The FutureDotNow staff team come from across the public, private and commercial sectors, and includes individuals seconded from our board organisations.
Our executive team
Liz Williams MBE
Chief Executive
Liz is a long-term campaigner on the importance of everyone benefitting from digital technology.
Previously she led BT Group’s digital and social inclusion strategies, advising the Chair, CEO and Board on corporate policy and delivering cross-sector collaborations with government, civil society and other leading businesses that impacted millions of lives.
She is Group Chair of Good Things Foundation, a social change charity operating in the UK and Australia to help people improve their lives through digital, and a member of Portsmouth University’s Business Advisory Board. Liz sits on the Government’s Digital Skills Council and previously served as a Social Mobility Commissioner leading on digital and the future of work.
Liz is a social entrepreneur and long-term campaigner on the importance of digital equity. Her work has been instrumental in promoting digital inclusion and social mobility across the UK and as a result she was awarded the MBE in 2019. Liz regularly features in Computer Weekly’s top 20 most influential women in UK technology.
Holly Chate
Chief Operating Officer
Holly is Chief Operating Officer at FutureDotNow. Holly is experienced in strategy & business development, operating model transformation, programme management, governance and post-merger integration.
Holly has worked across public, private and third sector and internationally in the Middle East, Asia and Europe through her roles at Deloitte (2012 – 2021) and BAE Systems (2006-2012). Holly has a degree in Biochemistry from UCL.
Paul Fleming
Partnerships Manager
Paul is a Management Consulting Principal with Accenture, seconded to the role of FutureDotNow’s Partnerships Manager. Paul brings over 15 years of experience in learning and organisational development, with a significant chunk of that time in the Not-for-Profit/Charity sector.
A UK native he is currently based in Warsaw Poland and has served some of Accenture’s global clients. He is passionate about digital transformation and using human focused approaches to learning, that result in impactful learning transfer and increased business performance.
Chris Andersson
Communications and Campaign Manager
Chris is our Communications and Campaigns Manager, with oversight of all of our messaging, social media, external communications, content and marketing. Chris has worked in communications roles within the digital skills sector for more than 10 years, managing national campaigns such as Good Things Foundation’s Get Online Week.
Based in Sheffield, Chris brings to the team a passion for storytelling and a belief that the right content can influence opinions, inspire action and ultimately, change the world for the better.
Angie Clement
Business Manager
Angie is our Business Manager who looks after the day-to-day operations and governance of FutureDotNow. Angie has over 20 years’ experience working in technology companies and start-up’s supporting their strategic growth through running compliant operations, HR, process implementation and financial budgeting. She has a degree in Psychology and is an associate member of CIPD.
Angie has enjoyed working in the continuously developing world of technology and is passionate that everybody should have the essential digital skills to help them navigate life and work.
Our trustees
Sir Peter Estlin
Chair, FutureDotNow
Sir Peter Estlin is also Chair of the Association of Apprentices, a national membership body for apprentices in the UK, as well as a trustee of Trust for London, Morden College and Bridewell Royal Hospital.
He is a non-executive on HMT Audit Committee and Ambassador for Onside Youth Zones. Peter was Lord Mayor of the City of London in 2018/19, having had a thirty-five-year career with Barclays, Citigroup and Coopers & Lybrand in London, New York, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Camilla Drejer
Managing Director, UKI Citizenship, Sustainability and Responsible Business, Accenture
Camilla is a longstanding champion and change agent for responsible business. She leads Corporate Citizenship for Accenture UKI, working with its leadership to embed social and environmental sustainability into the DNA of the business and its client work. Camilla has led the development of a number of large-scale ‘tech for good’ solutions to enable hundreds of thousands of people to build skills, confidence and access to opportunity. She set up the business-led youth charity Movement to Work and was its first CEO.
Camilla is a founding Director and Fellow of the Institute of Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability and contributes to a number of industry groups and boards relating to tech, skills and responsible business.
Aidan Hancock
Chief Information Officer, Board Member, Trustee, Advisor
Aidan is an inspirational digital leader and strategic thinker with a track record of successfully identifying and delivering new digital capabilities which create and enhance business value – cost effectively and securely.
Having held Chief Information Officer roles at Johnson Matthey, Network Rail and BP, Aidan is adept in digital transformation and organisational change at scale and is a sought after speaker and contributor on these topics.
Chintan Patel
Chief Technology Officer, Cisco UK and Ireland
As CTO for Cisco UK & Ireland, Chintan oversees technology engagement and partnerships with clients, industry, government and academia to help accelerate the adoption of digital technology.
With 25 years of global experience in the industry, he leads a diverse community of engineers, architects and business leaders across multiple functions in Cybersecurity, Cloud, IT Infrastructure, AI, Hybrid Work and Emerging Technologies.
His role also involves leading the Country Digital Impact Office, which focuses investments in pioneering solutions that have broad public impact. He mentors those early in their careers and continues to champion the need for broader digital and engineering skills in society through STEM subjects.
He is a member of the UK Government’s Digital Skills Council and an Entrepreneur in Residence at Brunel University.
Jemma Waters
Head of Digital Impact and Inclusion, Lloyds Banking Group
Jemma is passionate about using data for good and developing impactful partnerships; all with people and purpose in mind. She is a #WATC top100 Rising Star 2019 and Tech Talent Charter UK Advisor.
Jemma leads the team responsible for the UK’s largest benchmark of individuals, charities and businesses’ digital skills; the Digital Index reports; UK tech adoption policy including the DCMS Digital Skills Partnership, and external partnerships for data for good, diversity and digital skills agendas. She is newly leading Sustainability for the Lloyds Banking Group Transformation division. Previously, Jemma worked at Accenture Interactive and dunnhumby, using data with human-centred design thinking to support clients including Sky, Tesco and Channel 4.