About the speakers

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Abraham Sin

Abraham has a background in classical music, HR and safeguarding. He now works full-time for St Helen’s Bishopsgate. He has personal links with Catholicism/Anglo-Catholicism, Buddhism and Hinduism, and enjoys sharing about how the Bible interacts and contrasts with these beliefs. 

•  What happens when we die?

• How to secure a good life in a volatile world

• How to deal with evil

 

Ali Blundy

 

Akeel Sachak

 

Anand Selvarajan

 

Andrew Sach

Dr Andrew Sach has a background in science that began with an explosives factory in his parents’ garage as a teenager, and culminated in a doctorate on why two ears are better than one. He is now pastor of Grace Church Greenwich, and a tutor on the Cornhill Training Course, training Christian ministers. He is coauthor of several books including Dig Deeper and Are you 100% sure you want to be an agnostic?

• Are you 100% sure you want to be an agnostic?

• What if only Jesus makes sense of suffering?

• What would Jesus say to Greta Thunberg?

• Who cares if Jesus rose from the dead?

• Surely you can’t expect me to believe in miracles

• How will the world end? The main views compared

• The inherent uncertainty of wealth

Aneirin Glyn

Vicar and mathematics PhD 

Ben Stone

Equity Portfolio Manager at MFS managing $50bn assets 

 

Brian Wong

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Callum Elwood

Callum is Associate Minister at St. Peter's Barge, Canary Wharf. When he's not looking at the life of Jesus with Wharf workers or exploring London with his wife Sarah, he enjoys a long run, and a decent game of squash.  

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•   What would Jesus say to Sam Bankman-Fried?  

• Life: to the full? 

 

Charlie Skrine

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Chris Fishlock

Chris is the Senior Minister at St Nick's Church in the City of London. After graduating Chris worked in business for 10 years before being ordained in 2006. Chris and his wife, Carrie, have three teenage children; love cycling (slowly) in London parks and exploring northern France.

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• What’s so good about Good Friday? (John 18:1-11) 

• Can we trust the Bible?  

 

Claire O'Donoghue

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Giuliu Abortivi

For the last three years he has been part of the team at St Helen’s Bishopsgate, working with lunchtime congregations in the City and in the Covent Garden area. Originally form Italy, he has a background in linguistics and Artificial Intelligence. 

• Jesus the pinnacle of history (Mark 1:14-15)​

 

Henry Eatock-Taylor

Vicar of St Michael’s Cornhill and heads up the International ministry at St Helen’s; happy to do talks in English and Mandarin. 

• The Ultimate Eco-Warrior

• Risk for a better tomorrow

 

Jeremy Anderson

35 years in financial services. Until December 2017 was Chairman of KPMG’s Global Financial Services Practice. Is now a Non-Executive Director of UBS Group AG. He’s been involved at St Helen's for 30 years. 
 

Joel Chia

Joel grew up in Singapore and formerly worked in banking with experience in credit risk and FX sales. Have some experience in understanding Asian, particularly southeast Asian working context. Leads Covent Garden Talks. Married to Matilda, loves football and cycling (a.k.a MAMIL) in the countryside.

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• Life after death – make belief comfort blanket or verifiable truth?

• How can we really know what God is like?

• Will Jesus make me happy?

• What is eternal life?

 

John Wood

Mandarin speaker, worked in business in Hong Kong and Taiwan with Jardine Matheson Group, has more recently been in full-time Christian ministry. 

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Leo Elbourne

Leo formerly worked in investment management but now works full-time in church work. Helps to run the North Bishopsgate Talks in the City of London, as well as working with Christians in the music industry.

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Luke Cornelius

 

Marc Doring

Marc was a litigator for nearly 26 years. He joined a City law firm in 1995 and left law at the end of 2020 having become a Partner and Group Head. He now works with the City Team at St Helen’s where he is involved in running partnership bible studies, 1-2-1s, lunchtime talks and CE courses and as a church warden at Christ Church Mayfair. He is training to become a Business Coach.   

• How do I get to heaven? (Mark 10: 24-27)

• What would Jesus make of our corporate values? (Matthew 6:1-4 and Matthew 5:43-48)

 

Marcus Nodder

Marcus Nodder has been the senior pastor at St Peter's Barge, London's Floating Church, for the past 20 years. He grew up in Manchester, is married to a Swede, and has four children. 

• The greatest gift 

• Why Jesus? 

• What’s the meaning of life? 

• Isn’t religion evil? 

•  Is this life all there is?

