Andy Keen-Downs CEO of Pact and Pact Futures CIC Expand Andy Keen-Downs has been Chief Executive of Pact since 2005, steering the charity through a period of great change and growth. Since 2015 he has been Group CEO, following the establishment of Pact Futures CIC as a wholly owned, independent subsidiary. Andy has worked in the voluntary sector for much of his working life, and was previously Deputy Director at Gingerbread (One Parent Families), where he developed services and secured the support of JK Rowling. Previously, Andy held senior posts with the National Childbirth Trust and with Centrepoint. Andy’s first job with a charity was as one of a team of three staff, running The Gatehouse Project in the Hulme & Moss side area of Manchester during the late 1980s, which involved supporting adults with literacy issues and developing a social enterprise community publishing operation. This followed a dramatic career change from his previous role with Reuters in the City of London. Andy undertook a PGCE at Roehampton University following a degree in English and Theology at the University of Kent. His other qualifications include being arrested as a juvenile offender at the age of ten, and the experience of imprisonment of both friends and relatives. In 2015, Andy received the Longford Prize on behalf of Pact, and secured the support of Michael Palin for the charity’s work for prisoners’ families. Andy acts as a pro-bono advisor to Lord Michael Farmer and to Bishop Richard Moth, and is regularly sought for his expertise on how to reduce re-offending and the risk of inter-generational offending.
Ellen Green Deputy CEO of Pact and Managing Director of Pact Futures CIC Expand Ellen has 16 years’ experience of working in the voluntary and community sector at senior management level. Ellen joined Pact in 2012 initially as New Business and Partnership Manager and then Director of Business Development. Ellen became Pact’s Deputy Chief Executive in 2014,taking on the dual role of Managing Director of Pact Futures CIC (a wholly owned subsidiary of Pact) in 2015. Since joining Pact, Ellen has focused on the development of commercial contracts, tendering for MoJ/NOMS provision and developing partnerships with a wide range of private, third and public sector partners. This has included securing over £2.5m through Transforming Rehabilitation contracts and £5m from NOMS CFO3. Prior to Pact, Ellen worked for Sova as Business Development and Partnership Manager, responsible for Midlands and Wales, and has previously worked as Partnership Manager for Serco Welfare to Work as regional lead in Yorkshire and Humber for Flexible New Deal and Work Programme, successfully securing one of Serco’s two Work Programme contracts in South Yorkshire, and developing their Third Sector Engagement Strategy. Ellen has been Chief Executive of a ward based charity, Oldington and Foley Park Community Network growing it from £100,000 per year to £450,000 turnover in addition to Founder and CEO of The Network (Worcestershire) providing refurbished electrical appliances for low income families – an exemplar project for DEFRA, Government Office West Midlands and the FRN. Ellen has experience in serving on a number of Charity Boards currently as MD of Pact Futures CIC and previously including FRN Enterprises, Community Action Wyre Forest and Community Support Initiatives as Chair and FRN, Distributed Learning and Kidderminster College as a Board Director. Ellen has a BSocSc in Political Science and a Certificate in Fundamentals of Senior Management.
Adrian Masters MBA Chair of the Board of Directors, Pact Futures CIC. Expand Adrian Masters is Director of Strategy at Public Health England. Adrian’s prior roles include Managing Director of Sector Development (which covered responsibility for pricing, policy, economics and knowledge management) and Director of Strategy at Monitor (which included responsibility for strategic communications) and Director of the Health Team in the Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit. Before coming in to government, Adrian had a range of roles in the private sector including McKinsey, IBM and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Phil Taylor OBE Pact Trustee and Director of Pact Futures CIC. Expand Having completed 35 years’ service, Phil Taylor retired in 2013 as the Governing Governor of HMP Wormwood Scrubs. Awarded an OBE for his outstanding contribution to HM Prison Service in 2011, Phil’s career has spanned 12 prisons, including HMP Swansea where he supported and oversaw the development of the Community Chaplaincy scheme as a trustee. Phil also supported Pact and the Tudor Trust to enable the development of the new Family & Visitors Centre at HMP Wormwood Scrubs, and developed a range of partnerships to improve the prospects of prisoners on release. Phil has been a member of the Butler Trust awarding panel, hosted BBC Question Time in the Wormwood Scrubs chapel, and participated in the Ministry of Justice Permanent Secretaries Front Line Forum for 3 years providing operational feedback to the Secretary of State and Ministers. As well as acting as a Coach and Mentor to senior managers across the prison estate, he has been a member of the Brent Social Mobility Commission chaired by Lord Jim Knight, and has acted as Project Director for an ESF project, The Active Inclusion Learning Network, a two year project (2013-15) working across the EU to enhance the employment objectives of the socially disadvantaged.
Philip Aiken Pact Futures CIC Director Expand Philip is a Director in the Legal Department of Barclays Bank where he has worked for nine years. Prior to joining Barclays, Philip trained and qualified with Clifford Chance LLP and spent time working in both their New York and London offices, before which he graduated from the University of Exeter with an LLB in Law. Having worked as a lawyer in the financial services industry for nearly sixteen years (both within private practice and in-house) Philip has advised on a wide range of legal and regulatory issues, as well as providing strategic direction at a time of unprecedented public interest in banks and the services they provide. Philip’s appointment as a Trustee of Pact in 2014 was his first charitable appointment and one where he enjoys leveraging the skills he has developed in his legal career for the benefit of a charity which supports those who may not have had access to the support and education from which he has benefited.
Christine Chang Pact Futures CIC Director Expand Christine is currently on secondment to the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation managing the Foundation’s £45mm Social Investment Fund. Prior to joining Esmee, she was a Senior Investment Director at Big Society Capital leading on its Public Service Markets activity. As part of her role at BSC, she sits on the board of the Social Investment Scotland’s Social Growth Fund and the Management Committee of Social Finance’s Care and Well-being Fund. Christine brings her international finance experience to the team, having worked for Goldman Sachs in New York and London. She holds an MBA from INSEAD and two degrees from MIT. She is passionate about the delivery of social impact by the frontline, and in addition to being a Director on the Board of Pact Futures, she is also a Non-executive Director for Thera Trust.