Board of Trustees, Emmaus South Lambeth
Chair of Trustees
Professor Alex Murdock - Head of Centre for Government and Charity Management, and Course Director for the Masters degree in Voluntary Administration at London South Bank University
Vice-Chair
Jeremy Baker MA (Oxon), FRSG. Retired solicitor, having been Secretary/ Solicitor to several District Councils and a partner of a large firm in Westminster. Former local councillor for Knights Hill ward (West Norwood); Chair of the Scrutiny Committee, Vice Chair of Planning Applications Committee and deputy cabinet member for Education at Lambeth Council.
Currently Chair of the Lambeth Governors' Forum, member of the Lambeth Admissions Forum, Schools Forum and Children and Young Persons Partnership Board. Member of the Southwark Diocesan Board of Education. Governor and Chair of Resources of The Elmgreen School (a new local secondary school) and Vice Chair of Rosendale Primary School. Clerk to the goverrnors of 6 other schools. Former Vice Chair of Lambeth Endowed Charities. Director and Secretary of a trust supporting a local youth club. Formerly a director, staffing secretary and camp leader of Forest School Camps (which runs about 40 children's camps a year). Member of All Saints West Dulwich and a committee set up by it to develop community activities in the area.
Board Members
Danny Daly resigned as trustee on 29th March 2010.
John Grieves was a corporate lawyer with Freshfields, now one of the largest law firms in the world, for 33 years, eventually becoming Senior Partner. On retiring from Freshfields he served on the boards of various public companies and was chairman of three. He has served on his parochial church council and as a Governor of Ripon College, Cuddesdon, a theological college. He has a long standing interest in homelessness and was involved at Board level with the Church Housing Trust. John is the Chair of Emmaus UK.
Hippolyte Grigg spent a life-long career in advertising and marketing in the private sector, working in a variety of advertising agencies on some notable accounts, such as British Airways (BOAC in the earlier days), on the launch of the VC10 (triumphantly silent, swift and serene), British Leyland (BMC in the earlier days), Hewlett-Packard, Hotpoint, and Areas of Expansion (a government scheme), amongst others. Later Hippo joined the Central Office of Information (COI), the Government’s publicity wing, where he worked for some seventeen years before taking early retirement. The campaigns there, as a senior campaigns manager, covered Crime and Fire Prevention, Department of Health (drugs, fire prevention and blood donors), Road Safety (drink driving, seatbelts and the Green Cross Code), Department of Health (job release scheme, YTS, Investors in People) and more.
After retirement, Hippo spent three years in telephone marketing, mostly on telephone cost-saving products and portable spring water dispensers for domestic and office use. Subsequently he launched, with colleagues, the Sanctuary Club, a social club for those who may have had a drink or drug addiction problem. There are over seventy members and the club is open once a week in their premises in Kennington. Hippo has now retired from the Sanctuary Club. Chairman of the Friends of Norwood Park, providing for park-users needs, Hippo heads a committee of twelve local people. Fundraising plays a major part in this. Hippo joined Emmaus South Lambeth as a Trustee in spring 2008, and chairs the Business Development and Communications Sub-Group, and sits on the Community Welfare and Fundraising sub-groups.
Christopher Kemball was elected Trustee on 8th February 2010.
Julian Ovens is Manager, Strategy & Business Development, Aluminium for BHP Billiton, the world's largest natural resources company. He leads commercial and government relations efforts for bauxite mine and alumina refinery development with a focus on West and Central Africa, and also engages in general mergers and acquisitions work globally. Previously, he worked for the corporate Mergers & Acquisitions group at Alcan Inc. in both Montreal and Paris, where he led and contributed to diverse buy and sell-side international corporate development transactions ranging from $3M to $6B. He completed deals in diverse locations such as the US, Canada, France, Switzerland, Slovenia, Thailand, Gabon, Cameroon, Congo, and the Central African Republic. He began his finance career in investment banking in the Global Metals and Mining group at Credit Suisse First Boston in Toronto, where he worked on several strategic advisory and financing assignments. Julian has also worked in several capacities at the House of Commons of Canada, including serving as an assistant to Hon. Paddy Torsney, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General, and to Hon. Eleni Bakopanos, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of the Environment.
Julian studied economics and political science at the University of Ottawa, before graduating with an Honours B.A. degree from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario. Julian was one of the first Student Trustees in Canada, when he served on the Ottawa Roman Catholic Separate School Board in 1995-96. In his spare time, Julian enjoys cooking and is an ice hockey goaltender, while enjoying other sports such as tennis, skiing and cycling. Julian is fluent in French. He and his wife Jackie were born in Canada, and have lived in Pimlico, London since January 2008.
Jonathan Pallas is Global Human Resources Director for Geif Inc, a leading packaging firm based in Columbus, Ohio, US. Originally qualified as an Engineer, he subsequently gained an MBA from Cass Business School (London), and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Jonathan has worked in a variety of senior Human Resources roles since 1991. Prior to his current role he worked in Argos, L’Oreal, Lucent, and CHEP. He joined Emmaus South Lambeth as a fundraising volunteer in Sep 2009 and was elected a Trustee in Feb 2010. Jonathan lives in Teddington, Middlesex with his wife and two daughters. When not occupied with his family and Emmaus, he supports London Scottish FC, where he played rugby during the 90s. Jon ran the 2010 Reading Half Marathon to raise funds for Emmaus South Lambeth and raised nearly £1,000.