Meet our Board of Trustees
Christian has more than 30 years experience in senior management and operations across a range of different European businesses. He specialises in sales and marketing, MBOs, acquisitions and take-overs.
He has been involved with The Leadership Trust, a learning centre for leadership and development, for more than 20 years.
Christian Testorf | Treasurer
Passionate about young people’s mental health and supporting the adults around them to help when it is needed, Roxane joined as a trustee to support the charity’s fantastic growth in size and structure.
She has directly developed some of our new organisational processes and policies. Roxane was Head of Services at YoungMinds for five years until late 2023 and is now Director of Strategy and Operations at Spread a Smile, a charity which supports seriously ill children and their families.
Roxane is Vice Chair and Safeguarding Lead for the Board of Trustees
Roxane Caplan
Olivia has always worked in the voluntary and community sector, predominantly in health and at a local, national, European and international level as a CEO and policy director. Currently she works as a freelance consultant for funders and in palliative care and sits on the Boards of different charities.
Olivia has always been involved with horses, having had ponies as a child, seen her daughter through her teenage horse-owning years, and in later life, reverted to ownership of a 14 hand pony.
Olivia Dix
Niva is passionate about supporting young people to access opportunity and to flourish. She has volunteered her time to support young people in a number of ways in the past, including as a mentor and as a school governor at a local primary school.
Niva is currently an executive at strategic advisory firm Hakluyt, supporting corporations and investors on the opportunities and risks facing their businesses. This follows nearly two decades in the civil service where she advised cabinet ministers on a range of domestic and international priorities - including overseeing nearly £80 billion to support education and skills across England.
Niva Thiruchelvam
Eva has worked as an operational leader in various purpose-driven organisations with the goal to maximise social impact. She has a passion for philanthropy, experience in setting up and managing social enterprises, a grant making foundation and a Family Office, paired with an appreciation for the critical mission of SLTH to deliver alternative mental health service and to see young people flourish. Eva is particularly excited to have joined an exceptional team at SLTH at a time of growth and to support the operational resilience to sustain, scale and grow the work of SLTH.
Eva Klute
Helen Mills
Helen is an experienced HR Director, currently at the newly created Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT).
Helen’s directorate are responsible for all people-affecting areas of the department, ensuring that the department has the right foundations, a compelling people offer and leads the way in people innovation.
Helen’s previous experience includes Chief People Officer at DFID/FCDO and as HR Director at the Department for Exiting the European Union before taking on a broader role as Corporate Centre Director.
Helen is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and has a CIMA advanced Diploma. She is chair of our HR Committee.
Karen has 40 years experience in health management and health policy, much of it child health policy. She was Director of Mental Health for NHS England from 2015 to 2019, securing £1.4bn to fund a new mental health plan, the Five Year Forward View for mental health, to expand mental health services across the ages.
Karen was appointed an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2018. She works across a number of different organisations aiming to support improvements in health.
