Who We Are

Steve has been involved in a number of software companies and charities over the years. Starting as a junior web developer for a small charity, he has worked his way up to be the Head of Engineering for a current major commercial SaaS product. He also brings many years of project and team management which helps in breaking complex business requirements into buildable software products.

Steve is the current Chair of Trustees for The Software Charity, a role he is delighted to occupy in order to commit his skills and time to serve the wider community.

Outside of work, Steve is an avid music listener and producer.

Liz brings many years of commercial business management experience and we are thrilled to have her on the Board of Trustees.

Charles Vernon was born in 1953 and married Louise in 1974. They have three married children and eight grandchildren scattered around the globe.

He is now semi-retired after spending his working career in the Furniture Industry running medium to large companies both in the UK and worldwide, principally Gloster Furniture, Nathan Furniture and Parker Knoll.

He has been involved in his local church all his adult life and has held roles across the spectrum. He has been a Trustee of Christian or furniture related charities and continues this aspect of his life in his retirement.

Charles remains significantly involved in his son’s worldwide football centred organisation, Right to Dream.

Previously he set up and chaired Lighthouse central as an organisation to enable and support the growth of the Lighthouse Christian children’s holiday clubs.

Ryan is a marketing director at a large software-as-a-service company. He has experience as a director, VP, CMO and marketing agency co-founder.

Ryan has worked with companies including Google, Zapier, Textio, Clearbit and Algolia. He teaches marketing through his courses, articles, workshops and conference talks.

Ryan supports The Software Charity with marketing.

Joshua has worked in IT across numerous industries, architecting systems for, or advising large corporations and governments on their IT systems. He also has experience volunteering with and working for a number of charities across a number of countries. He brings both international experience and experience from highly regulated and security focused industries to our trustees board.

He also in parallel acts as the DPO for The Software Charity where he brings his experience and expertise of data privacy and data protection regulations to help TSC maintain high standards to protect the data both as a data processor and data controller.