people
Chief Executive and Secretary
Tim Jones
A Fellow of the Royal Society, Tim’s career began in the financial sector. He is an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute: posts included Head of Marketing at Royal Life, Head of Marketing at Sentinel Group and Chief Executive for Europe at Direct Marketing Corporation of America. He was a founder shareholder and director of Fraser-Milne Ltd until its sale in 1996, a founder shareholder and director of Belgrade-based Strategic Trade & Distribution d.o.o. and a director of The Mountain Spring Water Company. Tim, 51, was recently awarded the Judge Institute’s Certificate in Enterprise. Married with 4 children, 2 of whom still at home, Tim’s interests include cooking, property, reading and walking.
Development Director
Dr Martin Clark
Martin successfully project managed Citylife through its initial Sheffield Bond and continues to oversee the effective delivery of this Bond. Before this Martin worked on a pilot programme in Teeside, developed tools to audit the not-for-profit sector in a community and gained valuable experience in intermediate labour market research and action. Martin was previously based at the Centre for Training Policy Studies at Sheffield University where he worked on evaluation strategies for Sheffield's first Single Regeneration Budget programme. He has a PhD from Sheffield University on government training schemes for the long-term unemployed, and direct experience of living and working with unemployed people.
Head of Corporate Services
David Bryant
David came to Citylife following the position of Bursar at a Cambridge College. With extensive commercial management and board experience, David is a qualified accountant and was also an Experimental Officer at the Government's Atomic Weapons Research Establishment (AWRE) working on techniques for the production of neutrons. David works with Citylife to maintain viable and sound corporate systems to ensure that they fall within current legislation and to provide assistance to the Chief Executive with corporate governance.
Marketing Manager
Melissa Santiago-Val
Melissa has worked in the charitable sector for several years, and was previously Marketing Manager at disability charity The Papworth Trust. Before joining Papworth, Melissa worked in the corporate marketing sector, working on both print and electronic business-to-business communications. She also holds a Post-Graduate Certificate in Marketing from Cambridge Marketing College.
Administrative Assistant
Christine Nottage
Christine has a background as Facilities Manager for a large IT company who then went on to manage a housing project for the elderly and worked as a volunteer support worker for a charity helpline supporting families in crisis. Christine initially joined Citylife on a temporary basis but soon got captivated by Citylife's work - once Citylife moved to Citylife House her skills in facilities management became vital as we settled into our new home.
