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Executive members
Mr Robert J Bell joined the Trust as chief executive in March 2005, from the William Osler Health Centre, Ontario, Canada, where he was president and chief executive officer. He has had over 30 years’ international experience in hospital and health services management. He is a member of the Board of Directors of NHS Innovations London and the heart charity CORDA. He has previously held positions as vice president, Health Care and Life Sciences Market Sectors, Cap Gemini, Ernst & Young Canada Inc; partner, KPMG (Peat Marwick), Toronto; vice president, Hilton Universal Hospitals UK Ltd, London; vice president, International Services, Extendicare Inc (London and Toronto); executive director of District Health Councils in the Ministry of Health, Ontario; Treasury Board officer, Management Board of Cabinet, Government of Ontario; and systems engineer, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto. He is a Bachelor of Applied Science in Industrial Engineering and a Master of Public Administration.
Mr Robert Craig is the Trust's chief operating officer. He joined Harefield Hospital in 1995, having previously worked in community and general hospital services. Following the Trust merger in 1998, he became site director at Harefield and, in 2001, deputy director of operations for the Trust. Robert has also fulfilled the roles of director of governance & quality (2003-2006) and director of planning & strategy (2006-2009) – in the latter post, he was responsible for the Trust’s Foundation Trust application. He was appointed to his current role in mid-2008.
Professor Timothy Evans BSc MD phD DSc FRCP FRCA FMedSci is medical director of the Trust and was appointed deputy chief executive on 31 March 2006. In addition to his various roles within the Trust (such as director of clinical governance, professor of intensive care medicine and consultant in thoracic and intensive care medicine), he is a consultant physician at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, London (until 2009-10), head of the unit of critical care at the National Heart and Lung Institute, honorary consultant in Intensive Care Medicine to HM Forces, and will be Academic Vice President of the Royal College of Physicians from September 2009.
Mr Richard Paterson joined
the Trust as interim director of finance in January 2011 for a six-month term.
He subsequently rejoined the Trust as associate chief executive - finance and
was appointed to the Board on 26 October 2011. He worked at KPMG, accountants and business advisers, for 40 years,
appointed to the partnership in 1986 and retiring in 2010.
In addition to
client responsibilities for listed companies and public interest entities, his
management roles included: six years in charge of KPMG UK's infrastructure,
government
and healthcare division; head of markets for KPMG's Europe, Middle
East and Africa region; and executive chair of the global professional indemnity
insurance committee, a committee of the international board of KPMG. Mr Paterson continues to provide ad
hoc consultancy services to KPMG.
Dr Caroline Shuldham, director of nursing, clinical governance and informatics, has worked in the Trust since its inception, having previously been employed at Royal Brompton Hospital. She has a background in cardiac and intensive care nursing, nursing education and research. In addition to leading nursing, she is responsible for clinical governance, and patient and public involvement. Dr Shuldham is an honorary clinical senior lecturer at the National Heart and Lung Institute of Imperial College London and a nurse fellow of the European Society of Cardiology. Dr Shuldham was recognised with an OBE on the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in June 2009. In Spring 2009, Dr Shuldham took extended leave. Colleagues took responsibility for her portfolio until her return in July 2009.
Non-executive members
Chairman
Sir Robert Finch was appointed by the Appointments Commission as the Trust’s chair for a term of three years, effective from 1 January 2009. Sir Robert brings significant board experience to the Trust, both in the business and not-for-profit sectors. He has a legal background, having qualified as a solicitor in 1969. He spent his career at the City law firm Linklaters, latterly as a head of real estate. He is a former Lord Mayor of London and has been a member of a number of City Corporation committees. In 2005, Sir Robert joined the board of Liberty International plc, a FTSE 100 London-based property company. He stood down earlier this year as chairman.
Non-executive directors
Mr Nicholas Coleman was appointed as a non-executive director in January 2008. He is an experienced business executive with a background in sub-surface numerical simulation and analysis, business administration and corporate governance. He has worked in the international oil, gas and petrochemicals arenas, mainly with BP and most recently as a Vice President in their finance and control and corporate social responsibility areas. He left BP in 2007 and is now engaged in various not-for-profit organisations. He has a BSc in Physics with Geophysics from Imperial College London.
Mrs Jenny Hill is founder and consulting director of Echelon Learning Ltd – where she advises on strategic planning and service development issues. She has worked with clients such as Bupa, Tussauds Group and Channel Tunnel Rail Link. Previously, she worked for the NHS for 10 years, having joined through the graduate training scheme. She has an honours degree in Politics and History is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
Mr Richard Hunting is chairman of Hunting PLC, the international oil services company. He is also Chairman of CORDA: Charity: preventing heart disease and stroke, a court member of the Ironmongers’ Company, one of the 12 principal livery companies of the City of London; chairman of The Battle of Britain Memorial Trust. He has an engineering degree from Sheffield University and an MBA from Manchester Business School.
Mr Neil Lerner was appointed to the Trust Board in February 2010. He is an experienced accountant specialising in all aspects of risk management. He has played a key role in the development of ethical standards for the accountancy profession, globally and in the UK. After becoming partner at leading international provider of professional services, KPMG, in 1984, Mr Lerner held a number of senior positions, including head of privatisations, head of corporate finance and head of transaction services business for KPMG UK, and chairman of the KPMG Global Professional Indemnity Insurance Group. He retired from the firm in 2006 and currently holds a number of non-executive posts.
Professor Anthony Newman Taylor was appointed principal of the Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College, on 1 December 2010, previously having been deputy principal and, prior to that, head of Imperial College’s National Heart and Lung Institute between 2006 and 2009. He was appointed consultant physician at Royal Brompton Hospital in 1977 and became medical director when it became a Trust in 1994. When Royal Brompton merged with Harefield Hospital in 1998, he was appointed medical director of the new organisation. Professor Newman Taylor was, until January 2008, chairman of an expert scientific advisory committee to the government (the Industrial Injuries Council). He is currently chairman of the Colt Foundation charity and a director of the CORDA charity
Ms Kate Owen runs a consulting business advising on change and development in organisations. She retired as vice president executive development at BP in 2005 having worked with the company for 24 years.
Her 35-year industry career spanned line management, general HR work, training and organisational transformation. Her previous experience was in retail and the public sector. She spent nine years on the Board of HM Revenue and Customs, was chair of the Conference Board (Europe) Organisation and Business Council, a member of the Ministry of Defence Armed Forces Training and Education Steering Group and a member of the UK Government Risk Review Steering Group. Ms Owen is currently a Governor of Imperial College, a Fellow of the Windsor Leadership Trust and a non-executive director of Bioss International (executive development).
