Sandy graduated in Geology and spent his early career as a site engineer on civil engineering projects around the world. Following an MBA, he worked briefly in investment banking before taking a number of roles in corporate strategy and general management. In 1997 he was appointed Managing Director of a small subsidiary of Burmah Castrol. Having led the buyout of this business he subsequently sold it to an Australian multinational. Between 2010 and 2018 he was on the board of Oxfam’s Enterprise Development Programme. He is an angel investor and has been a director of two successful Oxford University spinout companies. In 2019 Sandy completed a full-time MA in Art History at the Courtauld Institute.

Until 2014, Jon was a senior civil servant, first in the Cabinet Office and then the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.  Roles included Director of Homelessness, Director of a Regional Government Office, and Deputy Director of the Government’s Neighbourhood Renewal and Social Exclusion Units. Earlier in his career, he led organisations focused on tackling crime and poor housing and was awarded a Fellowship to study crime reduction programmes in the US.  After leaving the Civil Service, he became CEO of a local Citizens Advice service in Oxfordshire. He is a Trustee of Community First Oxfordshire and a volunteer with a non-profit organization that trains animals to detect landmines in former warzones.

Brian studied at Jesus College, Oxford before embarking on an international career in consumer good companies such as Procter & Gamble, SSL International, RHM, Burtons Foods and R&R Ice Cream. He was Treasurer or Chair of Trustees for OXSRAD, a disability centre for 18 years and is now their President. He also chairs the Finance Committee of the Story Museum in Oxford, and is a former member of the Jesus College Development Committee. He is a Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Brian was appointed Vice Lord-Lieutenant of Oxfordshire in January 2019.

Ian is Chair of Trustees for Oxfordshire Community Foundation. Ian spent a number of years as a civil servant before becoming a management consultant at Deloitte. As a Partner, he led the European e-commerce practice. He then became CEO of a US/UK venture capital-funded tech start-up that was an early promoter of online solutions to business. Ian is an Oxford resident committed to bettering wellbeing across the county. In 2012 he was appointed the first Chair of the Board of the NHS Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group, which oversees health services for over 700,000 people living in Oxfordshire. He was also deputy chair of an Oxford schools academy trust.

Elizabeth spent 20 years in corporate finance at Chase Manhattan and JP Morgan, becoming a Managing Director in 1991. She has since been an Associate Fellow at the Saïd Business School; the University lead for several Goldman Sachs Foundation initiatives; and a consultant for the World Bank. She is Chair of The Oxford Playhouse, a Charity Mentor, and a trustee of SOFEA and Be Free Young Carers. Other Oxfordshire roles have included Chair of the Select Committee on Affordable Housing in Oxford, and Director, Common Purpose Oxfordshire. She is a Deputy Lieutenant of Oxfordshire, with a focus on Didcot and on families and children.

Martin is a qualified accountant (CIMA) who spent his career in a number of business organisations in the UK and Canada. He held senior financial positions in three multinational businesses, particularly an Oxford-based academic publisher where he was Financial Director for 15 years. He has held a number of non-business positions in educational institutions (primary, secondary and Oxford Brookes University governorships) and local charities. The latter category includes Chair of Oxfordshire Family Mediation, and Treasurer of Earth Trust and St Luke’s Hospital, amongst others. He joined the Step Change panel in early 2016.