Meet the Trustees

Laura King acts as chair for the charity, drawing from years of experience in fundraising.

Laura is mother to Harry (19), Holly (23) and lives in Walton on Thames. She has spent many years fundraising for St. David’s Care in the Community and Carers Trust, organising a number of charity dinners, auctions & challenges including Bungee Jumping, Sky Diving, Base Camp Mount Everest and climbing Kilimanjaro. Laura started her own business, “Kings Fine Food”, in 2004. She enjoys gardening and spending time with her family.

Holly is the Sales Manager for King’s Fine Food. After completing a course in business at college, Holly joined King’s Fine Food in 2014 and quickly found her forté in sales. She is often found conducting caviar tastings for chefs, hoteliers and private customers. She has become an invaluable asset to King’s Fine Food as well as building her own reputation as the Caviar Princess. She enjoys keeping fit, paragliding and spending time with her family.

In 2020 Holly climbed Kilimanjaro with a team of 8 supporters, raising £28,000 for the charity and in 2021 took to the skies on a Wing Walk raising £5,000 for the charity.

Ronan is Executive Vice President and Group President of Verizon Wireless, with responsibility for leading and growing the operations of America’s most reliable wireless network, which generated nearly $92 billion in 2015 revenue. Dunne is responsible for all aspects of Verizon Wireless’ operations, including marketing operations, wireless operations, network operations, customer care and digital operations. Dunne was Chief Executive Officer of Telefónica UK (O2) for 8 years.

Timothy is a Consultant Neurosurgeon at St. George’s Hospital and is the clinical lead for neuro-oncology. He has a specialist interest in surgery for brain tumours, especially low-grade gliomas and the use of advanced imaging.

Amongst his many qualifications, he qualified from Imperial College London with a First Class Honours BSc in 2000 before earning MBBS in 2002. He spent three years as the Rupert Johnson Fellow in Neurosurgery at St. George’s, and earned a PhD from the University of London in 2013 into the role of advanced magnetic resonance imaging in the diagnosis of brain tumours.

Bill worked as a chef for 10 years before co-founding the food and drink magazine Eat Soup in 1995. He then became Restaurant Critic of the Daily Telegraph and now writes the ‘Gannet’ restaurant column in the Financial Times.

He has featured frequently on television and radio, appearing as a judge on The Great British Menu, on Radio 4’s The Food Programme, and on Today. He lives in West London, surrounded by cookbooks. Bill never skips lunch.

Bruce has over 30 years’ experience working in retail and hospitality, latterly as the Executive Director of food and hospitality at Selfridges. Prior to this he was the Executive Director of food and hospitality at Harrods where across both businesses he transformed the environments and enhanced the product offer and with his team launched numerous award-winning products and created exceptional dining destinations. In 2019, Bruce was awarded the honour of Food Icon by Speciality Food UK in recognition for his achievements within the food industry.

Previous to his move into luxury retail Bruce held senior positions at both Superquinn Ireland and at Marks & Spencer plc.

Born in Edinburgh, home is now London where Bruce owns a management consultancy, is the CEO of Sake 1820 and is a board advisor to Robuchon International.

Andrew is a Solicitor and Partner at the media and entertainment firm Clintons. He has over forty years of experience as a litigator and is recognised by major professional legal guides and his practice has developed to encompass clients from across the entertainment.

Andrew has a track record of involvement in landmark litigation. He represented Sony in the litigation brought unsuccessfully by George Michael. In the last decade, Andrew has litigated for the recording and format rights to the ‘Pop Idol’ series and worldwide enforcement of common law and registered trademarks. He is married with two grown-up daughters.

Gill was born in Exmouth, Devon and moved to London in her early twenties where she juggled her career, raising a family and running a small business.

Through supporting her son’s enterprise, Gill has become very involved with the Weybridge Town Business Group, organising regular events, particularly artisan markets focused around community and charity involvement. Gill lost her brother, also a chef, aged 39 to a brain tumour and is therefore delighted to help and support the John King Brain Tumour Foundation.

Anne spent over 30 years in Financial Services, latterly as International Director at Tesco Bank; the JV between the Royal Bank of Scotland and Tesco. Anne is a Non-exec for Bonhill Group plc, a leading B2B media, insight and networking company for Financial Services and Governance communities.

Born in Malta and moving extensively with parents in the Royal Air Force and work; home is now London, where Anne is an active member of the City of London Livery community. In 2016 Anne joined Laura King in climbing Mount Kilimanjaro for the Carers Trust and looks forward to many more adventures in support of the Foundation.

Christine has over 30 years’ experience in Human Resources with a track record of working in corporate environments across different business sectors including retail, leisure, property and financial services. Since 2012, Christine has worked at Close Brothers where she is a member of the HR Leadership team within the banking division.

Born in Derbyshire, Christine now lives in Surrey and is married with 2 grown up daughters. In her spare time, she loves cooking, eating and drinking, with family and friends, and enjoys country walks with her excitable chocolate Labrador, Norman.

In 2021, Christine’s husband was diagnosed with a brain tumour. Grateful for the outstanding treatment, after Richard’s diagnosis, the Sullivan family has raised over £75k to support the John King Brain Tumour Foundation and the Royal Marsden oncology Unit at Sutton. Christine is passionate about finding ways to improve the lives of those diagnosed with a glioblastoma.