Our Trustees

Charles Mindenhall (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

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

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.

Sarah Shillito

Sarah Shillito is an Independent Advisor, working with grant-making organisations to help shape their strategy, guide their giving programmes and monitor programme outcomes.

Sarah’s career began in Human Resources, working for a number of hi-tech companies, and finally joining Vodafone in 1992. Here she spent the past 15 years, initially in Group HR undertaking a range of functions including Secretary to the Trustees of The Vodafone Group Charitable Trust. This subsequently became The Vodafone UK Foundation, which she headed up from 2002-2008, moving it from a philanthropic donations based charitable trust to a strategic grant maker supporting 16-25 year olds at risk of exclusion. Her particular focus was on encouraging charities to work collaboratively to enable a greater number of beneficiaries to be reached more effectively. Sarah has global experience having acted as Interim Director of the Vodafone Group Foundation in 2003 and undertaken a global Foundations Employee Engagement role for the newly created Vodafone Foundation in 2008.

Sarah was previously a Trustee of Volunteer Centre West Berkshire and is currently a Governor of North Oxfordshire Academy in Banbury. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.

Sarah is married, with an adult daughter and son.

As a Trustee of Charity Technology Trust, Sarah brings depth of experience in grant-making and programme monitoring and assessment.

Simon Rogerson

Simon is one of the founders and the Chief Executive of Octopus Investments. He has overall responsibility for day-to-day decisions and for the strategic direction of the company. Since setting Octopus up in 2000, the business has grown to more than 22,000 clients and almost £1 billion under management, making it one of the fastest growing companies in the UK. Octopus has been recognised year after year for its product innovation and exceptional client service, and has twice been voted one of the Best 100 Companies to work for.

Prior to founding Octopus, Simon worked at Mercury Asset Management. He graduated with a first class MA in Modern Languages from St Andrews University and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Simon Gilbert

Simon is a Partner at Hanover Investors, a specialist active investors in turnaround and recovery situations, with responsibility for deal execution and management of portfolio businesses.  Prior to Hanover, Simon worked at Shell International for 6 years, as a General Manager of European Mergers & Acquisitions, as well as running significant operational improvement programmes.  Simon also has private equity experience prior to joining Shell. 

Simon sits on the Boards of Fairpoint (AIM quoted financial services) and Cosalt plc (support services).  Simon has an MBA and holds a BA (Hons) degree in Economics & Spanish from Bristol University.

Senior Management

William Hoyle - Chief Executive

William joined Charity Technology Trust as Chief Executive in August 2004 after a 26 year career in Financial Services and ICT. William started his career in the credit card industry where he was involved in the transformation of an in house data division into a profitable company specialising in the outsourcing of payment card services.  In 1992 William moved to Cable & Wireless plc. Over 12 years at C&W he built up a track record in directing major programmes and leading large international teams through significant change & transformation.  

William is also a director of The Charity IT Resource Alliance (CITRA) a non-profit dedicated to improving IT professionalism in the Third Sector and a board member of Sadler Heath, an organisation focused on equipping individuals to take charge of their own personal and career development.

James Redhead - Development Director

James Redhead (48) Finance and Development Director James is an Accountant and Strategy Consultant, with 15 years experience in assisting charities develop their commercial activities.

James has worked for a range of major charities as a strategic advisor during this period helping them to develop new fundraising products.He continues to act as an advisor to The Royal British Legion and Age Concern Enterprises.

He is co-founder of Charity Technology Trust in 2002.

An accountant, James has held a number of Finance Directorships, over the past 15 years and continues to act as a Non Executive board member for company's who provide services to the charity sector. James is currently Chairman of Utility Aid and advisor to Home call Centre.

James is also an active Charity Trustee and holds The Institute of Fundraising¹s Certificate in Fundraising Management.