NHS Hillingdon Board Members

Mike Whitlam CBE	Acting Chairman
Non-Executive Directors

Shun Au	Non-Executive Director
Ian Hill	Non-Executive Director
Nigel Foxwell	Non-Executive Director
Betty Arrol	Non-Executive Director
Allison Seidlar	Non-Executive Director
Laks Khangura	Non-Executive Director
Cllr David Simmonds	Non-Executive Director
Cllr Douglas Mills	Non-Executive Director

Executive Directors

Prof Yi Mien Koh	Chief Executive
Ann Johnson	Director of Finance and Performance
Kevin Mullins	Director of Commissioning
Dr Ellis Friedman	Director of Public Health
Keith Bullen	Chief Operating Officer
Dr Peter Reader	Chief Medical Officer and Chair of Professional Executive Committee

Non-Voting Directors
Maria O'Brien	Managing Director of Hillingdon Community Health
Ian Adams	Director of Communications and PPE
Martin Hopping	Interim Director of HR and Organisational Development
Sue Nunney	Director of Governance and Corporate Affairs

Mike Whitlam CBE, MPhil, CIMgt - Acting Chair

Mike Whitlam is one of the best known Managers in the UK Voluntary Sector, recognised by the first ever Charity Lifetime Achievement Award for his services to charity. Having joined NACRO in 1975 from having been a Governor in the Prison Service, Mike went on to work for a number of other voluntary organisations. He was Director (UK) of Save the Children and CEO of the RNID before being appointed Director General of The British Red Cross.

From 1999 to 2001 Mike was the first CEO of the Mentor Foundation, an international NGO concerned with substance misuse and drug prevention. Mike established the VISION 2020 the Right to Sight Campaign as CEO, when he created a worldwide blindness prevention strategy.

Mike is now a Charity Consultant using his many years of experience to support a variety of voluntary organisations.

He also chairs the Ofcom Advisory Committee on Older and Disabled persons issues, and is also on the boards of Watford Football Club Community Education Trust and the Chalker Foundation for Africa.

Mike joined the board as a Non-Executive Director in August 2004 and was the acting Chair from 1st April 2006 to 31st March 2007. He has now become the acting Chair again in July 2009.

Ian Hill – Non Executive Director

Ian Hill MA (Hons) (Oxon), FCMA, MCT, AIEMA, MIAM – Non Executive Director

Ian has been a consultant to the former North East London Strategic Health Authority and is familiar with working at a strategic level in the NHS. Having spent a number of years in financial roles, largely managing banking relationships, Ian then worked in operational, supplier management and engineering strategy roles, responsible for large teams dispersed across the UK. He is currently Chief Sustainability Officer within one of the main business divisions of BT, responsible for its sustainable business development strategy. Ian completed a PG Cert in Sustainable Business Leadership at Cambridge University in 2009.

Ian was reappointed as a Non Executive Director of NHS Hillingdon for a four year term in April 2009.

Nigel Foxwell BSc MBA FCA – Non-Executive Director

Nigel Foxwell joined the PCT in May 2006 as Associate Non-Executive Director of Hillingdon Primary Care Trust.In April 2007, Nigel was reappointed as Non-Executive Director and chairs the Audit Committee.

Nigel is an experienced Commercial Manager with an MBA from Business Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. Most recently he was Managing Director of Micro Warehouse and European finance director of AST Computers.

Shun AuBSc M Phil MBA – Non-Executive Director

Shun Au is director of TCM HealthCare and Carbon Solutions.

Shun also works as a Management and Project Consultant specialising in Community Engagement and Diversity issues. He has managed and delivered many consulting projects with clients in the Voluntary and Statuary sector, which includes Deafblind UK, National Institute for Mental Health, the British Army, Department of Health and the Metropolitan Police Force in London.

Shun graduated from University with a BSc in Psychology. He additionally graduated from Cambridge University with a M Phil in Linguistics and a MBA.

Shun has been actively involved in community work specialising in race equality and mental health issues for many years. His career spans the NHS, the Local Authority, the Voluntary sector and the Private sector.
Shun was appointed an OBE for services to the Chinese community in the Queen’s 80^thBirthday Honours list in 2006.

Shun enjoys music and films, is married with two children and lives in Hillingdon.

Shun was appointed as a Non-Executive Director of Hillingdon PCT in April 2007.

