Carol has extensive experience of the third sector both in the UK and overseas, including work on projects in the fields of financial exclusion, rural development, poverty, equalities and service delivery. Carol manages RCMA Social Enterprise – a network of Farmers’ Markets in Cardiff, is the Africa Portfolio Lead for the Sub-Saharan Advisory Panel, founder of Food! Sustainable Livelihoods, Health and Communities, and an Honorary Principal Lecturer with Cardiff Metropolitan University.

Carolyn is a member of both the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) and the Institute of Place Management (IPM) and has a BSc in Business Management with Marketing from Cardiff University.

Carolyn has over ten years’ experience in the marketing, managing and developing places across the UK. She has held management roles at various companies, most recently at FOR Cardiff (Cardiff’s Business Improvement District, BID) where she is the Head of Marketing and Communications. Her role requires her to deliver strategic guidance, to organise and execute B2B/B2C marketing, events and communication activities to FOR Cardiff’s member businesses and promote Cardiff as a destination of choice.

A Welsh speaker brought up in Carmarthenshire, Catherine is an experienced non executive director, trustee and committee member. She has enjoyed a career in politics, as well as working for organisations focusing on children’s and women’s rights, including managing the Wales Women’s National Coalition. For eight years she was a trustee of Care and Repair Cymru and is a trustee of the Peony Breast Care Unit Charity based in West Wales.

She has worked in Labour politics at Assembly, Westminster and European level. In 2018 she was a key member of Mark Drakeford’s leadership campaign team and is an elected member of Labour’s Welsh Executive Committee representing Mid and West Wales.

A former Assembly Member for Llanelli, and a qualified interior designer, in recent years Catherine has fused her passion for politics and design by establishing her own consultancy, Bailey Thomas Design. Amongst the services it provides is the creation of functional and sustainable interior design, mentoring support to women seeking public office and public speaking coaching. She is a founding member of Labour’s Charter for Women, which encourages and supports women into public life.

Catherine became a board member in March 2016 and is also a member of our People and Organisational Development Committee.

After graduating with an English degree from St John’s College, Oxford Christopher worked as a project manager responsible for marketing, producing and distributing a range of print and web resources for schools on behalf of public, private and third sector clients. Christopher then joined the Welsh Government on the Civil Service Fast Stream and spent eight years working mainly on economic policy and regeneration and also as Senior Private Secretary to the Deputy First Minister. After five years at the National Assembly for Wales Commission as Head of Policy and Legislation Committee Service, Christopher returned to the Welsh Government as Deputy Director – Constitution and Justice.

Christopher has two young daughters for whom he is determined to help build a fairer Wales where they can achieve and prosper. Christopher became a board member in March 2016 and Vice Chair in December 2021.

Dr Anita Shaw has over 23 years’ experience of supporting teachers in interactive science teaching, starting at the Science Museum in London, and more recently at Techniquest in Cardiff where she was responsible for the centre’s education strategy.

Anita is passionate about engaging young people, particularly girls, in STEM. She sits on the Welsh Government’s Women in STEM board and has previously been a member of the task and finish group, its Science Working Group and its Strategic Stakeholder Group for the new curriculum in Wales. She runs the Welsh Valleys Engineering Project for the Royal Academy of Engineering and is a volunteer for Barefoot Computing.

Alison became a board member March 2016 and is also a member of our Finance and Risk Committee.

Georgina qualified as an employment solicitor in 2015 and is currently working in the diversity and inclusion space.

She is responsible for all D&I; engagement with and for clients and manages all client interactions, interfaces and requests with regards to D&I.;

Georgina started shadowing the Board in November 2021 via our Step to Non Exec Programme.

Jo has over 20 years of experience in leadership and organisational development across both the public and private sectors. Jo is an experienced strategic leader, practitioner and facilitator, holding a range of post graduate qualifications and professional memberships, having trained at Harvard on the areas of leadership and management development. She is a member of the UK Government Taskforce on Public Service Leadership.

As part of her all Wales role, Jo leads a team to develop new and innovative programmes and opportunities that build leadership and organisational development

capacity and capability across Welsh public services.

Jo became become a board member in June 2018 and Chair of our People and Organisational Development Committee in December 2021.

