Leadership
LORD WEI
PATRON
Nat Wei is a graduate from Jesus College, Oxford. He is a social entrepreneur with an avid interest in social reform and was founder, The Shaftesbury Partnership; founding member, Teach First; and founder, Maker Life. He is a former fellow of the Young Foundation and was a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.
He has served as a Government Advisor to Prime Minister David Cameron and was the first British-born person of Chinese origin to become a member of the House of Lords. He started out as a McKinsey & Company consultant specializing in technology, particularly mobile, before shifting into venture capital, social enterprise, and more recently policy development.
He has previously served as founding Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for East Asian Business, Vice-Chair of the All Party Parliamentary China Group and treasurer of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Trade and Investment to promote better trade and political and cultural links between the UK and East Asia. He has served as a member of the House of Lords EU Internal Affairs Committee and was founding Co-Chair of the Conservative Friends of the Chinese.
PATRICK SHINE
STRATEGY DIRECTOR
Patrick Shine has 15 years’ experience in advising charities, social enterprises and entrepreneurs, emphasising scaling strategies, leadership development and social investment. He also mentors individuals with business experience who wish to transition into the social impact sector.
He has been a partner at The Shaftesbury Partnership since 2008 and has led the organisation since 2011. Patrick manages the overall business strategy, and as such, he has established social ventures in a range of sectors including employability, ageing, youth and education.
Patrick has active links with policymakers, think tanks and academics, focussing on how policy ideas can work in practice. He was the Founding Chair of The Challenge Network, the leading provider of the government’s National Citizen Service programme, and the Founding Governor of the Southwark Free School.
Before joining the voluntary sector, Patrick worked for over 20 years’ experience in financial markets, specialising in global fixed income and derivatives, and was a director of Lazard Brothers Asset Management.
Patrick read Mathematics at Queens’ College, Cambridge and has an MA in Middle East Studies from SOAS.
PATRICK SHINE
STRATEGY DIRECTOR
Patrick Shine has 15 years’ experience in advising charities, social enterprises and entrepreneurs, emphasising scaling strategies, leadership development and social investment. He also mentors individuals with business experience who wish to transition into the social impact sector.
He has been a partner at The Shaftesbury Partnership since 2008 and has led the organisation since 2011. Patrick manages the overall business strategy, and as such, he has established social ventures in a range of sectors including employability, ageing, youth and education.
Patrick has active links with policymakers, think tanks and academics, focussing on how policy ideas can work in practice. He was the Founding Chair of The Challenge Network, the leading provider of the government’s National Citizen Service programme, and the Founding Governor of the Southwark Free School.
Before joining the voluntary sector, Patrick worked for over 20 years’ experience in financial markets, specialising in global fixed income and derivatives, and was a director of Lazard Brothers Asset Management.
Patrick read Mathematics at Queens’ College, Cambridge and has an MA in Middle East Studies from SOAS.
HARVEY CAMERON
SENIOR DIRECTOR
Harvey Cameron is a start-up expert with over 25 years of experience building media businesses.
Career highlights include creating Groupon style deals for handbag.com before Groupon existed. The revenue generated enabled the website to complete its sale to Hearst for £25 million. As founder and CEO, he also grew megashare.com from inception to one of the top 1000 sites in the World, at the time.
Harvey has also been instrumental in creating and generating new revenue streams both online and offline, for organisations including the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, Accenture and The MOBO awards; also jointly managing all sponsorship and hospitality packages for the MOBOs including the 10th Anniversary televised on BBC1 from The Royal Albert Hall.
Before getting involved in the Internet world, he launched a sports marketing business, which successfully marketed sponsorship packages for televised sports events, including Premiership Football, International Cricket, Rugby Union and Motorsports. Notably, creating the first grass branding campaign in Cricket, as part of the launch for Sony Vaio laptop computers.
As a 51-year-old man coming up to retirement, he is enjoying social entrepreneurship and giving back to the over 50s community.