Our Trustees
Paul
Rose
Paul has over 40 years of experience in technology, e-commerce business services, procurement, sales, and marketing. As Director and co-owner of Icon Connect, a leading home automation company, he has overseen the company’s Sales & Marketing and Finance functions since 2002.
Before joining Icon Connect, Paul held senior roles across a range of disciplines, including purchasing, sales and marketing, and product management. He was a founder of the e-Procurement Best Practice Network and served as an advisor to the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply on e-commerce strategy.
In addition to his commercial work, Paul now serves as Chairman of Serve On, a humanitarian search and rescue charity dedicated to deploying trained volunteers to international disaster zones and supporting community resilience initiatives.
Farooq Muzammal
For over 35 years, Farooq held senior and board positions at the world’s largest brokerage houses, running global businesses.
Farooq has been volunteering for international humanitarian charities since 2019. After attending the earthquake in Southern Türkiye as a government liaison officer for another charity, Farooq decided he wanted to dedicate his time to an earthquake first responder charity.
Farooq was delighted to be asked to join Serve On’s Board and hopes to use his energy and international connections to help Serve On save lives.
Abbas
Dhanani
Abbas joined the charity in 2011 as a trainee IRT volunteer. In 2013 he graduated to operational status and since then has deployed with Serve On to earthquakes, floods and hurricanes including the Nepal quake in 2015, Hurricane Irma in 2017, and the Turkiye Earthquake in 2023.
Professionally, Abbas is a partner of the IT consultancy Agilicist, where he focuses on helping large companies scale their Agile methodologies.