We are proud and honoured to be supported by a team of trustees with a wealth of professional and voluntary experience in sectors including careers, local authority, healthcare, education, charity, innovation and Armed Forces.

Our trustees ensure we take the right actions to deliver our strategy and vision and meet our legal and financial obligations.

Hear about being an Adviza Trustee in this blog and video by Trustee Seth Allen.

Learn more about our Trustees

Tristram Hooley

Independent Chair of Adviza Board, Chair of Performance and Quality Committee, and
Member of Finance and Audit Committee

Professor Tristram Hooley took up his role as Chair of the Adviza Board in January 2021.

He has been described by others as a “career development guru” and “a leader in the international community of career development professionals.” He is passionate about career development, education and guidance as well as social science research and learning technology. He is an expert for our times, being active on social media and his own blog, “Adventures in Career Development”.

Tristram is Chief Research Officer at the Institute of Student Employers, Professor of Career Education at the University of Derby and Professor at the Inland Norway University for Applied Science. He is also Director of the National Institute of Career Education and Counselling.

Anne Delauzun

Trustee

Anne became a Trustee at Adviza in 2022. An experienced career practitioner and manager specialising in higher education, Anne is currently Director of Careers and Employability at the University of Reading.

Prior to joining the team at Reading in 2018, Anne worked as a careers consultant and manager across various colleges within the Careers Group, University of London. In her early career she worked as a project manager for arts organisations in the not-for-profit sector, focusing on capacity building for small businesses, professional development, and information, advice and guidance.

Ayaan Ashraf

Young Trustee

Ayaan is currently finishing his Integrated Masters in Chemical Engineering at the University of Manchester before starting his career at Barclays in the summer. He is also the President of one of the largest academic student societies at the University and has a wide variety of volunteering experience.

He is passionate about giving back to students of all ages and ensuring young people from all walks of life are able to engage in careers they can be proud of.

Bruce Laurie

Trustee and Chair of Performance and Quality Committee

As well as being Chair of the Adviza Performance and Quality Committee, Bruce is the Chair designate of our Finance and Audit Committee and a member of our business development committee.

He is a former Group Services Director of BG Plc, Director of Change for British Gas, and former Chair of the Newbury Community PCT. His further experience as a committee member includes time spent as Chair of Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and as a Lay Chair for Newbury Deanery.

Campbell Christie CBE

Trustee and Chair of Personnel Committee

Campbell is a former Royal Navy Commodore with 27 years’ experience of working with the Royal Navy, Royal Marines, Army, Royal Air Force and allied nations. His operational experience includes Commando service in Northern Ireland and the first Gulf War.

He was Principal/CEO of Bracknell & Wokingham College for 7 years as well as being the Thames Valley Berkshire Local Enterprise Partnership Director responsible for skills. He currently runs an independent consultancy as Managing Director of Campbell Christie Associates Ltd.

Chris Nehring

Trustee

Chris became a Trustee at Adviza in 2021 following a 35 year international career with BP that took him to leadership and executive roles in UK, USA, Africa, Middle East and Russia. He has extensive experience in deploying Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) strategies, building the capability of technical organisations and establishing effective risk management systems.

Chris was a Trustee for international schools in Azerbaijan and Egypt and is an accredited Executive Coach working through the Alta One Coaching & Consultancy LLP for which he is principle partner.

Jaskirat Mann

Staff Trustee

Jaskirat Mann is the Project Delivery Manager for the Skills Up Bucks (SUB) programme within Adviza. She has worked for Adviza since 2014 and began her role as staff trustee in 2021. She represents the staff at the board.

Jaskirat joined Adviza as a Careers Adviser, has worked in a vast number of schools across Buckinghamshire and Berkshire, alongside the Youth Offending Team, Pupil Referral Units and within Community settings. Jaskirat has an extensive 20 year background working in Education and Careers Guidance and is passionate about making a difference to the lives of others.

Jonathan Olaofe

Trustee and Member of Personnel and Performance and Quality Committees

Jonathan became a Trustee at Adviza in 2017. He has extensive Trusteeship experience with a number of not-for-profit organisations in the employment, career guidance and public health sectors.

For many years he was a member of the Surrey High Sherriff Youth Council and School Governor at a local Primary School in Wokingham. He has served on strategic, finance, HR and fundraising committees for a number of these organisations and partnerships.

Mike King

Trustee

A geology graduate of the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, Mike spent over twenty years in senior technical and managerial roles in the international energy sector in Europe and the USA with Amoco, Tenneco, Hess and British Borneo. Upon leaving the energy sector in 2001, Mike ran inward investment activity for the Welsh Development Agency prior to taking up a role as Chief Executive of the Department of Economic Development, Sport and Culture in the Government of Jersey. In 2017 Mike returned to the UK as Managing Director of Cornwall Development Company, a company that ran an extensive programme of ESF and DWP funded support programmes in Cornwall. In May 2022 Mike took on his current business development and government relations role with Cornish Lithium.

Sarah Hathaway

Trustee and Member of Personnel Committee

Sarah is the Joint CEO of the Institute of Student Employers, working with members to support best practice and leadership in the recruitment and development of early talent. She has worked with professional and membership bodies for over 20 years, much of which has been spent supporting initiatives to promote access to opportunities for the broadest range of young people.

Sarah is also Chair of the Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Careers Hub and an Enterprise Adviser for two schools and a college group, also in Cornwall.

Seth Allen

Trustee, Chair of Business Development Committee and Member of Finance and Audit Committee

Seth has a background in corporate sales and has worked in the innovation space for over six years as a founder, consultant and community builder. He has built entrepreneurial communities from the ground up and organised conferences attended by industry leaders and politicians from around the world.

He is currently focused on innovation projects in food systems and healthcare and brings a valuable perspective on innovation and technology to his role as Trustee at Adviza.