Our Executive Board
Our Executive Board consists of our Chief Executive and six Directors.
As well as running all the day to day aspects of our charity, they also proactively seeking out fresh initiatives that help meet the changing needs of disabled people. The Executive Board reports directly to our Trustees.
Meet our Executive Board
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Paul Billington |
Peta Wilkinson – Chief Executive
Peta joined Enham as Chief Executive in August 2010.
Prior to Enham, Peta was the Executive Director of Service Development and Delivery at the Terence Higgins Trust. Here she developed the organisational service strategies, to deliver client focussed services nationally, based on identified health needs.
Peta's career has mainly been within the NHS and she was previously Chief Executive for both a Primary Care Trust and Primary Care Group.
Peta has recently attained a PhD in 'Systemic Learning and Development
Across the Policy/Practice Interface' from the University of the West of England.
Peta shares her home with her husband John and her three prized Alsatian dogs.
Chandra McGowan – Client Services Director
Chandra joined Enham in August 2010 in the newly created post of Client Services Director. Chandra is responsible for ensuring the high quality delivery of all our client-facing support services in a person-centred way.
She trained as an Occupational Therapist in Oxford and went to work with people with learning disabilities as soon as she was qualified. Chandra has gone on to hold a number of senior management roles involved with strategic service development and commissioning in the NHS, Local Authorities and as Trustee of a Voluntary organisation.
Outside of work, Chandra spends time with her two teenage daughters, a plethora of good friends and close family – enjoying wild open spaces when she can.
Graham Deverill – Director of Finance and IT
Graham has worked for Enham for over 5 years, joining as Finance Director and now leading on Finance and IT, as well as in the capacity of Company Secretary. Graham is keen to develop Enham's IT further, to ensure it is forward-thinking and innovative in its approach.
Originally, Graham trained as a chartered Accountant and worked in practices in Liverpool and Kenya. Eventually, he moved to be Finance Director of a number of Training and Enterprise Councils in London before joining the Duke of Edinburgh's Award.
Graham is married with two adult children, but no grandchildren yet! In his spare time, he is involved with the Rotary Club and is an avid campanologist at his local church.
Mark Deal – Director of Development, Research and Policy
Mark has worked for Enham for over 20 years. He worked in a number of roles, primarily focussing on service design, policy and business development, before becoming our Director of Development, Research and Policy.
Mark is now responsible for winning tenders and establishing new services once contracts are won. He also ensures Enham remain informed and engaged in public policy relating to disability.
In 1995, Mark obtained an MSc in Disability Management, Work & Rehabilitation and in 2006 was awarded a PhD in Disability (researching attitudes of disabled people towards other disabled people). Between 2003 and 2011, Mark was a member of the Disability Employment Advisory Committee, set up by the Minister for Disabled People, to provide confidential advice to Government Ministers and Officials.
When not at work, Mark enjoys reading modern literature and listening to music. (Including Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan and Tom Waits!)
Nick Caiger-Smith - Commercial Director
Nick joined Enham in August 2011 as Commercial Director, with responsibility for its fundraising and marketing teams and its industries. He brings a wide span of experience to meet the challenge of broadening Enham's revenue streams while continuing to offer employment to disabled people.
Nick's career of over thirty years has embraced banking, corporate finance, stockbroking and corporate strategy with City investment banks, corporate development in industry and the launch and management of venture funds.
Nick is a graduate of King's College, Cambridge. He has lived and worked in the Middle East and the USA, as well as here in Britain. He is married to Jane, from New South Wales, and they have four adult children. He is a keen motorcyclist and enjoys outdoor pursuits and gardening, travel and the creative arts.
Paul Billington – Director of Organisational Development and People Management
Organisational Development is a very new area for Enham and, in the simplest terms, it looks at the system the people at Enham work in and offers assistance to ensure it is as efficient and effective as possible and can support Enham's objectives as a charity.
Paul has studied at various universities in the UK, Spain and USA. He has worked for 25 years in charity sector, for the most part as an Organisational Development specialist. For the last six years, he moved over to the business sector, within corporate communications, corporate social responsibility and corporate ethics.
Paul regards people as the most important part of life – inside and outside of work. Outside of work, his life revolves around his family – a wife, son, four dogs, a harassed cat and three mares.
Victoria Leesam – Director of Property and Sustainability
Victoria's role at Enham is to oversee the Property portfolio and Enham's sustainability strategy. Victoria is currently overseeing the planning application for the village at Enham Alamein, which will give Enham the opportunity to build more choice in terms of new homes, offices and commercial building.
Victoria's background is in building affordable homes and she has worked for a large housing provider in the South West, building more than 120 homes a year. Before this, she ran her own business for 10 years, organising events across the country.
During 2011, Victoria finished building her own home (making use of her degree in 3D design). Although rubbish at remembering the names of plants, Victoria enjoys gardening.
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