Anil Patil
Anil Patil
Anil has 25 years’ experience in the international development sector as a veterinarian, development worker, grant maker and trustee. Experiences in his professional and personal life led him to establish Carers Worldwide in 2012 and continue to fuel his passion to transform the lives of unpaid family carers across the globe.
Ruth Patil
Ruth Patil
Ruth has almost 30 years’ experience in the health, disability and international development sectors, both in the UK and South Asia. She combines her work influencing the lives of carers overseas with advocacy work on behalf of parent carers in the UK
Jane Cox
Jane Cox
Jane has over 20 years’ experience in international development and finance. She was a founding member of BasicNeeds, responsible for setting up operations, governance, finance and administration systems.
Jane has recently undertook a consultancy for Practical Action, supporting registration of overseas companies. Since 2015, she has setup and operated Carers Worldwide financial systems.
Michelle Gocoldas
Michelle Gocoldas
Michelle has experience working in social media, digital marketing and events, both agency side and in-house, in industries ranging from FMCG to non-profits, from travel to education. She is responsible for all communications from Carers Worldwide, with the aim of extending the reach of our organisation and telling our story.
Sarah Culverhouse
Sarah Culverhouse
Sarah has 18 years’ experience in the not-for-profit housing sector providing both face to face and back office support to the public. Sarah’s role will be to provide administrative support to the growing team and act as first port of call for day to day
Josie Whitelegg
Josie Whitelegg
While new to the charity sector, Josie has over 10 years of activist experience and a strong background in advocacy, research, and fundraising. Her varied experiences, ranging from leading her own campaigns to extensive global travel, have resulted in a resolution to help others in their journey to political and social agency.
Jonathan Freeman
Jonathan Freeman
Jonathan is CEO of the CareTech Charitable Foundation and Managing Director of Earlsbrook Consulting Limited. He was previously Managing Director of Mosaic, HRH The Prince of Wales’ mentoring initiative, and before that a member of the Senior Civil Service. He has a wealth of experience of working in the public, private and charitable sectors over almost 30 years.
Dhanya Vamadevan
Dhanya Vamadevan
Dhanya is an FCCA qualified accountant with a range of experience in the not for profit sector. She currently works as Finance Manager at The Silverline, the free confidential telephone helpline offering information, friendship and advice to older people in the United Kingdom.
Ian Yates
Ian Yates
Ian is Learning and Development Manager at St James’s Place, a multinational wealth management business. He is an expert in training, learning and development, with a speciality in creating high quality training teams with a commercial focus.
Maria Andrews
Maria Andrews
Maria is a new business development professional and strategic marketer. She has worked in both the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors where she has extensive experience of fundraising income generation and partnership growth.
Maveen Pereira
Maveen Pereira
Maveen is Programme Manager at IDH, The Sustainable Trade Initiative. She is a development professional with over 40 years of experience of grassroots and international development, with specific expertise in fair trade and gender.
Jay Suterwalla
Jay Suterwalla
Jay is Managing Director of Sutaka UK Ltd. He is a results-driven, ambitious and competitive business leader focused on transformative leadership and continuous improvement to drive growth and maximise profits. He is always ready to take on new and challenging roles, meet goals and surpass expectations.
Dr Pramod Prabhakaran
Dr Pramod Prabhakaran
Pramod has over 20 years’ experience in clinical, educational and leadership roles within the public and private sector in the UK. He has considerable global healthcare knowledge and expertise having clinically practiced in the UK, UAE and Australia, as well as led various collaborative projects in the Middle East, China and India. Pramod is a faculty member with National Institute of Health Research London IVD Cooperative at Imperial College London, leading on market access programme for diagnostic innovation.
Nicole Hunter
Nicole Hunter
Nicole has demonstrated success in developing leadership teams that drive strategic change management programmes to uncover key business insights, optimizing business processes that increase productivity, reduce working capital, and improve bottom-line performance. She has worked leading third sector provision for mental health with expertise in formulating and implementing financially viable social care provision that meets the highest standards of quality and culture.
Ruwaida Randeree
Ruwaida Randeree
Ruwaida volunteers in the Day Care Unit at the St John’s Hospice where she offers psychological support to patients living with chronic and terminal illnesses. She also currently assists on the Woolf Institute’s Diversity in the End of Life Care programme, where she trains health care professionals in hospices and care homes to support the end of life needs for patients from diverse religious and cultural backgrounds. Ruwaida holds a BSc in Psychology and an MSc in Health Psychology from University College London and has worked at AGE UK where she focussed on developing memory clinics and seated exercise programmes for elderly patients with Alzheimer’s disease.
Chris Underhill, MBE
Chris Underhill, MBE
Having been the Founding Chair of Carers Worldwide, Chris was delighted to be invited to be the organisation’s first Ambassador. He is a social entrepreneur, having founded organisations in the field of disability and mental health and works as a professional organisational development advisor and professional mentor. He is an awardee of the Skoll Foundation, Schwab Foundation, and a Senior Ashoka Fellow, and was made an MBE by HRH The Queen in 2000.
