Our Senior Management Team
Michael Defoe
CEO
About Michael
Michael is the CEO and is a former youth & community practitioner. He has worked across London delivering specialised projects targeting young people who are disadvantaged and socially excluded and has developed training programmes for youth workers enabling them to deliver high quality recreational and educational activities which help to improve self-confidence and broaden opportunities for young people. Michael is extremely passionate about youth work and the wider impact it has on the community.
Barbara Llambert
Finance Manager
About Barbara
Barbara has lived in the local area for all of her life and has been the Finance Manage since 2010.
Ros Oxley
COO
About Ros
Ros Oxley has spent her entire career in the commercial world, first working in the City and then running a large events portfolio for Informa, the world’s largest events’ organiser. With a team of 250 staff and a turnover of £60m, the portfolio delivered over 830 events from small training courses to large exhibitions. Ros has joined the Harrow Club as Interim COO, bringing with her considerable commercial and organisational expertise which will be focused on strengthening the organisation at a time of expanding service delivery necessitated by the needs of the young people and community with which we work.
Liam Clipsham
Senior Development Manager
About Liam
Liam has more than 15 years’ experience in the Not-for-Profit sector and has worked in both grant-giving and fundraising and development. He has worked for a number of youth and community organisations in London and is passionate about facilitating youth social action programmes and developing projects that address the most significant social challenges of the moment. He is also a Trustee for numerous charities.
Anastacia Kharitonova
Community Engagement Manager
About Anastacia
Prior to joining the Harrow Club, Anastacia worked for over 10 years as a lawyer specialising in energy and infrastructure financing transactions at White & Case and Baker McKenzie in London
Our Youthwork Managers
Steve Davies
Programme Manager – Seniors & Sports & Safeguarding Lead
About Steve
Steve has worked at the Harrow Club for nearly 11 years and now manages our 3 satellite clubs and Seniors youth club. His responsibilities include overseeing and supporting all the Youth Workers in Charge to provide the best quality youth work possible. He is also responsible for making important links into the community, especially with schools, that enable us to develop quality partnership work and extend our reach into the local communities. He is also a Member of the Board of Trustees for the Young Hammersmith & Fulham Foundation.
Mathilde Glossop
Programme Manager, Juniors Transition
About Mathilde
Mathilde has grown up in the local neighbourhood and has been involved in youth work since she was 17 years’ old. She has worked in primary schools in three different boroughs both as a classroom assistant as well as in a 1-2-1 support capacity. Additionally, she has worked in the US and with the Youth Offending Team in the UK. She has been involved in the Club for over 16 years, most recently as Junior Youth Team Worker in Charge and was then appointed Youth Engagement Manager in April 2019. Mathilde has just completed a BA in Youth Work and Youth Justice.
Nekisha DeCosta
Programme Manager, Development Projects
About Nekisha
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Our Trustees
Philippe Chappatte
Chair, Board of Trustees
About Philippe
Philippe is a partner at law firm, Slaughter and May and has worked at the firm since 1980. He is also President of the European Competition Lawyers Forum. Philippe is listed as a leading individual in the ‘Competition Law’ section of Chambers UK, 2017 (Band 1) and for ‘EU and competition’ in The Legal 500 UK, 2016. He was appointed a trustee in 2016 and has spearheaded the Boxing Debate Programme at the Club. He was appointed Chair in August 2019.
Kevin Gilbert
Treasurer
About Kevin
Kevin Gilbert has been a trustee of the Harrow Club for some 12 years. He is a Chartered Accountant, who until he retired, was a partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers. He was a governor of both Harrow School and The John Lyon school for 15 years until August 2017 although remains as a director of a subsidiary entity which oversees the activities of Harrow School’s branded international schools in the Far East and chairman of the schools’ pension scheme. Kevin lives in Fulham with his wife Ann. His two sons live nearby.
