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New Chief Executive for Charities Aid Foundation
Howard Lake | 21 October 2002 | News
Stephen Ainger has taken over as Chief Executive of Charities Aid Foundation (CAF).
He succeeds Michael Brophy who is retiring after twenty
years in the post.
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Stephen joins CAF after a career in the commercial sector, where he was Group Director of Strategy for the Lattice Group PLC, the UK’s leading provider of energy infrastructure networks, and before that a Director of Transco PLC. This followed on from a 24 year career with BP, where he held
a number of positions in the UK and overseas.
Sir Brian Jenkins, CAF’s Chairman of Trustees, commented, “In Stephen Ainger, we have found the best person to succeed Michael Brophy: he has all the right instincts and experience to take CAF forward and to meet the challenges posed by the need to generate greater charitable resources.”
Stephen Ainger said: “This is an enormously exciting opportunity for me. Charitable activity is something very close to my heart and in which I believe we all have a role to play. CAF has achieved a huge amount in increasing charitable funding over the last two decades and I look forward to leading its team of dedicated and expert staff.”
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.