Our management board is composed of the following members:
| Officer | Designation | Background and relevant experience |
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| Alpona Banerji | Chair | Alpona initially joined Doorstep as a Trustee and has since taken on the duty of Chair, she lives locally in Northwest London. Her career has focused on risk management and financial services. |
| Phoebe Stamford-Kamps | Vice Chair | Phoebe joined Doorstep in 2017 and worked as a professional musician for many years before retraining, and brings a professional secretarial knowledge of law, finance and strategy. |
| Gabriel Brooks | Treasurer | Gabriel joined Doorstep in 2017. Gabriel is a physician currently directing studies to reduce the risk of heart disease and lives in Northwest London. |
| Jo Cunningham | Secretary | Jo joined Doorstep in 2015. She has worked as an IT professional in Investment Banking for over 15 years, and lives locally. |
| David Hightower | Trustee | David worked in banking and investment management in the US, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and the UK before retiring. Since then he has worked with a number of UK charities chiefly in an accounting and finance capacity.
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| Sara Katchi | Trustee | Sara became a member of Doorstep´s Management Committee in 1999. Since that time she has been part of the human resources sub-committee and the fundraising sub-committee. She is a freelance Public Service Interpreter with 16 years´ experience of working in the voluntary sector at every level of Social Policy from helping to influence national policy at DrugScope to helping people on the ground at the Citizens Advice Bureau.
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| Swetha Ramachandran | Trustee | Swetha has been a part of Doorstep since 2015 and brings to bear experience from her professional background in financial services and asset management. |
| Ellen Murphy | Trustee | Ellen has a PhD in neuroscience and does consulting for pharmaceutical companies. She lives locally in northwest London and was introduced to Doorstep via another charity she volunteers for. |
| Alexa Brummer | Trustee | Alexa joined Doorstep in the summer of 2018. Qualified as a barrister, she has worked in compliance and anti-money laundering in the gaming industry since 1998. She lives practically on Doorstep’s doorstep in North West London. |
| Kate Gaertner | Trustee | Kate joined Doorstep in 2018 and lives around the corner from the Charity. Kate’s investment banking career has been focused around helping corporates raise financing in equity capital markets – a skill set she is hoping will benefit the Project’s fundraising efforts. |
| Lesley Adams | Trustee | A Company Secretary by profession Lesley lives locally and joined Doorstep in 2018. She has been involved with a number of UK Charities and Committees in a fund raising and administrative capacity.
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