About Us
Our Team
We come from a range of backgrounds and all have extensive experience of working for and running non-profits in Asia, either previously or currently.
Philanthropy:
Nicky Wilkinson
Executive Director
Nancy Agaid
Senior Child Protection Specialist
(based in Manila, with the Tondo Community Initiative)
Starfish Education:
Dr.Nanthaporn (Prae) Seributra
CEO of Starfish Education Foundation & Starfish Education Social Enterprise Co. Ltd.
Terri Jayme-Mora
Fellowship Director
Kate Griffin
Senior Technical Advisor - Development (Part-Time)
Governance
Firetree Philanthropy Foundation Limited is a Company Limited by Guarantees established under the Laws of the Republic of Singapore and wholly funded by the Firetree Trust and Starfish Education Trust.
Firetree Philanthropy Limited has two directors:
Francesco Caruso, the Trusts' Protector, chairs the Board and oversees our philanthropic work and has final approval authority over our grants.
Michelle Lim, Firetree Group's CFO, provides oversight on financial management, governance and compliance.
Philanthropy Advisory Committee
Aside from being accountable to the vision and values of the Firetree Trust, we consider ourselves accountable to the changemakers, organisations and networks we support and the communities in which we work,
Consequently, the role of the Advisory Committee is to hold us to account on behalf of the communities we work with and the partners we support. The main duty of the board therefore is to provide brutally honest feedback about where we need to get better and how our approach needs to develop and evolve.
Our Advisory Committee brings a mix of contextual experience of some of the communities in which we work, the social challenges we are collectively working to address and the wider social impact systems in which we operate.
The Members of the Advisory Committee support our work on a purely voluntarily basis.