Partners
Partners
Patrick Shine
Patrick has extensive experience in financial markets, social entrepreneurship and social investment. A former investment manager, he worked for nearly 20 years in financial markets and investment management, specialising in global fixed income and derivatives, and was a director of Lazard Brothers Asset Management. Patrick then worked at UnLtd, the Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs, where he has supported many award winning social entrepreneurs in the start-up, development, growth and replication stages of their initiatives. As lead partner of SP, Patrick manages the financial and operational aspects of the business. He is chairman of The Challenge Network and non-executive director of Mow & Grow, which won the RBS SE100 Growth Award in 2010. Patrick read Mathematics at Queens’ College, Cambridge and more recently gained an MA in Middle East Studies from SOAS.
Chris Mould
Before setting up his own strategic change consultancy, Chris spent over twenty years in senior public sector management where he held both Chief Executive and Chairman roles in health care, policing, workforce development and education at both national and local level. He was Chief Executive of Salisbury Healthcare NHS Trust for almost ten years and the founding Chairman of Healthwork UK. He then became Chief Executive of a new non-departmental public body responsible for police training across England and Wales. Recently he has concentrated more time in the voluntary sector. Chris has led thirteen start ups and mergers in diverse organisations and has substantial experience in professional development, skills and employment. Chris splits his time between the Shaftesbury Partnership and leading the Trussell Trust a growing charity that develops community based projects tackling poverty and social exclusion in the UK and Bulgaria. Chris recently launched a new charity for the Shaftesbury Partnership, the Act Network, whose mission is to resource scalable social action ministries and to support the work of faith based organisations working in inner city areas. Chris read Modern History at Magdalen College, Oxford, and has an MSc in Social Policy from the London School of Economics
Andrew Tanswell
Andrew is an experienced business leader, executive coach and social entrepreneur. Trained as a chartered engineer at Imperial College; he has an extensive management consultancy background at senior level with Ernst and Young and Coopers and Lybrand and has undertaken many, varied leadership roles at CEO and senior level in the nonprofit and for profit sectors including crisis and disaster relief at Medair. Prior to co-founding SP, Andrew served a range of clients through a professional services firm, ODT, which he created, built up and sold, which enabled him to advice a range of clients including Worldvision, the Metropolitan Police Service, BUPA, Jersey Post. Andrew recently launched and successfully raised funding for ToughStuff, a social enterprise based in Africa which provides very affordable solar-powered products, for low income people, replacing expensive and environmentally damaging alternatives (kerosene lamps and batteries).
Nat Wei (Baron Wei of Shoreditch) – Honorary Founding Partner
Nat is a former McKinsey consultant with experience in both venture philanthropy and venture capital. He is a founder of Teach First, a non-profit organization designed to bring top graduates into inner city schools as teachers, and also a founder of Future Leaders, an accelerated development programme for potential head teachers of inner city schools, both of which he helped to launch. He has extensive experience working in education, healthcare, recruitment, policy development, and has worked in Asia, the US, and Africa for a range of public, private, and voluntary clients. As well as leading SP, Nat was the head of New Programme Development (Ventures) for Absolute Return for Kids, a children’s foundation backed by the hedge fund industry. Nat is a Fellow of the Young Foundation and read Modern Languages at Jesus College, Oxford. Since his appointment in May 2010 as the Government Adviser on Big Society, Nat has stepped down from playing a day-to-day role in the management of SP.