OUR MANAGEMENT

Careers Development Group is governed by a board of trustees. Roy O'Shaughnessy serves as chief executive, and we have recently recruited an executive team to provide strategic and operational guidance and leadership to all areas of the organisation.

Roy O'Shaughnessy, chief executive
Roy started at Careers Development Group in July 2008, after spending four years at the children's care organisation, St Christopher’s Fellowship. Previously, he was chief executive of a number of organisations in the USA. More...


CDG's Executive Team

Barry Aspland, director of finance
Barry oversees the financial activities of CDG and its subsidiaries while ensuring all financial systems and procedures are fit for purpose and embody best practice. More...

Philip Evans, director of operations
Philip joined from imaging services provider Alliance Medical Ltd in May 2010, where, as operations director, he led the turnaround in fortunes of the company’s first major contract with the Department of Health – later described as ‘the best performing independent sector contract’. More...

Richard Clifton, director of business development
Richard moved from his previous role of interim director of operations at CDG, where he has worked since July 2009, and will be building a business development strategy that supports the achievement of job outcomes. More...

Cheryl King-McDowall, director of corporate services
Cheryl has joined CDG from national organisation Local Government Improvement and Development as director of corporate services and is responsible for CDG’s information and communication technology, human resources, facilities and audit and risk functions. More...

CDG's Board of Trustees

Raoul Pinnell, chair
Raoul is responsible for board leadership, setting and developing strategy, providing support and clear direction for the chief executive, planning and chairing board meetings, setting the agenda. More... 

Aruna Boyland, honorary treasurer
Aruna is responsible for maintaining an overview on the CDG's financial affairs, ensuring its financial viability and seeing that proper financial procedures are followed and appropriate records kept. More...

Mike Hawker 
Mike graduated from the London School of Economics, qualified as a chartered accountant, and after initially working in finance, moved into general management. More...

Peter Holmes    
Peter is a director of Intellect, the UK trade association representing 750 member companies in the information technology, telecommunications and electronics sector. More...

Sarah King
Sarah has over 25 years’ experience in journalism and PR. After working as a senior director with a number of leading London agencies, she became an independent consultant in 1998. More...

John Norman
John Norman is a senior management generalist, with board level experience in both the corporate and voluntary sectors, with particular expertise in operational management, business continuity planning and crisis management, HR and social regeneration. More...
 
Cha Patel  
Cha has over 30 years of senior finance experience in a number of sectors, primarily in financial services. This includes time at British Leyland, Abbey National, Toronto Dominion Bank, ARM Corporate Finance and Grant Thornton. More...