Trustees
AnnMarie Newbigin - Chair of the Board
Joined as a Trustee in July 2010. AnnMarie has been involved in the financial services industry for more than 20 years. She has held a number of senior executive HR roles in several leading financial institutions, including State Street, UBS and Old Mutual. Prior to coming to London in 1988, Mrs Newbigin spent 10 years in management and compensation consulting, including 7 years with Booz-Allen & Hamilton both before and after business school. Mrs Newbigin holds a BA from McGill University in Canada and MBA from the University of Chicago.Over the last 6 years, AnnMarie has been trustee for two other charities and works in the not-for-profit sector as a consultant.
Suzanne Ingman
Suzanne Ingman joined the Board of Trustees at the beginning of 2009. A Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and member of the Institute of Interim Managers, Suzanne has worked at board level as a Human Resources Director in a variety of sectors contributing to company strategy and implementation. Suzanne spent her childhood in the North East of England, where her love for open spaces particularly the North Yorkshire moors developed and is keen to ensure that others have a similar opportunity to appreciate and take pride in their local environment
Mina Bowater
Mina Bowater is a high value fundraiser with a national cancer charity and has a large amount of experience developing events and initiatives that build both networks and contacts.
Rick Bacon
Rick has held a series of senior management positions in Europe and the USA with blue chip public quoted companies and technology start-ups in a broad range of sectors ranging from energy to recruitment.
Two year´s ago Rick founded Incutoc that supports business start-ups with fund raising, business planning and growth initiatives. He is currently an advisor to Arrival Education and a trustee of Green Corridor, a west London based environment based education charity. He is also advising a US based global water technology business and Chairman of a London based information services business.
Rick is married to Isabelle and they live in west London. They have three married children and one grandchild.
Deirdre Howard-Williams
DHW is an experienced non-executive director with a strong international background in writing, education and the magistracy. Starting out as a teacher of English and French in schools and universities, she moved on to writing textbooks mostly in the field of English as a Foreign Language and has to date authored and co-authored about forty titles. This in turn led to her active involvement in authors’ rights organisations and she has been a director of the Copyright Licensing Agency and the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society which she chaired for three years as well as representing writers’ interests world-wide. DHW was a magistrate in north London for ten years and a chair of the bench for five of those and went on to be a trustee of Not Shut Up, a charity that helps prisoners to find self-expression through writing and artwork.
Currently she works freelance on fiction writing and a creative business as well as voluntary work to help young people learn more about the world and find their place in it.
STAFF
Jean Rolfe - Executive Director
Jean has ten years of experience within the Third Sector and was previously an environmental and conservation manager specialising in urban development. She joined Green Corridor in January 2008, where she has found working in a dynamic small organisation exciting, fun and challenging.
Mark Haymes - Project Operations Manager
Mark spent five years as a fundraising manager for a national charity. Mark is responsible for developing Green Corridor’s Big Lottery Porgramme and building a fundraising portfolio.