Trustees

Diana Dyer Bartlett - Chairman

Diana is currently the Finance Director of Pelamis Wave Power Limited, a private equity backed company established to develop wave energy converters. Between 2000-2007 she was company secretary of Collins Stewart Tullett plc and latterly Finance Director of Collins Stewart plc. Diana qualified as a chartered accountant with Deloitte Haskins & Sells, worked for five years as an investment banker with Hill Samuel Bank and then in the coal industry for five years, latterly as Finance Director of Midlands Mining Limited, a private equity backed deep coal mining business.

Geoff Armstrong

Geoff is a banker with over thirty five years experience which included running both International Service Operations and Regional and Global Corporate & Investment Banking relationship teams for HSBC. He also represented HSBC on an industry wide forum. Based in the City for most of his career, Geoff has travelled extensively and in particularly to Africa, Asian and the Middle East. He also lived and worked in Asia for four years around the turn of the millennium.  More recently Geoff has provided consultancy services in respect of the Financial Services industry.

Geoff is an active member of the Worshipful Company of International Bankers - he chairs the City Affairs Committee, is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers and has previousl been a lecturer in Finance of International Trade. 

Sara Davenport - Founder

Sara set up The Haven in 1997 as a direct result of her children's nanny's experience with breast cancer. Since then, she has been a Trustee and is actively involved in the marketing, PR and business development of the charity. She has worked and trained in the field of complementary medicine for more than 20 years and works both at The Haven and in her own private practice as a kinesiologist. Sara was a founding Trustee when the Charity was formed in 1996. 

Professor Dudley Sinnett MS FRCS

 Dudley Sinnett is Professor of Breast Surgery at Imperial College London. His first Consultant post was as Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Cancer Research and honorary Consultant Surgeon at the Royal Marsden Hospital. From 1989 to 2009 he worked at Charing Cross Hospital and, whilst there, became Consultant Breast Surgeon and Director of Breast Services. For the last six years, he has been the Quality Assurance Surgeon for the surgical aspects of the National Breast Screening programme in London. Dudley has been the national secretary of the British Association of Surgical Oncology and helped produce the national surgical guidelines for the treatment of breast cancer and serving on the BASO national committee. He is a member of the Medical Advisory Committee of Breast Cancer Care and has published a number of papers on breast disease and DVDs for the BMA and the National Breast Screening programme.  

Sarah Ruston

Sarah is a Legal Director from Leeds working within the Document Management Industry, interested in promoting healthy lifestyles and activities by encouraging people to undertake challenges that they might otherwise not consider. Sarah climbed Mont Blanc, completed an Ironman triathlon and cycled from Lands End to John O'Groats.  
Under the Pink Power banner, Sarah intends to promote participation in challenges to people from all walks of life, encouraging friends and family to take part and join in. In Sarah's spare time she is largely taken up with activities related to training for her next challenge including runs, cycles, swims and training but, given a quiet moment, she feels happy with a large glass of red wine and a book.  To read Sarah's fascinating blog please click here.

 Nicholas Beazley
Nicholas leads the Group Strategy, Group Legal and Company Secretary teams at Bupa.  He is a member of the Chief Executive’s Committee which is responsible for business direction, policy development and talent management across the Bupa group.   He is a member of the quarterly Business Review panel tracking quarterly business performance and runs the Group’s Strategy Development Forum for all senior Bupa executives.  His role covers the full range of Bupa’s interests, across both Health Insurance, Care Homes and Disease Management in UK, US, Spain, Australia, Asia and the Middle East. 

Alison Molloy

Alison has a long and successful business and Human Resources career, primarily in Australia, and has lived and worked in the UK since 2006. Most recently she held a senior HR regional leadership role covering countries across Europe, Middle East & Africa. She has worked in many business sectors and has run her own businesses.  Alison understands how to create healthy and sustainable organisations, and loves working with leaders to build the culture that underpins this. Her new challenge is to find ways of helping to increase participation of women and girls in sports and physical activity, drawing on her own lifelong involvement in competitive and recreational sports.

Vickie Sheriff
Vickie is currently the Head of News at 10 Downing St and is deputy official spokesman for the Prime Minister. She brings nearly twenty years of experience in communications, mainly in media relations for Government, but also events and marketing, and running her own business as a magazine proprietor. She is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations and the charitable body the Guild of PR Practitioners; she is also a serving officer in the Territorial Army. Over the years, Vickie has supported the promotion of women's rugby in her spare time by providing PR support to the England team, writing a monthly column for Rugby World magazine and turning out on Sundays to play for her local club. Having hung up her boots, she now climbs mountains and rides horses.  Vickie is looking forward to helping the Haven to develop further: raising its profile and raising funds - no doubt on some loopy challenge she couldn't say 'no' to...