Patrick Smulders is co-founder and trustee of the Horizon Foundation. He is a private equity investor and is currently Managing Partner of Freshstream Capital.
Previously, he was Managing Partner of Bregal Freshstream Capital, Managing Director at TowerBrook, Senior Managing Director at Soros Private Equity and founding Partner and Managing Director at Doughty Hanson.
Patrick also serves as a governor of Rugby school and as a trustee of the Royal National Children’s Springboard Foundation.
He earned his A.B. from Harvard College and his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He is married with two sons.
Kirkland Newman Smulders is co-founder and trustee of the Horizon Foundation. Kirkland is a writer, entrepreneur and philanthropist focused on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as well as on mental health. She founded the mental health not for profit MindHealth360 which aims to raise awareness and provide resources around integrative mental health, and is setting up The London Integrative Mental Health Clinic to provide integrative mental health services.
She has a first class degree in Modern Languages from Oxford University, an MSc in European Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an MA in Near and Middle Eastern Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies. She has worked for Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Ogilvy & Mather in New York, for the Prince’s Trust in London and was co-chair and trustee for Lessons with Love, a charity which supported refugee communities in Bethlehem. She also published a chapter “The Battle over Victimhood; roles and implications of narratives of suffering in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict”, in Dina Matar and Zahera Harb’s “Narrating Conflict in the Middle East: Discourse, Image and Communication Practices in Lebanon and Palestine”.
Catherine Roe has over 25 years’ experience of creating, developing, leading and advising foundations and not-for-profits, many of which have been Middle East focused. Previously, she was a British diplomat, specialising in multilateral negotiation.
Catherine is the Director of CMR Consult Ltd where she has worked with a range of foundations, philanthropists and not-for-profits in fields as diverse as education, child development, arts and culture, social cohesion, disability and refugees. She has served on the boards of several not-for-profits and is currently as a trustee of the International Institute for Strategic Studies. She has a Masters in History from Oxford University, an MBA from London Business School and a Masters in Middle East Studies from SOAS.
Maury Shenk is an experienced lawyer, entrepreneur and investor, with expertise in education, artificial intelligence, IT services, digital media and green technology.
Maury is CEO of edtech start-up LearnerShape, director of education company PeopleCert, advisor to global law firm Steptoe, managing director of his family consulting and investment firm Lily Innovation, and an investor in UK start-ups that address business problems with artificial and machine intelligence.