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Pact Futures Directors

Ellen Green

Deputy Chief Executive of Pact and Managing Director of Pact Futures CIC

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Ellen is an experienced strategic manager with over 25 years' experience working within the voluntary and community sector, half of which is in criminal justice related charities. She is currently serving as the Deputy Chief Executive of Pact and as Managing Director of Pact's wholly-owned subsidiary, Pact Futures CIC. These roles involve strategic leadership as part of a five-member Senior Leadership Team and full-spectrum operational management. Ellen is a Business Development and contract management specialist, overseeing both our Business Development and Services teams. She has been instrumental in Pact's growth and development with a proven track record in enabling the organisation to identify and exploit opportunities to fulfill its mission through development in existing and new markets as well as an excellent understanding of inter-relationships between complex and often diverse services.

Published: 1st November, 2016

Updated: 5th May, 2020

Author: Louise Potter

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Andy Keen-Downs

CEO of Pact and Pact Futures CIC

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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.

Published: 1st November, 2016

Updated: 6th September, 2017

Author: Louise Potter

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Nick Smart

Pact Trustee and Pact Futures CIC Director

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Nick has worked in the Criminal Justice System since 1979. He was Chair and CEO of the London Community Rehabilitation Company, delivering Probation services to 30,000 service users across the capital, from its inception in 2014 through its sale to private owners.

Nick was previously CEO of Surrey & Sussex Probation Trust (SSPT). In this role, he led a pioneering project that resulted in a radical revision of National Standards for the supervision of offenders. He also chaired the Sussex Criminal Justice Board.

Nick has held a wide range of senior management responsibilities within Probation. He has taught social work students up to post graduate level and was a front-line practitioner for15 years

Throughout his long career, Nick has always been committed to the importance of the relationship between providers and service users at individual, family, group and community level, as a key factor in promoting positive change.

Since stepping down from LCRC, Nick has sought to continue to contribute to the sector. In addition to joining Pact's Board of Trustees and becoming a Director of Pact Futures CIC, Nick is a Fellow and Director of the Probation Institute and is providing mentoring to third sector leaders in his home city of Brighton.

Published: 15th November, 2016

Updated: 14th September, 2017

Author: Louise Potter

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Carolyn Robertson

Pact Futures CIC Director

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Carolyn qualified as a lawyer in 1986 and has spent much of her career advising directors and senior stakeholders on risk, compliance, financial and commercial issues. She currently works in house at Barclays Bank plc and is an active mentor both inside the bank for colleagues and interns and also for external organisations assisting disadvantaged young people, helping them to achieve their full potential. She participates in various volunteering activities including Lifeskills for school children and giving presentation and interview skills training for young people about to embark on their working life. Carolyn joined the Board of Trustees in 2014.

Published: 15th November, 2016

Updated: 5th May, 2020

Author: Louise Potter

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Adrian Masters MBA

Chair of the Board of Directors, Pact Futures CIC.

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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.

Published: 15th November, 2016

Updated: 20th February, 2017

Author: Louise Potter

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Christine Chang

Pact Futures CIC Director

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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.

Published: 22nd February, 2017

Author: Louise Potter

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Jim Horsted

Pact Futures CIC Director

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Jim’s current non-exec portfolio includes: Non-Exec Chairman of Working Transitions, Non-Exec Director of Touchpoint Employee Benefits, Non-Exec Director of Pact Futures CIC, Trustee and Chair of Governors of Lady Zia Wernher School for profoundly disabled children, and Non-Exec Chair of the local Pastoral Parish Finance Committee. 

Jim's previous roles have included HR Manager at Nationwide Building Society, Chief Examiner for the CIB, and Governor and Chair at Sacred Heart Primary School.

His professional qualification include: BA (Hons) Economics (Sussex University), Cranfield University MBA, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (FCIPD), Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers (FCIB), Associate Member of the Association for Coaching (AMAC), and Post Graduate Diploma in Career Counselling (Birkbeck University).

Jim has published numerous books and articles on a range of subjects including outplacement, career transition, change management, law, and finance.

Published: 18th September, 2017

Author: Louise Potter

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