The Food Bank Aid Family

Motivated by Covid to collect goods from her neighbourhoods for a local food bank, Naomi was completely overwhelmed by the generosity of her local communities.

A few collections later, she was joined by Co-Founder Jo Rosenblatt, and encouraged by huge local support, Food Bank Aid was born.  Both were recently recognised at the Jewish Care Women of Distinction Awards.

Having trained in printed textile design at the Glasgow School of Art, Naomi spent her early career working in sales within the textile industry across Europe.

Whilst raising her Family, she managed a law practice before returning to sales and marketing which took her to live in Bangkok.

Drawing on her relationship building and organisational skills, Naomi has worked tirelessly to grow the Food Bank Aid family, including her network of food bank managers.

Naomi also served on the Management Board of Hampstead Garden Suburb Synagogue.

Chris is a partner at Alvarez & Marsal, a global professional services firm, and was previously a partner at a Big 4 accounting firm.  He is a qualified accountant, and joined Food Bank Aid as Treasurer in July 2023.

Chris lives in north London with his wife and three children.  Outside of work, he enjoys all sports, especially football.

Rochelle has become a trustee to Food Bank Aid, inspired by Naomi and the team and the amazing work they deliver.

Rochelle has founded and successfully exited several businesses. She has C-suite experience with a background in finance, real estate and tech.

Currently she holds 2 NED roles and serves as a mentor to a female founder.  She collaborates with Be the Business and ORT and supports Save the children and Chai cancer care.  She served as a trustee for Jewish Women’s Aid and volunteered at the Soup Kitchen London for many years.

Rochelle is married with 3 adult children and 3 dogs.

Before becoming a Trustee, Jonathan became an Advisor to Food Bank Aid in April 2022, having been inspired by Naomi and then volunteering to do many FBA shopping trips with his family.

Jonathan works for McKinsey as a management consultant, leading the social, healthcare and public sector teams in Europe, and is also a member of the European Leadership team, and a Director of McKinsey Development Partners.

Outside his client work, Jonathan publishes research on economic growth and development, and modernising government in collaboration with the McKinsey Global Institute and leading academics. In a voluntary capacity, he set up Clinic Africa and supports Grief Encounter and World Jewish Relief and now Food Bank Aid.

Martin became a Trustee of FBA in January 2022, having been a volunteer driver for several months. With a degree in Economics from Cambridge, he has spent more than four decades working in many different roles within the media, marketing and communications industries.

He wrote for Monty Python, the Two Ronnies and David Jason, was a founding partner of the ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty, became CEO of Grey Worldwide, spent several years helping small creative businesses to develop, is a Lay Member of the Institute of Cancer Research and for two years was the ICR’s Head of Public Affairs.

In recent years, he co-founded Axim Global, a company that attempts to bridge the increasingly colliding worlds of marketing and technology.

Ola joined Food Bank Aid as a Trustee in January 2022, having volunteered with the organisation since April 2020.

She brings a background in Not-for-Profit finance and risk management to the Board. Her time as Finance Director at Retail Trust for 3 years, and now as Head of Finance, Risk and Corporate Services at the Lending Standards Board mean that she delivers valuable insight into NFP operations and risk management, contributing to a strong governance framework at Food Bank Aid.

Kalbir is the Product Director for Infrastructure at Spotify. As a technical product leader he has worked across product management, engineering management and consulting. He has worked with multiple organisations globally to analyse and implement cloud strategy, and design and implement cloud based systems. He has led development teams, built a software delivery organisation with hundreds of developers, and designed a security first cloud strategy for a major UK government department.

He loves technology to solve important problems and on building teams that are motivated and excited to crack those problems.

He also has two young children who keep him busy. When not with the kids or thinking about infrastructure you’ll find him in the garden or reading poetry ideally with a glass of wine.

Ishraq Bhatti became a FBA trustee in March 2022. Ishraq has had an extensive relationship management career in the telecommunications industry with the likes of Orange/EE, Microsoft and the GSMA, but helping others has always been close to his heart and that of his children’s hearts.

Having been responsible for a ‘homeless outreach’ program in conjunction with Palmers Green Mosque for a number of years, Ishraq continued in this sector to become one of the founders of Bounds Green Food bank, with the main responsibility of the sourcing of food in to the food bank.

BGFB was setup in June 2020 initially as temporary solution assist the local community but has now grown unfortunately to become one of the prominent food banks in London borough of Harringey offering ‘advice & support’ as well as numerous mini projects to assist those struggling in the community.

Ishraq is currently also a consultant with Human Appeal and HANDS International working on UK and international projects to assist those in need.

Charlotte has been volunteering at Food Bank Aid since October 2020, and became a Trustee three years later.

Starting off as a volunteer driver, Charlotte has worn many different hats at Food Bank Aid always helping the charity boost donations whether it be inspiring her neighbourhood to organise street collections, developing our schools programme which now includes over 90 schools across North London, or playing a key role in our fundraising campaigns.

Charlotte has been committed to Food Bank Aid from the beginning, and is passionate about making sure the food banks are fed and able to help those that really need it.

Originally from Lockerbie, Charlotte lives in North London with her husband and two children. Her background is marketing having worked in professional services. She brings a wealth of experience and lots of energy to the Board of Trustees.

Charlotte was nominated for the Haringey Womens Award – ‘Unsung Heroes’ in March 2021 for her voluntary work in the community.