Kathryn has been working in global development for 20 years, most recently as CEO for United Purpose. In her 20s Kathryn actively campaigned for human rights in South Africa, Eswati and Zimbabwe and her previous roles include Executive Director of The GREAT Initiative – a gender rights charity, CEO of Pump Aid, managing ‘Live Below the Line’ for the Global Poverty Project and working as International Development Director for The One Foundation. She is also a Board Advisor to the Waitrose Foundation.

Lynne has worked throughout her career in public service including senior leadership and Board roles in the civil service and the NHS. She served as Chief Finance Officer of Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service and subsequently as Executive Director of Finance at Swansea Bay University Health Board.

She has over 30 years public service experience in a career spanning research; strategy and policy development and implementation; change management; system improvement; and strategic and operational financial leadership and governance.

Lynne is passionate about diversity, organisational and personal development and believes that great people make great organisations. Lynne is passionate about coaching and mentoring and has a range of coaching and mentoring relationships.

Lynne joined the Board of Chwarae Teg in 2019 and Chairs our Finance and Risk Committee and our Remuneration Committee.

She is also a Trustee of Cardiff and Vale Citizens Advice, where she chairs their Audit and Risk Committee. She is an Independent Member of the Police and Crime Commissioner and Chief Constable for Dyfed-Powys Joint Audit Committee. Lynne is also a Senior Independent Panel Member for Welsh Government Public Appointments.

She is married to a fellow Scot and has two sons and a small granddaughter.

Matt is hugely passionate about driving positive workforces that are inclusive and perform successfully; Happy People drive successful organisations. Having grown up gay in Merthyr Tydfil he is motivated to drive inclusion for all, particularly when it comes to intersectionality – helping break multiple glass ceilings from gender, LGBT+ status, those from diverse socio-economic backgrounds, generational diversity and also multi-culturalism.

Rachael is an ICAEW chartered accountant. She trained at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) in London and has a BSc Hons degree in Chemistry from Imperial College, London. Rachael joined DVLA in 2003 and became Finance Director in December 2013. She is responsible for providing financial leadership at a strategic and operational level, ensuring sound and appropriate governance and risk management controls are in place across the agency.

DVLA is Rachael’s first role in the public sector. Prior to that she held several senior finance positions in the private sector, in a wide-ranging variety of sectors including manufacturing and interior design.

Rachel became a board member in March 2016 and is the Chair of our Finance and Risk Committee.

Sarah is a Policy & External Affairs Manager at Community Housing Cymru, the membership body for housing associations in Wales. CHC support social landlords to provide housing and services to 10% of the Welsh population, and fulfil the sector vision of a Wales where good housing is a basic right for all.

Sarah leads CHC's health, social care and supported housing portfolio, working with members, partners and decision-makers to improve integration and demonstrate the value of housing to health and wellbeing.

Before moving into the third sector, Sarah co-founded and ran a small business. She is an editorial panel member for Thinkhouse, a free online library for housing research.

Having worked to implement the Welsh Language Policy of a local authority, Sharon joined Pia in 1999. Pia is a specialist print company, transcribing print into accessible formats, such as braille, large print and audio. Sharon became MD in 2005, and has been instrumental in a number of business developments, including Investor in People status. She has successfully negotiated a period of intense change, which has resulted in a major improvement in Pia's capabilities and prospects.

Sharon is an enthusiastic advocate of Chwarae Teg’s work. Pia achieved Exemplar Employer Status through Agile Nation, and has once again achieved this in Agile Nation2.

Initially appointed as a Co-optee member, Sharon joined the board fully in June 2018, becoming Chair of the Board in December 2021.

A Community Organiser and Media Officer at the Welsh Parliament, Stewart has worked in Welsh politics in a party and cross-party environment. He has organised campaigns with young parents to tackle payday lending, young Black and Asian people on community safety, and young Muslims combating extremism. Stewart ran the Stronger In campaign in Wales, for a Remain vote in the 2016 referendum. He has since worked in Welsh Labour politics – working on elections and running programmes to identify and train candidates with a focus on improving the gender balance and overall diversity of Welsh Labour candidates. He sat on the party’s Diversity and Inclusion Board for two years and currently works for a Welsh Labour MS in the Senedd and a Welsh Labour MP in Westminster.