Trustees

Bill Boler

Bill Boler is a Director of Business in the Community, a two-year project to help businesses and communities identify and capitalise on under-served markets in deprived neighbourhoods.

Bill played a similar role in New York and is credited with "turning around Harlem".

In the United States, Bill was Vice President for Community Investment at Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), helping companies to integrate community investment into their business and CSR strategies for the benefit of both companies and community.

Prior to joining BSR he served as executive director of the Greater Harlem Housing Development Corporation from 1993-1998, during which time he worked to attract private investment to Harlem, NY.

He was Deputy Commissioner of the New York City Department of Business Services and Vice President of the city’s Public Development Corporation.

Bill earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture from Yale University and a Master’s Degree in City and Regional Planning from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

His swimming is half decent.

Stephanie Cook

Steph is a medical doctor and has seen the effects of malaria first hand. She has field experience in India, Uganda and South Africa and has had malaria herself.

She is also an Olympic Champion, having won a gold medal in modern pentathlon at Sydney in 2000, and was both European and World Champion in 2001.

Modern pentathlon was the focus of Steph's life for ten years. After the Sydney Olympics she returned to her medical career and now specialises in ENT (ear, nose and throat) and head & neck surgery.

Steph recently got married to Dan, an equine vet, and they live near Bristol with their dog, Biscuit. All three will be swimming.

Jonathan Calascione

Jonathan is a partner at global strategy consultancy, Monitor Company.

He has worked at Monitor for the last 15 years leading projects in a variety of industry sectors including banking, chemicals, travel and telecommunications. In recent years he has developed an expertise in the media sector.

Prior to joining Monitor Company, Jonathan managed the British Army ski team for two World Cup seasons.

Jonathan is originally from Malta and his wife Caroline is from Zimbabwe. In 1999-2000 Jonathan and his wife and two daughters Sarah and Hannah, then 8 and 5, spent a year sailing from Malta to Australia thereby fulfilling a long held ambition to sail across the world.

Guy Davis

Guy has been a lifelong swimmer since learning when living in Kenya in the 1960s.

He enjoys Masters swimming competitions both in the pool and in open water and the challenge of an occasional triathlon and is a member of the Amateur Swimming Association and US Masters Swimming. He is looking forward to participating in the World Swim For Malaria alongside his family, club mates and friends in the swimming community around the world.

Guy currently works as an independent business advisor and venture investor following a 20-year career in international investment banking and business consulting. He is a Board member of the Amateur Swimming Federation of Great Britain.

Richard Lane

Richard is Director of Science at the Natural History Museum in London.

He is responsible for a staff of 500 and 70 million items held by the museum.

Richard was a senior lecturer and head of the vector biology unit at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (1985-92) before becoming head of the Entomology Department at the Natural History Museum, London (1992-97).

He was head of International Programmes at the Wellcome Trust between 1997-2003. At the Trust he was responsible for funding and reviewing major research programmes in biomedical and social sciences in over 40 countries as well as forging alliances and collaborations with international organisations and governments.

His research has been on various aspects of insect vectors of disease and as a consequence of this and other activities has travelled extensively in the developing world. He has been a consultant to a number of governments for the World Health Organization and on external review bodies for several research organisations in the UK and overseas. He was educated at Imperial College, London (Zoology & Entomology).

Richard is co-author of a major reference work in medical entomology and of numerous research papers.

Andy Lewis-Pratt

Andy is an Executive Director of Capital & Regional Plc, a UK listed property company.

He is also Chief Executive of The Junction one of the UK's largest retail property funds and holds a number of non-executive directorships outside the property industry.

He is a qualifed rugby coach and has a passion for rugby. Not a natural swimmer, he is learing to swim laps and is making good progress.

Rob Mather

Rob started World Swim Against Malaria.

He has no background in swimming and only learnt to swim properly in Australia a few years ago. "When I saw my Australian friends swimming laps it looked effortless. I thought I better learn. Until then my swimming was a version of freestyle and gasping for breath at the end of the pool."

Rob's business background is in strategy consulting, event management and publishing. He's taken time out to coordinate World Swim Against Malaria.

He lives in London with his wife Catherine and four children aged 9, 7, 5 and 3.

Jeremy Schwartz

Jeremy has spent his career in marketing seeking to captivate people around ideas for brands.

Most recently he was Brand Director for Sainsbury’s supermarkets and prior to that Marketing Director for Coca-Cola across Central Europe and for L’Oreal in the UK. He has three children Ocean, Sky and Indigo named after his love of the outdoors and sea, which he hopes they still appreciate when they grow up. Jeremy's other passion is for adventure and most recently he has ridden a horse across central Mongolia and cycled across Tibet, not to mention swimming seven miles for Swim For Terri in 2003.

Peter Sherratt

Peter is Chief Legal Officer and Vice Chairman at Lehman Brothers International, the investment bank.

Peter joined Lehman in 1986 and is a member of its European executive team, trustee of its UK pension scheme and board member of a number of its companies, including its charitable foundation in New York.

Outside the firm, Peter is Chair of Governors at an inner city secondary school. He trained as a lawyer in England, qualifying as a barrister, and holds degrees from Oxford and Cambridge Universities. Peter swims lochs in Scotland for fun.