The Board
Ann Olivarius, AO Advocates and McAllister Olivarius
Ann is a lawyer who specialises in sexual harassment and women’s rights. She is co-founder of the law firm AO Advocates, which represents victims of childhood sexual abuse, and is senior partner at McAllister Olivarius, a leading firm in advancing the rights of women. In 2019 she received the Yale Women Lifetime Achievement Award. Ann has advised individuals from Nelson Mandela and Bill Gates to Margaret Thatcher, to name a few, on a range of matters across injustice and finance, including IPOs and educational and economic policy.
Alison Inman, Past President, Chartered Institute of Housing
Alison is a non-executive director at two housing associations, a care charity and two other housing-related organisations. She has a long history of involvement with the women’s movement and the violence against women and girls’ sector. Alison was also part of the original working group, put together by Big Society Capital, that eventually led to the establishment of the Women in Safe Homes fund.
Cherine Aboulzelof, BGO Strategic Capital Partners
Cherine is Managing Director, Head of Europe, at BGO Strategic Capital Partners and has spent the last fifteen years in the real estate investment space within a wide spectrum of sectors, and geographies after starting her career in banking.
Colette Cronshaw, Riverside Housing Association
Colette is Project Assistant at Riverside Housing Group – a mixed-gender complex needs homeless hostel in Manchester. She is also a trustee at Manchester Action of Street Health, and volunteers for other charities in the sector.
Elizabeth Corrado, Impulse Impact Ltd
Elizabeth is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Impulse, an impact investment advisory company. Additionally, she is a non-executive director of Your Healthcare CIC, a social enterprise providing health and social care services in South West London. Elizabeth is also a member of the Oversight Committee of Pensions for Purpose, and until recently was a member of the Investment Committee of the Community Investment Partnership, a social impact investment fund.
Ghada Sousou, Sousou Partners
Ghada is CEO of Sousou Partners, an executive search and advisory boutique. She also works on several initiatives with leadership development charity Seeds of Peace, Impact 100 – a philanthropic impact fund primarily benefitting women and girls in London – and the charity, Makan.
Jacinta Kent, Group psychotherapist, trainer and facilitator
Jacinta is a qualified group therapist and group analyst in training based in Leeds, West Yorkshire. She uses trauma-informed principles, intersectionality and psychoanalysis in her work with minoritised and/or marginalised groups and individuals, namely women with experiences of trauma, such as childhood sexual abuse, trafficking, and rape. Jacinta also delivers training to specialist services and clinicians; leads the Embrace Ethnicity Network within Leeds’ primary care consortium; and published works relating to power, privilege, and position within mental health provision.
Laura Dale-Harris, Social Finance and Reconnections
Laura is an Associate Director at not-for-profit Social Finance, and a director at Reconnections, the first social impact bond aimed at tackling loneliness in the UK. She also sits on the board of Drive, a partnership that aims to change the way that statutory and voluntary agencies respond to high harm perpetrators of domestic abuse.
Lynn Fordham, The Royal Marines Charity and Conquering Horizons
Lynn has worked in both the house building and investment sectors and has recently retired as the CEO of a private capital investment business. She is Chair of The Royal Marines Charity, and director of Conquering Horizons – creating innovative mobility products – and an advisor to other ventures.
Rehaila Sharif, Women’s Aid
Rehaila is Head of Membership at Women’s Aid and has worked in the domestic abuse and violence against women and girls (VAWG) sector for twenty-three years. She is also a trainer, teacher, qualified counsellor, and a community activist. Rehaila has also worked and volunteered for other charitable organisations in the VAWG sector.
