What are the ingredients that make up a charity CEO? In the case of Stuart Rivers, chief executive officer of the 197-year-old Sailors' Society, it was the confluence of family roots deeply embedded in The Salvation Army and a personal career trajectory in the commercial telecommunications sector. Rivers is keen to emphasise that it was the social welfare aspect of The Salvation Army that had a powerful influence on him. That, along with his love of technology and business, propelled him towards the charity sector. Indeed it was after listening to "non-religious" management guru, Peter Drucker, talk about the global relief charity that Rivers set his sights on the charity world.
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