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Having spent many years as a charity trustee, Andrew regularly speaks to charities and social entrepreneurs on the benefits of good governance. How Andrew is building a better working world

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Previously, Andrew focused on Corporate Governance & Public Policy in the UK, where he was a regular speaker on governance, chair of EY’s mid-market independent director network and sponsor and trainer for the FT Non Executive Directors Club.Īndrew earned an LLB honors degree in Law and French from Cardiff University and a Legal Practice diploma from the Centre for Professional Legal Studies. A qualified solicitor, Andrew is particularly interested in the role of good governance in both business success and “doing the right thing.”Īndrew works with EY EMEIA Assurance to support boards of directors through initiatives like the Center for Board Matters and EY’s collaboration with Tapestry Networks.

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We resume the spotlight series December 8, with Eric Sussman of Radio Coteau.Andrew leads the EY EMEIA Public Policy team, which helps to protect EY’s reputation and licence to operate while supporting EY client teams in the market. The extraordinary spirit of our staff is not a surprise, but we want to say grace. The Gallery Bar kitchen team, guided by sous chef Andrew Wycoff, has been incredible these past few weeks, keeping the doors open while helping Chef coordinate feeding those in need who were temporarily re-located to Healdsburg from their lost homes and schools. For a complete list of purveyors who donated 100% to the dinner, please see below. The menu subtly referenced Roederer and Domaine wines - rehydrating dried fruits for the marmalade, poaching the quince - in classic Fancher style. It was harvest - and we were all still reeling from the fires - but both wineries were on board, donating all the sparkling and wine. It was a joy to be able to welcome Arnaud Weyrich of Roederer Estate and Darrin Low of Domaine Anderson after weeks of missed calls and frenetic half conversations as we expanded what had been scheduled as an intimate Somm's Table spotlight series dinner into a larger North Bay Fire Relief Fundraiser. In early December we will join other chefs, restaurants, and wineries for a Rise Up Sonoma group fundraiser. We hope to work next with Wells Guthrie (of Copain) and the ever stronger worker-focused network of CorizonHealdsburg.

We are pleased to contribute over $10,000 from our Somm's Table fundraiser this weekend, but it's just the beginning. We have been reminded, in these times of great distrust, that we are indeed a generous community, one with shared goals we want to protect, others we are proud to nurture.Įvery little bit will help in the months ahead. If the fire is ever to be remembered someday as having an upside, this will be it. The generosity we’ve watched spread across the county since October 9th may not be endemic to human nature, much as we’d like to hope, but it clearly resides at the heart of our North Bay culture. It's humbling, which it turns out is a good thing. The thing about exquisite plates of food is that they disappear in minutes, and you need to start gathering and making them again.

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Many friendships have grown out of these connections, which also extend to Mendocino and Napa Counties.Īnother word I am prickly upon hearing is 'entitled', which before the fires you would still hear all the time in conjunction with the words 'lifestyle' and 'wine country'. When you work at our end of hospitality where what is grown outside our windows takes long careful hours to prepare, cook and present to the world, you may feel grateful, but never entitled. The food and wine we produce, and the communities and economic networks that form around them fuel our lives and our projects. There is no blessing, that I can see now, for Sonoma County, where everything good is interconnected. We feel damn lucky the fires didn't reach Healdsburg but hearing the words ‘we were blessed’ the other day, though well intended, was disconcerting.