{"id":25,"date":"2025-02-23T22:30:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T22:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.impishstudio.co.uk\/crippsfoundation\/?post_type=person&#038;p=25"},"modified":"2025-09-16T12:38:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T12:38:20","slug":"amy-tennent","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/crippsfoundation.org\/person\/amy-tennent\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy Tennent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading display-2\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-b600b008 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--80);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--80);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--80);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--80)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>Amy Tennent is the Chairperson of VIL Ltd (Velcro Group of Companies), Chairperson of Chartwell Industries Ltd, Director of Minsmere Pty Ltd, and Director of Cripps Foundation and its various subsidiaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amy graduated from The University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science in 1999 and earned a Master of International Business from Swinburne University of Technology in 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In June 2015, Amy was appointed to the Executive Committee of the Trinity College Foundation at The University of Melbourne. More recently, she was appointed to the Trinity College Council and the Grimwade Advisory Board, named a patron of the Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation at The University of Melbourne, and became a member of the Scotch College Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amy\u2019s philanthropic work was recognised by the Royal Government in Cambodia in 2017 when she was presented with the Monisaraphon Medal level Theb Din in gratitude for her contributions to building the Neeson Cripps Academy in the Steung Mean Chey commune, Phnom Penh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2018, she was elected a Pepys Benefactor Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><figure style=\"aspect-ratio:1; margin-bottom:30px;\" class=\"image-rounded image-centered image-person wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/crippsfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/TENNENT-Amy-0126-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:100%;height:100%;object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crippsfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/TENNENT-Amy-0126-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/crippsfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/TENNENT-Amy-0126-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crippsfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/TENNENT-Amy-0126-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/crippsfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/TENNENT-Amy-0126-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/crippsfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/TENNENT-Amy-0126-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/crippsfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/TENNENT-Amy-0126-900x600.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-center team-member wp-block-post-title\">Amy Tennent<\/h3>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center job-title\">Director<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":185,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"inline_featured_image":false},"people-category":[3],"class_list":["post-25","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","people-category-board-of-directors"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Amy Tennent - Cripps Foundation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/crippsfoundation.org\/person\/amy-tennent\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Amy Tennent - Cripps Foundation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Amy Tennent is the Chairperson of VIL Ltd (Velcro Group of Companies), Chairperson of Chartwell Industries Ltd, Director of Minsmere Pty Ltd, and Director of Cripps Foundation and its various subsidiaries. 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