Allison Seidlar BSc MSc MBA– Non-Executive Director

Allison Seidlar has spent over 25 years in the private sector as a Senior Executive in the Telecommunications industry working for BT. She has held a wide variety of roles from leading technology and mobile start-ups to running multi-million pound businesses. She has held board positions both within and outside the business. Her current role within BT is Head of Industry Liaison BT Wholesale.

Allison has spent much of her career working with customers and is passionate about customer experience and championing new ways of working to give customers a better service. She takes a keen interest in diversity and women’s issues and has won awards for team building.

Allison is a Chartered Marketer with the CIM, and a member of the Institute of Directors. She has degrees in Environmental Sciences from Birkbeck College and University of London. She also holds a MBA from Henley Management College.

Allison was appointed as a Non-Executive Director of Hillingdon PCT in January 2008.

Betty Arrol BA, Dip Inst HM - Non-Executive Director

Betty Arrol now works as a part-time Freelance Consultant focusing on Organisational and Personal Development and on support to Voluntary Organisations.Betty has a varied background spanning work within the Private, Public and Voluntary sector.Originally engaged in teaching and then personnel work, she joined the National Health Service in 1973 and worked in a variety of Operational, Planning and Commissioning roles.These included Manager of Services for Older People, Manager of Services for People with a Learning Difficulty, Director of Planning and Director of Commissioning. In 1997 Betty left the NHS to work for Age Concern firstly as Health Policy Officer for Age Concern England and subsequently as Director of Age Concern Harrow.She remains active within Age Concern circles and has recently undertaken several Commissions for Age Concern London, and supported Age Concern Hillingdon on a voluntary basis. She also works as an Associate of JGA, a Private-sector training Organisation based in Eastcote.

Betty graduated from Strathclyde University Glasgow with a degree in Business Administration, and subsequently obtained the Diploma of the Institute of Health Management.

Betty is married and lives in Ruislip.Her leisure activities include Scottish Country Dancing, walking, travel, and involvement in Hillingdon University of the Third Age.

Betty was appointed as a Non-Executive Director of Hillingdon PCT in January 2008.

Cllr David Simmonds - Non Executive Director

A graduate of Durham University, David Simmonds’ professional background is in financial services, where he worked for several high street banks after qualifying with the Chartered Institute of Insurers in 1997. Elected a councillor in 1998, he has served in hung and majority administrations as a committee chairman and Cabinet Member with responsibilities including planning, housing, social services, and education and children’s services.

He is Vice Chairman of the London Councils Children and Young People’s Forum and Vice Chairman of the National Employer’s Organisation for Schoolteachers (NEOST) and the European Federation of Education Employers (EFEE), and an advisory board member of the National Foundation for Education Research.

He was appointed as Chairman of the National Employers Organisation for School Support Staff in July 2009 and serves as a magistrate in Harrow.

He was apppointed as a non executive director in July 2009.

Cllr Douglas Mills - Non-Executive Director

Cllr Douglas Mills is Cabinet Member for Improvement, Partnerships and Community Safety for the London Borough of Hillingdon. Cllr Mills has long been involved in the democratic process and first became a Hillingdon councillor in 1982 following time as a councillor in Lambeth.

Currently a councillor for Ruislip Manor, Cllr Mills is also Chairman of Governors at Ruislip High School, a Governor of a local primary school and a leading Trustee of Hillingdon Community Trust.

Outside of public life, he was a General Manager for an Insurance Company heading up their Strategy & Organisational Design team. He continues to advise a specialist consultancy on these matters as they relate to the Public service.

He has also previously been a Director of a City Property Company heading up the Remuneration & Appointments Committee.

He was appointed as a non-executive director in July 2009.

Professor Yi Mien Koh MBBS MBA DCH MSc MCIPD FFPH – Chief Executive

Yi Mien Koh was appointed Chief Executive of Hillingdon PCT in June 2007, following a period as acting Chief Executive from March 2007. Her previous roles have included being NHS London Lead for Clinical Benchmarking and Health Protection, Medical Director and Director of Public Health and Performance of North West London Strategic Health Authority and Director of Public Health for Kensington Chelsea and Westminster Health Authority.

Yi Mien graduated in Medicine from Melbourne University and trained in Paediatrics and Public Health Medicine. A Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health, she is also a visiting Professor at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, an Honorary Consultant at the Health Protection Agency, and Clinical Adviser to the Healthcare Commission. She is a member of NICE topic selection panels for Public Health, Maternal and Child Health, and NHS Research and Development Health Technology Assessment public health panel. She is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

In her leisure, Yi Mien enjoys reading, walking and going to the gym. She is also a school governor. Yi Mien is married with three teenagers and lives in Hertfordshire.

