Managing Director
Nick joined We Are What We Do in 2007 and became Managing Director two years later. He's worked locally in communities as a teacher and youth worker and nationally on social marketing campaigns, with charities like Anti-Slavery International and TimeBank, and companies such as T-Mobile, Sony and Barclays.
Nick really likes American Football movies and will always regret not getting to be a quarterback at a pep rally. He really doesn't like emoticons :(
Read his full biography here.
Founder and Co-Chair of the Board
David founded We Are What We Do. He lives and works in Newham where he set up Community Links, a groundbreaking inner-city charity that delivers practical projects in East London, influences organisations across the UK and contributes to national government policy. If he were to begin again, David would find a circus that could use a magician with more enthusiasm than talent and a small time juggler who's a bit of a devil with the Devil Sticks. As it is they are half forgotten hobbies which get very little attention from a full time community worker and father of three.
Read his full biography here.
Co-Founder and Board Member
Eugenie founded We Are What We Do with David Robinson. Born in Sydney, Eugenie has had a glowing career in PR and communications. She came to England in 2002 to find a way to use her skills to help others and has been living and working here ever since. She is now heading up the environmental campaign 10:10, but still sits on our board. She is married, has an eight-year-old daughter called Cara, and a half-chihuahuan dog called Lisa. Eugenie is good at drinking white wine and bad at catching trains.
Read her full biography here.
Co-Chair of the Board
Giles is co-chair of our board and been involved with We Are What We Do from the start. He's worked at Cadbury Schweppes, Saatchi & Saatchi and helped set up M&C Saatchi before starting Good Business, one of Europe’s leading Corporate Responsibility Consultancies. He's penned a couple of books and writes monthly columns for the Times and the Ethical Corporation. He makes a mean crab linguine and is good at singing loudly and bad at singing quietly.
Board Member
Stan sits on our board and takes care of all our legal worries. Stan has worked as a corporate lawyer for 25 years, and is now a top dog at Lyndales. He is also a Trustee of Community Links for which he was recently honoured with an OBE. He is a passionate Londoner, father of 2 and spends his spare moments travelling, checking out architecture and long distance walking.
Digital Director
Mike is our resident web expert. He created this lovely website and can usually be found shouting at Bulgarian programmers over Skype. He has worked for a number of different companies and charities and set up his own web development company in Sofia. Mike is American and is mocked for his love of emoticons and loved for his love of hugs. He makes a strange cup of tea.
Communications Director
Lucia moved to London in 2000, where she got a whole degree in Advertising, a partial degree in Art History, and a career in comms. She started as a strategist at Mother, where she learned that The Simpsons are as valuable a point of reference as tracking studies, and worked with Amnesty, Orange, Boots and The Home Office. More recently, she worked on 02 at the agency VCCP. Lucia has a knack for napping in difficult spaces and is hopeless at remembering acronymns.
Creative Director
Tori is our Creative Director. She worked for London advertising agency WCRS for several years before running away to teach graphic design in Kathmandu, English in Kerala and sew fabric laptops. She now has the messiest desk in the We Are What We Do office and constantly says she works for We Are What You Do.
Education Manager
Nicole is our Education Manager. She's often out and about visiting schools, running training programmes and getting our Young Speakers fired up. Nicole was born in Vancouver to Dutch parents, grew up in Brussels and has lived in Madrid, Bristol and all over Latin America. She has worked for several education charities, has an MA in education and international development, and perhaps most impressively, is a Black Belt in Kung Fu.
Education Officer
Emma is our Education Officer, working closely with Nicole. Emma has taught history in a London secondary school and worked producing educational resources for British Red Cross, DK, Harper Collins, Nelson Thornes and Channel 4 Learning. Since joining We Are What We Do she has learnt to knit, gone to yoga, baked cookies and grown some manky looking lettuce, but is yet to be converted to tea drinking.
Community Coordinator
Frances is a community worker, running We Are What We Do campaigns in the London borough of Newham. She has been involved in community projects for 30 years - her favourite involving a double decker community bus, which looked like it was being driven by a child as Frances stands at a meagre 5ft 1". She has three children, a guinea pig an an interest in astronomy.
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Ella is the Office Manager and generally runs the joint. When she is not paying people or bullying others for money she competes with Tori on who can get their tweets re-twitted the most, trawls through numerous photo archives, redesigns our storage solutions with the help of a certain Swedish mega-store and keeps the office in fruit supplies. She's also a nifty knitter.
Financial Director
Julia is our Financial Director and makes sure we're still going to be around next month. When she's not working with us, she's doing the sums for two market research companies and a fruit and veg company and looking after her three kids. Julia enjoys making jam, swapping books and eating dessert.