Katie Walker
Trustee
About Katie
Katie is a London based, New York born Russian who moved to London 20 years ago. She graduated from Georgetown University with an MA in Russian. She was an MD at Goldman Sachs, where she worked for 18 years across a range of businesses, and recently retired to pursue other interests outside of finance. She is a fluent Russian speaker. She sits on the board of trustees of the Harrow Club in Notting Hill, and the Prince George Galitzine Memorial Fund for St Petersburg. She lives in London with her husband Ben and four children.
Leanda Fauset
Trustee
About Leanda
Leanda qualified as a lawyer with Ashurst and has experience in M&A, media, real estate and tax law. In 2007 she set up a delicatessen and catering business which she sold in 2017 and then joined a start-up FX business coordinating legal and office requirements. Leanda has an MSc in Biological Sciences from Oxford University.
She was appointed as a trustee in 2018. Prior to that she worked as a volunteer with the Rugby Portobello Trust as a classroom assistant where she learned of the importance of youth services to the community. Leanda has lived in west London since 1981 with her husband and 4 children.
Tim Dalton
Trustee
About Tim
Tim completed a BSc in Mathematics at the University of Birmingham before working for the charity Livability. He moved into finance, working for Douglas, Deakin and Young in London before completing a PGCE at the Institute of Education. In 2003 he joined Queen Elizabeth’s School, Barnet to teach Mathematics before moving to Harrow School in 2007 where he became Head of Statistics. In 2014 Tim left Harrow to become Assistant Head Teacher (Head of Sixth Form) at Twyford Church of England High School in Acton. He returned to Harrow in 2016 and is the Director of Shaftesbury Enterprise. Shaftesbury Enterprise encompasses all of Harrow’s philanthropic, charitable, outreach and partnership work. Tim joined Harrow School’s Senior Management Team in 2018. Tim lives in Harrow with his wife, Casey, and three young daughters. He enjoys riding his bike and watching his beloved Harrow Borough playing football.
Chris Martin
Trustee
About Chris
Christopher is CEO of The Mix, a charity providing innovative, multi-channel advice and crisis support service for under 25s, Christopher is passionate about digital for social good. He was previously with YouthNet, Turn2Us, Help The Aged and Christian Aid. He is also a trustee of Brook who provide sexual health support for young people. In his spare time, he is a gadget lover & fellow of the RSA.
Micah Watkins
Trustee
About Micah
Micah has worked for a well-known housing association for 16 years. He is passionate about using social value and has used this to provide the Harrow club with support from organisations and for the provision of educational material for the youth at the club. He has also liked to use social value and has worked in partnership with Haringey homes through summer 2018 to re-open a youth club in Haringey in 2018. He is also a senior level 2 ABAE – and is England boxing coach for the Cuban Boxing Academy located at the Harrow club. He has dedicated 8 years to working with today’s youth to help them walk the right path and make the right decisions.
Tom Stoddart-Scott
Trustee
About Tom
Tom is Head of Property at Armila Capital who provide real estate investment and corporate finance advisory services to its network of institutional and private clients. A qualified surveyor, he was formerly with London Resort Company Holdings & Hanover Private Office. In addition to his trustee role, he is also a liveryman at The Clothworkers Company. He was educated at Reading University and also at Harrow School and has been a trustee since December 13.
Charlotte Rossan
Trustee
About Charlotte
Charlotte has lived locally since 2005, and now does so with her family. She feels passionately that we should all engage with the community in which we live and seek to create opportunities for everyone. Through her work at the K+C Foundation and particularly in relation to Grenfell, she has worked closely with the local community on a variety of different projects and funding initiatives. Before choosing to work in the not-for-profit sector she developed her skills and expertise working as a management consultant and brand consultant.
Alexander Trotter
Trustee
About Alexander
Alexander was a portfolio manager for over ten years investing in frontier African equities. He is a trustee of the Tony Elumelu Foundation, Africa’s leading supporter of entrepreneurship. He has a background in investment management, strategy, and corporate finance, and has held positions with UBS and GAM. He began his career at Linklaters, as a corporate lawyer. Alex holds degrees from Oxford University and Imperial College.
