Our Trustees

Charles Mindenhall (Charity Technology Trust Chairman)

Charles is co-founder with Manoj Badale of Blenheim Chalcot, an investment group that has created and actively manages a portfolio of fast growth ventures. Charles is Chairman of Agilisys, an IT outsourcing group that evolved from netdecisions, which he co-founded. He also co-founded Fluency (a voice recognition company sold to venture capitalists in 2003), Eviivo (a leading travel booking platform), Steeltrace (a software tools business, sold to Compuware in 2004), the Rights Company (a media rights business, sold to Warner Music in 2005), and TDX Group (the UK’s leading delinquent debt specialist, partially sold to Investcorp in December 2008) . Charles is a non-executive director of Fairpoint (AIM quoted financial services), Emerging Media (part owners of the Indian Premier League team, the Rajasthan Royals), and Corporate Pay, a prepaid credit card provider. Charles is a founding trustee of Operation Smile UK, and the Chairman of Charity Technology Trust.

Charles was formerly at Monitor Company, and is a graduate of the University of Oxford.

Fiona Dawe, OBE (Charity Technology Trust Trustee)

Fiona Dawe is Chief Executive of YouthNet UK, the UK’s first virtual, or online charity set up by Martyn Lewis CBE in 1995 to champion an inclusive social environment where all young adults aged 16-24 can contribute to society.  This is facilitated this through two websites; www.do-it.org.uk - where volunteering is made easy; and www.TheSite.org - the one-stop-shop of advice and support for young people.

Following a short marketing career in fast-moving consumer goods, Fiona became a full-time Community Service Volunteer working with young offenders. She then joined CSV, placing young people as volunteers and developing special projects, including the Independent Living Scheme, enabling disabled people to lead independent lives facilitated by full-time volunteers.

She then held senior management positions at OUTSET, a national charity providing IT training and employment for disabled people. Immediately prior to joining YouthNet, she worked for the National Centre for Volunteering, where, as Director of Policy and Development, she was responsible for the strategic development of volunteering across all economic sectors in England, influencing social policy and leading high profile campaigns.

She has been on a number of Boards and advisory groups, including the Guidance Council,   Kensington and Chelsea Volunteer Bureau and the Home Office Active Community Directorate.  She is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce and in the January 2003 New Year’s Honours List she was awarded an OBE for services to the voluntary sector.

Married to an architect, she has two teenaged children.

Paul Zuckerman (Charity Technology Trust Trustee)

Paul Zuckerman is the Chairman and CEO of Zuckerman & Associates LLC, a company that advises e-commerce related start-ups and works with strategic and venture capital sources of finance. He is also a non-executive director of a number of public and private companies.

Previously Paul spent 17 years with SG Warburg and Caspian Securities. He was Chairman of S.G.Warburg Latin America and a Deputy Chairman of S.G. Warburg International. At Caspian Securities he was Head of Investment Banking.

Paul was also chair of an NGO (Intermediate Technology Development Group, UK) dedicated to enabling poor people in the Third World to develop and use technologies and methods which contribute to the long-term development of their communities. He sits on a number of charitable boards now, including the International Women's Health Coalition in New York.

As a trustee of Charity Technology Trust, Paul brings depth of experience in the non-profit sector and technology enterprise.