Beryl has worked at board level in three sectors - as a Marketing Director in the insurance industry, as the chair of 2 NHS Trusts in the public sector, and as a CEO, Trustee and Chair in the voluntary/ third sector. She has a particular interest in how boards work, and how the performance - and behaviour - of the board can affect the impact of their organisation.
In her role as Head of the Large Charities Division at the Charity Commission, Beryl worked with the boards of many high profile charities to improve governance.
She has been a trustee of several charities, including as Chair of the NCT, the UK's largest parenting charity.
Beryl left the Charity Commission in January 2012 to set up PGS which has dealt with many charities on a wide variety of interesting and complex governance issues. She is currently Chair of the Queen Victoria NHS Foundation Trust in East Grinstead.
