Starfish Search – Executive Search Specialists

1. GOVERNMENT, REGULATION AND Public Policy Our Government, Regulation and Public Policy Practice works wherever influence is at a premium. www.starfishsearch.com

2. LEADERSHIP JOURNEYS, EXPERTLY NAVIGATED • Starfish was created to change the world through human talent – and we know that the right change must be driven by the right people. So, in close collaboration with each of our clients, we bring expertise, dedication and fierce commitment to authentic diversity as we search together for tomorrow’s leaders.Life is changing at speed and Starfish is here to navigate this unpredictable age by staying ahead of the curve and thinking creatively. The world we face today presents an overwhelming spectrum of challenges, which can only be effectively addressed by a truly diverse range of knowledge and experience.

3. WHAT WE DO • We provide senior executive search and interim management services to create strong and diverse leadership teams. Our focus is on developing effective leadership by enabling people to fulfil their potential. We promote individuals from all backgrounds and want new leaders to be encouraged to enter the frame. As trusted partners, we provide balanced, thoughtful recruitment advice based on intelligence and insight and ask the difficult questions that help clients appoint the best, not the predictable. • BOARD PRACTICE / EXECUTIVE SEARCH / INTERIM TALENT

4. BOARD PRACTICE • Starfish Search combines specialist Board Practice with an authentic and proven commitment to appointing, shaping and developing resilient, vibrant and inclusive board cultures where boards are in touch with the populations they serve. • As a team of professionals united through a common aspiration to make a positive difference to society, our consultants use their integrity, insight, skill and practical experience to build and develop diverse and empowered non-executive teams. • We combine the tried and tested with new and emerging thinking. Our firm was created to deploy all of our professional experience in a way that is uniquely forward-thinking: we’re set up to understand the shifting pressures on organisations and their non-executive teams in an uncertain world and to put back into our markets everything we learn from the collective experiences of our clients. • Our trademark approach is nuanced, analytical and insight led. We understand how board culture and organisational heritage can affect the pace and mode of development from board to board, and how a board’s formality, focus and strategic reach can impact on individual suitability.

5. DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION • At Starfish we use our skills and expertise in search and selection to help build, shape and foster inclusive senior teams, whatever the sector. • We partner with clients to diversify their leadership teams and work with organisations across the public and social sectors. We have an outstanding track record of appointing candidates from ethnically diverse backgrounds and with protected characteristics and have developed a 10-point plan to ensure we maintain a relentless focus on inclusion and equity through every search and selection process we lead.

6. SKILLS FOR CARE • Skills for Care is the strategic workforce development and planning body for adult social care in England. We work with employers, Government, and partners to ensure social care has the right people, skills, and support required to deliver the highest quality care and support, now and in the future. • THE ROLE • We are seeking to appoint two new Trustees to join the Board – one experienced leader to chair our Audit & Risk Committee and a second leader whose strategic financial management skills will enable us to deliver our ambitious agenda.

7. DRINKAWARE • Drinkaware is the UK’s leading alcohol charity. Working together with individuals, communities, academics, researchers, industry and governments, we have a vision of reducing alcohol harm in the UK. Our campaigns, tools, website and app are tailored to raise awareness of alcohol-related harms and help people change their relationship with alcohol. Our approach is evidence based, insight-driven and collaborative. Our three-year strategy, now live until December 2025, seeks to move away from a focus on individual behavioural change. Many factors influence behaviour, including individual motivation, the wider culture in

8. ROYAL UNITED SERVICES INSTITUTE • The Royal United Services Institute has been at the heart of military and security thinking for over 190 years. The Duke of Wellington and other senior military commanders established the Institute in 1831, and some of the most influential thinkers in the 19th and 20th centuries worked or spoke at RUSI. RUSI has been at the centre of policymaking and thinking on defence and security from the rise of the British Empire to its transformation and dissolution, through both World Wars and the Cold War and into today’s unsettled world.

9. LENDING STANDARDS BOARD • We have a clear goal – to drive fair outcomes for personal and business customers within financial services through independent oversight of the Standards and Codes for which we are responsible. Financial service providers sign up to the LSB’s Standards and Codes which are applicable to their products and services, and we undertake oversight and assurance activities to ensure they are compliant with our framework of standards and regulation. Our registered firms comprise the major UK banking groups and lenders, credit card providers, debt purchase and debt collection firms.

10. SOCIAL MARKET FOUNDATION • The Social Market Foundation (SMF) is a non-partisan think tank. We believe that fair markets, complemented by open public services, increase prosperity and help people to live well. We conduct research and run events looking at a wide range of economic and social policy areas, focusing on economic prosperity, public services and consumer markets. The SMF is resolutely independent, and the range of backgrounds and opinions among our staff, trustees and advisory board reflects this.

11. INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS • The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is London’s leading space for contemporary culture. We commission, produce and present new work in film, music, performance and the visual arts by today’s most progressive artists. In our landmark home on The Mall in central London, we invite artists and audiences to interrogate what it means to live in our world today, with a genre-fluid programme that challenges the past, questions the present and confronts the future.

12. GAMBLEAWARE • GambleAware is an independent charity that commissions evidence-informed prevention and treatment services in partnership with expert organisations and agencies, including the NHS, public health agencies, local authorities and voluntary sector organisations. Our ambitious new five-year strategy was published in April this year, outlining four key strategic priorities to help us achieve a new vision of a society where everyone is safe from gambling harms.

13. LET'S WORK TOGETHER THANK YOU! • 0203 971 0831 www.starfishsearch.com info@starfishsearch.com Starfish Search Ltd 107 Cheapside, London, EC2V 6DN