Meet Our Team

Trustees

Mark Greatrex Trustee

Mark is an experienced Multi Academy Trust Chief Executive, having worked in the education sector for nearly 20 years. Starting in the Academies Team in the Department for Education (DfE) when there were just 12 academies open, supporting the development of new projects and new sponsors. Mark has run a successful multi-academy trust (MAT) for the past seven years, across London and Berkshire. Mark loves sports, having completed the London Marathon twice and plays football and cricket often, with his two young girls.

Sarah Chambers Trustee

A former senior civil servant and regulator, Sarah now chairs the Legal Services Consumer Panel, is on the Board of the Electoral Commission and has a number of other public appointments, mainly in consumer policy and regulation. Until recently she served as Trustee of a Zambian education charity, and is a keen (though not very good) tennis player.

Alexandra Willis Trustee

Alexandra is a marketing, digital and communications specialist, currently employed at the Premier League, and formerly at the All England Club, home of The Championships, Wimbledon. A former sports journalist, Alexandra’s role is to help sporting organisations appeal to the next generation of sports fans and event-goers, showing that they can not only thrive on innovation, but social purpose too. A lover of all sports, Alexandra has two blues and an inconsistent backhand. She lives in London with her wife and daughter.

James Reynolds Trustee

James joined Goldman Sachs in 2000. He is currently a partner in the Merchant Banking Division (MBD) and the head of the European Private Credit Group. James serves on the MBD Corporate Investment Committee. He also serves as a member of the Board of NGA Human Resources as well as the Corporation Development Committee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a keen sportsman and father of three.

Michael Sherwood Trustee

Michael, until recently, was Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs Group and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Goldman Sachs International. He is a sponsor of the Harefield Academy, member of Westminster Abbey development committee and the founder of Grenada schools. Michael was Chair of our Trustees from 2018-19.

Fiona Laffan Trustee

Fiona is Global Head of Corporate Affairs at ICG, the FTSE 100 global alternative asset manager. She has 25 years of experience in financial services and communications, including ten years spent in-house at Goldman Sachs and Lloyds Banking Group; two roles on the consultancy side at Brunswick and Prosek Partners; and six years at the start of her career as an equity analyst.

Fiona is a fitness fanatic, currently pushing her limits through CrossFit, having previously represented the GB age group team at Sprint distance for triathlon. She also played competitive hockey for over 20 years, and has a 1st Dan black belt in Shotokan Karate. She lives in London with her husband and son.

Dora Jeler Trustee

Dora is the Head of High Performance & Development Operations at the International Table Tennis Federation. She is an operations and events specialist, with a passion for supporting youth sports and levelling the (global and local) playing field. She has previously worked at IRONMAN, Volleyball Australia, and on the ATP Tour Finals. In her spare time, Dora enjoys anything fitness related, playing Padel and tennis, and is sitting out a current lifetime ban from family croquet.

Michael de Giorgio Co-Founder and Trustee

Mike co-founded Greenhouse Sports in 2002 after he sold his financial consultancy business. He was Greenhouse Sports’ CEO for fifteen years, stepping down in 2017. He continues to be active as a trustee and is closely involved with the development of the Greenhouse Sports Centre. He chaired the Centre for Social Justice’s report on how best to harness the power of sport to transform young lives and carried the Olympic Torch in 2012. A keen sportsman, Mike is still picking up tips from Greenhouse Sports’ players! He was awarded an OBE in 2017 in recognition of his work at the charity.

Luke Ellis Chair of the Board of Trustees

Luke is CEO of Man Group plc, based in London, and a member of the Man Group Executive Committee. Before joining Man in 2010, he was Non-Executive Chairman of GLG’s Multi-Manager activities and manager of the GLG Multi-Strategy Fund from April 2009. Prior to this, he was Managing Director of FRM from 1998 to 2008 and one of two partners running the business. Before joining FRM, he was a Managing Director at JPMorgan in London. Luke became Chair of the Board of Trustees in 2019.

