Andrew’s thirty-year career has focused on powering lasting change for disadvantaged communities through innovation and multi-sector collaborations. In 2024, he took up a role as managing director at the DRK Foundation, a global venture philanthropy firm which finds, funds, and supports early-stage organizations to scale impactful solutions to inequity in the US, Europe and UK, Africa, and India. He held senior strategy and comms roles at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, HSBC Bank, Arts Council England, and the National Consumer Council where he promoted multi-sector regulatory architecture enhancing consumer voice and competition. As Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation CEO (UK) for 15 years, he co-founded ventures including the Campaign to End Loneliness and Social Innovation Exchange. He is an experienced non-executive in the cultural, charitable, and public sectors with a track record in housing and health. As a board chair, he led transformation programmes including at the Church Urban Fund (2018-2023) which equips local people across England to make a difference where they live. He now serves on the investment board stewarding £1.2 billion of Church Commissioners’ funding for strategic development of Church of England dioceses and low-income communities.