Trustees

We're governed by a group of independent trustees who bring a wealth of different backgrounds, experience and disciplines to the board

Michael Hintze - Chairman

Michael Hintze is the founder and Chief Executive of CQS, a global diversified asset management group with over £10 billion under management.  Prior to this, Michael was MD in the Leveraged Funds Group at Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) after a period as Managing Director at European Head of Convertibles.  Before joining CSFB in 1996, Michael worked at Goldman Sachs for 12 years in a variety of senior roles after leaving Salomon Brothers, New York in 1984.  He began his career as an Electrical Design Engineer for Civil and Civic Pty Ltd in Australia before serving in the Australian Army as a Captain in the Royal Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
 
Michael has significant and wide-ranging philanthropic interests and established the Hintze Family Charitable Foundation in 2005. Since its inception, over 150 charities have received funding.  Major donations have provided support to the Evelina Childrens Hospital, Trinity Hospice in south London, established the chair of International Security at the University of Sydney, enabled the restoration of Michelangelo’s frescoes in the Pauline Chapel at the Vatican, sponsored two major galleries at the Victoria & Albert Museum and provided vital funding to the Old Vic and National Gallery. Michael was instrumental in helping to save both Dumfries House and Titian’s Diana and Acteon for the nation.  He's Chairman of the Prince’s Foundation and Vice President of the Public Monuments & Sculpture Association as well as being a Trustee of the National Gallery, the Institute of Economic Affairs, the University of Sydney and Wandsworth Museum. He was made a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory in 2005 and in January 2008 was honoured as “UK Australian of the Year” at the Australian High Commission.  In November 2009, Michael and his wife Dorothy received the Prince of Wales Award for Arts Philanthropy.

Michael is a fluent Russian speaker.  He holds a BSc in Physics and Pure Mathematics and a BEng in Electrical Engineering both from the University of Sydney.  He also holds an MSc in Acoustics from the University of New South Wales and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

 

Dominic Richards - Vice Chairman

Dominic Richards is a British entrepreneur who spent his early years living between Australia and the UK. Whilst at King's College, Cambridge, he co-founded the English Teddy Bear Company, which was sold to toy giant Hamleys.

Dominic then undertook a Foundation Course at The Prince of Wales' Institute of Architecture and has enjoyed much success since rescuing and finding new uses for wonderful buildings in the UK. His business, The Yaxley Group, comprises a successful country house venue at his home Yaxley Hall in Suffolk, leisure property including its current project, a 68 bedroom eco-farm conference centre, and consulting and education in China through a wholly owned subsidiary Chinese company, Yaxley Education.

 
 
 
 
 

Valeri Belokon

Valeri Belokon was born in Riga (Latvia), 14 February 1960. Studied at the University of Latvia (Department of Philology) and the University of Massachusetts, USA Since 1988, Valeri has held senior management positions in various international companies, strengthened positions both locally and globally, and acquired a vast professional experience in finance.

The re-establishment of Latvia’s independence bought about new opportunities for operating on the financial markets. Valeri founded the First Belokon Company and the first Baltic Stock Exchange (BSE). He established Baltic International Bank (1993), Latvia’s first ever bank to roll out a new specialised service model – private banking service. Valeri is founder and main shareholder of JSC Baltic International Bank and of JSC Belokon Holding-managed companies (investment services), founder of Hercogiste Media LLC (media business), and founder of the Riga Golf School, the first ever in Latvia – in line with his specific focus on social projects.

Since June 2006, Valeri Belokon has been the President and co-owner of Blackpool football club.  In 2010, Valeri was appointed as a member of the Board of Trustees of The Prince's Foundation. Together with HRH Prince of Wales, Sheikha Fadia Al-Sabah (the Kuwaiti Royal family), Valeri Belokon is a co-shareholder of an international joint venture Community Capital (PF Urban).

Valeri is a Board member of the Latvian-American Financial Forum (LAFF). He participated in a variety of economic and financial forums. Valeri is greatly committed to social initiatives and patronage.

 

 

Christopher Boyle

Christopher Boyle is a barrister, specialising in Town and Country Planning, Environmental, Compulsory Purchase and Infrastructure Law at Landmark Chambers, London. Since 2006, he's been Secretary of the Planning and Environment Bar Association and he was a founder committee member of the Compulsory Purchase Association.

In 2007 Christopher was elected to the Council of the National Trust (NT) and was appointed to the NT Land Use and Access Panel in 2009. He subsequently served on the NT Stonehenge Advisory Group. From 2007-2011, Christopher sat as an Associate Director of the University of Cumbria. Christopher was educated at Sedbergh and at Merton College, Oxford.

