SISHA announces leadership change

Monday, 19 August 2013

16 August 2013

SISHA announces leadership change

SISHA announced today that Mr Steve Morrish has resigned as Executive Director of SISHA, and that the Board has appointed Mr Ron Dunne as interim CEO.

Mr Morrish founded SISHA in 2007, with the aim of ensuring justice and the protection of human rights for victims of human trafficking, bonded labour, physical and sexual assault and other forms of exploitation and oppression.

“I want to thank the Board, our staff, and our donors for their support over the years. We have achieved a lot at SISHA and I will always be proud of that,” said Mr Morrish. “However a campaign of online attacks against me personally was starting to affect SISHA, and after putting six years of my life in to SISHA I could not allow that to happen.”

“Standing down will also allow me to better pursue the defamatory and unfounded allegations made against me. The Board of SISHA has engaged KPMG to undertake an independent review, and I’m confident that this will put to rest allegations of financial impropriety against me,” said Mr Morrish.

The Board of SISHA thanked Steve for his role in founding SISHA, and his tireless work in building it to where it is today. It takes a unique person to do what Steve has done, including deferring four years worth of salary to help fund SISHA’s activities.

Steve had been talking with Directors for some time about succession planning, and this has accelerated that process. The Board is now undertaking a search for a new Executive Director to lead SISHA going forward, and we thank Ron for agreeing to step up in the interim.

The Board is confident that with the ongoing support of donors that SISHA will continue to support victims of human trafficking and sexual assault in Cambodia, along with fulfilling its scholarship and orphanage programs.