Executive Team & Board

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Tracey Burley

Chief Executive

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Eddie Confoy

Interim Director of Corporate Resources

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Lornette Pemberton

Executive Director of People

and Internal Operations

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Andy Cross

Executive Director of

Development - Service Delivery

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Andy has worked in social housing, homelessness and offender services since 1987 in the public and voluntary sectors. Over the years he has worked for Hillingdon Council, a number of Housing Associations particularly Family HA, Shepherds Bush HA, Metropolitan Housing Trust and St Mungo’s Broadway. He has been at St Giles Trust since 2003.

His roles have included a wide variety of client facing jobs including housing advice, housing and hostel management, resettlement support, welfare rights advocacy and support as well as developing and managing education, training and employment services including at St Giles Trust. Andy became Director of Services in 2008 and is now Director of Development for service delivery.

Matthew Pilkington

Executive Director of Fundraising and Communications - Communications and Impact

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Mike Rebeiro

Chair

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Mike brings a wealth of professional experience in law, digital and innovation, alongside non-executive leadership roles in the third sector.

He is currently Chair of charity Spurgeons, joining their Board in December 2022, as well as Chair of Adoption UK.

Mike worked for 17 years as a Partner at Norton Rose Fulbright, heading up technology and innovation. He has worked in a number of advisory roles since this time.

Debra Cook

Board Member

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Debra has worked in Safeguarding for over 30 years.

Prior to her current role as Safeguarding Manager at National Citizen Service, Debra was Head of Safeguarding, Student Engagement and Welfare for a group of further education colleges in South West London.

Previous to that she worked as an Independent Advocate and Safeguarding Lead for Voice, a charity working with young people and adults at risk who are looked after by the state rather in young offenders institutes or through the care system. Debra also spent a year in Romania running an orphanage and have also volunteered in a refugee camp working on food distribution and child welfare.

Janet Hills MBE

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Janet is a former President of the National Black Police Association (NBPA) and former Chair of the Metropolitan Black Police Association (MetBPA). She was a serving Police Officer with 27 years’ service. She has held a number of posts on the MetBPA Executive, including First Contact Support Co-ordinator and General Secretary, before becoming the first female Chair of the MetBPA in 2013 and then the first female police officer elected as NBPA President.

Janet joined the Metropolitan Police Service in 1991. She began her service at Brixton Police Station where she started on response team before venturing into the Criminal Investigation Department (CID). Janet has worked in a number of departments including the burglary and robbery squads and the Community Safety Unit. She went onto specialise in the Human Trafficking Unit before returning to Brixton on promotion as a Detective Sergeant. She was awarded an MBE in the New Year’s Honours List 2021.

Erica Handling

Deputy Chair

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Erica is an executive coach and a non-executive director with over 30 years of experience working in the City as a law firm partner and General Counsel.

Erica’s work as a coach focuses on supporting leaders in the corporate sector, as well as the public and charitable sectors. Currently, Erica, sits on two commercial boards: Petershill Partners Plc, managed by Goldman Sachs Asset Management (which invests in interests in private equity firms); and the Dutch market maker, Optiver.

She was previously a non-executive director on the Board of the Government Legal Department and is currently Chair of Spark Inside which provides transformational coaching to people in prison and St Giles Trust which supports people facing various life challenges such as poverty, exploitation and contact with the criminal justice sector to build a positive future.

Caroline Waddington

Board Member

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Sally Eley

Board Member

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Sally is Head of the CIPD Trust, which supports people getting into work, getting back into work and developing in work by harnessing the knowledge, expertise and talents of the people profession. The CIPD Trust is part of the CIPD, the professional body changing the world of work, whose purpose is to champion better work and working lives.

Prior to this, Sally was the Director of the City & Guilds Foundation – the purely philanthropic part of City & Guilds that brings to life the purpose through a range of activities including the Princess Royal Training Awards, the Future Skills Commissions, the bursary programme, engaging young people and measuring the beneficial impact the City & Guilds Group has in society.

Sally held the role of Communications Director at UK Skills and was part of both the WorldSkills International and WorldSkills London 2011 teams. Before joining City & Guilds, Sally had a successful career as a freelance communications consultant with clients in the education, training and care sectors.

Charles Pitts-Tucker

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Ameeta Rowland

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Andrew McEachern

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Andrew currently works as an executive coach after retiring from full time employment at the end of 2024, where he was Global Head of HR at Christie’s. He brings 40 years of commercial and international experience to St Giles having worked in the energy sector (Shell), financial services (Goldman Sachs) and professional services (Norton Rose Fulbright) first as a lawyer and then as a HR professional.

Charlotte O’ Brien

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Jane Cadell

Board Member

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Jane is a Senior Finance Executive with experience across consumer brands, media, fast moving consumer goods and education, having originally trained with Unilever. Her most recent role was for Costa Coffee as their UK Chief Financial Officer (CFO) having previously held Regional Finance Director roles across Costa International, Europe and Middle East and the Costa Express business.

Executive Team & Board

St Giles' Leadership Team

Board

Mike Rebeiro

Debra Cook

Janet Hills MBE

Erica Handling

Caroline Waddington

Sally Eley

Charles Pitts-Tucker

Ameeta Rowland

Andrew McEachern

Charlotte O’ Brien

Jane Cadell

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