The Employee Share Ownership Centre
Meet the team
Malcolm Hurlston is a social entrepreneur who conceived the trade union bank Unity in 1984 and then brought employee share ownership plans to Europe, with the bank’s managing director, Lord Thomas of Macclesfield.
He founded the Esop Centre in 1986 since when it has been an influential members’ organisation with a world remit, holding annual events in Davos, Cannes and The Channel Islands.
He chairs the non-profit Registry Trust, which runs the Register of Judgments, Orders and Fines for the UK Ministry of Justice, and collects judgment information from other jurisdictions in the British Isles and Ireland.
He is president of the leading debt charity in the UK, Foundation for Credit Counselling. He founded it in 1993 and was chairman until 2010. Its staff of 1000 have helped over a million people.
He is working on a number of new third sector projects. Additionally he chairs the Financial Inclusion Centre, Irish Judgments, Registry Foundation and the World Centre for Employee Ownership. He is a visiting professor at Westminster Business School.
Fred Hackworth is editor of newspad and International Director of the World Centre, organising the Centre’s international conferences.
He was previously London and city editor of the Manchester Evening News.
Contact Fred at fhackworth@esopcentre.com.
David Poole is the national director of the Employee Share Ownership Centre. He coordinates the Centre’s lobbying efforts and has been involved in projects including tax simplification for share schemes, the Nuttall review of employee ownership, Lib Dem party policy on employee ownership, employee share schemes and trade unions, and financial education for employee shareholders.
He has previously worked in public sector research, writing and recruitment for Guardian News and Media and Reed Personnel Services. David holds a BA from Saint Edmund Hall, Oxford in Russian and an MA from the School of Oriental and African Studies in Chinese Studies.
Contact David at dpoole@esopcentre.com or on 0207 239 4971.
Linda Wilbert LL.M. is company secretary and head of finance.
She read English and psychology at the University of Cape Town and received her masters in law from University College London.
Contact Linda at lwilbert@hurlstons.com or 0207 239 4970.
Juliet Wigzell handles the administration and accounts for the Centre.
She will be happy to help with any queries you may have regarding your account, credit control, membership, booking event places, etc.
Please contact her at jwigzell@esopcentre.com or on 0207 239 4906.
