Richard Godden is a corporate lawyer and has been a Partner in Linklaters for over 30 years, during which time he has advised on a wide range of transactions and issues in various parts of the world. These include many involving industrial reorganisations and transformations and corporate responses to serious operational problems, fraud and other crises. He has held senior roles within the Linklaters management including being Global Head of Client Sectors from 2003 to 2010 and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee.
Richard was secretary to the UK Takeover Panel between 1988 and 1990 and is now a member of the Panel Code Committee, which is responsible for the promulgation and amendment of the UK’s securities rules relating to public takeovers. He is also a member of the Global Goals Leadership Team of Business in the Community (a Prince’s Charity) and from time to time works with Tomorrow’s Company in connection with its consideration of the response of corporates to current societal issues.
He now devotes a significant part of his time to working with various Christian organisations. He is Chairman of Scripture Union and a director (and Chair of Finance) of London City Mission. He also works with Evangelical Alliance in connection with its ‘Speak Up’ project, which aims to ensure that Christians are aware of the freedom of speech that we enjoy in the UK and use it wisely.
Anne Devlin worked for 22 years at BP Oil International, 10 of which as Crude Book Leader in Oil Trading in London. She has significant experience of energy markets including trading strategies and international contract negotiations. She retired from trading in December 2018. She joined the board of Terra Solar, a solar development business operating in Ireland, as a non-executive director in February 2019 and is particularly involved in strategic development.
She is the treasurer and a Trustee of Christian Responsibility in Public Affairs (CPRA).
Anne holds a Master’s in Management from ESCP Europe.
Carl Ferenbach is Chairman & co-founder with his wife Judy of High Meadows Foundation and High Meadows Fund. He was the longtime Chairman of the Board of Environmental Defense Fund, an international environmental advocacy NGO. He served two terms as a trustee of Princeton University. Carl and Judy have been involved in supporting environmental research at Princeton since the 1990s. In 2020, the interdisciplinary institute there was renamed the High Meadows Environmental Institute in recognition of a gift from Carl and Judy.
Carl was a co-founder of Berkshire Partners LLC, a private equity investment firm based in Boston, MA and was previously Managing Director. Berkshire has managed nine private equity investment funds and the Stockbridge Fund, with approximately $16.0 billion of capital.
Before Berkshire, he was a managing director of Merrill Lynch, responsible for that firm’s activities in mergers and acquisitions and leveraged buyouts. Carl has been a director of several of Berkshire’s railway, telecommunications and industrial companies, including roles as Chairman on the Boards of English, Welsh and Scottish Railway, U.S. Can Corporation and Crown Castle International.
Carl holds an A.B from Princeton University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He also served in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve.
He and Judy own High Meadows Associates, Inc., which operates farms in southern Vermont producing maple sugar products.
Joanna is a Partner at Green Park Executive Search and leads the Faith practice, recruiting senior executives and trustees. She worked for many years in senior leadership at SPCK Publishing. She was responsible for the Publishing division, with strong lists in theology, biblical studies and spirituality across the full range of the Christian tradition.
Andrew spent his career with PricewaterhouseCoopers where he was a partner for more than 25 years. He led a variety of the firm’s businesses both in the UK and globally, with a focus on the pharmaceutical industry. He also led the firm’s work on explaining corporate taxation to civil society and the public. He is now studying for a Master’s in History at Oxford which he combines with being a trustee at the London Handel Society.
Philip Wood brings more than 30 years’ experience in business and finance. A Chartered Accountant, he was a partner with Price Waterhouse before joining Reuters where he stayed for 14 years in a number of senior management roles. Philip was on the board of a substantial West Coast USA public software company which was sold in 2014. He serves as a director of CfBT Education Trust and is a school governor in Sevenoaks. Philip is also a trustee of Christian Responsibility in Public Affairs (CPRA).