Page 8 - Prime - Marking Ten Years

The Board
“Three top highlights: the conference in 2018, the shift towards more data collection and having two PRIME alums join the Board!”
Binda Patel, former PRIME Board member
Monica Burch, CPS, formerly Addleshaw Goddard Annette Byron, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Patricia Christias, Microsoft
Kath Davies, Education Endowment Foundation Bill Drummond, Brodies
Barry O’Brien, Profusion and formerly Career Ready
Binda Patel, The Sutton Trust
Anne Spackman, Non Executive Director & Trustee, formerly Career Ready James Turner, The Sutton Trust
Richard Tyler, Tyler Wilson Ltd, formerly CMS
Since its inception, PRIME has been driven forwards by the tireless work of its Board members. In addition to our serving Board members, we’d like to pay tribute to David Morley, former senior partner of Allen & Overy and founding Chair, without whom PRIME would not have been created. We also offer our
thanks to our founding member firms who joined him in seeking to make a difference:
Addleshaw Goddard; Allen & Overy; Arthur Cox; Ashurst; Blake Morgan; Bond Dickinson; Brodies; Clifford Chance; CMS Cameron McKenna; DLA Piper; Eversheds; Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer; Hogan Lovells; Herbert Smith Freehills; Linklaters; Norton
Rose; Pinsent Masons; Shepherd & Wedderburn; Slaughter and May; and Trowers & Hamlins.
Finally, thanks to all those individuals who, as past Board members, have played such an important role in our mission to improve access to the legal profession through work experience:
Janet Legrand, DLA Piper
Whilst the faces have changed over the years, the Board’s dedication and commitment to social mobility has never wavered.
In recent years, we have taken the opportunity to broaden the range of backgrounds, experience and skill sets around the Boardroom table. This is
part of our ongoing strategy to ensure that the Board reflects the broad make-up not just of PRIME’s members but also its partners, stakeholders and representatives of the social mobility sector. At the end of 2019, we further expanded representation to include our alumni network by inviting those who had recently taken part in a PRIME work experience scheme (or similar) to apply to join the Board. After an overwhelming response, we were delighted to welcome two new members to the Board.