Andrew Lowenthal Trustee

Andrew is an Advisor at Manchester Square Partners, where he advises executives and Boardrooms across a wide range of leadership and governance issues. He previously spent 27 years with Egon Zehnder. Andrew’s earlier career was with JP Morgan and the Credit Suisse Group in London and New York. He is a keen sportsman and is the Chairman of the Queen’s Club in London.

Nick Prempeh Trustee

Nick is an Assistant Head at an Alternate Provision school based in West London and has over 10 years’ experience within the education sector. He is proud to say he is a product of Greenhouse Sports, having participated in and then worked on inspirational programmes across the organisation. He also co-owns a boxing club in his spare time that operates within both amateur and professional circles.

For more on Greenhouse Sports governance:

Board Minutes – February 2023
Board Minutes – July 2022

Board Minutes – January 2022
Board Minutes – October 2021
Board Minutes – June 2021
Board Minutes – April 2021
Board Minutes – December 2020
Board Minutes – October 2020
Board Minutes – December 2019
Board Minutes – June 2019
Board Minutes – April 2019
Board Minutes – December 2018
Board Minutes – October 2018
Board Minutes – June 2018
Board Minutes – March 2018
Board of Trustees Terms of Reference and Job Description
Board of Trustees Register of Interests 2019-20
Board of Trustees Register of Interests 2017-18
Diversity action plan (May 19 Updates)
Memorandum and Articles of Association
Conflict of interest policy
Annual Governance Statement 2019-20
Annual Governance Statement 2020-21
Annual Governance Statement 2018-19
Annual Governance Statement 2021-22
Equality and Diversity Report September 2020
Equality and Diversity Plan Report June 2019
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Plan January 2023
Equality and Diversity Statement 2019
Equality and Diversity Statement 2018
Equality and Diversity Report 2021
Equality and Diversity Report 2022
Diversity Report December 2018
Safeguarding Adults Policy and Procedure – January 2023
Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy – November 2022
Privacy Notice – January 2023
Children’s Policy Notice – March 2023
Data Protection Policy – May 2018

Senior Leadership Team

Sudarshan Joy Director of Finance & IT

Ben Wyatt Head of Marketing and Communications

Beatrice Butsana-Sita CEO

Béatrice became CEO of Greenhouse Sports in January 2020, joining the charity following a successful career and leadership in telecommunications.

Béatrice started her career at KPMG immediately after graduating from university in Belgium with a Masters degree in Engineering Economics. After a few years in New York working for a major consultancy firm, she went on to run her own business writing speech recognition software to route calls, before joining British Telecom (BT). Her career at BT extended over many lines of businesses and across multiple professions, and culminated in a board position at BT Wholesale and the Group MD role for the transformation of BT’s Customer Experience.

She joined Capita as Managing Director in 2016 where she quickly established Capita Networking Solutions, a stand alone P&L of circa £300 million, by merging seven businesses. Her first major achievement was the turn-around of a large contract (>£250 million) to place fibre across Scotland.

Since July 2018, she has served as a non-executive director for the South London and Maudsley Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.

Adam Whale Director of People & Culture

Chris Allbut Director of Programmes

Chris leads on the delivery of our school based programmes; after nearly 20 years working in secondary education as a teacher and senior leader he switched to senior management within the charity sector. He has a passion for sport and working with young people in deprived areas in order to improve their life skills and social mobility. Chris has a keen interest in golf and cricket as well as personal fitness.

Bethany Kinsella Director of Fundraising

Jason Sugrue Director of Coaching

Jason is our Head of Sports Coaching and Lead for the Greenhouse Centre. He was six years old when he picked up a bat at his dad’s table tennis club in north London. After his dad’s death when he was 12, Jason went on to play table tennis for the next 15 years, winning over 100 national titles. In 2006, he became the British and Irish Champion – the pinnacle of his professional playing career. He joined Greenhouse Sports as a coach in 2005 and spent the next decade working in schools across London and developing our coaches and programmes. In 2017, he moved away from school-based programmes and took on his current role at the Greenhouse Centre. Jason has dedicated his coaching career to guiding young people on a journey of personal development – giving them the tools to reach their potential is what gets him out of bed in the morning! On the rare occasion that he isn’t playing or coaching table tennis, Jason loves spending time with his family and watching sport – especially Liverpool.

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