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	Dennis Benson - Chairman Dennis has been Chairman of Debt Advice Foundation since August 2007. A former Managing Director of Leyland Multipart, Dennis was appointed Chairman of the Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in 2005, leading what was then a new organisation and launching a £29m investment program that included work at Chorley and Royal Preston hospitals. He stepped down from the trust in 2007. Dennis is also Chair of the Rosemere Cancer Foundation. You can read Dennis' personal blog here.
	David Rodger - Managing Director (of Debt Advice Foundation Limited) David brings with him a wealth of experience from many years served in the consumer debt advice industry. He began his working life in the public sector with Salford Social Services before becoming marketing manager of Debt Free Direct Ltd in 2005, where he made a strong contribution to establishing and consolidating the company’s leadership within the debt advice sector. David was appointed Head of Media at Fairpoint Group Plc in 2007 and joined Debt Advice Foundation in December 2008 as Managing Director.
	Andrew Redmond - Trustee Andrew qualified as a Chartered Accountant and as an Insolvency Practitioner during ten years with PriceWaterhouse. He later joined Lathams Chartered Accountants as an Insolvency Partner and quickly became Head of Corporate & Personal Insolvency. In 2001 he was appointed Chairman of the Northern Region for Tenon, subsequently leaving to become CEO of a fledgling business started while at Lathams - Debt Free Direct Group Plc (Fairpoint Group Plc), a business that rapidly grew to become a market leader in debt advice. He stepped down as Debt Free Direct CEO in May 2008 and from his role as a non-executive director of the company in early 2009 in order to focus on other business interests and on the future of Debt Advice Foundation.
	Paul Latham - Trustee Paul trained as a Chartered Accountant with Latham Crossley & Davis (eventually Lathams Chartered Accountants) and later became National Head of Business Planning at Tenon in 2001. He left to join Debt Free Direct Group Plc in 2003 as its Finance Director, stepping down in December 2007 to focus on other business interests and on the future direction of Debt Advice Foundation. Paul also sat on the Insolvency Service's (www.insolvency.gov.uk) working party on improving Individual Voluntary Arrangements (click here for full report).
	John Reynard - Trustee John graduated in law and qualified as a Chartered Accountant before joining Lathams Chartered Accountants in 1995 as a partner specialising in forensic accounting. In 2001, he was appointed Managing Director of Tenon's forensic service line in the UK. John is currently a partner at Begbies Traynor, within its forensic accounting service line.