Our Trustees

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Miriam Deakin, Vice Chair –

Miriam is Director of Policy and Strategy at NHS Providers, the membership organisation which represents NHS trusts, and has been a Trustee for AFK since 2022.  She works with government, parliamentarians, and national decision makers to try and influence health and care policy constructively on behalf of NHS trusts.  Miriam also plays a lead role in the running of NHS Providers as its interim deputy chief executive. 

ⓘ This means that Miriam knows about how the health and care sector works and about how policies which affect us all get agreed by government.  She is also really interested in how we tell people about the good work the charity does. 

Prior to this role, Miriam has worked in social care, and in policy and influencing roles in local government.’

×Thanos is a Chartered Accountant, CA, with 15 years of auditing experience in large corporate organizations in areas such as Private Banking, Asset Management, Finance and Treasury. He has further developed his technical knowledge through studying and passing all three levels of the Chartered Financial Analyst, CFA, exams.

Thanos is the proud dad of a 5 year old son with cerebral palsy. He has experienced first hand the difficulties that individuals with disabilities and their families face. Therefore, he is extremely grateful and happy to provide service to AFK in order to help as many children and young adults and their families to live more independent, successful and fulfilling lives. He has been actively fundraising for several charities, mainly in the health space, over the past 10 years by participating in long distance running events.

ⓘ This means Thanos knows what it is like to care for a child with a disability.

×Dom Hyams is Global Client Director at Purple Goat Agency, and consults and educates internationally on a range of topics including diversity, inclusion and accessibility.

Dom joined the Purple Goat agency team in February 2021 – the world’s first and only social-first inclusive marketing agency, looking to create the most progressive, representative and authentic marketing campaigns in the world by integrating disability know-how and lived-experience in all aspects of campaign development and execution.

Dom previously worked in TV, as a producer at the sports TV production company Sunset+Vine, working across output including the groundbreaking Paralympic coverage in 2012 and 2016. He has since worked in various digital media, marketing and communications roles, which led him to Purple Goat.

He is also the founding editor of the Disability Power100 – Power List of Disability, which looks to showcase the most influential disabled change-makers in society.

ⓘ This means Dom knows how to create opportunities for creative and exciting work, breaking down the barriers around disability.

×Thembani is a chartered management accountant working as Associate Director of Financial Planning & Analysis at S&P Global. He is responsible for forecasting, budgeting and evaluating corporate performance against forecast and plan, and recommending remedial action.

He is a trusted business partner to senior strategic leadership. He has 2 years experience in the construction industry, two in the telecomms sector and 16 in financial services. He lives with a mobility challenge and knows first hand the challenges faced by children and their parents in their quest for suitable mobility equipment and related aids.

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Alicia is a legal counsel at a financial institution and prior to that, was a finance lawyer at Shearman & Sterling (now A&O Shearman), having received her undergraduate and master’s degrees from the University of Cambridge.

She is a disabled power wheelchair user who does disability advocacy on her Instagram, @ExploreDisabled, and is on the shortlisting panel for the Snowdon Trust’s master’s scholarships for disabled students. She has also been published by the New York Times and Time Out London.

ⓘ This means that Alicia knows a lot about money and the law surrounding finance