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Patrick Shine

Partner

As lead partner of The Shaftesbury Partnership, Patrick manages the overall business strategy, as well as engagement with the private sector and social investment market. He is Executive Director of FranchisingWorks, and directs a number of other Shaftesbury ventures including Opportunity Unlocked and the Social Business Partnership. He is chairman of The Challenge Network, the leading provider of National Citizen Service, and of the Southwark Free School Trust. He is also non-executive director of the Grow Organisation, a social enterprise that engages individuals farthest removed from the labour market – and which won the RBS SE100 Growth Award in 2010.

Prior to co-founding The Shaftesbury Partnership, Patrick worked at UnLtd, where he supported many award winning social entrepreneurs through start-up, development, growth, and replication. He has extensive experience in financial markets, social entrepreneurship and social investment. He worked for nearly 20 years in the City, specialising in global fixed income and derivatives, and was a director of Lazard Brothers Asset Management.

Patrick read Mathematics at Queens’ College, Cambridge and has an MA in Middle East Studies from SOAS.

Chris Mould

Partner

Chris directs a number of The Shaftesbury Partnership’s ventures, including Nurse First and Looking Up, as well as leading our engagement with local government. He also led The Shaftesbury Partnership’s recent launch of the Act Network. Independently, Chris leads the Trussell Trust, a growing charity that develops community based projects tackling poverty and social exclusion. These include the rapidly expanding foodbank network, a social franchise which has set up over 130 foodbanks across the UK in the last seven years.

Before focussing on the voluntary and social sectors, Chris spent over twenty years in senior public sector management where he held both Chief Executive and Chairman roles at local and national level. He was Chief Executive of Salisbury Healthcare NHS Trust for almost ten years and the founding Chairman of Healthwork UK (now Skills for Health). He then became Chief Executive of a new non-departmental public body responsible for police training across England and Wales. Chris has led thirteen start-ups and mergers and has substantial experience in professional development, skills and employment.

Chris read Modern History at Magdalen College, Oxford, and has an MSc in Social Policy from the London School of Economics.

Andrew Tanswell

Partner

Andrew is an experienced social entrepreneur and business leader. Andrew is the founder of ToughStuff, a social enterprise providing solar energy solutions to very poor people in Africa. In just over 2 years, as the CEO, he has built this into a company operating in over 12 countries with just under 200 staff. Toughstuff has recently raised new, multi-million investment to achieve increased international scale. Andrew has been recognised for his contribution to Social Impact and Innovation and was made a Tech Award Laureate in 2010 and was a winner of the prestigious GSBI in 2009. Andrew studied Engineering at Imperial College and is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer. He has considerable strength and understanding of international aid and development having worked in governance and field positions (Somalia, Iraq) for Medair an emergency relief agency. Andrew worked as a management consultancy before building a number of businesses, charities and social enterprises as well as co-founding The Shaftesbury Partnership.

Anoop Maini

Non-Executive Director

Anoop is founding Director of Indigo Health, an organisation focussed on better delivery in healthcare through promoting alignment of strategy, systems, process and people. He is an architect of several social reform programmes for the NHS, which utilise new methods of investment to change market forces and accelerate integration. He founded NHSAgenda, in partnership with the NHS Alliance to engage front-line professionals in health service reform. Anoop is also Strategy Advisor to the Fairbanking Foundation and a former Strategic Director of an NHS education agency, and has worked as a partner to the Department of Health, Medical Device companies, Medical Royal Colleges and the Pharmaceutical Industry.

Anoop’s senior level experience across sectors includes planning social enterprise programmes with board members of the Home Office, working at Goldman Sachs, and leading development of commercial strategy, investor engagement and sales for an international media company across the US and Europe. He is former Chair of a Membership Strategy Group at the Chartered Management Institute and member of their National Council. He has a management degree from Warwick Business School and read Engineering at the University of Cambridge as a James Clayton Scholar.

Tom Rippin

Non-Executive Director

After some years in cancer research, Tom joined McKinsey & Company working across the private, public and non-profit sectors. Five years later, he became first the advisor on private sector matters to the CEO of Comic Relief and then the MD of (RED) Europe and Business Development Director of (RED) International, the business founded by Bono and Bobby Shriver to help eliminate AIDS in Africa. In 2009, Tom founded On Purpose, a one-year leadership programme for high-calibre professionals transitioning into social enterprise. As well as running On Purpose, Tom is the Chairman of the social enterprise Spice.