Lisa Hackett
Lisa is our delivery director and has worked in in a variety of roles in the social work sector. This includes roles at residential children’s homes, the youth offending service, managing an outreach service for Women’s Aid, and managing a private fostering agency. Prior to joining Frontline in 2016 Lisa was head of social work and youth and community development at De Montfort University. She also spent time as head of criminology at the university, and was a lecturer at Leicester University on the MA in social work programme.
Meet the rest of my team
JOSH MACALISTER
Josh is Frontline’s founder and chief executive. Josh is a former secondary school teacher and an alumni of Teach First.
MARK POTTER
Mark is Frontline’s external relations director. He has spent 13 years working for not-for-profits.
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.
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.
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.
LISA HACKETT
Lisa is our delivery director and has worked in in a variety of roles in the social work sector.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Anoshe Waheed
Anoshe is head of programmes for Firstline and coaching and prior to this worked as a project manager on the Frontline programme.
Andrea Rowe
Andrea is the head of human resources. Having developed and set up the HR function for Frontline she has skills and experience in organisation development, recruitment, performance management, and diversity and inclusion.