My passion for kids has been created by 25 years of active management, leadership training, mentoring and motivational speaking within the international charity sector. This has brought me alongside thousands of inspirational and dedicated charity workers on all continents and some of world's most vulnerable children. I have also been pracitising as a professional counsellor and life coach, working within the charity sector, business and entertainment industry over the last 25 years. Previous to that, I was head teacher of two inner city schools working on a pilot programme, reproducible in any culture. We worked closely with children, parents and teachers, experimenting with new models of education, focussing on what each child was good at and helping build their confidence. I have been married to John, for 29 years, and am the mother of Daniel, Natasha, Nikola and Joshua.

As one of the International Directors of the Global Angels Foundation, Christian is constantly developing new and exciting ideas for our events and campaigns. In his role as Executive Director, he directs the international creative team working on sponsorship, brand development, fundraising campaigns and events. Christian started his professional career as a session musician with national and international artists in Asia, the USA and the UK. While pursuing his degree at university in Seoul Korea, he developed a skill for computer security and data vulnerability of which he later leveraged as a successful business opportunity. Christian‘s extensive experience commercially has led him to provide high level security services to the government and non-governmental agencies including the Met Police, the United Nations, and the International Maritime Organisation and select Government agencies within the public sector. The team of consultants led by Christian has won awards for technological innovation and technical prowess. Christian’s commercial affiliation is with new media and production company Elliott Parr Ltd. He is the Creative Director for media events and TV productions worldwide.

Peter is also one of the International Directors of Global Angels Foundation. He is CEO of AIG Private Bank. Joining AIG in 1997 as Head of Trading & Treasury, he assembled a team of traders, salesmen and account officers, covering the financial markets. From 2000-2005 he was the Chief Financial Officer and then Chief Operating Officer of AIG Private Bank. Prior to joining AIG, Peter was Deputy General Manager for Bank Julius Baer in New York with direct responsibility for the trading room and active advisory services for private clients. He is a graduate of Ecole Supérieure de Commerce in La Neuveville and completed the International Senior Management Program (ISMP) at Harvard Business School. Peter lives in Zurich with his wife Gianina, who is a Global Angels Ambassador, and two sons Christof and Stephan.

Daniel is another one of the International Directors of Global Angels Foundation and is well known in the music industry as an international artist. He is also known for motivating people to make a difference in the lives of those who are suffering and wants to empower disadvantaged children and youth. He is an outspoken leader in the anti-trafficking campaign, Stop The Traffik, which is working to abolish the modern slave trade and to rescue victims of slavery, focussing on women and children.

Natalie is our Operations Manager and looks after our office, website, on-line shop and Little Angels. She is probably the person you will speak to if you phone our office. Originally from South Africa, Natalie has a degree in drama and photography, has experience in event management and taught drama to underprivileged kids. Natalie lives with her husband, Ian, in London and has visited our projects in South Africa.

Lisa helps us with running Little Angels, which is our site where children can get involved practically. She is a trained vocalist and has done some backing work with famous artists. She recently been out to Chennai in India, where she saw the very real need that the children have, and came back passionately wanting to help them.

Kezia is an account manager in the consumer team at Cohn & Wolfe London. Having spent over three years working in PR for consumer, lifestyle and consumer tech brands, she has worked with well-known companies such as O2, HP, TomTom and Yahoo! in both a UK and European role. Kezia specialises in creating high profile and successful publicity, media relations, product placement/endorsement, event management and sponsorship exploitation. With her family originally hailing from Ghana, West Africa, Kezia has a strong affinity with the continent, and thrives on challenging norms and people’s perceptions of the third world.

Anouska is an Associate Director in the Consumer Team, at Cohn & Wolfe London and has spent nine years in the PR industry working in both in-house and agency environments. Her career is focused in the corporate and consumer sector where she has managed brand campaigns and specialised in strategic media relations for the likes of Yahoo!, John Lewis, Discovery TV, Colgate-Palmolive and LG Electronics. Anouska knows what makes a good story and is committed to working with her teams to educate them about the media and in turn deliver landmark results for clients. She’s currently on secondment in New York.

Steve is the founding director of Tang, an agency that keeps itself busy supporting its clients with marketing communications that compliment strategies and take advantage of cost effective new technologies. Over the past thirteen years working on diverse projects from traditional print, 3D animation and interactive digital media, he has been awarded a D&AD for graphic design. Implementation and continued support of the sophisticated online system that is the Global Angels website, permitting easy management of content, ecommerce, search keywords, and email marketing. To find our more about what we do, http://www.tangmedia.com/

Ben is the head of new media for Tang, and at the forefront of all new on screen development. Possessing an usual balance of both logical and creative thinking, he is responsible for each project's bespoke functionality and interaction. Working on projects for leading couture fashion, large blue-chip corporations and small businesses, he has been awarded a BAFTA for interactive media. Ben is immediately available on hand to support Global Angels with any new system templates, content and functionality. For more information, http://www.tangmedia.com/

Sarah manages Global Angel's MySpace site, and its growing community of friends. Her passion for grassroots community building, which stems from her home in San Francisco, is rooted in her joy of faith, music, and the arts. Sarah has a degree in Business and has volunteered in international humanitarian service, concert event management, and is currently a sales and business development executive in the technology industry.

