ISLINGTON - Key Persons


Agnieszka Wcislo

Job Titles:
  • Community Chef

Aissata Fofana

Job Titles:
  • Finance Assistant
  • Member of the Finance Team

Alan Gorringe

Job Titles:
  • Finance Manager
  • Member of the Finance Team

Alan Wong

Job Titles:
  • Catering Assistant
  • Member of the Catering Team

Alberto Viagel Varela

Job Titles:
  • Catering Assistant
  • Member of the Catering Team

Alexis White

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Community Engagement Team
  • Community Engagement Officer

Aziz Watili

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Catering Team
  • Chef

Carol-Ann McArdle

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Community Engagement Team
  • Community Engagement Manager

Cathy Carpenter

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Services Team
  • Deputy Director of Services

Daniel Nitzani

Job Titles:
  • Facilities Assistant
  • Member of the Facilities Team

David Vassermann

Job Titles:
  • Trustee
  • Trustee - Co - Optative
David has been a General Practitioner at The Neaman NHS Practice since 1990. He has been involved in the medical education of undergraduate students and trainee junior doctors as well…

Debra Mendes

Job Titles:
  • Trustee
Debra became a Trustee in July 2012. Her background is software engineering and she spent many years at Reuters and the London stock exchange. Today she is the director of her own company specialising in business improvement consultancy. She worked in the area for 16 years, knows the area very well, and lives nearby.

Deniz Bellikli

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Reception Team
  • Reception Manager

Don Kehoe

Job Titles:
  • Trustee
Don joined the Board in July 2012 . He is a local resident and has brought up his family in Islington. In addition to running his own software company in Goswell Road, he is a trustee of the local charity, Help on your Doorstep, a director of London Capital Credit Union, and was involved in EC1 New Deal for Communities and its legacy work.

Ella Frampton

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Services Team
  • Activities and Events Co - Ordinator

Father Jack Noble

Job Titles:
  • Trustee
  • Trustee - Nominative - St Giles' Parochial Church Council, Cripplegate
Fr Jack is the Rector of St Giles Cripplegate. He joined St Luke's when he came to the area as Rector in 2022. Having served in several London parishes of different kinds,…

Fiker Anliey

Job Titles:
  • User Engagement Co - Ordinator

Fr Jack

Job Titles:
  • Trustee
  • Rector of St Giles Cripplegate

Gemma Pimlott

Job Titles:
  • Trustee
  • Trustee - Nominative
Gemma works in the investment management industry looking after public sector institutions including central banks, sovereign wealth funds and national pension schemes. She lives in EC1.

Graham Reeves

Job Titles:
  • Older Men 's Development Officer

Hardip Kaur

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Community Engagement Team

James Morley

Job Titles:
  • Facilities Assistant
  • Member of the Facilities Team

Jane Spong

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Business Engagement Team
  • Business Engagement Officer

Jo King

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Services Team
  • Services Manager

Joe Pak

Job Titles:
  • Trustee
  • Senior Portfolio Manager at Allianz Global Investors
Joe is a senior portfolio manager at Allianz Global Investors covering macroeconomic funds. Also passionate about creating things, he started Wilby Beer Co, a company specialising in lower alcohol beer. Joe is from the United States and has worked in London for more than 5 years and lives locally.

John Garces

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Business Engagement Team
  • Business Engagement Manager

Jose Bucho

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Catering Team

Jose Mendes

Job Titles:
  • Catering Assistant
  • Member of the Catering Team

Katherine Ulloa-Padilla

Job Titles:
  • Finance Assistant
  • Member of the Finance Team

Kelley Byrne

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Reception Team
  • Receptionist & Events

Keren Wiltshire

Job Titles:
  • Director of Services
  • Member of the Senior Management Team

Kieran Wadia

Job Titles:
  • Trustee
Kieran became a trustee in 2019. He was born in London and has lived in the local area since 2012, spending a large part of his career working in the City. He has a strong belief in the value of positive role models and has seen this through his own community work with children. By profession he is a software engineer, and spent a decade at Goldman Sachs, before moving to a smaller firm.

Kitchen Porter

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Catering Team

Lina Mani

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Health & Wellbeing Team
  • Wellbeing Co - Ordinator

Lisa Burrell

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Communications Team
  • Senior Communications Manager

Louie Mears

Job Titles:
  • Communications Officer
  • Member of the Communications Team

Luke Polie

Job Titles:
  • Facilities Assistant
  • Member of the Facilities Team

Mary Duncan

Job Titles:
  • Trustee
  • Trustee - Nominative - City of London Corporation
Mary is a Common Councilman for Cripplegate ward. She lives locally and has an interest in housing and community issues. She spent 6 years in the USA. Prior to that she was in Oxford where she was chairman and a trustee of the local Women's Aid group. She was a magistrate for 30 years and was chairman of the Family Panel. She worked in the NHS as a senior manager for several years and was involved as a volunteer officer with the local Scout Group.

