Neil Spence

A qualified Chartered Accountant for 40 years. Neil has worked in the private sector as Finance Director and Company Secretary, taking the company to the USM (now Aim) and then a full listing; non departmental public bodies and charities. He was Director of Corporate Services at both the London Docklands Development Corporation and the New Millennium Experience Company (previously known as the Dome and now the O2).

He retired from full time employment in 2015 after eight years at the Multiple Sclerosis Society as Director of Corporate Services.

Neil has over 60 years’ experience volunteering at charities and not for profit organisations. His main roles have been as a Governor and Chair of the Finance and Audit Committee of an academy in Bermondsey, London; an independent member of the Audit Committee of the National Maritime Museum and Treasurer of Arthritis Care. Neil’s other current roles are as an independent member of the Audit and Risk and Finance Committees of the National Portrait Gallery and an Independent member of the Audit and Risk Committee of Power to Change