Jo Connell (Chair)

Jo works with a number of organisations both not-for-profit and commercial. Her not-for-profit roles are Chairman of Help the Aged, Chairman of TAEN, Chairman of The Hospice of St Francis, Berkhamsted, and Vice Chairman of the University of Hertfordshire. Her commercial activities include non-executive directorships of THUS Group plc, Cornwell Management Consultants, and Polyfield Property Ltd. Until March 2003 she was Group Managing Director of Xansa plc, one of the UK's leading companies in business consulting, information technology and business process outsourcing.

She is also a Fellow of the British Computer Society, a Companion of the Institute of Management, a Court Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists and a Freeman of the City of London.

Ros Altmann

Ros is an independent policy adviser on investment, pensions and retirement policy. She has an Economics Ph.D. from L.S.E., was a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard and after an early academic career researching pensions, she worked in the City managing pension funds, as Head of Equities at Chase Manhattan, Director of Rothschild's and NatWest Investments. She is also a non-executive director and governor of L.S.E.

Paul Cann

Paul has been Director of Policy and International Affairs at Help the Aged since 2000, with responsibility for research, policy and campaigning and international strategy. He taught English Literature for five years before entering the Civil Service.

He held a range of postings at the Cabinet Office including working as Private Secretary and after a spell in the private sector he joined the charity world, working as Director of the British Dyslexia Association and subsequently the National Autistic Society.

Keith Faulkner CBE

Keith is Managing Director of Working Links, a public/private/voluntary sector joint venture company that supports social and economic community development through improved access to employment. He has been associated with Working Links since its inception in 1999 and was, until recently, a director of Manpower Plc where he built up his extensive experience of HR, industrial relations and labour market issues.

He chairs the Skills and Employment Forum of the London Chamber of Commerce, is a member of the London Skills and Employment Board, Central London LSC and Public Services Strategy Board of the CBI and is a trustee of Training for Life. He was Chairman of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation, chairing working parties on employment issues for both the CBI and RSA (of which he is a fellow) and sitting on two New Deal working groups (Lone Parents and Retention).

Hilary Wiseman

Hilary is Managing Director of Wiseman Consulting Limited and was, until her early retirement in June 2005, Head of Diversity UK & Europe for HSBC Bank plc, based at their global headquarters in London.

She is also a former Lieutenant Commander in the Royal Naval Reserve. Hilary is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and has an MSc in Human Resource Management. She is a JP.