 Adrian Hodges Managing Director read bio |  Graham Baxter Director, Responsible Business Solutions read bio |  Mike Patterson Director, Finance & Administration read bio |  Ros Tennyson Director, The Partnership Team read bio |
Senior Management Team
 | Olive Boles Director, Global Health Partnerships read bio |
 | Amanda Bowman Director, Corporate Partner Engagement read bio |
 | Peter Brew Director, Asia Pacific read bio |
 | Bridget Cochrane Director of Operations, Digital Partnership read bio |
 | Davidson Forster Senior Accountant read bio |
 | Eva Halper Development Director, The Partnership Team read bio |
 | Brook Horowitz Executive Director, Russia Partnership read bio |
 | Lyndall de Marco Executive Director, International Tourism Partnership read bio |
 | Jane Nelson Director, Business Leadership & Strategy read b |
Biographies - Executive Group
Adrian Hodges, Managing Director
Adrian Hodges specialises in issues of corporate responsibility as they relate to international business strategy and practice. He has managerial experience in business, local government and non-governmental organisations. He joined IBLF in 1998 and before becoming Managing Director held a number of positions, including Director, the Americas and Director, Marketing and Communications.
Prior to IBLF, Adrian was worldwide Head of Corporate Communications for retailer Body Shop International and before that Director of Communications and Marketing for Business in the Community.
He has lived and worked in Latin America and the United States and is currently based in London.
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Graham Baxter, Director, Responsible Business Solutions
Graham is a graduate of Oxford University (MA Geology) and Liverpool University (PhD Oceanography). He worked as a Geologist in the oil and gas exploration industry for 11 years, joining Britoil in Glasgow, Scotland in 1981. In 1986, he transferred to the commercial function in Britoil's Strategic Planning team.
He worked in a number of commercial roles in BP's Exploration and Production and also Gas businesses in the UK, before joining BP Solar in February 1999. Following the Solarex / BP Solar merger he moved to Baltimore, USA in July 1999. There, he was initially Chief of Staff, then Vice-President of Solar Solutions leading a small global team developing large-scale rural infrastructure.
From February 2003, Graham worked for Communications and External Affairs at BP Group HQ in London, developing a corporate responsibility framework for the organisation. He was appointed Vice-President, Corporate Responsibility in October 2003 - where he was accountable for implementing the corporate responsibility framework, managing international NGO and socially-responsible investment relationships as well as shaping community engagement and investment globally.
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Mike Patterson, Director, Finance & Administration
Mike Patterson joined IBLF in 1995, having previously worked with British Petroleum Exploration from 1989 to 1994. At BP, he was Divisional Controller for BP Exploration Frontier and International Company 1992-4, Financial Controller of Exploration Technology 1990-91, Controller of Accounts for Exploration Information Systems 1989-90, BP Oil 1973-89 Marketing planning and control BP OIL UK LPG 1987-89. Prior to the Oil industry Mike had brief experience of UK home civil service and Foreign Office.
He has chaired the Governance and Standards Review Committee of the Prince of Wales Charities, which was tasked with improving and making more consistent goverance and standards across the Group.
Mike is currently chairman of Teach First Finance Committee - a charity launched in 2002 to encourage top graduates to commit three years of their early career to teaching, mainly in deprived areas.
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Ros Tennyson, Director, The Partnership Team
Since 1992, Ros has led IBLF's work in cross-sector partnering. Over the years this has involved partnership promotion and partnership-building activities in more than 30 countries as well as the development and delivery of tailored training programmes for corporations, NGOs, the World Bank and other UN agencies.
Since 2001 she has been co-Director of a Post-Graduate Certificate in Cross-Sector Partnerships, an initiative run as a collaboration between IBLF and the University of Cambridge Programme for Industry. Since 2003 she has been co-Director of the Partnership Brokers Accreditation Scheme which was developed as a collaboration between IBLF and the UK's Overseas Development Institute. She is currently Director of IBLF's The Partnering Initiative which aims to develop the art and science of cross-sector partnerships for sustainable development.
Immediately prior to joining IBLF, she was Chief Executive of the Marylebone Centre Trust, a holistic health care initiative. She also helped create Trigonos, a not-for-profit community-based project in North Wales.
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Biographies - Senior Management Team
Olive Boles, Director, Global Health Partnerships
Olive Boles is the International Business Leaders Forum's Director of Global Health Partnerships. For the past three years she has headed IBLF's HEAL (Healthy Eating & Active Living) programme on chronic diseases - engaging business as a responsible partner for health in the marketplace, workplace and community - with an emphasis on developing countries and emerging markets.
Before joining the IBLF Olive spent four years as Director of Corporate Affairs with The Prince's Foundation, having previously occupied senior management positions within the UK national health service (NHS) and worked on several major national public health campaigns on HIV/AIDS, smoking and CHD prevention.
Olive was a Regional Director of Health Education and an Executive Director of a Primary Care Trust before moving to the not-for-profit sector to work on public/private partnerships in the field of urban regeneration, community development and more recently on health.
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Amanda Bowman, Director, Corporate Partner Engagement
Amanda brings her commercial advertising, marketing and over 15 years’ corporate responsibility experience to her work at IBLF. She joined IBLF from Diageo where she was responsible for helping the Diageo businesses across Europe develop strategies for community involvement and to develop partnerships with NGOs and the public sector.
