Meet our New Trustees!

We are delighted to welcome five new exceptional individuals to our board of trustees, each bringing a high level of expertise and a shared desire to shape a better future for melanoma patients.

As we devise our next strategy, we are grateful to have each of them supporting and overseeing the charity. We look forward to continuing to grow and serving the melanoma community with their input and support.

Meet our new trustees!

Caroline Stevens

Caroline Stevens is proud to be a trustee of Melanoma Focus and hopes to support the charity’s future growth and development. In 2022, her husband, Mark, was diagnosed with nodular melanoma. Like many melanoma patients, and their families, their journey has been a roller coaster of highs and lows. Caroline and her family benefited from the support of Melanoma Focus at the time of Mark’s diagnosis and during his subsequent immunotherapy treatment. Professionally, Caroline started her career as a community and hospital pharmacist, later moving into hospital pharmacy management. She then became an operating theatre manager and hospital Managing Director. In 2009 she moved in the charity sector as a senior director at The British Lung Foundation, then Chief Executive at a children’s disability charity, KIDS. Since 2019 she has been the Chief Executive at The National Autistic Society, a UK wide charity supporting autistic people and their families. Caroline has had wide experience of both executive and non-executive roles in charities. She is currently also a Non-Executive Director for an NHS Hospital Trust and a trustee at an independent specialist college for autistic young people.

Carl Horrobin

Carl Horrobin is a melanoma patient based on the Wirral. He was diagnosed with stage 2 melanoma in February 2016, which progressed to stage 4 in January 2018 when metastatic melanoma was discovered in his lungs. Following successful immunotherapy treatment Carl has now been all clear for over 6 years. He has been heavily involved with the Media and Communications team at the Clatterbridge Cancer Charity through patient advocacy at fundraising events and promoting their immunotherapy team on regional and national television. His experience has instilled in him a passion for helping others who find themselves in the same situation, with a particular interest in those people whose treatment has been successful but find their lives impacted by lasting side effects. Professionally, Carl is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and has 25 years’ experience in finance positions in the Leisure, Retail and Food Industries. He is currently employed as a Finance Consultant within the Food Ingredients Industry.

George Ulmann

In his late 20s, George was unexpectedly diagnosed with stage 2B melanoma. He remains in active follow-up.After graduating from Cambridge, George started his career working in healthcare, medical devices and pharmaceuticals as a strategy consultant (Monitor Deloitte) before moving onto work in the medtech space. He has experience working with NHS and Macmillan Cancer Support. More recently, George has contributed to NICE’s Skin Cancer Standards, is on Guys and Thomas’ Cancer Board and is a member of BAD’s AI working party group.George is currently Managing Director of OxEd, a spinout from Oxford University, that works with over 10,000 schools globally. One of OxEd’s missions is to break the link between family income and the educational outcomes of children. He passionately believes in this mission, and hopes that the link between family income and cancer outcomes can also be broken.

Kayley Dempsey

Kayley is digital marketing operations lead at manifesto, a digital experience agency for changemakers. She has a wealth of experience in digital marketing strategy, including beneficiary research, website improvements, and online advertising for fundraising, advocacy and acquisition. Her expertise includes planning, execution and measurement of online advertising, to ensure that charities invest wisely, track the impact of investment and make ongoing improvements with eyes on both scale and efficiency. She has worked with a range of large and small charities on understanding their goals, audiences, and digital estate to help them better serve their beneficiaries and meet their organisational objectives. She was driven to work with Melanoma Focus due to family experience of melanoma, and a desire to be part of raising awareness of signs and symptoms, as well as supporting professionals to provide the best treatment they can.

Willie Munro

Willie Munro lives in Scotland and has retired from a career in the public sector. He is experienced in governance and working within regulatory and legislative frameworks, sitting on and chairing committees and boards. Throughout his career he led strategic planning and action planning, monitoring and review in a range of different topics. He has experience in project management, performance management and risk management. During his career, he particularly enjoyed achieving positive outcomes through collaborative working across departments, other public sector agencies, charities and voluntary bodies, business and community. He has also served for several years on the Board of a National Public Body and, as part of this, chaired a Finance and Delivery Committee and a Performance Committee.

He was diagnosed with melanoma in 2015 and had an axillary dissection. Four years later, he had a recurrence and further surgery followed by a year of immunotherapy, the side effects of which have left him with a life long, potentially life threatening condition to manage. A further 5 years on, he had a second primary melanoma.

Since his diagnosis, he has been active in raising awareness of melanoma, its seriousness, prevention and early recognition and diagnosis.