally, winning multiple medals at Deaflympic Games, European Championships and the Dresse & Maere Cups (equivalent of the Davis and Federation Cups). I also acted as GB Deaf Tennis Manager at Summer Deaflympics (Rome, Italy 2001), European Deaf Tennis Championships (Sheffield, England 1996 and Kottingbrunn, Austria 2000) and was part of the Tournament Organising Team for British Open (Cardiff 1999, Nottingham 2002 and 2006).In recognition of this voluntary work, I received the Torch Trust Trophy Award in 2002 and the LTA Meritorious Award in 2010 for outstanding voluntary work with GB Deaf Tennis, both kindly nominated by the Tennis Foundation.

My principal responsibility was to develop strategy and funding bids to grow Government, Lottery and EU income, manage team of three, liaise with multi-disciplinary teams and senior colleagues to influence government decision-makers and create funding opportunities. Significant accomplishments included: doubling the annual income from these sources, not including the award of a £15.1m Lottery well-being project for older people which I helped secure; winning DFID funding for an older people advocacy project in Ukraine; strengthening positive relationships with the Department of Health including a very large funding award for mental health advocacy amongst several project investments; leading successful tenders from DTI for age discrimination advice for older people and from DWP for money tree financial planning advice for older people.Age Concern England trades today under a new merged entity, Age UK. They combat loneliness, provide advice and enable independence as the largest charity actively working with and for older people in the UK, with the support of local branches in a federation.

I was CEO of FYD, whose mission was to promote inclusion opportunities for young deaf people through personal development training, peer activities and family weekends. I was recruited to steady the charity facing severe financial difficulties from the outset.Achievements included: undertaking strategic corporate review and initiating change management in consultation with trustees, employees, partners and funders; assembling a streamlined management team and smaller, more skilled workforce of 16; undertaking strategic planning and project development, securing significant awards from DfES Connexions and Camelot Foundation to support young people and families with deaf children; recommending and implementing a merger with the National Deaf Children's Society (NDCS), working through the due diligence process safeguarding a core team of project staff who transferred to the NDCS. Today NDCS continues many of FYD's previous activities, to the age of 18. It is the leading charity dedicated to creating a world without barriers for deaf children and young people, with the support of their families in the belief that deaf children can do anything other children can do.

I served in the National Trust's Policy Office in a variety of challenging roles, with responsibility for shaping and advocating policy relating to natural and built environment. I also project managed three ground-breaking economic valuation projects measuring the indirect spend in the local economy inspired by the Trust's work in conserving outstanding landscapes, and represented the Trust in external forums and working parties. My policy expertise focused on land-use and regional planning guidance, charity tax, rural economy, housing and volunteering. Significant accomplishments included: designing and project managing economic valuation studies ‘Valuing our environment’ in Cumbria, North East and Wales with support of tourism partners and regional development agencies; developing detailed appraisal of the government’s fiscal policies including economic impact of Chancellor’s Budgets; successfully influencing HM Treasury who introduced new charitable giving incentives in 2000; author of sustainable development guide to inform National Trust land management practice; monitoring passage of devolution parliamentary bills, tabling amendments and briefing MPs on the National Trust’s inalienable privileges, devolution of National Trust byelaws to Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly which were successfully safeguarded.The National Trust remains a household name as the leading UK conservation charity protecting historic places and green spaces, and opening them up for ever, for everyone.