Alumni Advisory Board
Alumni Advisory Board
Members of the Alumni Advisory Board pictured with Professor Amanda Broderick, UEL Vice-Chancellor and President.
Meet the Chairs of the Alumni Advisory Board
Joan Saunders-Reece, Chair of the UEL Alumni Advisory Board
In her current position she manages a team where she has full responsibility for operational resilience plans across daily operations, emergencies, engineering work and industrial action for London Underground (LU) and managed the team that successfully coordinated LU's network-wide plans with those of other transport providers and event organisers to ensure the smooth running of major, high capacity events, such as the IAAF World Championships, London Olympics, Tour de France and London’s annual New Year's Eve celebrations.
- MSc Terrorism Studies, 2009
- Email Address: J.Saunders-Reece@uel.ac.uk
- LinkedIn profile
Jacqueline Malcolm, Vice-Chair of the UEL Alumni Advisory Board
With a career spanning some 30 years, Jacqueline Malcolm, Project & Event Strategist, is called upon by many leading national and international ministries and charities to help them fulfil their vision and company mandate.
Over the years she has served the likes of noted evangelists, Dr. Billy Graham (Billy Graham Evangelistic Association), Reinhardt Bonnke & Daniel Kolenda (Christ for All Nations) and Dr. Morris Cerullo (Morris Cerullo World Evangelism). She was one of the leading consultants on Empowered21 (Oral Roberts University) as well working to establish such effective charities as Global Forum of Women Entrepreneurs (Apostle Ufuoma Ekpecham).
Jacqueline
is also the Founder, Producer, Director and Writer of two hugely successful
radio shows with Colourful Radio, namely ‘Barking Mad’ which is a modern day
comi-drama and ‘Jabber Talk’, an interview based show where Jacqueline is also
the presenter and host. When not presenting on radio, Jacqueline has just
recently secured a regular panellist/host position on Love World TV which airs LIVE
every Wednesday at 1:30pm.
A
published Author with New York based, Seaborn Publishing Group, ‘Slave:
Escaping the Chains of Freedom’, and ‘The Trade: Only the Colour of Money
Matters’ are presently available on Amazon and other US based outlets.
An
Award Winning Playwright, having recently won the British Theatre Challenge
2016 with her play, ‘iDOLLatry’ and with a Masters in Theatrical Directing, her
other writing credits include a number of plays which she produced and directed
for the fringe theatres of London; the children’s book, ‘Adventures of Lucy the
Lamb’ and many published articles written as part of her work as a columnist.
- MA Theatre Studies, 2015
- Email Address: J.Malcolm@uel.ac.uk
- LinkedIn profile
Alumni Advisory Board Sub Committees
Alumni Communications Project Lead: Jaasir Ali
Jaasir is passionate about technology and really enjoys working with FinTech companies and those who use next-gen technologies such as big data, IoT, AI and Blockchain. All this has led to him building his own company and work on his role as a Digital Marketing and Blockchain specialist who has been blessed to be working with celebrities, top entrepreneurs and companies across the globe.
Alumni Give Back Project Lead: Jacqui Bashford
Jacqui has 28 –years in the Telecommunications and Technology Industry and has held positions in operations, service delivery pre-sales bids and service management at BT and Concert. Prior to establishing a career in the Telecommunications and Technology industry Jacqui worked in the Government sector, for 8 years. Jacqui is passionate about being active within her community and has been involved with several local initiatives and as held volunteer position as a Governor at Bromley Hall for children with special needs in support of BT Business in the Community Partnership.
As a founding member of the AT&T EMEA Women’s Network, Jacqui currently leads a global mentor circle. Jacqui also volunteers her time to support the Aspire program which is AT&T’s Philanthropic education outreach initiative, focusing on building competences that help participants move into the workforce with a clear competitive advantage. And is an AT&T Business Solutions Diversity and Inclusion committee member.
Alumni Success Project Lead: Vadi Loango
Vadi currently owns and runs his own company within the field of self-development. As well as heading up the company he is also the lead Development Coach. The aim of the company is to help under 30s find their main purpose and improve their self-image; allowing them to always show their best self. Vadi also works as a Workshop Coordinator for UCL within the Medical School.
His main interest is entrepreneurship, and currently his company is working on a Fintech project for 18-24 year olds in education.