MEET THE TEAM

Our people work passionately towards our mission of transforming the lives of vulnerable children and their families. You can explore their profiles below.

Lord Adonis

Andrew has given ongoing support for Frontline since an early stage in 2010. Andrew formerly served as minister for schools and was a senior Number 10 adviser on education.

Camilla Cavendish

Camilla is an award-winning writer and broadcaster, and former head of the Downing Street Policy Unit under Prime Minister David Cameron.

Clare Chamberlain

Clare is the Director of the Centre for Systemic Social Work for Hammersmith and Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster.

Michael Clark

Michael is the Deputy Chief Executive of Ark. He was previously a Junior Partner at McKinsey & Company and co-led its Education Practice in the UK.

Zena Cooke

Zena has worked in local government for over 28 years and is currently Corporate Director, Resources and Chief Officer at Tower Hamlets Council.

James Darley

James has been working in Graduate Recruitment for 20 years and is recognised as one of the most significant leaders in the sector.

Paul Dunning

Paul, an ARK trustee, has 20 years of experience in financial services.

Andy Elvin

Andy has been Chief Executive of TACT (The Adolescent and Children’s Trust) since September 2014.

Oliver Gayle

Oliver is Director of the UK legal team responsible for credit restructuring at Barclays Bank PLC.

Charley Lintern

Charley is our first ever fellow board member. As a member of our inaugural 2014 cohort, she completed the Frontline programme in East London.

Sally Morgan

Baroness Morgan of Huyton is a former teacher and councillor who joined the House of Lords in 2001.

Jacob Rosenzweig

Jacob is a Partner and Managing Director at BCG, where he leads the Technology, Media, and Telecommunications practice for London, Amsterdam and Brussels.

Sukriti Sen

Sukriti qualified as a social worker in 1992. Her social work career has spanned across children in need, child protection, looked after children, fostering and adoption and quality assurance.

JOSH MACALISTER

Josh is Frontline’s founder and chief executive. Josh is a former secondary school teacher and an alumni of Teach First.

MARY JACKSON

Mary is the chief programmes officer. She has had over 15 years’ experience in change management, recruitment and communications at both operational and strategic levels.

LISA HACKETT

Lisa is our delivery director and has worked in in a variety of roles in the social work sector.

MARK POTTER

Mark is Frontline’s external relations director. He has spent 13 years working for not-for-profits.

Ann-Marie McLoughin

Ann-Marie is Frontline’s recruitment director. She has worked in graduate recruitment for 11 years and has developed extensive experience across selection, marketing and strategy development.

SAM SIMS

Sam is Frontline’s chief operating officer. Prior to joining Frontline, Sam served as director of development at Teach First, where he worked for seven years.

London

Jeannette Adames – Head of Region, London

Jeannette is a registered social worker who has spent her career working with children and families both in the US and UK.

Fran Feeley

Fran has over ten years’ experience working as a social worker with high risk and complex child protection cases.

Tessa Godfrey

Tessa qualified as a social worker in 1985, following the publication of the Barclay Report on social work.

Eugene Ogbewele

Before joining Frontline as a Practice Tutor, Eugene spent the majority of his professional career in working in the statutory setting.

Midlands

Tracey Ellison – Head of Region, Midlands

Tracey has worked in a number of voluntary organisations including Home Start, MIND and as a manager for a mental health helpline, before working in child protection and children in care social work within a statutory setting for 14 years. Before joining Frontline, she was the Principal Child and Family Social Worker and Systemic Lead for Stoke-on-Trent City Council. Tracey has been working with Frontline since 2017 and took up the role of Head of Region for The Midlands in 2018.

Rebecca Brewer

Rebecca has been a Senior Academic Tutor on the Frontline programme since it started in 2015.

North West

Dean Lawrence – Head of Region, North West

Dean has worked in a number of statutory social work settings in both Manchester and London, which includes seven years in a specialist in child and adolescent mental health services team.

Katie Ayres

Katie has worked as a Lecturer on the Frontline programme since October 2016.

North East

Ross Duncan

Prior to Frontline Ross worked for eight years in the Family Court, as a children’s guardian and family court advisor.

Allan Brownrigg – Head of Region, North East

Allan is a registered social worker and an accredited psychotherapist and has worked in a range of social work settings.

Julie Henry

Julie left statutory social work practice in September 2016 to take up her post as lecturer at the University of Bedfordshire on the Frontline programme.

South East and East of England

Vicki Parker – Head of Region, South East and East of England

Prior to joining Frontline, Vicki worked as a consultant social worker in Hackney, and has been involved in the unit model for many years.

Chris Hemsley

Chris left statutory social work to join the University of Bedfordshire as a Lecturer on the Frontline programme in May 2014

Lara Parish-Mackin

Lara has been a practicing social worker and manager for the last 10 years.

Henry Smith

Henry graduated as a social worker in 2006. He’s worked in various children and families social work settings before joining the Frontline Academic Team in 2016.

Charlie Whittaker

Charlie joined Frontline as a Curriculum Advisor in Motivational Interviewing (MI) in 2016.