Keith Gait – Chief Executive
Keith has a wealth of executive-level customer centric operations and design experience, and has spent his entire career in customer service, working his way up through the industry. He has held senior roles at NHS Direct, Sainsbury’s, Condor Ferries, South East Ambulance Service, and more recently Stagecoach, where he drove improvements and industry leading innovations to the customer service offering, and enhanced the customer experience through service delivery, commercial, technology, communication strategies, with an award-winning Voice of Customer programme.
Having started as an agent, Keith is passionate about organisations that recognise and value their people as well as their customers. He also ran his own customer services consultancy for over eight years, before taking up the role of Chief Operating Officer at NHS Direct in 2011, and is well versed in managing large teams in mass public facing organisations and directing customer services strategies.
Keith has an MBA from Henley and in September 2019 became CCXP accredited, one of only 1,500 in the world. Keith was named a finalist in the World CX Leader of the Year in 2020 and in the Top 50 CX Stars in 2021.
Keith took over leadership of the Customer Experience Foundation in April 2021, curating and providing a range of content, resources, and thought-leadership across Contact Centres, CX, EC and Wellbeing, coaching to up and coming managers, and advisory work to clients, including contact strategy, operational performance and Voice of Customer design and implementation for leading retailers.
Isobel Rogers - Director of Client Engagement
Isobel has over 30 years in the customer experience contact centre arena working with some of the industry leading BPO players.
Starting out as an agent and gaining experience in operational, client engagement roles and more recently in business development, Isobel’s passion is all about doing the right thing for the customer.
Although not new to the Foundation, Isobel has returned to support Keith as Director of Customer Engagement to build and develop our Foundation Partner programme, as we believe in a collaborative and supportive approach to improve CX as a profession for those we serve.
Nina Marston - Marketing Director
Nina joined the Foundation in March 2022 and brings with her over 17 years of marketing experience, with a heavy focus on B2B events and membership marketing.
Nina overseas the overriding marketing strategy for CXFO as well as our events such as our Industry Councils, CXFO Leaders Summits, and our inaugural conference.
Nina will also be working extremely closely with our Foundation Partners, putting their brands right at the heart of the CX community, with the perfect blend of both digital and traditional marketing, as well as face-to-face and virtual events.
Jenn Tapner - Community Manager
Jenn is the most recent addition to the CXFO team.
Jenn, who lives in Glasgow, has a background in working in music events, working as a freelancer, and as a bosun sailing the Scottish Hebrides. She is a huge fan of travel, live music, good food and sharing it all in good company.
As well as supporting Nina on the marketing strategy for the Foundation, Jenn will be heading our Corporate Membership programme and looking after the Foundation’s members and the benefits involved with their membership.