He's married with three children and lives in Cumbria, where he organically farms a 400 acre upland estate. He's a member of the Georgian Group and the Garden History Society.

 

Vivien Hepworth

Vivien Hepworth held a Directorship at Grayling Public Affairs for 14 years and was responsible for the company’s public affairs and public relations services in London, Brussels, Edinburgh and Cardiff. Prior to that Vivien worked as a Lobby Correspondent in Westminster, London. Additionally Vivien worked for the National Centre for Young People with Epilepsy, as well as chairing an NHS hospital trust.

Alongside her role as a trustee of the Prince's Foundation she's also a founder and honorary president of the Nystagmus Network, a self-help charity for those with certain rare visual conditions, and their families.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mark Hoare

Mark Hoare specialises in alterations and repairs to historic buildings and in the design of new buildings in historic contexts or other particularly sensitive settings. Wherever possible he endeavours to use ecological and low-carbon design solutions which evolve local building traditions and enhance local identity. The marriage of natural local materials with appropriate new technology and materials is a key element of this in his new work as well as ‘conservation’. Mark joined ADAM Architecture in 2008 and became an Associate Director in May 2009.

Prior to joining ADAM Architecture, Mark was involved in the design of new buildings in Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, listed landscapes and a World Heritage Site. A former Lethaby scholar of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, he's a Trustee of the Prince’s Foundation and a member of the National Trust’s advisory Architecture Panel. From 2005 to 2008 he worked on Climate Change related issues across the built and natural environment as the Soil Association’s Design and Development Adviser. 

 

 

Hayley De Putron

Haley  was first involved with De Putron Fund Management Limited in 1999.  She was educated at Manchester University in Oriental Studies. Hayley joined JP Morgan Management Training Programme in 1987. Focusing on the Middle East she moved to Merrill Lynch London in 1993, then to Merrill Lynch Singapore.  She took career retirement from Merrill Lynch in 1998 and joined the DPFM group of companies in 1999.  Hayley and her husband live with their four children in the Channel Islands.

Hayley is involved with wide ranging philanthropic endeavours. She is the patron of OXPIP, The Oxford Parent Infant Project and NORPIP, The Northamptonshire Parent & Infant Project. The charities are focused on early attachments with infants under the age of two. She has a keen interest in educating disadvantaged children. Hayley joined the Prince's Foundation as a Trustee in 2009 and is also a Trustee of The Ana Leaf Trust.

Eva Rausing

Eva has been a long term supporter of the work of The Prince’s Foundation.

 

Bob Rothenberg MBE

Bob Rothenberg has been a partner in the London Chartered Accountants Blick Rothenberg since 1979 and senior partner since 1997. He's a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, a Member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation and a Member of the Academy of Experts. Bob was made an MBE in the 2007 New Year's Honours List for services to business and the community in London. His professional work extends to general, financial and commercial advice and he acts as a trustee and an executor for a number of Blick Rothenberg’s clients.
 
Bob was for 11 years a board member of Think London, the official foreign direct investment agency for London and advises many non-UK companies on doing business in the UK. Bob lectures on taxation and company law and is joint author of Understanding Company Accounts, now in its fourth edition, and Mastering Business Information Technology. Bob spends much of his time travelling, promoting London and the UK as business centres, not only representing Blick Rothenberg and its international association, but also in co-operation with UK Trade & Investment.
 
In July 2010, Bob completed a two year term as Chairman of BKR International, his firm’s international association. Bob was also a non-executive director of easyJet plc until May 2010. He's both regularly quoted in the national press and appears on radio and television dealing with tax and commercial issues. Bob and his wife live in north London and they have three children. Bob is a governor of Highgate School and a trustee of a number of other charities including The Mayor of London’s Fund for Young Musicians.

 

Hank Dittmar - Chief Executive

Hank Dittmar has been Chief Executive of The Prince's Foundation since January 2005. 

Until 2008, Hank was Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Congress for the New Urbanism and also served as Executive Director of the Surface Transportation Policy Project.  

Hank has over twenty years of  international experience in urban design and development and urban and transport policy.  Prior to assuming the post with The Prince's Foundation, Hank was President and CEO of Reconnecting America.  Hank was appointed by President Clinton to the White House Advisory Committee on Transportation and Greenhouse Gas Emissions and the President's Council on Sustainable Development's Metropolitan Working Group, which he served as Chair.

He's a Senior Research Associate at the Oxford University Centre for the Environment and was outstanding Alumnus of the Graduate School of the University of Texas in 2008. In 2008 he wrote the book "Transport and Neighbourhoods."