Our Trust board

Peter has significant experience in the NHS and the commercial sector and held various non-executive positions in commissioning with NHS North West London.

He joined us prior to our merger in 2012 and was confirmed as chair of London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust in September 2014. Peter is also chairman of The Epilepsy Society, a charity focused on research, clinical assessment and care, and advocacy related to epilepsy.

Peter’s private career focused on the international energy/natural resources sector. He is a co-founder of a small African focused oil and gas exploration and development venture. Previously he spent more than 30 years in senior management, commercial and legal positions with global natural resource companies BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto (CRA), and in private legal practice and various business ventures.

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Dame Jacqueline joined us in April 2015. Prior to her appointment, she spent six years as chief executive of West Middlesex University Hospital.

Initially qualifying as a nurse, Dame Jacqueline held a variety of posts including theatre sister at the Royal Free Hospital and senior nurse for acute services at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, before being appointed deputy director of nursing at West Lothian NHS Trust.

In 1996, Dame Jacqueline joined King’s College Hospital as executive director of nursing and in 2001 became director of operations. In 2007 she was appointed deputy chief executive.

Dame Jacqueline was acting chief executive at King’s from May to November 2008, before taking the position of chief executive at West Middlesex University Hospital in 2009. During her career Dame Jacqueline spent four years as a member of the management executive at the Department of Health at the Scottish Office. She is currently chair of the London Social Partnership Forum and senior responsible officer for patient safety at Imperial College Health Partners.

In 2004 Jacqueline was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire for her services to nursing and the NHS.

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Ruwan joined us in September 2015. He is the senior independent non-executive director for ICBC Standard Bank Plc. Ruwan chairs the remuneration committee and sits on the Board Audit and Risk Committees. Ruwan is also Chair of Governors of The Bridge Academy in Hackney. ​Ruwan works closely with clients as a consultant on conduct and culture as well as an expert witness on financial crime. Ruwan is a local resident in Pinner, Harrow.

Until 2015, Ruwan was a Managing Director of UBS in London and was the Chief Operating Officer for Securities and also had a variety of group wide roles focussed on culture and risk management. He was deeply involved in remediation post the financial crisis as well as leading investigations and remediation Ruwan originally joined Arthur Andersen Management Consultants after studying Computer Science at Manchester University. He was previously a commissioned officer in the Royal Air Force and later became a Partner at Accenture prior to re-joining UBS.

Vineta is a medical doctor and public health expert. Her special interest is in long term conditions and community care. She has held senior roles within the Department of Health and the NHS. She has previously served as the executive director for hospitals at the Singapore Ministry of Health and held positions on various national and international boards. 

Andrew has more than 30 years’ experience in senior finance and operational roles, most recently during the past 12 years as finance director and chief financial officer at the London School of Economics (LSE). He has been involved in significant organisational, operational, estates/facilities and IT development and transformation projects at Xerox Corporation and the LSE. 

Janet was deputy group human resources director of FTSE 100 company WHSmith and was human resources and board director of B&Q. She also held director positions with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and ten other organisations. As well as her current coaching commitments, Janet is a consultant to a major bank, adding to the number of financial sector organisations she has been involved with, including the Association of British Insurers. 

Professor Taube joined us as a university nominated non-executive director in 2013. He is Professor of Transplantation Medicine at Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre and one of the UK's leading renal physicians. Educated at Oxford and Cambridge universities, Professor Taube has pioneered new models of renal medicine and transplantation and has led the development of the West London Renal and Transplant Centre.

Andrew is the chief executive of the Housing Association Charitable Trust (HACT), a national innovation charity, social enterprise and industry-focused think/do tank established by the housing association sector. He is the lead for all of HACT’s work on integrating housing and health, working with NHS trusts and housing associations to develop new community based healthcare partnerships.

Andrew has worked nationally and internationally in housing and vulnerable people, supported housing and care, community development and wider social policy and practice for 23 years.  He is a member of the Homes and Communities Agency Vulnerable and Older People Advisory Group and is currently chair of Stonewall Housing.

Nadia is the chairwoman and organiser for the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) pre-reg courses. She designed the course when it first started in 2012 and is the academic lead for London-Central Local RPS, member of the RPS pre-reg advisory panel and is also a recently elected board member for the English Pharmacy Board at the RPS, making her the first Muslim woman to be on the Board.

She is a Senior Teaching Fellow in pharmacy practice at UCL School of Pharmacy and she has also recently taken on the exciting role of head of alumni relations for the school.  Nadia has an avid interest in pharmacy research and is the Founder for the Registrations Assessment Questions series and the Pharmacy Registration Assessment Questions series at the Pharmaceutical Press, London.

