Our team
Our staff come from a wide range of professional backgrounds. They have experience of working for blue chip companies, trade unions and public sector and not for profit organisations.
Chris Ball
Chris Ball is Chief Executive of TAEN. Prior to joining TAEN he was a freelance journalist, an HR consultant and a national officer of the union MSF (now Unite), where his responsibilities included the non-profit sector and the working environment.
Chris has worked with large and medium sized private sector companies in engineering, chemicals and pharmaceuticals as well as the statutory and third sectors. His experience includes employee relations, workplace health issues and diversity as well as conducting evidence-based research and investigations into sensitive issues. He led several campaigns around employment rights issues, working in parliament and elsewhere. Chris has written on work for the London Evening Standard, The Guardian and various other papers.
He is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD, holds a doctorate in industrial relations from the London School of Economics and is a member of the government agency, the Central Arbitration Committee.
Corinna Stowell
Corinna is Communications and Operations Manager at TAEN
Corinna worked in the private sector, where she focused on corporate communications, before joining TAEN in 2005. She spent many years with Reuters, the international news and information company, and has worked in the insurance industry.
Like her colleagues, Corinna has had a varied career. She became a teacher on graduating and taught in the UK and Hong Kong before deciding to change direction.
Kate Apted
Kate is TAEN’s Project and Marketing Executive and is responsible for the day to day running of the ESF Age Management Technical Assistance project as well as promoting TAEN’s Age Management services.
Kate previously worked for the London Development Agency, where she managed the ESF-funded Personal Best programme, which aimed to bring people closer to employment through training and volunteering. Before joining the LDA in 2009 Kate worked for management consultants Accenture in the finance division.
Prior to joining TAEN in February 2012, Kate spent several months pursuing her love of travel, backpacking through Central America.
Keith Frost
Keith Frost originally joined TAEN as Business Manager and deputy to the Chief Executive in December 2002. Prior to this he had spent most of his working life in the private sector - specialising in technical, sales and marketing and senior management roles.
The majority of his career was spent working for the UK and German subsidiaries of the US chemical company, Du Pont, before transferring to Agfa-Gevaert UK as Service Director and then Business Improvement Director.
When his corporate career came to an end in his early 50s, Keith became a self-employed consultant - responsible for PR and marketing - with Wise Owls, a specialist, not-for-profit recruitment agency for the over-45s and TAEN member.
Now semi-retired, Keith continues to work as part of TAEN’s team.
Caroline Wilson
Caroline manages TAEN’s information line for individuals and is responsible for office administration. Before joining TAEN, she spent several years as a carer. She had previously worked in the NHS.
Zelia Young
Zelia is responsible for the administration of TAEN’s accounts and managing the membership and other databases.
Zelia spent most of her career in the aviation industry in Trinidad where she held a number of managerial positions. Latterly she was responsible for maintenance costing and aircraft maintenance marketing. On first coming to the UK, she worked as a practice and financial manager for a specialist dental practice.