Our People

Howard has spent 30 years working in the advertising business in a variety of UK and international roles. He has extensive experience managing clients and leading teams to deliver commercial and marketing excellence, as well as mentoring talent at work and for an industry body focused on ensuring women have equal opportunities in the communications industry. Calibre is his first Trustee role. Outside of work he has a family, is a Patron of the Royal Shakespeare Company and an Arsenal season ticket holder.

John is totally blind and first became a Calibre member in 1985. His professional background is in marketing, talking books, technology and product development. He has a post-graduate diploma in voluntary sector management from City University.

He set up Share the Vision, a charity to enable public libraries and organisations for the blind to co-operate to improve services.

Rob has over 25 years of fundraising experience working for or advising medical research and healthcare charities. Currently responsible for the operational management of Kingston Hospital Charity, he previously had a 14-year association with Moorfields Eye Hospital, initially as a consultant advising on a major campaign for a new children’s eye hospital and latterly as its first director of development. Rob is a member of the income generation advisory board at Princess Alice Hospice in Esher and has previously supported the Chartered Institute of Fundraising's London mentoring programme. He has also served as a trustee of Elephant Family and as a school governor at two local schools in Surrey.

Fraser Hutchinson has over 15 years of publishing experience, from children’s books to academic and adult educational publishing. He has worked in marketing roles at Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Wiley and Pearson Education.

More recently he worked as Head of Publisher Partnerships at The Reading Agency, working to connect the publishing world with libraries and readers. He currently works as Head of Partnerships at Creative Access, helping under-represented communities to enter the creative industries.

Miles has worked in a variety of different categories of Publishing over the last 25 years. He has extensive experience of running businesses, operating in different international markets and leading growth strategies.

Miles is Managing Director of RBmedia’s international businesses, the world’s largest audiobook publisher, and has a deep understanding of the audiobook industry.

Dagmara has a background in organisational strategy, governance, resource and people management, data & insight and risk management. She is a qualified coach and mentor and also a Mental Health First Aider. She currently works in the largest operational student-facing unit of The Open University as Associate Director, Strategy, Planning & Resources, where she is a member of the Executive Team and an executive co-lead for People Strategy.

Dagmara served for 4 years as a governor at her local primary school, where she had responsibility for overseeing SEND provision. She also served as a governor at a Further Educational college, providing critical support and expert advice on strategy, student fees, KPIs and risk management.

Koula has over 17 years experience in senior finance roles across retail and hospitality and has recently joined the travel industry at TUI in a strategic finance role for Marella Cruises.

Prior to this Koula held executive positions as Finance Director of Butlins, and the hotel group Ralph Trustees which owns the Grove in Watford, and more recently The Oakman Group, a premium pub company.

Koula has developed a proven track record of managing complex operations, driving commercial strategy through powerful leadership and ensuring that both guests and team remain at the heart of the organisation.

Koula is an advocate for diversity and inclusion, and supports this by mentoring business founders from minority backgrounds in the hospitality industry.