Matt Baker Clerk to the board of directors
Matt is the Clerk of the board of Quiet Company. He has worked in financial services for nine years, joined the board in 2019, and holds other voluntary positions for local and regional Quaker organisations. Matt joined Quiet Company to help show what it takes to be a Quaker business in the 21st century, delivering on the triple bottom line: people, planet and profit.
Ellie Harding Director
Ellie joined the board of Quiet Company in 2019. She was born and raised a Quaker, attending Warwick Meeting throughout her childhood. She has worked in a range of charities and within the Higher Education sector, mostly focussing on health and social care issues. Ellie is now in her first year of the Civil Service Fast Stream doing a rotation in Strategic Communications.
Carol Rowntree Jones Director
Carol has served on the board of Quiet Company since 2020. She has worked in media relations for many years, primarily in the arts and tourism sectors. She currently works at the National Forest in the Midlands, where tree planting leads the transformation of lives, the landscape and the economy. Carol is passionate about finding ways to empower people to make positive and green choices.
Linda Batten Ex-officio/Treasurer
Linda has been working for the last 20 years in the field of Finance for various organisations. She has worked in a women’s refuge and is now working for an Asian Women’s Centre. Through freelancing and employed positions, she also provides book-keeping and finance skills to four different organisations. Linda grew up in a Quaker family and has attended Meeting for Worship all her life.
Joe Warren Director
Joe has joined the board in 2021. He has spent the last thirteen years working in clean energy technology start-ups and SMEs. Since 2014, Joe has been Managing Director of Powervault, a UK leader in the field of home energy storage. Joe has been attending Quaker meetings for about seven years and has been a member of Harpenden Quaker Meeting for two years, where he is currently treasurer.
Jane Stephenson
Jane has been a Quaker since 2003 and is a member of Bath Meeting. Jane has worked in the environmental sector for nearly 40 years, specialising in waste and recycling and the emerging circular economy. She is Chair of Resource Futures the social enterprise that she set up and ran until 2016 which offers consultancy services and manages community engagement and education programmes across the UK and in low and middle income countries. Her expertise lies in business strategy and social enterprise.
Carolyn Hayman
Carolyn was raised as a Quaker and is a member of NW London Area Meeting and a Trustee of Britain Yearly Meeting. In a varied career, focussed on innovation and startups, she has worked in all three sectors. After some years as Joint Managing Director of a technology startup fund, she ran the Foyer Federation, a network of projects providing accommodation and access to employment and education to 10,000 homeless young people. She left to co-found Peace Direct, which supports locally led peace-building in conflict areas, and is now retired from paid work.