Our Board

Ebenezer Odubanjo

Ebenezer is currently in sixth form studying Maths, Further Maths, and Computer Science. He develops software in his spare time and loves music - he sings, plays the guitar and is learning the keyboard. 

Ebenezer is keen to represent the voice of young people, with the hope of providing more opportunities for young people and more awareness of those opportunities. 

Ebenezer is our Youth Advisory Board Co-Chair and Young Trustee, you can find out more about him and our YAB here.

Julianna Oladipo

Julianna is a Director at EY UK.  She has spent her career in the pensions industry, supporting employers and trustee boards with strategy, policy and governance of their pension arrangements.

Julianna works with both the EY UK&I and Financial Services leadership teams to lead on the strategic direction for pensions and, in 2018, spearheaded the launch of the new financial wellness proposition for all EY staff in the UK.

Julianna is passionate about racial and social equality and the need to create a level playing field where all young people can succeed and achieve their full potential.

Maria Owusu-Mensah

Maria is from Telford, near Wolverhampton and is currently an Associate Technology Consultant.

She also tutors GCSE Maths and has taken up a voluntary role as a School Governor. Maria is working on a start-up app called Navigate Up.

Maria is our Youth Advisory Board Co-Chair and Young Trustee, you can find out more about her and our YAB here.

Mark Hutchinson    

Mark is a former EY Partner, who retired from the firm in 2018, to focus on a portfolio career.  He has a long-held belief that business should be an agent for long-term economic development and social change. He is a Director of Truestone, a Social Impact Fund, focused on building SME businesses in West Africa. He works with Renewable Energy developers in Southern Africa and is also a board advisor and investor in a number of early and scale-up stage technology companies in the UK, through his own company, Muntjac Ventures.

As a mentor to a number of young people who have recently entered the workplace for the first time, he is a strong advocate for firms embracing diversity and creating equal opportunity for uniquely talented individuals, regardless of background.

Patrick Dunne

Patrick is the Chair of boards’ consultancy Boardelta and of ESSA (Education Sub Saharan Africa) – and founder of Warwick in Africa. His  executive career was in Chemicals and Private Equity, where he was a member of international investor 3i Group plc's Operating Committee. 

Patrick is a Visiting Professor at Cranfield School of Management, trustee of the Chartered Management Institute and author of the award-winning book "Boards". He is a patron and former Chair of Leap Confronting Conflict, and a former member of the General Council of the University of Warwick and former trustee of the Chartered Management Institute.

He was awarded an OBE in the King's Birthday Honours list in 2023 for services to charity and philanthropy in Africa and the UK. 

Peter Wallace

Peter has had a varied career with EY, working with clients across a number of sectors. He is currently a Partner based in Edinburgh, although spends a lot of time on the road in London, Manchester, Nottingham and over in India.

Away from EY, Peter has been a trustee of the Prince’s Teaching Institute for over 10 years and has also worked as an advisor to the Audit and Risk Committee of Big Society Capital.

Rebecca Robins    

Rebecca is Global Chief Learning and Culture Officer for Interbrand. She heads up the Interbrand Academy – a global centre of excellence in learning and development, in collaboration with partners including Microsoft, Harvard Business School and UCL. As Global Luxury Sector lead, she is involved with the Best Global Brands study and has worked across all industries, with clients including Burberry, LEGO and LVMH.

Rebecca writes extensively on brands and culture, business transformation, luxury and the future of learning, co-authoring the FT acclaimed book, "Meta-Luxury: Brands and the Culture of Excellence". Culture and learning are at the heart of her wider commitments to education and she guest lectures at universities around the world.  She is inspired by what it means to be human in business and life, in a world of exponential tech, and believes in cultures of collaboration, kindness and learning, as deeply human forces for change for good.

Rachel Sandby-Thomas

As Registrar at the University of Warwick, Rachel is responsible for the professional services of the University. Rachel joined Warwick after a long career in the Civil Service, the last 8 years of which were as a Director General in the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills where she covered legal, corporate services and policy (skills, regulation, large and small businesses, local growth). She joined the Civil Service as a lawyer from Linklaters.

She is Vice Chair of LEAP Confronting Conflict, and on the boards of Future Fit, the Warwick College Group, the Royal Society of Arts Academies, and is on the Executive Committee of AHUA. She is a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths and the City of London.

She is a Companion of the Order of the Bath, was named in the 2016 FTSE 100 “Women to Watch” and The Times 100 “Most Influential Lawyers”, 2012.

Sayeh Ghanbari

Sayeh leads EY’s Business Consulting team in the UK – a 1,200+ strong team of talented consultants that help their clients tackle their toughest challenges and deliver long term value for their stakeholders. She is also co-chair for Diversity and Inclusion for EY UK.

Sayeh is an advocate for equality of access to opportunities.  In addition to her Trustee role for the EY Foundation, she also sits on the Board of Women in Science and Engineering. She is a martial artist (Tiger Crane Kung Fu), science, maths and language geek, art lover and an amateur travel photographer.