New CEO for Samaritans
Howard Lake | 22 December 2006 | News
Dominic Rudd has been appointed the new Chief Executive with Samaritans and will join the charity on 19 March 2007.
Rudd joins Samaritans from the RSPCA where he is Operations Director. During his seven years with the animal charity he has helped to oversee several restructuring and development projects. He will succeed David King, the current Samaritans CEO.
Samaritans has just been voted Britain’s third most admired charity by Third Sector magazine readers. In 2005 its 17,000 volunteers received almost 5 million contacts by phone, email, text, letter, face-to-face at one of the charity’s 202 branches and at festivals.
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Before the RSPCA, Dominic Rudd spent 12 years as an officer in the Royal Marines and then moved to a business supplying natural stone flooring and paving to conservation projects and private developments. He took up the post of RSPCA regional manager in Wales, responsible for the charity’s operations in the Principality, in 1999.
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.