About Us
Mary Anne Cordeiro is Chair of the Board of Trustees and is joined by Patrick Reeve and Fiona Sutcliffe as Trustees.
Mary Anne Cordeiro
Mary Anne Cordeiro graduated with MA (Hons) in Chemistry and is a member of the University of Oxford Chemistry Development Board. She is intimately involved in the commercialisation and funding of Life Sciences and Technology businesses through Science to Business which she founded. Mary Anne has 20 years’ experience in healthcare investment, recently as director of Seneca Growth Capital and previously at Albion Technology & Growth. Prior to that she had a 15-year career as an international corporate financier with Goldman Sachs, Bankers Trust and Paribas. She has held a number of Chair and Trustee positions on Arts and Cultural boards including the acclaimed contemporary dance charity, Balletboyz, the Royal Academy of Arts and the Deccan Heritage Foundation.
Patrick Reeve
Patrick graduated from Oxford with a degree in Modern Languages and from SOAS with a degree in Sanskrit. After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant, he has spent most of his career in venture capital, and is currently non-executive chairman of Albion Capital, a venture capital fund manager which he founded in 1996. In addition to the Joseph Rufino Foundation, he is a trustee of the Girdlers Company Charitable Trust and the Trusthouse Charitable Foundation, as well as serving on the Finance and General Purposes Committee of the British School at Athens. He is currently a director of the Association of Investment Companies and served for nine years on the Audit Committee of University College London.
Fiona Sutcliffe
Fiona Sutcliffe has enjoyed working in the decorative arts field since leaving Oxford University, where she read History. Having started as a restorer, she became a mural and fine art painter, and eventually set up Sterling Studios. This is a leading decorative arts studio based in London but working globally, and specialising in verre eglomise, gilding, lacquer, embossed leathers, gesso and other decorative finishes. She is committed to the training of young people working in this field and the preservation, and continuation, of the skills and craftmanship involved in artwork. She enjoys spending time with her family, dogs and friends, and trying to stop her dogs digging up her garden.
