# Sarah Illingworth joins Prime Executive as Director

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/06/20/sarah-illingworth-joins-prime-executive-director/
- Published: 2007-06-20T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Sarah Illingworth has been appointed as Director at Prime Executive, the agency
which specialises in matching senior executives with assignments, trusteeships and
senior appointments in not-for-profit organisations.**

She joins Prime Executive from CfA where she has spent the last seven years assisting
charities in recruiting Chief Executives, Senior Management Team members, Chairs
and Trustees.

Illingworth takes over from **David Lale** who founded Prime Executive as the senior
appointments arm of Charity People in 1990.

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She has over ten years of fundraising experience for national and international ‘
umbrella’ charities including Crossroads, Kids’ Clubs Network (now 4Children) and
Befrienders International (the Samaritans worldwide), following a career in corporate
sales and marketing for Compaq.

Appropriately, she has extensive [trustee](https://fundraising.co.uk/tag/trustees/)
experience herself, was previously a voluntary Director of the London Symphony Chorus
and Treasurer of Lambeth Crossroads and is now a trustee of Breakthrough Breast 
Cancer and a Governor at the Godolphin & Latymer School in West London.

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