Jake Hayman, CEO, TSIC UK

Jake is a co-founder of TSIC and leads the company’s corporate-community relationship building efforts. Through TSIC Jake serves as Head of Partnerships to the One Foundation, the charitable arm of an award winning social enterprise with a £3.5 million annual turn-over. Jake is also the founder of Future First, a provider of networking and career support for UK state school students. Under Jake’s leadership, Future First has received social enterprise funding from UNLTD and the Young Foundation. Previously, Jake founded OneVoice Europe – the UK branch of the OneVoice Movement, a Middle East conflict resolution group. Jake received a BA in History from the University of Nottingham and in 2010 he was awarded the Ariane de Rothschild Social Enterprise Fellowship at Columbia Business School.

Adee Telem, CEO, TSIC US

A co-founder of TSIC, Adee specialises in building smart alliances between the private, public and not-for-profit sectors. She previously served as West Coast Director for the OneVoice Movement, helping to double its funding over 18 months; building dynamic, effective leadership; and driving network, foundation and corporate partnerships. Adee has a passion for leveraging technology and business for social impact, having worked with leading organisations like Google, YouTube, Sony, the Young President’s Organisation and the Skoll Foundation. Adee has been named one of 65 American-Jewish Leaders by the Center for Leadership Initiatives and has been selected as one of 25 Emerging Leaders in Conflict Resolution by the U.S. Department of State and the Washington-Ireland Program.

Farah Williamson, CEO, TSIC UAE

Farah has 6 years of experience working across the philanthropy and fundraising sectors. Working in strategy and major gifts at the UK’s largest fundraising charity, Cancer Research UK, Farah was responsible for overseeing key relationships with major donors, trusts and foundations. Moving from healthcare to international development, Farah joined international water and sanitation NGO, WaterAid, as their Senior Major Donor Manager before moving to her role as TSIC’s Director for the Middle East.

Prior to moving to Dubai, Farah had lived and worked in Uganda, Rwanda, Canada and the UK. In 2005 Farah helped launch the award winning Project Shelter Wakadogo, a grassroots organisation focusing on education in the post conflict region of northern Uganda. The Project has seen the establishment of a flagship school that currently serves over 150 local Ugandan students. Farah currently serves as Project Shelter Wakadogo’s Chair. Farah studied History and French at the University of Warwick in England.

Annie Spar, Chief Operating Officer

Annie Spar joined TSIC in 2011 following a career in marketing and management at US-based telecommunications firm Verizon. She has extensive experience of managing teams both professionally and as a volunteer. Outside of TSIC, Annie serves as the Chair of Trustees for the charity OneVoice Europe - a Middle East conflict resolution group. In addition she has volunteered in a variety of positions at the American School in London where her children attend. Now based in London, she holds a BA in Philosophy from Vassar College and an MBA from the Stern School of Business at New York University.

Yuki Lo, Senior Director

Yuki’s expertise is in building distinctive partnership programmes across the non-for-profit, government and private sector. She joins TSIC after establishing a corporate engagement programme for an international human rights charity in Japan, completing a policy advisory paper on small- and medium-sized enterprises in rural Uganda and publishing a United Nations report on attracting foreign direct investments into Haiti. Prior to that, Yuki spent seven years as a management consultant working for banks, insurance companies and pension funds across Sydney, Singapore, Hong Kong and Tokyo. She holds an MSc in Development Planning from the University College London and a BSc from the University of Technology, Sydney. She is a on the executive committee of two UK charities: Laamiga Women’s Mentoring and Training, and Acumen Fund’s London Chapter. She speaks fluent Cantonese and conversational Japanese and Mandarin.

Fiona leads the CSR marketing division at TSIC , creating strategies for brand-led communications platforms that reinforce brand relevance to consumers by communicating tangible, lasting and positive benefits to consumers and communities. She recently launched ThinkSpace, a creative problem solving forum that delivers impactful strategic outputs on a pro bono basis for charitable causes. Fiona has 15 years marketing experience as a strategist and planner for FMCG FTSE 100 brands including Diageo, Orange , Nokia and LVMH.  She has been responsible for developing many highly successful international marketing communications platforms including Diageo’s cause-related marketing platform Buchanans Forever which has generated $2.1m for the charity Learning For Life, delivering an attributed 4% spike in sales. Other award winning platforms include Smirnoff Experience and Formula 1 Rocks delivering massive global reach and driving brand awareness through integrated communications campaigns across ATL, BTL, PR, Digital and Social Networking. Fiona was recently awarded a masters degree in Corporate Social Responsibility.

Claire Arnott, Associate Director

Claire is an Associate Director working alongside the rest of the TSIC team on fundraising and strategy consultancy work. Before joining TSIC, Claire worked with Restless Development focusing on HIV/AIDs awareness and life skills in rural Tanzania as well as a British charity helping to improve the skills of long-term unemployed people. Claire has a MA in African Government and Politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and a BA in Classical Studies.  She is is conversational in Swahili.

Rachel Linn, Researcher

Rachel joined TSIC in 2011 and has experience in both the not-for-profit world and academic research. She is currently completing her PhD in Politics at the University of Cambridge, where she has spent extensive time conducting research in Tunisia and Morocco, writing and publishing, and leading several student organisations. Previously, Rachel has worked as a researcher for Human Rights Watch in Washington, DC, a Programme Consultant to Learning Enterprises in Cairo, Egypt, and directed - and volunteered with - a student volunteer programme in India at Stanford University. Rachel holds a BA in Political Science from Stanford and an MPhil in International Relations from Cambridge.