Stephen Hammersley

Chief executive

Stephen Hammersley CBE was appointed chief executive for the Community Foundation Network in 2004 after working as trading director for the Tearfund charity.

Hammersley spent 17 years before joining Tearfund at Barclays Bank plc, working mostly in business project management where he ended up as head of marketing.

Hammersley also currently directs the Leprosy Mission’s trading company and chairs the UK fundraising committee for a refugee hostel in Nepal.

He was made a CBE in the 2012 New Year's Honours List.