Our Team

We couldn’t provide the services to our ADHD community without the help of our volunteers who help us improve the lives of children and young people with ADHD every day. Our volunteers are treasured members of our small and friendly team. Some of our volunteers have stayed with us for a short amount of time and some of them have stayed with us for years. Sometimes volunteers come to us looking to build their CVs which we are more than happy to support or sometimes our volunteers simply want to give back to the community.

 If you would like to volunteer at ADHD Embrace, just drop us an email,  including your CV and giving us a bit of information about how you would like to be involved.  Please email us at [email protected].

The sorts of roles we need help with are:

• Help at events such as fairs and coffee mornings
• Taking part in fundraising and challenge events
• Or maybe you have a specialist skill or experience in areas such as IT / database management, HR, social media, communications or fundraising experience. 
• Help with social media & writing communications
• Help with managing our inbox
• Assistance with writing fundraising bids
• If you have something else in mind, please do get in touch

We advertise our roles on our Facebook page or on our Reach volunteering page. If we are not advertising anything currently, please do get in touch with us anyway!

Tris Murley – Executive Director

Tris is our Executive Director, bringing over 20 years of leadership experience across large corporates and start-up environments. His career has spanned strategy, performance and organisational development, leading large teams in global businesses as well as building new initiatives from the ground up. This blend of experience gives him the skills to steer the charity through growth while staying close to the needs of our community. Tris also has lived experience of ADHD, which gives him a personal understanding of the challenges and opportunities our families face. He is committed to expanding our services and ensuring young people with ADHD, and their parents and carers, are supported to thrive.

Elaine Bird – Fundraiser

Elaine is our Fundraiser with responsibility for raising funds to support our charity’s service provision for our growing ADHD Embrace community.  Elaine has nearly 30 years experience in the corporate sector working in senior marketing roles including building partnerships.  Elaine has welcomed the move to be part of our team having had her own experience of neurodiversity with her daughter’s ASD diagnosis last year.  Elaine is dedicated to helping support the work of the charity and improving the lives of young people with ADHD in our community.

Duncan Bull – Marketing Lead

Duncan is our Marketing Lead where he is responsible for communications, shining a light on the work of our charity whilst boosting community awareness. He will also champion our challenger events, helping to shape this key part of our community engagement programme. After a career in the food and drinks industry, Duncan now focuses on the family business part-time – a communications agency – and his two daughters, both diagnosed with ADHD. Duncan understands the challenges—and opportunities—families face in education and beyond and he is determined to turn this lived experience into positive impacts for our community of parents, carers, young people and professionals whose lives are touched by ADHD.

Jemma Davis – Operations Administrator

Jemma is our Operations Coordinator and will be one of the first points of contact for all of our community who contact us through our inbox – often seeking help, support and guidance. She is a mother to three children, with her teenage son having ADHD and has a passion for helping others and providing parents with the best information to help with their ADHD journeys – having gone through it all herself..

Laura Ercolani – ADHD Adviser

Laura delivers our Advice Clinics, where families seek input and can discuss the challenges they may face around having a child or young person with ADHD.  Laura comes from many years of experience working in education and healthcare and also previously was our Community and Schools Outreach Manager, where she lead our Post Diagnosis Workshops and our Schools Outreach which included providing teacher and staff training.  She has lived experience of ADHD as a parent of two children who are diagnosed with ADHD.

Sapah Jama – Community and School Outreach Worker

Sapah is our Community and School Outreach Worker, where she works closely with families, schools and professionals to build understanding of ADHD and improve support for children and young people with ADHD. Her role includes visiting schools and delivering teacher and staff training on strategies and tools that can be adopted in the school environment as well as doing talks for parents.  She also delivers our post-diagnosis workshops for parents and is involved in our community engagement activities. Sapah brings over 17 years of experience in Special Education, where she gained extensive experience of ADHD whilst directly supporting young people with ADHD in schools.

Cristina Peraleda – IT Manager

Cristina is responsible for the day to day operation and development of the charity’s IT systems. She has more than 20 years of experience working in the IT sector as a systems analyst. More recently, and after working in the corporate world for many years, Cristina has found a more meaningful purpose contributing to ADHD Embrace’s cause, where she started as a volunteer helping to enhance our IT platform.
She has a particular interest in mental health and has completed a mental health first aid course, and her passion in this area has led her to also achieve a Level 2 Certificate in Counselling and training in Mindfulness.

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All our Trustees have families with ADHD or related neuro conditions and so fully understand the challenges and opportunities for those with ADHD.   

Annette Wilson – Chair and Founder 

Annette is our Chair of the Board of Trustees.  She set up ADHD Embrace (previously ADHD Richmond & Kingston) in 2002 to create a support community for parents of children and young people with ADHD and to promote a better understanding of ADHD.  She has two children and, as a parent of a son with ADHD, is passionate about providing parents and professionals with knowledge and support to help children and young people with ADHD excel.  

Annette is a chartered accountant and spent her working career in financial services & investment management. Today she is actively involved in the tech start-up and scale-up space. In addition to her involvement with ADHD Embrace, she is also Chair of the Air Cadets, 39F Barnes and Richmond Squadron and previously was school governor and Founding Chair of another local charity.   

Dav Frank – Treasurer 

Dav is our Treasurer and a Trustee of ADHD Embrace, joining us in February 2021.  He has two young boys, one who received an ASD diagnosis at an early age.  He believes that, with the right support, children, parents, families and communities can ensure our neuro diverse groups thrive and not just survive.  Dav has had an extensive career within banking & financial services as COO, CFO and director, also previously served as Treasurer Trustee of CVS Richmond, another key Richmond based charity.  

Clare Mullane – Secretary 

Clare is our Secretary and a Trustee. She been involved with ADHD Embrace since 2018.  She has two children, where her son has ADHD.  With a young family, she is very aware of the challenges of balancing the demands of home and work for ADHD families.  Clare previously worked in a large telecommunications group, where she focused on change management.    

Katie Virdi – Trustee

Katie joined the Board in October 2023. She grew up in the local area and now lives in Hampton with her husband and two sons, the eldest with ADHD. Katie has a passion for healthcare and in particular increasing equity of access. She has extensive experience in strategy, transformation and change. For the last 4 years she has focused on how technology can accelerate change and enable people to thrive.