Darren Franklin
Associate
Darren has had a varied career with experience in wide-ranging roles in Sales, Recruitment, People Development, Contract Management and latterly Higher Education. He is a knowledgeable Board Member with Governance experience at a school level as well as a County level, being a member of the Buckinghamshire County Council School Consultative Boa.
Arvinda Gohil is an experienced Executive and Non-Executive, having started her career in housing bringing significant experience of working in the housing, homelessness,
and charity sectors. Her long history and considerable experience include the Chief Executive of Central YMCA, the founder YMCA; Community Links a place-based charity in Newham London;
Emmaus UK; Director for Membership, Governance, and Regions for the National Housing Federation; Assistant Director for London at the Housing Corporation, setting up a capacity-building agency in South Africa for emerging housing organisations, and Chief Executive of two housing associations. She was a key figure in the setting up of Housing Associations specifically for the Black, Asian and Minoritsied communities, and instrumental in setting up Unity Housing Association, where she was its first Chief Executive.
Arvinda also has significant experience in the voluntary sector, working for a women’s refuge, running a positive
action programme to enable access to
employment, and running a regeneration partnership.
In addition to the Executive roles, Arvinda has held several non-executive and Trustee roles including in Housing Associations, refugee organisations, a University and a social investment charity. She is currently on the Board of Sanctuary Housing, chairs a place-based charity in Clerkenwell called the Peel, and is a non-executive director at the Conduit.
David French
Associate
David has long experience in governance and senior leadership roles across the non-profit sector, in each case leading deep systemic change. He was Chair of Y Care International (2016-21), the development agency of the YMCA movement, and has been a trustee or chair of charities across different fields over many years.
He was chief executive of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy, a Foreign and Commonwealth Office agency (2003-09); director general of the Commonwealth Institute, uncoupling from the FCO to become an independent charity (1997-2002); chief executive of Relate, the UK’s leading relationship counselling agency (1987-95); and director of services, The Children’s Society (1978-87), after an early career initially at NCVO, the umbrella organisation for the NfP sector (1971-74). In his coaching practice since 2015 (www.davidfrench.coach) he works with senior and emerging leaders across the private, non-profit and public sectors.
Most recently he has been a member of the Archbishops’ Commission on Families and Households (2021-23) whose report was launched in April 2023. He is a graduate of Durham University (Politics, Sociology and Psychology, 1969), the Henley General Management Programme (1984), the Cabinet Office Top Management Programme (1995) and Meyler Campbell Business Coaching (2015). He also qualified as a Myers Briggs (MBTI) practitioner (2016). He and his wife have four married sons and a small army of grandchildren.
Arvinda Gohil
Associate
Arvinda Gohil is an experienced Executive and Non-Executive, having started her career in housing bringing significant experience of working in the housing, homelessness, and charity sectors. Her long history and considerable experience include the Chief Executive of Central YMCA, the founder YMCA; Community Links a place-based charity in Newham London; Emmaus UK; Director for Membership, Governance, and Regions for the National Housing Federation; Assistant Director for London at the Housing Corporation, setting
up a capacity-building agency in South Africa for emerging housing organisations, and Chief Executive of two housing associations. She was a key figure in the setting up of Housing Associations specifically for the Black, Asian and Minoritsied communities, and instrumental in setting up Unity Housing Association, where she was its first Chief Executive.
Arvinda also has significant experience in the voluntary sector, working for a women’s refuge, running a positive action programme to enable
access to employment, and running a regeneration partnership. In addition to the Executive roles, Arvinda has held several non-executive and Trustee roles including in Housing Association, refugee organisations, a University and a social investment charity. She is currently on the Board of Sanctuary Housing, chairs a place-based charity in Clerkenwell called the Peel, and is a non-executive director at the Conduit.
If you would like to book a 1-2-1 diagnostic meeting with Arvinda, please email sarah.porter@trustees-unlimited.co.uk with your availability.
Ian Joseph
Managing Director
Ian is Managing Director of Trustees Unlimited. He also sits on the board of Russam, an executive search business and the UK?s longest established interim management company, and is Chair of Kidscape, the national bullying charity.
He was a founding Trustee of Cyclopark, one of Europe?s largest multi-sports centres, and was an advisor to and is a mentor with CharityWorks, the UK?s non-profit graduate scheme.
He holds an MSc in Voluntary Sector Management from Cass Business School, the Certificate in Charity Law & Governance from The Chartered Governance Institute, and is a qualified coach with a Postgraduate Certificate in Coaching Psychology from Birkbeck, University of London.
Book your 1-2-1 with Ian
https://outlook.office365.com/book/SteponBoardDiagnosticSession@russam-gms.co.uk/
Graham Lindsay
Associate
Graham has 40 years wide-ranging experience in retail, wealth and commercial banking with hands-on experience from frontline to Boardroom. Graham has led significant branch networks for Lloyds Banking Group, acted as HR Director & Group Marketing Director & sat on the Retail Board.
His last role was Group Responsible Business and Community Affairs Director building the responsible business agenda. Graham is well networked across the UK FS industry and for 6 years sat on the Board of the Institute of Financial Services (previously Institute of Bankers) and also on the Professional Standards Board.
He now has a portfolio of non-executive roles and is Vice-Chair and board member of The Brain Tumour charity.
Dame Mary Marsh
Associate
Dame Mary is a cross sector leader and non-exec with engagement and achievements in a diversity of contexts. She is currently a Director on the Board of the LSO (London Symphony Orchestra), a Trustee of the British Spanish Society and of Memo/Eden Portland and an Associate consultant with Trustees Unlimited. She was until recently a Trustee of Teach First, a non-executive director of HSBC Bank plc and a member of the Governing Body at London Business School.
She was Chair of the Board of Trustees at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health from 2016-21. Following the earlier stages of her life journey as a teacher, including as a headteacher of two comprehensive schools in the 1990s, she was Chief Executive of the children’s charity NSPCC and Founding Director of the Clore Social Leadership Programme.
Mary is also a member of the Asia Advisory Group for the University of Nottingham and a contributor to the development of leadership, governance and life journeys in the charity, public and business sectors.