Ann Johnson – Director of Finance

Ann Johnson was appointed as Director of Finance in July 2007 following a long career in senior financial positions with such companies as Barclays Bank and Paramount Pictures. Having qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Coopers and Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) Ann specialised in Financial Planning, Analysis and Control.

Ann worked for several years at the Department of Health and provides the PCT with a sound financial acumen and foresight to drive forward the PCT recovery programme.

Kevin Mullins - Director of Commissioning

Kevin Mullins has over 25 years experience of working within the NHS and across Health and Social Care and joined Hillingdon PCT in November 2006. Kevin’s experience has included General Management and Executive Director capacities in specialist and general acute hospitals, community health services, mental health and Primary Care Trusts.

Kevin has worked extensively as a Health and Social Care Commissioner and is currently Executive Director of Strategic Commissioning at Hillingdon PCT responsible for acute, community and non acute Commissioning and also Primary Care.

Maria O'Brien - Managing Director of Hillingdon Community Health

Maria has a background in nursing and worked for a number of years in a range of clinical nursing posts with a specialist focus in Intensive Care. Latterly, she has held a variety of operational and general management posts spanning a number of diverse areas within the acute sector.

In 2004, she took up post as Director of the NW London Cardiac Network working closely with clinicians, senior managers and user representatives from across 11 hospital sites (4 tertiary sites) and 8 PCTs, to develop initiatives to improve services for patients with cardiovascular disease.

Maria took up post as Director of Operations in January 2008 and moved into the role of Managing Director for Provider Services in April 2008. Additionally, Maria works on an adhoc basis as an external advisor to the Health Care Commission supporting different strands of their work such as investigations into service failures and independent complaint reviews.

Dr Peter Reader - Chief Medical Officer and PEC Chair

MBBS MRCGP DCH

A GP with a wide experience across the health sector. Following Vocational Training in Northwick Park, he started in general practice as a partner in Watford in 1993 where he was a fundholder and GP Tutor. He progressed to be the PCG Chair and then PCT PEC Chair before leaving in 2004 to be GSK's Regional Medical Advisor. He became Islington PCT's medical director in 2005 and was Humana Europe's medical director for the past year.

He has an exemplary reputation and track record and will be a great asset to Hillingdon. As CMO, he combines the PEC Chair and Medical Director roles and will be responsible for the PEC, Quality (incorporating Clinical Effectiveness, Patient Safety and Patient Experience) and PBC.

Keith Bullen - Chief Operating Officer

Keith is a COO with Europe-wide expertise providing business and client support services to international blue chip companies with an excellent track record in managing diverse teams, process planning and change management, all directed towards delivering efficiency, cost savings and improvements in bottom line revenue.

Keith's most recent role was European Head of Corporate Services of ABN AMRO Bank with strategic and operational responsibility for procurement, estates and facilities management, business continuity and process management in 29 countries with a combined in house team of 400 staff plus out sourced resources. Prior to that, he was COO (UK and Ireland) of ABN AMRO and Country Administration Officer (UK) with responsibility for delivery of all support functions (Finance, HR, IT, Operations, Legal,Property and Communications).

Keith has a BSc (Hon) in computer science and spent the first 14 years of his career in IT working for WANG and ICL. He has also worked for UBS and Nomura where he achieved significant cost reductions from process improvement, staff productivity and operational management. Keith lives in Newbury, West Berkshire.

Sue Nunney - Director of Governance and Corporate Affairs

With 30 years experience working within the NHS and DoH, she joined NHS Hillingdon in 2006.Recently promoted to Director of Corporate Affairs, responsible for Governance, Health & Safety, Performance, PCT self assessments including WCC, Board secretariat and the Programme office.

She has a background in information and her experience includes working at HA and PCT level.She spent a number of years at DoH where her experience included ministerial briefing and speech writing.

Ian Adams - Director of Communications and PPE

Ian is a senior corporate communications and marketing professional with over 20 years' public sector and commercial experience. Ian started his career with WH Smith plc, followed by the Arts Council of Great Britain. He worked for a decade with the BBC in several corporate management roles. More recently, Ian has held a number of board level roles in communications, sales and marketing in both public bodies and private companies.

Ian has a BA (Hons) in Politics and Government and an MBA, and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and Chartered Institute of Public Relations

Ian is a member of Westminster City Council (chairs the policy and scrutiny committee for services for children and young people) and a governor of a FE college in London.

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