Here at Fair Finance it is the staff who make the service special, efficient and fair. Our extremely committed team will help you become more financially confident and will provide you with the adapted service or product you need, may it be a loan or an advice. Each member of the team believes in our core values: “Efficiency, affordability and transparency” to be adjusted with FF values.
Over the last 20 years Aaron has worked in the UK’s voluntary & community sector as a practitioner, researcher, author and blogger, campaigner, fundraiser, policy advisor, trainer, trustee and volunteer. Aaron currently heads up the national work of innovative east London charity, Community Links, which takes the pioneering ideas and new ways of creating social change locally and shares that learning nationally with practitioners and policymakers.
Over the last seven years Aaron has worked closely with a number of government ministers and their special advisers, senior civil servants, MPs, select committees to influence the policies and practices in the benefit and tax credit system, child poverty, volunteering, housing, and the cash-in-hand or informal economy.
Aaron is currently a member of HMRC’s Hidden Economy Advisory Group, UCATT Vulnerable Workers UMF Rd3 Steering Group, a founding member of the CREATE consortium campaigning for the introduction of a Community Allowance in the benefit system, as well as Child Poverty Action Group’s and the Campaign to End Child Poverty’s policy committees. He recently sat of the Child Poverty Unit’s Benefit Take-Up Taskforce. He has previously worked and volunteered for The Samaritans, Hammersmith & Fulham CVS, Oxfam, and The Refugee Council (amongst others).
Alice joined the Financial Services Authority (FSA) in 2007 to support the National Strategy for Financial Capability’s Partnership Development programme of work. The team’s work ensures that the Strategy addresses the needs of people who might find themselves excluded from the financial system. In her role as team leader Alice develops and implements financial capability and inclusion strategies with key partners. Before joining the FSA Alice ran SAFE, a financial inclusion project at Toynbee Hall, a charity in Tower Hamlets. During her time at Toynbee Hall Alice was instrumental in establishing Transact, the national forum for financial inclusion, as well as developing key personal finance resources, including the Personal Finance Handbook with Child Poverty Action Group. Alice supported the initial development of Fair Finance and was subsequently invited to join the Board in 2005.
Alice is a member of the Staffing Committee
Anna graduated from Hull University and has a Masters Degree from London School of Economics. She is also an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers and a registered independent financial adviser.
Anna has been a financial adviser for some 20 years, most recently as the MD of Fiona Price & Partners, another business pioneering financial planning for women. In 2006 she has launched Addidi, a wealth management business for women. She comments on personal finance and has appeared on national media (TV, press and radio).
Anna also has a keen interest in a local politics and environmental issues where she was a Parish Councillor and City Councillor for a number of years.
Anna is a member of the Money Advice Committee
Chris is currently a partner with Altair, a Management Consultancy company working in the Housing and Property fields, with Local Government, Housing Association and property developer clients. He has worked in the Management Consultancy field for the last 4 years.
Prior to this Chris worked for over 20 years in Local Government. He held director posts in two London boroughs and was latterly CEO at the London Borough of Newham.
Chris has a degree in English and Sociology from Manchester and an MBA from the London Business School.
Emma Squire is a member of the Senior Civil Service and has held a variety of posts at the Department for Business (BIS) and HM Treasury.
Until October 2011, Emma was head of the small business finance team at BIS, responsible for policy to support viable entrepreneurs access the finance they need to start, survive, and grow. The team is responsible for analysis and advice to Government Ministers on microfinance, bank lending and venture capital; it administers a tax relief for community investment; and funds various schemes to finance small firms, notably a debt guarantee scheme worth £600m p.a. and a portfolio of venture capital funds.
Outside of work, Emma is a volunteer business advisor for Young Enterprise, working with young people to inspire and equip them to succeed through enterprise.
Emma is a member of the Staffing Committee.
Faisel Rahman has a background in international development, including Grameen Bank and the World Bank, where he focused on developing the microfinance sector and expanding it around micro enterprise. He also briefly worked as an underwriter for a syndicate at Lloyds of London and co-authored a number of books on charitable fundraising and trust funds in the UK.
In 2000 he developed the first microcredit project in the UK and later created an innovative and sustainable debt advice service. His work received accolades from the Bank of England and the New York Federal Reserve Bank and has helped hundreds of women create businesses and saved many hundred more from eviction.
In 2005 he founded Fair Finance, and is currently its Managing Director. Fair Finance is a social business that aims to reduce financial exclusion and exploitation amongst poor and low income communities in the UK.
Faisel is currently a board member of the European Microfinance Network. In 2007 he was elected one of the first UK Ashoka Fellows in recognition of his work in social enterprise and the potential to make system changing impact through Fair Finance and in 2009 was recognised as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He also writes a monthly column in the Guardian newspaper on financial exclusion.
Mark joined the Board of Fair Finance in 2005 and became Chair in 2007.
Previously, he worked as an investment manager in the City of London, including three years at the Bank of England and six years at Barclays Global Investors, where he was a Managing Director and Chair of the Diversity Committee.
Mark is a member of the Board of Governors for the University of East London, where he is chair of the Finance and Capital Projects Committee.
He has a PhD in Philosophy, and is an honorary Fellow of the Institute of Philosophy, part of the University of London’s School of Advanced Studies.
Mark is a member of the Finance Committee and the Staffing Commitee.
Neil Stanley is an entrepreneur focused on online businesses and mobile phone applications.
Previously Neil spent his career in Finance including 11 years at Goldman Sachs.
Neil has degrees in Engineering, Economics and an MBA from London Business School.
Neil is a member of the Finance Committee
Vice Chair – Rasmus qualified as a lawyer with Linklaters in 2006, specialising in Employment and Incentives Law. Rasmus has worked for Linklaters since 2004 having spent time in both London and New York.
Rasmus has a Danish and UK law degree (LLB) and a Masters (LLM) in Corporate and Commercial Law from King’s College London. In 2007, Rasmus qualified as a Certified Equity Professional from Santa Clara University, California. Rasmus also hold a Certificate in Employee Share Plans from the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Accountants.
Rasmus is a member of the Finance Committee
Kristi worked in sales at Morgan Stanley in Paris, London and New York for 6 years covering both interest rate and credit products. Upon her return to London, she worked at Triple A Partners, a seeding a distribution fund for emerging market hedge funds. She is a graduate of Columbia University, with a degree in Economics and Mathematics.
Kristi is a member of the Finance Committee.
Marie-Laure began her career with Citibank and Warbug Dillon Read (now UBS) in London and Singapore, covering institutional clients on money markets and credit fixed income products. She then spent six years with Morgan Stanley as an Executive Director in fixed income sales before joining Iveagh in 2006.
Marie-Laure holds a BA (Hons) in Business Studies and Marketing from Hallamshire University, Sheffield and a degree in Business and Languages from the University of Strasbourg in France. Marie-Laure speaks French, English, Spanish and Italian.
Marie-Laure is a member of the Money Advice Committee.
Sally has worked as a Human Resources Manager at the law firm Macfarlanes LLP since 2004. Prior to this she worked as a Human Resources Manager at Debenhams. She is a member of the CIPD and has a degree in Politics from the University of Leeds.
Sally is a member of the Staffing Committee.
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