In 2015, Nadia was awarded the status of Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society for her excellence and contributions towards the profession. She is the youngest female and youngest Asian to be awarded this accolade.

Arshiya joined us in November 2017 from Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, where she was chief operating officer. Arshiya has many years of operational experience at director and board level and has worked in a number of complex multi-site acute trusts, as well as director of primary care and as a regulator.

Arshiya is responsible for the day to day operational delivery of our services and ensuring that they are provided in an efficient and productive manner. She has shared responsibility for the overall strategic direction, performance and success of the Trust.

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Barbara is a registered nurse and midwife who has worked for the NHS for 48 years.  She is currently a non-executive director for University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire, and has experience working across a range of healthcare sectors, from acute to commissioning, as well as the community, mental health and learning disability.

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Martin trained at Oxford University Medical School, qualifying in 1993. He subsequently obtained clinical experience and postgraduate qualifications in Medicine (MRCP), Anaesthesia (FRCA) and Intensive Care (EDIC), and obtained dual certification as a Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care in 2007. Between 2007 and 2014, he worked at Whittington Health as a Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, becoming the Director of Research and Innovation in 2009. In 2012, he was appointed Executive Medical Director at Whittington Health.  In 2014, he became Executive Medical Director, Responsible Officer and Caldicott Guardian at Homerton University Hospital.

Martin was medical lead of a ‘Deteriorating Patient’ quality improvement collaborative to reduce cardiac arrests across 17 ‘UCL Partner’ hospitals in London,  Essex and Hertfordshire, from 2010-16. Martin helped the Whittington to achieve the lowest Summary-level Hospital Mortality Indicator nationally for three years, and the Homerton to achieve the lowest national rate of cardiac arrest occurring on the ward.

Martin led implementation of evidence based  ‘enhanced recovery’ surgical pathways across London, that help patients recover quicker from surgery. In 2009 he was appointed as National Clinical Advisor (Anaesthesia), a role he carried out until 2013. In 2015, he received the Royal College of Anaesthetists ‘Humphrey Davy Award’.

Martin was appointed as Medical Director, Responsible Officer and Deputy Chief Executive for Transformation for London North West University Healthcare in 2018.

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Simon took on the role of director of strategy in October 2015. Prior to this he was finance director and senior responsible officer for the merger of Ealing Hospital NHS Trust and North West London Hospital NHS Trust in April 2011.

He started his career in the NHS in Wales in 1985 where he worked for five years on the external audit of the NHS. This role involved undertaking audits of hospitals and health bodies throughout Wales during which time he qualified as an accountant. On qualification he joined East Dyfed Health Authority. He joined Broadmoor Special Health Authority as finance director in 1997 and became finance director of West London Mental Health NHS Trust in 2001. He was appointed chief executive in 2004.

In 2009 Simon joined NHS London in a wider strategic role to support NHS trusts in their progress towards foundation trust status.

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Jon joined the Trust in 2015 from West Middlesex University Hospital. He has over twenty years’ experience in the NHS, as well as more than four years’ experience as a management consultant with Arthur Andersen.

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Claire joined us in 2015 from Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, where she was director of people for five years. Prior to joining the NHS Claire worked for the Metropolitan Police, where she held a number of human resources positions and the London Borough of Brent as strategic HR manager for corporate services and children and families. Claire holds a post-graduate certificate in strategic HR and training and development and a master of science in sociology and social administration.

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Mark took on the role of Director of Estates and Facilities in February 2019. He joined us from Semperian PPP Investment Partners, a private firm who invest in UK social infrastructure providing essential public services to local communities, mainly in health and education.

As Managing Director, Mark managed £8.5bn of public infrastructure, including 35 hospitals across the UK and Ireland.

Before joining Semperian, Mark spent seven years in the NHS, most recently at Oxford University Hospitals as Director of Estates. He directly supported their successful applications to become both a Foundation Trust and an Academic Health Science Centre.

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Sandra joined us in 2017 from the London Ambulance Service NHS Trust, where she was director of corporate governance since 2009. Sandra began her NHS career as a management trainee and she has worked for the ambulance service, specialist services, acute and community sectors, as well as commissioning and strategy development. Sandra’s first director role was at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in 2003.

She brings extensive corporate governance and board secretary experience to the Trust and is responsible for legal services, communications and for ensuring the we have sound systems of corporate governance in place and meets our statutory and regulatory responsibilities.

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