Who we are

Monica Tyler

Interim CEO

Monica is the interim Chief Executive Officer at Sounddelivery Media, bringing over 25 years of leadership experience across the voluntary sector. She is passionate about amplifying underrepresented voices and building organisations that create real, lasting change.

Monica has a strong background in fundraising, organisational development and strategic leadership. Throughout her career, she has successfully led teams through periods of growth and transition, developed award winning programmes, and secured significant funding for grassroots, national and international initiatives. She is deeply committed to Sounddelivery Media’s mission of empowering people with lived experience to tell their stories and influence change through the media.

Helena Hastings

Communications Manager and Trusts and Foundations Lead

Helena joined the Sounddelivery Media team in 2016 and alongside our Founder transitioned Sounddelivery into a charity in 2021. She works across all aspects of our work, from managing our communications, to co-curating our events, design and delivery of our training programme the Spokesperson Network, and trust and foundations fundraising.

Helena is particularly interested in how grassroots leaders can harness new platforms and create their own media to influence change.

Anu Farinto

Executive Assistant

Anu Farinto is the Executive Assistant at Sounddelivery Media, supporting the Trustees and Executive team by coordinating communications, managing schedules, and ensuring the smooth running of administrative operations. She is the main point of contact for the Interim CEO and Trustee-related correspondence, meeting logistics, and board materials.

Anu brings over five years of experience in executive support, project coordination, and governance, with a strong track record of enabling senior leaders to work more effectively. With a background in Construction Planning and degrees in MSc Construction Management and BA (Hons) Architecture, she combines a structured, analytical mindset with a creative eye for communication and design.

Amanda Lee

Chair of trustees

Amanda has over 20 years of experience helping leaders and teams navigate big changes within organisations. She’s worked extensively in the public sector, dealing with complex organisational structures and collaborating with people across different sectors, teams and departments.

Amanda is a certified coach and is skilled at managing budgets, working with partners, finding practical solutions while always being mindful of others’ perspectives. She’s worked with boards of directors in various industries, including government, non-profits, and private companies. Currently, Amanda is the Head of Strategy & Research Development for St Oswald’s Hospice in Newcastle.

Akash Patel

Trustee Treasurer

Akash is a Finance Director with extensive experience in public and private sectors, specialising in partnership building, financial governance, and social value creation. As Trustee Treasurer, he aims to apply his skills to drive impactful outcomes for the charity. With a strong track record in financial management and a passion for helping others, he also cycles annually to support children’s charities. “I believe in empowering those without a voice, particularly children, to create lasting positive change.”

Lisa Jonas

Trustee

Lisa has spent her career helping a range of charities and businesses improve their business planning and operations. She has helped businesses to grow from small start ups to established organisations. Currently employed as Assistant Director of Business Planning and Governance at the National Theatre, Lisa has previously worked for Creative Access, the City Zip Company and JSA.

Lisa has been informally supporting Sounddelivery for the last 8 years and is delighted to make that relationship more formal now that she is a Trustee.

Sylvie Carlos

Trustee

Sylvie is a multi-award-winning audio producer, host, writer, and PhD researcher. Diversity, inclusion, and decolonisation are at the heart of Sylvie’s values. And her work across the podcasting and radio sector has unapologetically focused on amplifying the voices of underrepresented communities, with a particular focus on Black-British stories. Which goes hand in hand with her doctoral research. Her most recent work includes producing 1Xtra Talks, a BBC Radio 1Xtra programme that deep dived into the social and topical content relevant to Black communities nationally. And co-producing the award-winning podcast series Coiled.

Sylvie has written for the Independent, highlighting her lived experiences. She is really passionate about the ‘Power of The Voice’, and regularly hosts workshops at schools and universities to empower others to self-advocate and find their USP using audio as their medium.

Rachael Mole

Trustee

Rachael Mole CF is an award winning accessibility in the workplace specialist. Disabled since the age of 12, she is an advocate for access and inclusion as a driver for cultural change. She is a 2023 Churchill Fellowship, with international research on how inclusion in the workplace for disabled people drives innovation in organisations.

Rachael is an advisor for the Department for Transport as a member of the Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee (DPTAC), a Lloyds Bank Foundation Developmental Partner and Secretariat for the Financial Inclusion Commission.

She also sits on Sounddelivery Media’s board of trustees as their DEI lead.