The people behind MonKeyBusiness Foundation
Managing Director
Paul has extensive experience at Board Level in a variety of Grocery industry companies. In addition, he is responsible for Inventabrand Consulting providing top-level consulting services to many businesses in the Grocery Sector. Paul is passionate about his fund-raising activities.
National Development Manager
Lauren is Paul's niece and shares his passion for education and inspiring young people to reach their full potential. Having graduated not too long ago she brings a good insight about the challenges faced by young people now trying to carve out their careers. Since graduating with a law degree, Lauren has spent time working with the Walt Disney and BBC legal teams and most recently worked in a sales role for Mars.
Julie spent 20 years in senior executive roles with The Walt Disney Company. She has extensive experience in delivering results and managing complex businesses in fast paced and evolving markets across the UK, Europe and North America. Her breadth of knowledge spans the Retail, Consumer Goods, Media and Entertainment industries. Julie left school at 16 and is passionate about helping students succeed in their further education and career goals by sharing her personal journey, and giving ideas on how to succeed in today's workplace.
Operations Manager
After a career in radio sponsorship, Debbie has spent 10 years as a Researcher for a Consumer Goods Executive Search Consultancy. Her network and experience in CV writing, job seeking and recruitment advice has been of great help in developing the Working Options programme.
Sir Clive Woodward
• England's 2003 Rugby World Cup Winning Head Coach
• Director of Sport Team GB: London 2012, Vancouver 2010, Beijing 2008
• Founding Partner and Chairman of Hive Learning
• Director of Sport, Apex2100 International Ski Academy
Sir Clive Woodward is the World Cup winning Head Coach who led England's rugby Players to World Cup glory in Australia in 2003. A former England International and British and Irish Lion himself, during CliveÕs tenure as Head Coach England moved from 6th in the world to being the number one ranked team, winning every trophy an England team can win.
In 2006 Clive joined the British Olympic Association. As Team GB's Director of Sport he worked in close partnership with key stakeholders in British Sport to support the national coaches and athletes at the Beijing & Vancouver Olympics as well as deliver Team GB's most successful Olympic Games in the modern era at London 2012.
Clive is currently the Founder and Chairman of Hive Learning - an app which has digitized Clive's coaching methods and is designed to improve the quality of learning in business and sport and is the Director of Sport for the Apex2100 International Ski Academy which aims to become the World's Leading High-Performance Academy for young athletes wanting to achieve their goals in Alpine Skiing.
Lady Jayne Woodward
Jayne started her career as a teacher of History and Geography in the UK. After moving to Australia with her husband, Sir Clive Woodward, she continued to teach before having their first 2 children, Jess and Joe.
It was whilst in Sydney that she first started to work with Clive. Upon their return to the UK Clive established a Finance and Leasing Company and Jayne retrained to become the Company Secretary, managing the administration of the business.
After having their 3rd child, Freddie, she left the running of the business to support Clive in his new full time post as England Rugby Head Coach.
Jayne’s experience and training as a teacher has been a huge advantage in creating content based upon Clive's sports coaching. Their collaborative content has been used in both a sports and business context and continues to be added to and evolved today.
As a business partner, Jayne has managed Clive's 'off pitch activity ' including his charity and fund raising commitments, media work and business speaking for over 20 years.
One of her main contributions throughout Clive's tenure as Head Coach of England was to change the established approach and push for the enhancement, recognition and inclusion of players/athlete support networks, including their wives, girlfriends, children and parents. Understanding the needs of players, coaches and athletes, and the importance of the right environment for success through her own experiences, gave her a unique insight and empathy with players and their networks. She played an integral part of the coaching structure and organisation around the team.
Away from business and sport Jayne is a keen gardener, avid reader and great dog lover, sharing her life with Sally the Labrador and Ronnie the Norfolk Terrier and loves spending time with her family and friends.
She remains a teacher at heart.
Board of Trustees
Julie Sneddon
Chair of Trustees
Trustee
Naynesh Desai
Naynesh Desai is a Consultant with a Mayfair firm of Solicitors, Chan Neill. Previously he was Senior Partner of DDO Solicitors and has been in practice for almost 34 years. He advises and acts for a vast array of retailers throughout the United Kingdom, many of which are privately owned and operated family businesses including several high street franchises.
He also advises several large hotel groups in the United Kingdom. Naynesh has been the Chairman of the Bunbury Dinners which raises money for the English Sports Cricket Association for many years and acts for many high profile celebrity sportsman and is also a Trustee on the Board of Ian Botham’s Beefy’s Charitable Foundation
Sufian Sadiq
Sufian is a talented teacher with extensive management experience within the education sector. He is a Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching and holds various roles with awarding bodies, specialising in quality assurance, examination and assessment.
He is the Director of Teaching School for Chiltern Learning Trust, a successful Multi-Academy Trust. He is passionate about making a difference to young people and also holds management positions with a number of other charitable and voluntary sector organisations that are committed to improving the lives of young people.
Nigel Morris
After starting his career in fashion and textiles Nigel became in a divisional marketing director at Coats Viyella, before moving into media and marketing services. After joining start up agency BBJ in 1992, he helped the business to pioneer new digital strategies ahead of the market. After being acquired by Aegis PLC in 1999 he then led the digital strategy of the Group. He launched Isobar in 2003 as CEO, building it into a 4000 people strong global network by 2008.
He became the Group CEO of the Americas, transforming the Group and increasing revenue 3x in 4 years. After Aegis was acquired by Dentsu, he ran the whole Dentsu Aegis Network across Americas and EMEA from 2012 to 2018 more than doubling revenue. He also headed all the Social Impact and sustainability initiatives for the Group from 2005.
He left Dentsu in early 2019, to focus on impact investing in data science, ai, technology and marketing. He has built his own portfolio of 20 start-ups, is a Director of Gyana and Actioncy Tech and advises in Venture Capital and Private Equity. He's been a non-executive Director of Guardian Media Group since 2012 and is a Trustee of the charity Working Options.