# New Chief Executive for Charities Aid Foundation

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2002/10/21/new-chief-executive-charities-aid-foundation/
- Published: 2002-10-21T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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.

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

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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.”

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