Our trustees
Melissa Bethell
Melissa Bethell is a Managing Director with Bain Capital Ltd, responsible for private equity investments since 1999. She specializes in media and technology investments. Bain Capital is one of the most active principal investment firms globally with over $65 billion of capital under management.
Prior to joining Bain Capital, Melissa worked in the Capital Markets group at Goldman Sachs, with a focus on media and technology fundraisings.
Melissa's philanthropic interests also includes support for the Private Equity Foundation (UK) and ORBIS.
John Griffith-Jones (Chairman)
John Griffith-Jones is the Joint Chairman of KPMG Europe. Educated at Eton and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, he qualified as a chartered accountant in 1978 and worked for KPMG as an auditor until 1987 when he transferred to help set up their corporate finance practice. He ran that practice in the UK and Europe from 1998 until June 2002 when he was promoted to be KPMG’s Chief Executive Officer. Under his leadership the firm transitioned to become a genuinely multi-disciplinary organisation. He became UK Senior Partner in October 2006 and has led the merger with other European KPMG firms to create KPMG Europe.
His interests include: the army (a territorial soldier for 14 years), bridge, tennis, domestic building projects and low key dinghy sailing. He enjoys reading books on history, politics (or both) in his spare time. John is a member of the MCC, Royal West Norfolk Golf Club, Whites and a Liveryman of the Skinners.
Paul Marshall
Paul Marshall is a co-founder of Marshall Wace Asset Management, a leading European Equity Hedge Fund group with circa $5 billion under management. He was formerly a Director of Mercury Asset Management Plc., where he was CIO for European equities.
Paul is a founder trustee of ARK, the leading children’s charity and is Chairman of ARK Schools, one of the UK’s leading providers of secondary school education. He is founder and Chairman of Centreforum, the leading liberal think tank, founded in 2005.
Paul is the author of a number of publications on education, including “Tackling Educational Inequality (2007). He was also co-author, with David Laws, MP, of The Orange Book (2004). Mr. Marshall holds an MBA from INSEAD Business School and a BA Hons. from St. John's College, Oxford, in History & Modern Languages.
Jim O’Neill
Jim O'Neill is Head of Global Economic Research for Goldman Sachs, overseeing all the firm's economic research and the output of its team around the world. He received his Ph.D. in 1982 from the University of Surrey after graduating in Economics from Sheffield University in 1978. Jim joined Goldman Sachs in October 1995 as a Partner, Co-Head of Global Economics and Chief Currency Economist. Previously, after a brief spell with Bank of America and International Treasury Management, a division of Marine Midland Bank, Jim was at Swiss Bank Corporation (SBC), becoming Head of Research globally for SBC in 1991.
Jim is a member of the board of the Royal Economic Society in the UK, of the European think tank Bruegel, and Itinera, a Belgium think tank. He is a member of the UK-India Round Table. He is Chairman of SHINE, a charity which supports additional educational initiatives which encourage children and young people to raise their achievement levels. SHINE funds organisations working with underachieving 7-16 year olds from disadvantaged areas in London and Manchester.
Andrew Scott
Andrew Scott was educated at Bradfield College, he qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1976, working for Whinney Murray. He joined ED & F Man Ltd in 1977; he became Managing Director of the Sugar Division in 1987; Managing Director of The Molasses, Alcohol and Shipping Division in 1992 and had been a main board member of Man Group plc for ten years, until he retired to pursue his own interests in 1999. He took over running the Man Group plc Charitable Trust in June 2004, having remained a Trustee since 1990. He ceased running the Trust in the latter part of 2008 and stepped down as a Trustee a year later. His interests include golf, sailing, skiing, tennis and bridge.
Andrew is Chairman of Redhill Aerodrome and Chairman of a small building products business, Surecav Limited. He is a Governor of Bradfield College.
Peter Sherratt
Peter Sherratt was formerly Vice Chairman at the investment bank Lehman Brothers and Chair of Lehman’s European Charitable Foundation.
Peter trained as a lawyer in England, qualifying as a barrister, and holds degrees from Oxford and Cambridge universities. He is a Board member of CAMFED, an organisation dedicated to eradicating poverty in Africa through the education of girls and empowerment of young women, and a Trustee of World Swim Against Malaria. He is also Chair of Governors at an inner city secondary school.