Amanda is the Director of Corporate Partner Engagement as well as leading the Rio Tinto Alcan Prize for Sustainability and overseeing IBLF‚s programmes on employee engagement, experiential learning and Crossing Borders. She is also a Development Director for the Partnerships Team.Amanda is a Board Member of IAVE an international NGO that celebrates and strengthens volunteerism in more than 80 countries around the world; is a Trustee of the Women of the Year Foundation and a governor at an inner London comprehensive secondary school.
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Peter Brew, Director, Asia Pacific
Peter Brew has been working with IBLF since 1999. Between 2002 and 2007 he led the team working on issues of human rights, governance and anti-corruption, local enterprise development and conflict and more recently has focused on developing IBLF’s in-country initiatives with partner organisations across Asia Pacific.
Before joining IBLF, Peter worked for 37 years in international employee benefit services, 30 of which were at senior executive level. He retired at the end of 1998 as Deputy Chairman of Sedgwick Noble Lowndes where he had previously been Chief Executive in Ireland and in North America.
Peter is a Fellow of the Pensions Management Institute, an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an Honorary Fellow of the Life Academy.
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Bridget Cochrane, Director of Operations, Digital Partnership
As Director of Operations, Digital Partnership, Bridget uses her IT and Project Management skills to facilitate initiatives aimed at bridging the digital divide.
Bridget joined IBLF from Standard Chartered Bank, where she worked for 9 years in a number of IT management positions. In her most recent role, she was a senior IT project manager, working on multi-million dollar global infrastructure projects across 56 countries. Her project portfolio covered a wide range of disciplines including desktop, telecoms and service delivery.
Bridget studied Business and Finance at university before taking a Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing Management. She worked in advertising for a number of years before starting her career in IT.
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Davidson Forster, Senior Accountant
Davidson Forster joined IBLF in 1995 from University College London where he worked in various functions of College and Student Union finances from 1989 to 1995. He previously worked for Overseas Telecoms Commission (Sydney) for a brief spell and Cable & Wireless (The Gambia) before that.
Davidson has been responsible for designing and developing IBLF's accounting department and functions from from it early stages to currently managing the finances of major grants and projects funded by The European Union, The World Bank, USAID and DFID amongst many others.
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Eva Halper, Development Director, The Partnership Team
Eva has experience in brokering and managing partnerships in all three sectors: public, private and not for profit - both overseas and in the UK. During her 7 years in China, Eva worked for the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) in sustainable rural poverty reduction followed by consultancy work in cross-cultural management training for Chinese enterprises and sino-foreign joint ventures.
Prior to joining IBLF, Eva managed the UK affiliate of the International Youth Foundation (IYF) and was responsible for establishing cross-sector partnerships to design and deliver youth development programmes for the UK subsidiaries of multi-nationals.
Eva has sound experience in monitoring and evaluation, grounded in her background as an educator and reinforced in practice both at CIDA and in her work with IYF for whom she designed and implemented monitoring and evaluation frameworks for community investment programmes of IYF’s UK-based corporate partners. She has also had many occasions throughout her professional career to conduct workshops and training courses for adults in a variety of disciplines such as training in cross-cultural management for senior managers in foreign joint ventures, teacher training, and currently, training in cross sector partnering skills development.
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Brook Horowitz, Executive Director, Russia Partnership
A graduate of Cambridge and Harvard Universities, he has had over 15 years’ experience in Russia. As a senior manager with US multinational General Electric during the nineties, he held positions in business development, product management and sales and marketing in Western and Eastern Europe. In 2001, he set up his own management consultancy, Business Interchange (UK) Ltd., which provides strategy and financial advice to Russian companies seeking to attract foreign investment.
Brook has worked extensively with public sector organisations and NGOs in Russia on projects funded by USAid, TACIS and DFID. He regularly appears at international conferences on business in Russia and has had articles in several publications including The Times, Vedomosti and Delovyie Lyudi. He has a strong interest in Russian culture and is a Director of Pushkin House, a Russian cultural association based in London.
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Lyndall de Marco, Executive Director, IBLF Tourism Partnership
Lyndall De Marco is the Executive Director of the IBLF Tourism Partnership, the responsible tourism programme of IBLF. Under her leadership the Tourism Partnership has focused on assisting travel, tourism and hotel companies to make a valuable contribution to the countries and cultures in which they operate, to their customers, their shareholders and future generations.
Lyndall was formerly a Corporate Director with Pan Pacific Hotels and Resorts, where Lyndall was charged with the change from a traditional hotel company to that of a values based culture. During that time she was involved in the opening of 10 hotels based on this new ethic and was herself the General Manager of hotels in Bangladesh, Borneo and Malaysia.
Whilst in this role she founded the Youth Career Initiative in Thailand in 1994 - a 6 month empowerment programme for disadvantaged youth. This programme now operates under the auspices of IBLF, led by Lyndall.
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Jane Nelson, Director, Business Leadership & Strategy
Jane Nelson is a Senior Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government and Director of the Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative, at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. She serves as a Director at IBLF and is a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Brookings Institution.
During 2001 she worked in the office of the UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, preparing a report for the United Nations General Assembly oncooperation between the UN and the private sector, which supported the first UN resolution on such cooperation. Prior to joining the IBLF, Jane was a Vice President at Citibank and responsible for marketing for the bank's Worldwide Securities Services business in Asia Pacific.
Jane has worked for the Business Council for Sustainable Development in Africa preparing a report for the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, and for FUNDES (Fundacion para desarrollo sostenible) in Latin America undertaking research on small enterprise development.
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