Fiona Edwards, Chair

Fiona is the Regional Director for the North East and Yorkshire at NHS England, a role she took up in April 2025.

She was previously Chief Executive for Frimley Health and Care Integrated Care Board, where she led the system for over five years. Before that, Fiona was Chief Executive of Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and has served as a Chief Executive in the NHS for over 23 years.

Over the course of her career, Fiona has also held senior leadership roles across the private, voluntary, and not-for-profit sectors. She was national Chair of Cruse Bereavement Care and chaired a national supported housing organisation delivering services and housing to some of the most vulnerable and excluded members of society.

Fiona has been a Trustee of the NHS Confederation since July 2023 and became Chair of Advicenow on 1st June 2024.

Joe Broadway

Joe Broadway is currently training to be a barrister. Before that he was Director of Legal Affairs and Company Secretary at CFH Docmail Ltd. He created and ran Velopost, a fossil fuel free postal delivery service, as a separate business unit within CFH Docmail, for three years. He received the 2015 Business Insider Magazines 42 Under 42 award which "recognises some of the South West’s most dynamic and inspirational young entrepreneurs and celebrates their success in helping grow the regional economy”. He has also been a volunteer advocate at the Free Representation Unit, is a Trustee of the CFH Total Document Management Retirement Benefit Scheme, and was a fundraiser and volunteer at READ International.

Jennifer Davis

Jennifer Davis is a Senior Product Manager at Citizens Advice, where she leads teams of engineers to develop digital products that help people access the advice they need.

Jennifer started her career as asolicitor before completing a Masters in Business Administration and retraining as a digital product manager at Amazon. While at Amazon, Jennifer launched and scaled ecommerce business lines to support third party sellers selling products with supporting services in the UK and Germany.

Giles Crown

Giles is a partner and head of regulatory at international law firm Taylor Wessing LLP. His practice covers intellectual property, media and public/regulatory work, particularly in the consumer, brand & advertising, and media & entertainment sectors. He was previously joint managing partner at Lewis Silkin LLP. He has experience of litigating at all levels, including the Court of Appeal, Supreme Court and Court of Justice of the European Union.

Giles also has extensive trustee and board experience, including as Vice Chair of the Internet Watch Foundation, Volunteer General Counsel of the Blockchain Climate Institute, Chair of Westminster Citizens Advice and a member of The Law Society’s Membership Committee. He is currently a non executive director of Flourish, an AI enabled platform for supporting businesses to make accurate and substantiated environmental and sustainability advertising claims.

He is married with three children (and a dog and cat!). 

Savita Narain

Savita has extensive experience of managing rights-based organisations and ensuring the delivery of excellent, accessible advice services at both local and national level. Savita’s key achievements include setting up a Law Centre and leading Rethink’s advice and information service through a period of consultation and change. During the COVID pandemic, Savita was Senior Manager at Help on Your Doorstep, an Islington community organisation, and she lead the transition to delivering Covid-safe services. Most recently Savita was Director of the national advice and advocacy service at Family Rights Group.

Savita has a MA in Race and Ethnic Studies from Warwick University and Postgraduate Diploma in Voluntary Sector Management. She is an experienced trainer, a qualified NVQ assessor and has completed a CAST Digital Fellowship.