Soda People

Ann Porter

Soda is based upon the vision and experience of its Chief Executive, Ann Porter. A former freelance social entrepreneur in Scotland, Ann spent 10 years working at Director level in the NHS where she was appointed to achieve change. As a social entrepreneur in Scotland, she successfully built up a number of social ventures from the good idea stage with projects ranging from community initiatives to a national health-related charity. As an innovator in London and the South, Ann learned how to ‘deconstruct’ the entrepreneurial process and she grounds her innovative work in the reality of organisational life in the NHS.

Charlotte Goldsmith

Charlotte Goldsmith’s background spans the commercial and not for profit sectors. After working for Goldman Sachs, she spent time with innovative social investment funds Bridges Community Ventures and at the Young Foundation, a social innovation think tank. Charlotte blends best practices from the financial and commercial sectors with a keen understanding of today’s social innovation agenda. She has practical experience of working with large corporates and of building social ventures from scratch.

Liz Archer	Liz Archer has been a general practitioner since 1980, and is currently a part time GP in West Sussex. During a varied career she did emergency relief work in Africa with the Red Cross and Save The Children, and was briefly a medical advisor at the Overseas Development Administration (now DFID). She worked for many years in community health, and was acting clinical and training lead of the Worthing Family Planning Service from 2004 to 2006. She has developed a portfolio of teaching and training work related to healthcare and medical education, drawing on experiential and transformative learning techniques. She has run courses for clinical staff at Brighton and Sussex Hospitals Trust on Values in Healthcare, and for students at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, on cross cultural awareness in healthcare. She currently teaches an undergraduate module on global health issues at Brighton and Sussex Medical School. Liz has a Masters degree in Health Promotion Sciences from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Associates
	Soda works with a diverse mix of dynamic, senior level associates from wide ranging backgrounds. From: • cutting-edge design and branding • product and service design • futures and strategy • media and communications • education • new business start up • social enterprise • organisational psychology • and innovative clinicians currently working on the ground, Soda brings together teams that are unlike any other.