Devron is a professional photographer and loves to extract beauty from the most elegant to mundane pictures. She has been an international youth worker for the last decade and this line of work has taken her all over the world. She has a tremendous passion for children and wants to use her skills to help raise awareness about impoverished and oppressed children’s plight globally. Tim has a passion for young people and over the past ten years, that passion has made him an international youth director traveling all over the globe working with youth. His skills are in sales, event coordination, public speaking, leadership, counseling, and team building. He is working on his Masters of Business Administration, and wants to take his skills into the international development humanitarian aid field. He has deep compassion for children around the world and wants to spend his time helping them. Tim and Devron live in Chicago.

Tally joined the Global Angels team towards the end of 2005 as their Events Producer, with the vision to produce awesome inspiring events with the GA team. She is passionate to help children and particularly child soldiers. She began her career in film production, focussing on TV commercials, both in London and South Africa. In 2002 she set up her own events company Partium. Partium Co-produced Robbie Williams Cinecast ‘Intensive Care’ – Live from Berlin. For Cafédirect she produced Flight 5065 on the London Eye and the 5065 Lift at the Edinburgh and Brighton Fringe Festivals working closely with writers, directors and actors as well as many top class comics and artists to develop live content. Over the next few years she also founded a music production company and a radio commercials agency, until September 2006, she joined forces with Christian Elliott, Global Angel’s Executive Director to form Elliott Parr Ltd, a creative events and broadcast led production company. Tally is married to Drew and lives in central London.

Hazel Thompson is a multi award winning photojournalist based in London. She works freelance for leading International publications and organisations, shooting regular assignments for The New York Times. Her work has been published in International magazines such as Time, The Sunday Times Magazine, The Observer Magazine, Le Vie, HQ Australia and Days Japan. Hazel’s work centres on social and humanitarian issues affecting children and their families. With assignments taking her around the world, where she witnesses first hand vulnerable children suffering injustice and poverty. Hazel has been a key part in a number of campaigns such as ‘Kids Behind Bars’ where she went undercover into the Filipino jails to photograph children illegally imprisoned in inhumane conditions. The campaign and images gained significant coverage on ITV news/CNN and international print media. Most recently she has started to produce news reports for FIVE news, where she presents the issues she witness as a photojournalist. Hazel’s passion is to give a voice to the unheard, capturing images that will make a difference.

Known for his experience and passion, David has become a creative force in the event industry and one the most sought after event designers and producers in the U.S and abroad. He believes his success throughout the past 23 years can be attributed to building strong relationships with his clients and striving to exceed their expectations with each project. David’s roll as the visionary of GO West Events & Multimedia has contributed to his personal success as Event Solutions Magazine’s 2004 Spotlight Award winner for Event Producer of the Year. David has lead his team of creative individuals to achieve several prestigious awards in the Event and Multimedia industries including the 2006 Spotlight Award for Event Company of the Year, the 2005 Spotlight Award for Technical Producer of the Year, 9 Telly Awards, 9 Videographer Awards and several other industry awards and recognitions including the 2007 Event Marketer Magazine’s Top 100 List for Event Agencies. David and his team have truly proven themselves to be the “Architects of Your Imagination!”

With an education in Musical Theatre and Cultural Anthropology, Robin launched a successful career in the recording industry as an artist and writer that spanned the U.S., Asia, and Europe. Robin turned her visionary and creative focus to GO West Events & Multimedia where she helped shape a theatrical quality, experiential full-scale production company. This vision continues to flourish and she is dedicated to the long term success of the company through her diligent adherence to this dream and her steadfast commitment to refining the business model which is a forward thinking example for the entire Events’ Industry. Robin’s innovative approach to live production, coupled with her eye for minute detail creates the perfect balance of art and efficiency. By staying connected to the music and voice over industry, she has also contributed a leading edge over competitors by offering original scores to corporations to further their branding message. Robin is determined to take this billion dollar, but fragmented industry to the next level by leading it with a vibrant, duplicable, industry dominate company.

Having an affinity for the blank page, Jayme has excelled in generating new and fresh ideas to implement in every project that he is a part of. A graduate from the prestigious business program at the University of Windsor, Jayme has honed his creative skills to help design and bring to life the overall goal and vision of each client. Utilizing his technical knowledge in every event he creates, LaForest employs multimedia as a focal point for his designs rather than a support system. “When media environments come alive, you can change the room subtly or dramatically. You can animate stagnant objects, in essence you are putting the audience into a movie – a virtual place free from the restrictions of reality.” It is clear that Jayme’s talent and creativity have helped to cultivate GO West’s reputation as “The Architects of Your Imagination.”

Mike Rebello is a veteran of the sports and entertainment industry. Having worked for some of the biggest names and organisations in the world over the past fifteen years, Mike has a proven track record in the sports and leisure sector in terms of revenue generation, commercial development and concept creation. Today, Mike heads up a dedicated sports marketing consultancy based in the UK that provides a variety of specialist services to rights owners, sporting federations, international brands and to high profile athletes and organisations around the world. Mike is married to Lesley-Ann, his wife of eleven years and they live in Buckinghamshire with their two children, Connor and Sienna. “I’ve been involved in a number of charity based projects over the years but none with such total passion and commitment as that displayed by Global Angels. I’m delighted and proud to play a small part in the success of something so worthwhile and real and encourage everyone to do the same”

Dan is a board member of Global Angels US and is CEO of Fairhill Music Inc. He works extensively within the music industry in the US and brings a wealth of experience to the team. He was Director of A&R Sparrow Records from 1979-84, Founder and Executive VP Live Oak Records 1984-1989 and President/CEO NewPort Records 1996 – 2001.