Key Personnel

Katy Chamberlain

Chief Executive

	Katy has held the post of Chief Executive since 2008, after 4 years as a member of Chwarae Teg’s Board of Trustees where she held the office of Treasurer. Prior to joining Chwarae Teg, Katy’s career with international accountancy and business advisory firm KPMG spanned more than 20 years, providing an insight into a multitude of businesses across Wales and beyond. In that role she pioneered flexible working at a senior level. Katy is a chartered accountant and a graduate of Leeds and Reading Universities. She won the Welsh Woman of the Year Management Achievement Award in 2000 and was the President of the South Wales Society of Chartered Accountants in 2010/11. Katy is committed to using her business experience to work with her team to promote and develop the role of women in the Welsh economy.

Trish Chalk

Business Development Director

Trish Chalk joined Chwarae Teg as Business Development Director in September 2007 bringing with her an MA and wide ranging experience in management and business development. Trish has worked in the public and non-profit sectors for the past nine years, before joining Chwarae Teg Trish ran a not for profit organization in England implementing projects to improve operational efficiency and develop their commercial programmes. Trish is responsible for developing Chwarae Teg's support programmes for public, private and voluntary sector organisations.

Hayley Dunne

Project Manager

Hayley joined Chwarae Teg in January 2001 and has worked on projects and core business during that time. Since January 2003, she has been responsible for the Work Life Balance aspect of Chwarae Teg's work, which included management of the project with large public sector organizations, culminating in a best practice report, development of the website for Work Life Balance in Wales and the SME Challenge Fund. Prior to her appointment as Agile Nation Project Manager, Hayley was responsible for the delivery of the Welsh Assembly Government's Work Life Balance Strategy - Getting the Balance Right, which ran to March 2008

Ann Elliot

Resource Manager

Ann joined us in February 2003 and is Chwarae Teg's Resource Manager with responsibility for HR, Facilities Management and Health & Safety. She has more than twenty years' experience in personnel and training working in both the private and not for profit sectors. As well as managing Chwarae Teg's HR and facilities functions Ann contributes to the delivery of the organisation's business plan, the development of new projects and assisting with some PR activities.

John Jackson

Marketing and PR Manager

John is responsible for the marketing and PR of Chwarae Teg and its Agile Nation project. A post-graduate qualified marketeer John has over18 years experience in delivering roles for household names including Tesco and House of Fraser. He also has extensive project marketing experience through his work with the Opportunity Wales ecommerce initiative. In 2010 John spearheaded the Agile Nation Womenspire campaign that went on to win the Chartered Institute of PR Pride award for the Best use of Digital PR.

Judy Leering

Director of Finance and IT

Judy is a qualified accountant who has more than 10 years of financial experience in the voluntary sector, managing annual budgets of over £3million. Her role involves managing and accounting for diverse streams of funding; ensuring effective systems and controls are in place to support monitoring and reporting of financial and operational performance; liaising with funding bodies and advising the Board on all financial and accounting matters. Judy has extensive experience of European funding grant claims; project accounting and reporting; audits and liaising with officials at a senior level.

Bev Pold

Project Innovation Manager

Bev joined Chwarae Teg in 2001 as part of the Women's Enterprise Wales team and has worked in a variety of roles across the organisation since, including policy, business development and project management. She is Theme Leader for Enterprise and is currently developing new projects to complement Chwarae Teg's portfolio in addition to providing technical support to Agile Nation. In 2009, Bev received the Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion