The Management Committee
Our Management Committee are the people legally in charge of the business. They bring together their collective wisdom and experience and put in hours of time and effort to make us a success. Meet them here...
Chair - Keely Gallagher
Keely has been on our Board since autumn 2012 and took on the role of Chair in November 2013. With significant corporate experience and with expertise in Marketing, Keely has brought a fresh approach to the way we manage the business, balancing our work for the benefit of the team with a clear view of our commercial requirements. Keely brings incisive strategic thinking and a clear and succinct communication style to the team. As well as her day job and her role with us, Keely also does amazing nail art
Treasurer - Rachel Cooper
Rachel started volunteering with us in May 2014 and joined the Committee in July 2014. A chartered Accountant and ex Finance Director of Breakthrough Breast Cancer and ex CEO of The British Tinnitus Association, she has vast experience in finance and we are delighted to have her with us. She also makes (and brings in) great flapjacks.
Secretary - Becky John
Becky is our Founder, and she runs the office and factory full time. Becky has been selling things since she was 8 years old, when she sold sweets and crisps at Bridgend Rugby Club Supporters Club. Her career progressed through retail, retail management, sales, corporate sales and University Knowledge transfer until a life change in 2005. Between 2005 and 2008, Becky underwent counselling with Southampton Rape Crisis and she left there determined to pair her passions for lingerie and human rights. Our team ask Becky why she doesn’t have children – her reply is that Who Made Your Pants? is her baby - it keeps her awake at night, and she worries it will be ok when it grows up! She is a worker member of our worker co-operative.
We are also supported by a wide range of people on our Advisory Board.
Some members are...
Professor Joy Conway
By day, Joy is a Professor of Inhalation Science, at the University of Southampton. In 2005 Joy set up a University spin out company, and learnt a great deal about company structure and business formation. Joy has a keen interest in social enterprise and the idea of combining the traditional company view with the sort of social needs drive that first took her into the health care arena. A year on a block release course learning about social enterprise at the Said Business School, Oxford University inspired and enthused Joy has been involved with joined Who Made Your Pants? since early 2010
A long time fan, customer and supporter of what we do, Laurie is an academic, professional musician, one time peace activist and trade union stalwart with a clear eyed view of the ways money can be used in positive ways to drive social change.