core team

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.

Will Gallagher

Chief Operating Officer

Will Gallagher was born and brought up in the North West. He read Law and Politics at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, before spending a year at the Judge Business School there. He was also President of the Cambridge Union while at university. Before joining The Shaftesbury Partnership, Will spent 7 years running his family business – a group of car franchises based in Cheshire and North Wales. He has just finished a 4 year term as governor for a local primary school, and sits on the board of Stick n Step, a charity day centre for children with cerebral palsy.

Simon Jebreel

Head of Strategy

As Head of Strategy, Simon manages Shaftesbury’s early stage portfolio, coordinating ventures from concept through business design. He holds an MBA (with Distinction) from Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, where he specialised in venture capital and social entrepreneurship and investment. He created and chaired a social investment network for the business school, and led a team to victory in the international Sustainable Venture Capital Investment Competition – which involved detailed evaluation of social and sustainable ventures.

Simon’s early career was through Teach First, where he was a member of the inaugural cohort in 2003, and he subsequently spent 5 years working with disadvantaged youth as a teacher in inner city London secondary schools. In addition to his MBA, Simon has a degree in Philosophy from the University of Leeds.