Our Trustees

Trustees oversee everything a charity does, from setting its strategy to being responsible for its work and finances, and we couldn’t operate as a charity without them. We are lucky to have trustees with such a wide range of professional skills.

Our trustees meet for 6 board meetings a year, as well as for our AGM, when we share our financial results, and the trustee’s review of the financial year. We welcome staff, service users and local professionals to our AGM, so do let enquiries@adhdandautism.org know if you’d like to join us!

Trustees are responsible for the overall governance of the charity rather than the day to day operational management:

Governance is about leadership and direction. This means ensuring CAAS has a clear, shared vision of its purpose, what it is aiming to achieve, and how in broad terms it will go about doing it. Trustees set clear aims and objectives, and ensure the charity’s assets are safeguarded and used effectively and exclusively for the benefit of those the charity exists to help.

Day-to-day management of the charity is delegated to the CEO, with the support of the Senior Leadership Team. The board is responsible for supervising the CEO, and ensuring the charity is well managed and operating within the agreed policies, the law, and its budget.

We are so grateful to our trustees, who perform this important office for us, and give so willingly of their time.

Gabriella Eberhardt

Milly Lawrence-ahmed

ANDREA O'CONNOR

CLAIRE ROSEN-SULTAN

ZOE CAMPBELL

SIMON TAYLOR

Javed Ahsan

Lynne Fearn

Gabriella Eberhardt | Trustee

Gabriella Eberhardt brings over 25 years of international strategic leadership experience, having worked across 9 diverse industries including Healthcare, FMCG, and Telecommunications. As an expert in organizational transformation and change leadership, Gabriella has a distinguished track record of partnering with CEOs to bridge the gap between vision and effective execution. She is the founder of Unbiased Solution Ltd, a consultancy dedicated to helping purpose-driven organizations build high-performing, resilient cultures.

As Chair of the Board of Trustees, Gabriella is deeply committed to neurodiversity both as a business professional and a parent. This dual perspective fuels her passion for amplifying the voices of beneficiaries and ensuring that the charity’s services are enabled by a strong Board, robust governance, and strategic clarity to ensure CAAS achieves long-term sustainable impact. She holds an Executive MBA and a Master’s in HR Strategy, and is dedicated to fostering safe and high-quality environments where every individual has the opportunity to thrive.

Milly Lawrence-Ahmed | Trustee

Milly Lawrence-Ahmed  is the Head of Strategic Planning at UNICEF UK, she has over 30 years experience in the charity and public impact sector, spanning strategy, fundraising, and organisational transformation. She combines deep professional expertise with lived experience as the parent of a child with Autism and ADHD, giving her a strong personal commitment to neurodiversity and inclusion. Milly has been recognised for her leadership in the sector, including being voted in the top ten ‘Most Influential in Fundraising’ for three consecutive years and being the youngest, the first female and the first global majority to do so. She is proud to serve as a Trustee of the Centre for ADHD and Autism Support, championing practical, inclusive support for children and families.

Andrea O’Connor | Trustee

Andrea has worked within health and social care for over 20 years, starting her career working as a healthcare assistant within the NHS moving into operational, business development and governance roles. Currently chief operating officer for homecare services, Andrea is passionate about ensuring the delivery of high quality care delivery for both children and adults to live well at home. 

With later life personal experience of ADHD and Autism, she is committed to raising awareness and understanding of neurodiversity so that individuals with ADHD and/or Autism can access support and advocacy services. As a Trustee, combining her lived and worked experience, Andrea aims to support the charity to deliver their strategic objectives; ensuring support services are sustained and accessible. 

Claire Rosen-Sultan | Trustee

Claire is a corporate governance technical advisor with a strong background in London’s charity sector, with experience at national-scale charity commissioners of public health services and corporate grant-giving. She has a certificate in Charity Law and Governance from the Chartered Governance Institute and provides regular strategic governance support to boards, trustees and executives to strengthen governance frameworks and enhance organisational accountability.

Claire is an adult-diagnosed AuDHD-er and independent researcher in anthropology, and has a MA from SOAS in Cultural Anthropology. She is a seasoned grassroots community organiser working to advocate for better rights and amplify the voices of vulnerable groups in our communities. When not at the desk, she can be found in the countryside on her bicycle. 

Zoe Campbell | Trustee

Zoe Campbell is a community gardener and the parent of an autistic young adult. Zoe and her family have used CAAS services since 2021, when she and her husband took the Understanding Autism course. Around that time her child (then 14) also began attending Girls Group and other services offered at CAAS. Zoe became a Trustee in late 2022. Zoe has delivered nature crafting sessions with Girls Group and Siblings Group at CAAS, and hopes to deliver future sessions with other groups at the Centre. 

Simon Taylor | Trustee

Simon Taylor joined the CAAS Board in 2022.  Neuro-Diversity in his family was supported so strongly by similar organisations to ourselves that he wished to give his time to the work the CAAS team do for our hundreds of clients.  An Accountant by profession, Simon swapped the corporate life of a Finance Director more than a decade ago and has since supported several commercial organisations, the CAAS charity, pension funds, start-ups and non-for-profit sector organisations with his prime focus being on People, Strategy, Finance, Compliance and Governance. Simon holds our Treasurer position on the Trustee Board, supporting the Chair, other Trustees and the CAAS Management Team.  In this role he ensures we maintain a stable, growing and flexible financial position and is known to be challenging when required, supportive when required, and always passionate about our team and the real people we support. 

Javed Ahsan | Trustee

Javed joined the Board of Trustees at CAAS at the end of 2025. His connection to ADHD and autism is both personal and profound: his son is autistic and has ADHD, and his daughter also has ADHD. Javed first came to the charity as a parent, attending one of the courses for families, and also supported the charity by securing funding through the charity pot at his workplace.

Professionally, Javed is a qualified accountant with broad experience across finance, including technical accounting, reporting, and commercial business partnering. He trained as a chartered accountant in Audit at PwC before moving to Deloitte, where he specialised in Transaction Services. He then spent several years contracting across a range of corporate organisations and the charity Wellcome Trust. For the past decade, he has been with M&G plc, where he has developed extensive experience across the finance function, with a particular focus on business partnering with real estate and infrastructure stakeholders.

Throughout his career, he has been driven by clarity, collaboration, and helping organisations make informed decisions. He is excited to bring this expertise to the Board and to support the charity’s continued growth.

Javed feels privileged to step into this role, not only to give back to an organisation that has supported his own family, but also to help ensure that other families, children, and young people receive the support they deserve.