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Humphrey Barclay, Chairman of the Board of Trustees / Founder

After a long career as a TV comedy producer (biography) Humphrey was made Nkosuohene or Development Chief of Kwahu-Tafo in September 2001, with the stool name of Kwadwo Ameyaw Gyearbuor Yiadom I. Enthused by this responsibility, Humphrey has been the driving force in setting up the UK charity "Friends of Tafo" and is the Chair of the Kwahu-Tafo Progress Council in Ghana. He has now taken semi-retirement from TV to spend two or three six-week periods in Tafo each year.
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Benjamin Ntim, Treasurer / Trustee

Benjamin is a Kwahuman from the distinguished ambassadorial Ntim family in Abetifi, and he is resident in the UK. He is a qualified accountant with an MSc in Business Economics. Formerly the senior accountant at HMV Card Services Ltd., he is now an Oil Trader with Elan Oil Ltd.
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Georgina Owen, Secretary / Trustee
Georgina is a management consultant, specialising in adult social care and local government.  She currently works at iMPOWER where she is supporting UK local authorities to transform how they deliver care and support to those in need to improve people's lives.  She has previously worked with Serco and Accenture, and is also Treasurer of a not-for-profit organisation with a turnover of around GBP100,000.
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Crispin Leyser, Trustee.

Working out of Los Angeles, Crispin is the USA Acquisitions and Co-Production Consultant for both Channel 4 TV & Viasat Broadcasting.  Crispin was Creative Consultant for Comic Relief for Red Nose Day 3 and a Trustee of The Hysteria Trust where he has helped raise large sums of money for AIDS charities through live and televised comedy shows.
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Jules Leyser, Trustee.
Jules is a writer and poker coach living in Los Angeles. After reading English at Trinity College, Oxford, she became an Account Director in advertising and worked on a wide range of accounts including British Airways, ITV and T Mobile as well as Barnardos and Breakthrough for Breast Cancer. In Los Angeles, she is active in a number of local charities including The Boys and Girls Club of America and The LA Children's Hospital.
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Robert Taylor, Trustee.
Robert is a portrait photographer. He has work in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery the V&A and the Royal Society, as well as multiple publications. He served in the RAF, and is a trained as a barrister. Robert has also worked for many years in publishing, including working in educational publishing in Nigeria. He has served on multiple charity committees covering HIV, dance, visual arts and rehabilitating prisoners.
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Colena Abbosh, Committee Member. 
Colena is the Finance and Operations Director of Switch Sticks Ltd.  Switch Sticks (www.swtchsticks.com) was started in 2005 and makes award winning funky patterned walking sticks and hiking poles - we are on mission to make dull, functional mobility items fun and stylish!  Prior to this Colena was a management consultant with over 14 years experience in blue chip firms - Price Waterhouse, Oracle Consulting and Accenture.  She specialised in the project management of large IT transformation programs and has a background in accounting and finance.  Colena has worked across a variety of industries including Utilities, Retail and Media & Entertainment.  During her 6 years with Accenture Colena contributed to the "Making a Difference Campaign". She also served on a charity committee for the Process Division. Her role in Friends of Tafo includes running newsletter communications. 
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Peggy-Rose Cradduck, Committee Member.
Peggy-Rose is a Risk Manager who, along with her experience as a Change Management, Communications and Learning Consultant, has over 16 years' experience in top-four professional services firms, working in the UK/Europe, USA and Australia. She is qualified with TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) teacher. Peggy-Rose also volunteers with a local garden charity. Her role in Friends of Tafo includes running the FOT website.
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Dr Tristram Wyatt, Committee Member.
Tristram is a zoologist at the University of Oxford. For almost 20 years he was at the University of Oxford Department for Continuing Education as University Lecturer in Biological Sciences and latterly as Director of Online Learning in Public Programmes. He is an Emeritus Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford. Tristram is a keen cyclist and supports projects to develop cycling in Oxford.
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Michael Mensah, Committee Member. 
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