David Gold

Chief executive

Following a 20 year career in the City - 15 years at UBS Asset Management - David moved to the charity sector as head of the London division of Business in the Community (BITC), where he gained first-hand experience of the issues facing charities and social enterprises (particularly relating to homelessness, volunteering and diversity).

David is now CEO of Prospectus, deputy chair of The Foyer Federation, a patron of charities Greenhouse Schools and Prisoners Abroad, and serves as a member of the development committee for both the Dartington Hall Trust and the Sheila McKechnie Foundation. A member of the Philanthropy Review Group, David acts as mentor to the chief executives of several charities, as well as regularly speaking and writing on issues relating to social enterprises, philanthropy and grantmaking.

In 2012 he also joined the board of Richard House Children's Hospice.

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