Jason Rees, Chair
Jason has 25 years’ experience holding senior leadership positions at start-up, scale up and corporate level with a focus on strategy, operational and commercial delivery, and growth to exit.
A graduate of Cardiff University, Jason was a Queen's Commission, Military and Strategic Leadership in the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. From there, he moved into commerce via roles that have included served on multiple boards including a competitive Joint Venture and working with venture investors as a board observer and mentor.
These experiences have helped Jason realise there is a strong need to make good governance affordable and less complex for smaller organisations. He is excited by the opportunity that the Governance360 platform offers to impact upon thousands of organisations worldwide.
Clive Bawden, Founder & Director
Clive is an experienced Executive, Non-Executive Director and Charity Trustee and the regional Institute of Directors (IoD) Non-Executive Director of the Year 2018. After completing his chartered accountancy training with KPMG, Clive worked in industry for over 20 years (Inchcape, Saint-Gobain, Catalyst Corporate Finance and various portfolio roles typically alongside investors in early-stage organisations)
Outside of work, having previously held roles including as Trustee for Finance & Risk at leading charity the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Warwickshire Cricket Board, he is currently an Independent Director at SkateboardGB (a new national governing body created to prepare the sport for inclusion in the Tokyo Olympics), a Director of his home town League One football club and Trustee for Finance & Risk at Birmingham Museums Trust, a large regional charity.
Clive started Governance360 Group to solve problems he encountered in his own working life - a simple tool to help him work across multiple boards, help time-poor volunteers and founders set up basic governance processes and make governance more transparent and easy to manage.
Melissa Wilson, Head of Customer Success
Melissa (Mel) has nearly 30 years' experience in the professional services sector working with her clients to grow their businesses.
Starting with a London Business Development Agency as a Senior Account Director for 8 years, and then moving on to start her own Business Development Agency 20 years' ago.
Melissa's remit at Governance360 is to nurture current clients, so that they have the best experience possible, and working alongside Clive and the rest of the team to grow the business so that we can reach our full potential and to provide the best customer experience.
Joel Evans, Lead Architect
Joel is Lead Architect at Governance360 Group, responsible for the development of the Governance360 app and its features.
Joel is an experienced full-stack developer with over 20 years of experience consulting on and delivering applications for businesses from a wide range of industries. He has also worked as part of a larger development team for a number of leading agencies.
Joel is very experienced in both backend and frontend development, as well as deploying applications to cloud infrastructure, specifically AWS, Azure and the Apple Store/Google Play mobile app environments.