Maurizio Morelli

Job Titles:
  • Catering Manager
  • Member of the Catering Team

Michael Davison

Job Titles:
  • Trustee
  • Deputy CEO of Hogan Lovells
Michael Davison is Deputy CEO of Hogan Lovells. For close to 30 years, he has been helping clients avoid disputes and from 2014 to 2020 he was the sole head of the firm's global Litigation, Arbitration and Employment practice, comprising 200 partners and 800 lawyers across 45+ offices. Michael also sits as an arbitrator, acts as a mediator, and lectures on arbitration topics. A keen advocate for diversity and inclusion at Hogan Lovells, Michael is the executive sponsor the firm's Race and Ethnicity at Hogan Lovells (REAHL) Network. Michael is also dedicated to Hogan Lovells' pro bono programme and has been involved in partnerships with the Royal British Legion to provide legal advice, representation and emotional support to veterans and bereaved Service families to pursue their cases. He was also assisting the Justice for Jasmine families whose relatives died when residents in care homes in South Wales. Michael also holds a strong interest in the use of technology including AI to support the firm's clients and is leading a number of projects in this area leading the firm's data strategy and developing alternative service delivery models. Michael is a council member of The Heart of the City. He is also the Chair of the Arbitration Committee of the City of London Lawyers Society.

Michael Ryan - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive
  • Member of the Senior Management Team

Nezahat Simek

Job Titles:
  • Catering Assistant
  • Member of the Catering Team

Paul Bambury

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Facilities Team
  • Deputy Director of Operations

Raymond O'Halloran

Job Titles:
  • Trustee
  • Trustee - Chair
Ray has always held a strong belief in having an active role within the local community. He is a ‘local boy', born and bred in Islington. He is chairman of his estate's local Tenants' and Residents' Association (TRA), was a founding governor of the local school and he is involved in safeguarding and recruitment with them.

Regis Nwofa

Job Titles:
  • Facilities Manager
  • Member of the Facilities Team

Reverend David Allen

Job Titles:
  • Reverend
  • Trustee
  • Trustee - Ex - Officio
David is vicar of the church closest to the Community Centre, St Clement's, King Square. He was a former Board member of EC1 New Deal for Communities and is actively involved in the local neighbourhood.

Rosaline Ogunro

Job Titles:
  • Trustee
  • Trustee - Nominative - City of London Corporation
Rosaline lives a stone throw from St Luke's Community Centre since 2001 and has been a regular user of the Centre since 2003. She is pleased to be back at the Centre as a trustee, to help continue the outstanding work it has been doing. Her background is in broadcasting and has been privileged to do some volunteering work in the community working with the elderly and people with learning disabilities, mentoring young adults and being a community ambassador for the London Symphony Orchestra. She has a diploma in English Law and a Bachelor of Law Honours degree and was recently elected as Councillor in Islington.

Rufus Clarke

Job Titles:
  • Minibus Driver / Helping Hands Assistant

Ruth Hayes

Job Titles:
  • Trustee
  • Trustee - Nominative - City of London Corporation
Ruth has lived in Islington for over 30 years, and has worked in the not for profit sector for most of her life. She worked at the local Law Centre…

Sarah Caldwell-Watson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Business Engagement Team
  • Business Engagement Co - Ordinator

Sarah Verrinder

Job Titles:
  • Executive Assistant
  • Member of the Senior Management Team

Scarlett Silva

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Health & Wellbeing Team
  • Food Hub Assistant

Sharon Simpson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Services Team
  • Services Administrator

Thomas Lans - COO

Job Titles:
  • Director of Operations
  • Member of the Senior Management Team

Tolga Kizil

Job Titles:
  • Trustee
Tolga has lived in the area since birth and since 2016 has worked in the public sector. He is part of his estate's TRA.

Tsedal Menghistu

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Health & Wellbeing Team
  • Health and Wellbeing Manager

Ugne Kaskauskaite

Job Titles:
  • Finance Assistant
  • Member of the Finance Team

Valerie Bossman-Quarshie

Job Titles:
  • Trustee
  • Trustee - ( Nominative - London Borough of Islington )
Valerie joined St Luke's Board of Trustees in August 2021. An Islington resident and local councillor for the Bunhill area, she has many years' experience as a school governor, and as an educator, working with children and young people. She has been a frequent visitor to St Luke's, and looks forward to bringing her enthusiasm and previous experience to bear upon her role as Trustee.

Wee Kii Teh

Job Titles:
  • Trustee
  • Trustee - Nominative
Wee Kii joined St Luke's Board of Trustees in June 2022. Born in Malaysia, she has been living and working in London since 2012. By career she is an investment…

Ying Wang

Job Titles:
  • Finance Assistant
  • Member of the Finance Team

Zuhre Bektas

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Catering Team
  • Weekend Catering Assistant