Nesta is an innovation foundation. For us, innovation means turning bold ideas into reality. It also means changing lives for the better. This is what keeps us awake at night and gets us out of bed in the morning. As Head of Events, Carla and her team bring all areas of Nesta’s work to life via live events. She and her team run over 100 events a year from breakfasts and lunchtime learning sessions to annual summits and our annual flagship event, FutureFest.

Prior to joining Nesta, Carla held the position of Head of Event Operations and Client Services for live events at Haymarket Media Group where she worked on events for Campaign, PRWeek, WindPower Monthly, Planning and Third Sector. Outside of work, Carla loves sushi, her twin daughters, learning British Sign Language and her two massive Maine Coon cats. Though not necessarily in that order.

Clive joined Save the Children UK in October 2017 as Fundraising Director for Communities, Regional Corporates, Events and Volunteering. Clive started out in the commercial sector working on a range of global sporting events and has gone on to work in a range of roles spanning fundraising, events, marketing, innovation, sponsorship, project management, operations and logistical delivery across the commercial and not-for-profit sectors. Clive was privileged to help deliver the 2012 Olympics, and at Cancer Research UK, Clive led a nationwide team of Regional Fundraising, Events, and Marketing Managers to deliver Race for Life, the largest fundraising event series outside the USA.

Victoria started her event career creating conferences, seminars and training days within the corporate sector before heading into the agency world producing experiential events for brands such as Pepsi and brand owners, Kraft Heinz and P&G.

She moved into the charity sector with Sue Ryder building an events team as well as creating new events and products for use by the wider fundraising team.

She now heads up the mass participation team at NSPCC  and has enjoyed winning successful partnerships for Color Run, Cardiff Half Marathon, Castle Tri series and a career highlight, Virgin Money London Marathon 2016.

Currently Victoria has been tasked with creating and producing mass participation events and products that fit within the five year strategy for the NSPCC.

Sebastian is a driven and passionate fundraising Head who is experienced in leading donor facing and centralised support teams to achieve and maximise income opportunities. He has a wealth of knowledge and skills from varied roles at Muscular Dystrophy UK where he served as Community Fundraising Manager and then as a Senior Manager responsible for Supporter Care. Currently he is the Head of Public Fundraising at Bowel Cancer UK after joining in 2017.

Noorzaman is Chief Executive of the Chartered Institute for Ergonomics and Human Factors, the professional body focussed on improving life, wellbeing and performance through integrated design, technology and science.

He has a successful track record of leading professional services firms, public sector agencies and working with membership bodies at board level. He is a former Master of the Livery Company for Management Consultants and Non Executive Director of the Foundation for Social Improvement, which has 8,000 organisational members

Devina has been at Tommy’s for over 15 years in total and in sporting and challenge events fundraising for the past 9 years. I take part in a few running events myself – half marathons at most. As an events fundraiser, I’m always looking at and exploring new events in the charity sector to add to our portfolio at Tommy’s. I have a good understanding, mainly through our participants if what they value in an event.