Our People

Meet the team and our supporters on a mission to empower young people to take charge of their future by bringing money to life.

Leon Ward

Chief Executive Officer

"Sound as a pound".

Steve Korris

Programme and Delivery Director

“And for my means, I'll husband them so well, They shall go far with little.” [Shakespeare]

Manfred Meyer

Chief Operating Officer

“Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.” – Benjamin Franklin

Claire Quigley

Fundraising and Communications Director

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart – Jonathan Swift 

Olivia Fox

Senior Development Manager

"Wealth comes in more ways than one".

Rebekah Young

Senior Fundraising Manager

"A fool and their money is soon parted".

Nick Smith-Patel

Senior Programme and Content Manager

“If you want to feel rich, just count the things you have that money can't buy.”

Kaye Newlan

Programme & Content Manager

Matt Johnson

Regional Partnership Manager

"With this ten thousand dollars we'd be millionaires!" - Homer Simpson

Adam Smith

Digital Tech Lead

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." - Benjamin Franklin

Madeleine Marcateus

Area Manager - London and East

"Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent".

Laura Mattson

Quality & Training Manager

"There are people who have money and people who are rich". [Coco Chanel]

Wendy Grace

Programme Delivery Manager - London

"Better spend an extra hundred or two on your son's education, than leave it him in your will." ~ The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Gemma Orr

Scotland Area Manager- Scotland and Northern Ireland

Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better – Maya Angelou

Sally McLachlan

Midlands Manager

"The more you LEARN the more you EARN".

Laura Ellis

Area Manager- South and Wales

“Many folks think they aren’t good at earning money, when what they don’t know is how to use it.” —Frank A. Clark

Andrew Corley

Monitoring & Evaluation Manager

KJP, Chair of H&M, one of the world’s largest fashion companies, supporting engagement with and offering opportunity to MyBnk programme participants.

Karl-Johan Persson

Patron

Former Chair of Trustees to MyBnk, Beatrice has been the Senior Advisor to the Chairman of the Board of Investor AB and of Karl-Johan Persson, CEO of H&M since 2005.

Beatrice Engstrom-Bondy

Patron

"MyBnk is about giving future generations financial freedom, work readiness and a better quality of life."

Lily Lapenna-Huda MBE

Patron

Michael Norton OBE is the Honorary Director, Trustee of CIVA and a long standing patron of MyBnk.

Michael Norton OBE

Patron

"We are looking at the first generation in living memory that is expected to be poorer than their parents. MyBnk can solve this."

Asesh Sarkar

Chair

"I love the fact that the young, vibrant, energetic MyBnk team care enough to dedicate themselves to helping other young people."

Maggie Morrissey

Trustee

I'm a technology leader with a wealth of cross industry experience running small, medium and large scale distributed teams onshore, near shore and offshore.

Kaustav Bhattacharya

Trustee

Carol is Chief the CEO at TISA.

Carol Knight

Trustee

Simona is currently Managing Director at BlackRock in London.

Simona Paravani-Mellinghoff

Trustee

"Sound financial literacy for young people is crucial in helping them build a successful future. This is why I am proud to be a Trustee at MyBnk."

Peter Heneghan

Trustee

Olamide Majekodunmi is the founder of All Things Money, a personal finance platform that shares a wide range of personal finance tips and information to help young adults financially survive adulthood.

Olamide Majekodunmi

Trustee

"MyBnk has found a way to make these essential life skills simple to understand and fun."

Karim Kefi

Trustee

" An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. --Benjamin Franklin"

Nikki Worden

Trustee

Sarah Mintey MBE a former headteacher and charity CEO founded Developing Experts in October 2015 with the goal to create a fit-for-purpose curriculum for schools.

Sarah Mintey

Trustee

Supporting MyBnk with a strategic three-year partnership.

Compare the Market

Supporting The Money House project to help young people moving into independent living.

JP Morgan Chase & Co.

The Money House

Supporting The Money House project to help young people moving into independent living.

The Berkeley Charitable Foundation

The Money House

Supporting The Money House and Money Works programmes and research at MyBnk.

abrdn

Supporting The Money House project to help young people moving into independent living.

Pimco

Supporting MyBnk in the South-East and London to deliver financial education to young people.

Quilter Foundation

Expansion

Supporting MyBnk’s operations, key functions of delivery and evaluation, allowing us to deliver effective financial education to young people.

Allan & Gill Gray Philanthropy

Delivery - London

Supporting the expansion and delivery of MyBnk programmes to vulnerable young adults in Scotland.

Hymans Robertson

Delivery - Scotland

Supporting MyBnk delivery of Money Works to vulnerable young adults in London.

City Bridge Trust

Delivery - London

Supporting our Money Twist KS5 programme and development of a female finance programme.

M&G plc

Core funding to ensure impact and delivery of financial education.

Garfield Weston Foundation

Supporting our core functions to enable our delivery of financial education to young people.

The Hiscox Foundation

Supporting the expansion and delivery of MyBnk programmes to vulnerable young adults in Scotland.

Robertson Trust

Supporting MyBnk's homelessness prevention work and a webcast for young people.

SGN

Supporting our core functions to enable our delivery of financial education to young people.

Man Group

Core operations

Supporting our core functions to enable our delivery of financial education to young people.

Twenty84

Supporting the delivery of Money Works to vulnerable young people nationwide.

The Taylor Family Foundation

Go Henry

Supporting MyBnk's work with young adults.

Building Societies Association

Supporting the delivery of financial education to primary school pupils.

Kusuma

Supporting our core functions to enable our delivery of financial education to young people.

Share Gift

Funding the delivery of a thought leadership piece.

Trust for London

Supporting our core functions to enable our delivery of financial education to young people.

Texel Foundation

Supporting our core functions to enable our delivery of financial education to young people.

ISIO

Supporting MyBnk's work with young adults in the North West.

North West Young People's Development Trust

Supporting delivery of Money Works to young adults.

Aviva

Supporting our core functions to enable our delivery of financial education to young people.

The Swire Charitable Trust

Supporting development in our North west hub

Lowell

Interactive Investor