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Trustees
Will Wintercross
Co-Founder & Trustee
Will is a foreign correspondent and producer. He co-founded SRRF after seeing the horror of the war in Syria up close while covering it for The Daily Telegraph. It was after interviewing a Syrian grandmother looking after 16 grandchildren and children, while living in a derelict building in Turkey, that he realised he had to do more than just report on the war. For more of Will’s journalism, see www.willwintercross.com.
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BRIAN CROSS
CO-FOUNDER & TRUSTEE
Brian brings over 40 years of experience in the nonprofit sector, including leadership roles in community arts and charities. As Chairman of SRRF, he provides essential administrative support and draws on his extensive experience working with various charitable organisations to guide the foundation’s efforts.
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TRISTAN ELDER
TRUSTEE
Tristan has spent most of his career in the technology industry and has seen the positive impact that the innovative and creative use of technology can have on those in need. Having grown up in Africa and the Middle East he was, at a young age, made aware of the challenging conditions that those around him were often in. His commercial experience is helping SRRF to grow its reach and impact.
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PAOLA FUDAKOWSKA
TRUSTEE
Paola is a lawyer with two decades of experience working in an international law firm in London, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and a non-governmental organisation in Geneva. She has served as a U.K. charity trustee of a global Catholic organisation, for which she volunteered since university and is also a school governor. Paola joined SRRF in June 2022 to offer her legal expertise towards our mission to provide critical assistance to refugees in Syria and neighbouring countries.
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JAMES MARKBY
TRUSTEE
James is a qualified member of the Royal Institution of Charter Surveyors and has a BSc Honours Degree in Investment and Finance in Real Estate, from Reading University. He has 24 years of professional investment experience and is well-known in the real estate industry. James is the founder and managing partner of Logistics Capital Partners, a leading European property company specialising in scale logistics real estate, development, asset management, and regulated investments. He has recently been appointed as a trustee for SRRF and is looking forward to assisting what he feels is a much-needed and important charity.
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Ange Ellis
Trustee
Ange Ellis works in commercial property for CBRE as Client Account Co-Coordinator and she uses her professional organisational skills to great effect as a trustee for the SRRF. She was raised in New Zealand which is a world away from the horror of the Syrian civil war and so she wanted to throw herself into helping people whose lives are very different from her own. She joined the board in October 2024 and immediately became an invaluable part of the SRRF team.
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