Director biographies
Jenny Williams - Commissioner and Chief
Executive
Jenny Williams became the Chief Executive of the
Gaming Board, now the Gambling Commission, in 2004. She was
previously a Director General at the Lord Chancellor's Department
(now the Department for Justice). Before that she held a variety of
policy and project management posts as a senior civil servant in
the Inland Revenue, the Departments of Environment and Transport
and the Home Office. She is a trustee of the homelessness
charity, Connections at St. Martins and previously was a
non-executive director of Northumbrian Water Group plc, of the
National Campaign for Arts and of Morley College, an adult
education college.
Role
The Chief Executive is our senior executive and is responsible
for the development and effective delivery of the strategy agreed
by the Board
of Commissioners. She manages our staff through the Management Board
comprising the directors reporting to her and, as Accounting
Officer, is responsible for the proper management and financial
governance of the organisation.
Matthew Hill - Director of Strategy, Research and Analysis
Matthew joined us in November 2008. He has spent most of
his career as a civil servant covering a wide range of topics,
including gambling, broadcasting, alcohol reform, animal health,
e-government and civil contingencies.
Role
As well as contributing to the corporate
leadership as a member of management board, Matthew
is responsible for our business plan programmes on innovation,
better regulation and simplification, evidence and analysis,
business intelligence and business development. He formally manages
the resources in corporate and technical compliance, intelligence,
policy, research, business strategy and information management and
ICT functions, covering around 60 employees. He leads our working
relationships with industry and community groups, and with
government departments.
Justine Kenny - Director of People and Organisational
Development
Justine joined us in February 2006. She
was previously Director of Human Resources at a health-related
national NDPB and before that had spent her career in HR in various
NHS organisations, most recently as Deputy Director of HR at
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Trust. She is also a board
member of Mercian Housing Association Ltd, holds an
MA and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and
Development.
Role
Justine is responsible for people and
organisational development. This includes providing HR
leadership and strategic advice, ensuring that HR
management is strong, adds value to the business and remains
compliant with all employment, organisational development and
health and safety legislation and best practice
requirements. Justine works closely with the Chief
Executive on our strategic development needs and improving
organisational effectiveness.
Julia Mackisack - Director of Corporate Affairs
Julia joined us in April 2007. Before that, she
worked in a range of change-communications senior management roles
within the financial services sector, most recently with the Aviva
Group and Resolution plc, and in the not-for profit sector with
organisations such as the Princess Anne Trust for Carers and the
Royal Air Forces Association. Previously Julia was a non-executive
director of St George’s, a charity for women with a learning
disability, as well as a school governor at the Chase Technology
College in Malvern.
Role
Julia is responsible for our corporate affairs, managing
the delivery of our communications, both internally and externally,
including our media and public affairs strategy, our initial
enquiry management function, events, publications and our
e-communications, including the website and our intranet. She works
closely with the Chairman and Chief Executive in
leading our relationships with stakeholders.
Tracey Martin - Director of Finance
Tracey joined the
Gambling Commission in January 2012. She began her career in the
Private sector as a Land Surveyor leading teams on large scale
Civil Engineering projects, and later moved into the defence sector
as a Cartographer, developing digital mapping technology. Tracey
then changed direction, qualifying as an Accountant, moving into
finance, leading multi-million pound projects for the defence
sector. She has built substantial expertise in strategic finance
working in partnership with the private sector. Tracey has most
recently lead the creation of a health related Social Enterprise
company borne from government policy.
Role
Tracey's role as Director of Finance is to ensure financial
probity of the Gambling Commission's finances, and underpinning
strategy ensuring sustainability. Allied to this is the need
to ensure an appropriate fee structure meets the needs of all
stakeholders demonstrating value for money.
Neil McArthur - Director of Legal
Neil qualified as a solicitor in 1997. He is a
graduate of Leicester Polytechnic and Leicester University and
holds a post-graduate diploma in local government law from the
College of Law. He is a member of the Association of
Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers.
Neil has worked as in-house lawyer for a
number of public bodies, most recently as the head of the General
Teaching Council for England’s legal team.
Role
Neil joined us in October 2006. He is our
principal legal adviser with overall responsibility for our legal
work, including providing advice on the operation of the regulatory
regime and support to our Regulatory Panel.
Nick Tofiluk - Director of Regulation
Nick joined us in November 2007. Prior to this he
spent six years as Assistant Chief Constable with West Midlands
Police - the last year of which he spent based in London as the
Police National Database Programme Director. His specialist
executive responsibilities have included force and regional
intelligence development and operations, establishing the UK
National Ballistics Intelligence Service, intelligence and
information exchange technologies. He also held executive
responsibility for the delivery of policing services
to Birmingham and Wolverhampton.
Roles
Nick has responsibility for the employees that deliver
all aspects of the operation of our licensing, compliance and
enforcement regimes. This includes the licence application and
maintenance arrangements for operators and individuals, the
activity of the regional compliance teams and the national
compliance leads and the enforcement activity conducted against
unlawful operators.
Page last reviewed: January
2012