 
Mark Crossley

Lawyer 

 

Mark Jackson

 

Merv Kissoon

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Paul Williams

Paul works as part of the city team at St Helen's.  He previously worked in the newspaper industry.  He is married with three grown up children. 

• Paul can give talks that fit with the event  

 

Phil Martin

Phil Martin leads the Aldersgate and Moorgate Talks. Vicar of St Botolph without Aldersgate. Married with three boys, aged 7,6,3.

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• Why the “rat race” isn’t worth it 

• The God who is there 

• A brief summary of the Christian faith 

• The surprising message of the Bible 

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Richard Borgonon

In the Lloyd’s market since 1974, Richard has held various Senior Executive positions within the industry both in London and Internationally, including Board memberships at Carvill and Aon going on to be Chairman of Agnew Higgins Pickering before, 12 years ago, forming his consultancy: Borgonon & Co.  Today he is also Chairman of Capsicum Re Bermuda.  He travels extensively as both a speaker and broadcaster.   

Richard Dryer

Richard Dryer worked for 15 years as a portfolio manager. He started on the graduate scheme at Schroders in 1997 and left finance in 2012, having become head of global credit at Aberdeen Asset management. He is now an ordained minister in the Church of England and is currently working towards planting a new church in Paddington, in partnership with St Helen’s Bishopsgate.  

 

Richard Simpkin

Richard Simpkin co-ordinates music at St Helen’s, and teaches on the Marriage Foundations course. He has been on the St Helen’s staff team since 1995, and speaks regularly at Christian Unions and dialogue events.

• ‘Jesus is the only truth? Arrogance or Ignorance?’

 

Rico Tice

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Robert Scott

Rob helps to oversee the international and cross-cultural work at St Helen’s. Some of this has involved sharing platforms with Muslim speakers in mosques and community centres to discuss similarities and differences between our faiths. He has spent some time in Bangladesh and before working at St Helen’s has worked for the World Health Organisation and the Charity Commission. 

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• Jesus and Muhammad: What’s the difference and does it matter?  

• "Do Muslims and Christians worship the same God?" / "Is the God of the Bible the same as the God of the Qur'an?" 

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Ryan Shuy

 

Simon Congdon

Simon was a partner in a City law firm for 25 years, which included a five year stint in Hong Kong.  Simon regularly speaks at and leads Christianity Explored at St Helen’s. 

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• What is the evidence for the Resurrection? (and other apologetic themes) 

• A gospel talk using four or five works of art 

• A guided tour of St Helen’s (similar to City Open House)

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Simon Pilcher

Simon Pilcher is CEO of USS Investment Management, Britain’s largest pension fund, serving the University sector. He has worked in the City for 35 years, is married to Rachel and has 5 adult children.

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• “Is belief in Jesus delusional?” (based on John 20v24-31) 

• “Why Christianity is too hard for us” (based on Luke 18v15-27); 

• “What and who rules over your life? A Christian perspective” (based on Luke 9v18-27) 

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Tiffany Stromsoe

Tiff began her career studying electronic engineering at university, moved on to working as press officer alongside working as an intelligence officer in the Army Reserves. She now works full time as a woman’s worker for St Helen’s Bishopsgate. Tiff enjoys exploring the outdoors, talking to people about Jesus and having a good laugh with friends.

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• Why is Good Friday called ‘good’?

• Why Easter changes everything

• Newsflash: a dead man in his thirties comes back to life after three days’ being buried

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Tom Barnardo

Tom grew up in a church-going home but first got gripped by the gospel at university. He worked for four years at a church plant in Guildford. He now runs the Fleet Street Talks. 

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• Is faith just a leap in the dark? (John 20:30-31)

• Is there any hope beyond the grave? (John 11:17-26)

• Will there ever be justice?  (Acts 17:30-31)

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Tom Custance

Partner in a law firm.

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Tom Wright

 

Wes Illingsworth

Heads up the City ministry team at St Helen's Bishopsgate. (Can speak in person, or online)

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• Where to find God and how to meet him

• What’s Easter all about and why it matters.

• The best-seller, that's been burned and banned. What's it all about in a nutshell?

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William Taylor

Rector of St Helen's Bishopsgate.

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• ​A platinum plated investment strategy (Matthew 6:19-21) 

• Three steps to a stress free life (Matthew 6:25-34) 

• Putting an end to biased judgmentalism (Matthew 7:1-5) 

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Will Trump

 

Ziggy Rogoff

Jewish believer in Jesus. PhD in Mathematics, worked at Deutsche and Glencore, now works full time with Jews for Jesus.

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• ​Passover Easter?

• Ziggy's testimony

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