Our Team

Born without fully formed arms and legs has never stopped John! A Cambridge University graduate he practised law for 12 years before redeveloping the village of Papworth Everard, being the chief executive of what was described as the largest social enterprise in the region. That led to consulting, leading Navigo CIC out of the NHS in Grimsby, and to chair of Provide CIC, a social enterprise providing £60m of services to the NHS.

Inspired by friend Tim Martin, John swam the relay leg of a non-disabled triathlon relay, and the funds raised sparked the creation of Power2Inspire.

John fulfilled his sporting desires in part by completing the Road2Rio challenge in 2016, taking part in all 34 Olympic and Paralympic sports.  Read more about John’s story here.

Bethany graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2023, where she studied Natural Sciences, specialising in psychology. Bethany loves netball, tennis, and skiing, and sports have always been a huge part of her life. However, after a few years of ill health and injury, which also affected her mental health, she reached out to Power2Inspire as Vice President of Fitzwilliam College Sports and Societies. She later organized the first Fitzwilliam College PowerHouse Games, as well as inclusive sports days and sports formals in collaboration with Power2Inspire. She is excited to continue working with the team and making sure “no one is left on the bench.”

Jeremy spent 30 years working in the agricultural supplies business in regions as diverse as South America, Japan, France and more recently in the UK, and is currently involved with a consortium of agronomist companies who deliver advice to growers in North West Europe to produce arable crops. Alongside this Jeremy organises the annual rugby Varsity Matches between Women’s and Men’s teams from Oxford and Cambridge universities, which fits in with his passion for the sport which he played at a first-class level in the glorious days of amateur rugby.

Chris is the Head of Account Management at the leading Independent alcohol education charity Drinkaware. Chris has extensive experience in the charity sector building lasting and collaborative corporate partnerships at local, national and global level. Earlier in his career, Chris has been involved in organising events of various scales and worked with corporate partners at the London Olympics in 2012. Chris has a passion for sport and in particular Football, American Football and Running.

Max is a corporate lawyer at Bird & Bird LLP in London with a particular interest in the Sports and Entertainment sector. He also works with Sports Governing Bodies on their regulatory and corporate governance structures, ensuring that those bodies are run for the best interests of their stakeholders.

Max is a passionate sports fan and self-proclaimed cricket badger. Though natural playing talents have always escaped him, he has always been heavily involved with facilitation of sport, from ad hoc teams at university to running coaching programs as a level 2 tennis coach in the UK and Australia.

Mishern is a finance professional with 15 years of experience spanning several industries and 13 countries. He was a Finance Business Partner and finance lead on diversity and inclusion for the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team and recently completed his MBA at the University of Oxford, Saïd Business School as a Saïd Foundation Scholar. He is currently a Finance Senior Manager at Liberty Global.

Mishern was involved in a major car accident a little more than a decade ago, unsure whether he would walk again, or  recover his memory. Fortunately, he was able to re-learn to walk, recover his memory and play rugby again (very poorly!) in 2022, for the first time since the accident.

Mishern first started playing rugby in 1994 in South Africa. As a result, he developed an acute and a personal appreciation of the power of sport to unite people and transform society. He is looking forward to promoting inclusion in sport via Power2Inspire.

Mahesh is currently a trainee solicitor at a Magic Circle Law firm, specialising in leveraged finance. He has been with Power2Inspire for a while, initially through representing the charity at the London Marathon 2021, and at subsequent events. Originally from Singapore, he moved to the UK to study law at the University of Oxford before beginning his legal career. Mahesh is hearing impaired in both ears, and was the “child who was always left on the bench”, and so is committed to ensuring sporting inclusion for everyone today.

Laurence has been a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants since 2008 working in a diverse range of sectors and industries.
He has significant charity sector experience and has gained extensive knowledge in charity governance and reporting.

He is currently responsible for pricing and commercial finance and has had the opportunity to support the organisations charitable flagship activities and partnerships.

Outside of work Laurence has a passion for grassroots sports. This led to him becoming a qualified rugby coach and referee and spent a number of years coaching youth rugby at Harlequins Amateurs.

“I am delighted to become a Power2Inspire ambassador! Sport is an incredible way of bringing communities together and can be truly inclusive. I look forward to working with you to inspire more people to get out there and see that disability should not be a barrier, that you can achieve what you want to.”

“I’m excited to become an Ambassador for Power2inspire and be a part of the mission where everyone can take part in inclusive sport. I have a physical disability and I really want to motivate others, and show that you can succeed even if you or other people think that the odds are against you.”