Board Members
Our Trustee Board have overall responsibility for governing Nexus
Board Members
Our Trustee Board have overall responsibility for governing Nexus
Nexus Board Members
Our Trustee Board bring a wealth of experience.
You can read more about each Board member by clicking on their profiles below.
Catherine Cooney
Chair
Sheryl Henderson
Vice Chair & Treasurer
Hannah Henry
Secretary
Catherine Cooney
Chair
Sheryl Henderson
Vice Chair
Hannah Henry
Secretary
Hannah is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Ireland with 10 years’ experience in financial management.
The majority of her experience has been gained in the Northern Ireland public sector, having previously worked in Health and Social Care, she now works for the Northern Ireland Housing Executive in their Finance Business Partner team for Support Services.
Hannah was a former member and treasurer of the Nexus Board from 2017 to 2020 and has returned to the Board for another term. From her previous work with Nexus Board, she had a particular interest in value for money in the public sector and ensuring public money is spent correctly. She fully values the work of Nexus and has been a supporter of the organisation since her initial term on the Board.
This time around, Hannah hopes to build on her previous contributions to the Board to ensure Nexus continues to be able to deliver such an important and valuable services for their clients.
Pauline Irving
Olga MacShane
Olga has 30 years’ HR experience in both public and private sector having gained considerable experience in designing and managing employee wellbeing programmes.
Olga recently retired as a Lecturer at Belfast Metropolitan College where she was responsible for directing and delivering on a wide range of counselling programmes. Olga is contributing the skills, knowledge and experience gained throughout her career to Nexus.
Ryan Elliott
Ryan joined the Board in 2022. Ryan is a graduate of Queen’s University Belfast and a Solicitor of The Elliott Trainor Partnership based in Newry. His specialisms include dispute resolution, family law and criminal law. In 2021, he became an accredited member of the Law Society’s Children Order Panel. Ryan regularly represents people affected by sexual crime and domestic violence and holds an extensive knowledge of the processes which follow the reporting of these crimes. He is well versed in engaging with the Court Service, PSNI, Public Prosecution Service, Victim and Witness Care Unit, Women’s Aid, and Social Services. Ryan considers Nexus to be an invaluable resource and looks forward to supporting the work of Nexus.
Elly McGinn
Elly is an Operations Manager working for South and East Belfast GP Federations. She has worked in General Practice and Primary Care for almost 10 years, in a variety of senior roles, most notably with the Northern Ireland Medical and Dental Training Agency, the Health and Social Care Board (now known as Strategic Performance and Planning Group (SPPG) in the Department of Health), and the Eastern Local Medical Council.
Elly specialises in event, project and financial management, and has expertise in communication strategies, graphic design and data analytics.
Elly is a Care Experienced adult and works in a few additional roles with Kindercare NI, Queens University Belfast and the NI Guardian ad Litem Agency, where she uses her lived experience to inform and improve service delivery, provide consultancy and facilitate training workshops and presentations.
Kathryn McCamley
Kathryn is Deputy Director of Apprenticeships and Youth Training (Performance and Delivery) in the Department for the Economy and has worked in a range of policy areas since joining the NICS in 2012. Her experience prior to this includes working for RNIB NI and the Meningitis Research Foundation.
Kathryn is proud to be able to bring her experience to bear to support the work of Nexus in delivering services to the people of Northern Ireland in a timely responsive and person centred way.
Olga Pollock
Olga has 20+ years experience of working in Human Resources, mainly across the private sector. She is passionate about her profession and sees its purpose as serving the needs of both the organisation and its people to create diverse and inclusive workplaces. Olga is also a voluntary content writer for Legal Island.
Outside of her professional life Olga is wife to Gavin and mum to two great kids, Lilyrose and Lucca. She enjoys running and spinning but equally enjoy eating (chocolate and sweet things are her downfall…oh and shoes).
Olga has been placed with Nexus as a Boardroom Apprentice. In her HR capacity she has always strived to ensure that people are treated with dignity and respect, so this will align well with her apprenticeship role. Olga hopes to be able to bring her existing skills to the programme as well as learn new ones, and have some impact on supporting the Vision, Mission and Values of Nexus.
Gillian Orr
As Corporate Affairs Manager, UK at Bank of Ireland, Gillian manage the banks corporate reputation strategy alongside political and media relations engagements.
Gillian has significant experience in media and public relations, sponsorship and event management as well as corporate social responsibility and uses her skills and experience to support the work of Nexus.
