Trustees

Grace Erin Reid
Chair
After over 10 years in the commercial, non-profit sector, Grace decided that she wanted to be the master of her own destiny. With the support and guidance of PDT she was able to turn that dream into a reality.
Grace is a Critical Friend, Consultant and Founder of urlifeurbusiness. She is passionate about using her professional and lived experience to support organisations to move beyond the tick box approach to Diversity and Inclusion.
Her mission is to help organisations to create equitable workplace cultures of belonging where all employees are empowered to thrive.

Cornelius Sanwo
Treasurer
Cornelius brings a wealth of experience within accounting and finance for non-profits in the UK. He is a seasoned Accountant and a Fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants (FCCA).
He has spent nearly all his entire career of over three decades, within Social Housing sector in the UK, with a diverse mix of organisations from large to small entities, generalist to leading specialists such as, within BAME, disabled housing and innovative homeless housing Charities, all mainly within permanent employment settings.
Cornelius has since retired from permanent roles and he is transitioning to N.E.D (Non-Executive Director) ones.
Outside of work he co-founded NSF(UK), a high-profile, grassroots, volunteer led, London Olympics 2012 legacy organisation, for the Nigerian diaspora community in the UK. NSF(UK) is recognised as the largest secular body/network representing Nigerians in the UK and it also impacts on Education back in Nigeria.

Stephen Winningham
Stephan is an international banker who has built and led growing, profitable Corporate Finance and M&A businesses across Europe, the US and Asia. He’s a highly productive Trusted Advisor to CEOs and Boards of Directors. Stephen is also a Corporate Board member and a Co-Founder, Chairman and Trustee of Charities in the UK and the US.
Stephen leads from the front and focuses on senior client engagement, business disciplines, collaboration, accountability, brand enhancement and culture. He’s been deeply involved in firm strategic acquisitions and complex integration, as well as managing decisive downsizings in fluctuating markets.
As a senior executive in Corporate Finance Europe for Houlihan Lokey, Steve was instrumental in building it from a modest practice of 17 M&A and Capital Markets bankers in London to 140 bankers in 5 countries. He has served on HL’s global Management Committee and is Chairman or Board member of its European subsidiaries.
At Lloyds Banking Group, Stephen led both the Financial Institutions and FTSE 350 Groups, managing 200 people and over £37billion of credit risk. During the Financial Crisis his Group’s Revenues grew by 75% and PBT by 83%. He served on the Corporate Bank’s Executive, Risk and Credit Committees.
At Citigroup, Stephen was among the highest Revenue-producing Investment Bankers worldwide, and was co-Head of the Telecoms Group in North America. In Asia, he ran M&A and several Sector Groups for 15 countries across Asia. His team built Revenues, Backlog and Fees 18% pa despite flat markets, and elevated Citigroup’s M&A market position to #2 in Asia, up from #4.
Stephen is a Director (and member of the Audit, Risk and Compliance Committee) of Teleperformance SE, a €15 billion+ market cap company. In the UK, Stephen is co-Founder and Chairman of City Harvest London, and a Trustee of Paddington Development Trust. Stephen earned an MBA from Columbia University (Finance and Marketing), a BA from Colgate University and undertook additional graduate studies in Economics at New York University.

Katerina Alexiou
Katerina is a Senior Lecturer in Design at the Open University and has a long-standing interest in collaborative design and community led development. As part of her research she has worked with many civil society organisations and community groups engaged in place-making and creative civic action. With a background in architecture, her focus is on exploring and developing creative processes, tools and infrastructures to empower people to design collaboratively and to cultivate their skills, talents and resources so that they can create the environments and ways of living that they value. She joined the PDT board of trustees in 2021.

Rajiv Sinha
Rajiv is Community Marketing Manager at a startup in London dedicated to helping aspiring musical artists earn a living and achieve recognition in their field.  Before this, he was at University College London (UCL), where he read Politics & East European Studies and had the opportunity to spend time studying in Moscow.

Rajiv has been an active member of the Green Party for around three years, having held various positions therein.  He is currently the Treasurer of the Young Greens (the party’s youth wing), and has held roles related to elections and democratic accountability in the past.  Working with the Green Party has allowed Rajiv to pursue campaigns related to the environment, representation, housing, and local communities. Rajiv is eager to continue work on these causes as a trustee at Paddington Development Trust.

Arinola Edeh CBE
Arinola is the Principal for Westminster Adult Education Service, Westminster City Council’s Adult College. She has worked in the public sector for over 30 years and is a highly experienced executive leader and education professional, with over two decades of expertise in further and adult education.  Having moved from general further education into adult and community education at Westminster, Arinola really values the difference and challenge that working as a leader within the local authority brings to the education and skills landscape by leveraging the community’s expertise, other services and organisations to holistically meet people’s wider needs.  A firm believer in the transformative power of education, Arinola’s inclusive leadership and collaborative approach has enabled her to work dynamically and effectively with a wide range of community organisations throughout her career.