(LONDON)— GiveOut, the award-winning charity working to grow giving to support the global struggle for LGBTQI human rights, has appointed Geff Parsons as a Trustee and Treasurer.
Geff is a UK Chartered Accountant with over 25 years’ experience in the banking industry, based variously in London, Amsterdam, Hong Kong and Singapore. He is currently a Managing Director at Macquarie, where he is formally designated as an LGBT+ workplace role model and a mental wellbeing ambassador for LGBT+ matters, and has chaired the LGBT+ employee network group for the past six years.
In 2019, Geff won the LGBT+ Inspirational Leader award at the British LGBT Awards. He has also been named in OUTstanding’s two most recent lists of the 100 leading LGBT+ executives globally, and was nominated for the Corporate Role Model award at the Pink News Awards in 2018.
“It is a great honour for me to join the board of GiveOut, a terrific charity which I have followed and supported since inception, and which has already come incredibly far in such a short period of time,” said Geff Parsons. “GiveOut’s commitment to bolstering the resources of grass roots activism in some of the most challenges places and circumstances for LGBTQI people around the world is both humbling and inspiring. I very much look forward to doing my bit to help GiveOut continue and expand its outstanding charitable work in the future.”
Elliot Vaughn, GiveOut’s founder and Chair of the Board of Trustees, said: “At GiveOut we aim to provide world-class governance across a skilled and diverse board. I am delighted to welcome Geff as our latest appointment to the board. He brings an outstanding set of relevant skills and experience and I look forward hugely to working with him.”
“I will also take this opportunity to thank our outgoing Treasurer Chris Darby, who guided us through our first audit last year. I am delighted that Chris will remain as a highly valued member of our Board of Trustees.”
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GiveOut (@GiveOut_Org) is an award-winning UK-based charity working to grow giving to support the global struggle for LGBTQI human rights, ensuring that activists and their organisations have more of the resources they need to defend their communities and campaign for equality. The organisation enables individuals and businesses to give in one place to support LGBTQI human rights activism worldwide, pooling these donations and distributing them as grants to activist-led organisations around the world.