Non-executive directors
Richard Hunt CBE, Chairman
Richard Hunt CBE joined us as Chairman on 1 July 2009. He
was formerly the International president of the Chartered Institute
of Logistics and Transport, and has experience extending across the
aviation, logistics, international oil and brewing sectors. Richard
is a former Chief Executive of Aviance Ltd which handles logistics
at UK airports, and he was Chief Executive of EXEL Logistics
Europe, the largest UK transport and logistics business. He has
also served as a non-executive on the Highways Agency Advisory
Board. Richard was appointed CBE for services to logistics and
transport in the 2004 New Year Honours.
Brian Huckett
Brian Huckett is a former director of finance
and information technology with Visa International, where he helped
to bring card-based banking services to people in the developing
worlds of Africa, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe. He has
previously worked for TSB Bank, PA Management Consultants, and a
variety of international construction companies.
Dr Beryl Magrath MBE
Dr Beryl Magrath MBE took up her post as
non-executive director in 2005, and is chair of our clinical
governance committee. She is a former consultant anaesthetist
and previously worked at Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust in Kent. She
was a founder of South Bromley HospisCare in 1984 and was medical
director of Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust between 1992 and 2000.
Beryl is now a trustee of Harris HospisCare and serves as a school
governor for a Bromley primary school.
Caroline Silver
Caroline Silver took up her post as a non
executive director with us in March 2006 and is chair of our audit
committee and the charitable funds committee. A chartered
accountant, she has recently been appointed Partner and Managing
Director of Moelis and Company. Previously she was
Vice-Chairman, EMEA Investment Banking, Vice Chairman at Merrill
Lynch and Vice Chairman of the Investment Banking Division at
Morgan Stanley. In her 13 years at Morgan Stanley, she specialised
in advising on international mergers, acquisitions and financings,
particularly in the financial services and healthcare sectors.
Previously, she worked at Price Waterhouse (now PwC) and at
Morgan Grenfell (now Deutsche Bank).
Roy Griffins CB
Roy Griffins CB took up his post as a
non-executive director in March 2006. He is chairman of London City
Airport and of the Channel Tunnel Intergovernmental Commission.
He is also a non-executive director of NHS Blood and
Transplant. Previously Roy had a 30-year career in the
British civil and diplomatic service, and was the UK’s director of
civil aviation between 1999 and 2004, and director-general of
Airports Council International Europe from 2004 to
2006.
Jessica Cecil
Jessica took up the post in December 2010.
She has spent over twenty years in broadcasting and is currently
Head of Office for the BBC’s Director-General. She is responsible
for crisis management, senior stakeholder communication and
negotiations and leading the immediate team around the
Director-General. Before this, Jessica was a senior editorial
leader at the BBC. She was Executive Producer of many high profile
television science series and has made many programmes about health
care. She was Deputy Editor of the long running science and
technology show Tomorrow’s World. Jessica has also
produced some of the BBC’s most high profile journalistic
programmes. She was Assistant Editor of Newsnight, and has
worked on Panorama and in the BBC TV Newsroom.
Murziline Parchment
Murziline Parchment took up the post in September 2011. She is
currently the Head of the Mayor's Office, Tower Hamlets.
Murziline has had a 15-year career in law as a barrister
specialising in public law. She was Director of Major Projects and
Service Delivery at the Greater London Authority between
2003 and 2008, and has been a member on the boards
of Transport for London, London Bombings Relief Fund and London
Organising Committee for the Olympics and Paralympics Games.
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Executive directors
Peter Bradley CBE, Chief Executive
Peter Bradley CBE joined the London Ambulance
Service in May 1996 as director of operations and was appointed
chief executive and chief ambulance officer in 2000. He has worked
for 20 years in a variety of posts with ambulance services in New
Zealand, latterly as chief ambulance officer of the Auckland
Ambulance Service. Peter holds an MBA from the University of Otago
in Dunedin, New Zealand and he was awarded the CBE in the 2005 New
Year Honours. In his part-time role for the Department of Health as
national ambulance advisor, he led the strategic review of NHS
ambulance services, the findings of which were published in June
2005.
Martin Flaherty OBE, Chief Operating Officer
Martin Flaherty joined the Service in 1979. His
career has included time spent as a paramedic, followed by 20 years
as a manager in a variety of positions. He became an executive
director in April 2005 and was responsible for coordinating the
emergency medical response to the 7 July bombings that year. He was
awarded an OBE in the 2006 New Year Honours. He became Deputy
Chief Executive in May 2009. Between July 2010 and November
2011, Martin was seconded to the Irish Ambulance Service and Great
Western Ambulance Service where he held interim Chief Executive
positions. He returned to the Service in November 2011 as Chief
Operating Officer.
Caron Hitchen, Director of Human Resources and
Organisation Development
Caron Hitchen was appointed in May 2005. Caron
is a qualified nurse, and her career has been predominantly
NHS-based. She worked for five years at Mayday Hospital NHS Trust
as director of human resources and, prior to that, she spent seven
years in human resources management roles at Ealing Hospital NHS
Trust.
Michael Dinan, Director of Finance
Michael Dinan joined us in November 2004. He
had worked for 13 years for United Parcel Service in a variety of
positions including group finance director for the European
logistics business. Michael is a member of the Chartered Institute
of Management Accountants (CIMA).
Dr Fionna Moore, Medical Director
Dr Fionna Moore was appointed in December 1997
and was made an executive director in September 2000. She also
chairs our clinical steering group and clinical audit and research
group. Fionna has more than 20 years' experience as a consultant in
emergency medicine, currently with Charing Cross Hospital and
previously at University College and John Radcliffe Hospitals. She
is a BASICS doctor
and holds a fellowship in immediate medical care from the Faculty
of Pre-Hospital Care of the Royal College of Surgeons
Edinburgh.
Steve Lennox, Director of Health Promotion and Quality
was appointed as an executive director in
January 2011, after joining us in September 2010. He was previously
a member of the Chief Nurse’s healthcare-associated infections and
cleanliness team at the Department of Health where he worked at a
national level with acute trusts, mental health trusts and
ambulance trusts. A Registered General Nurse and a Registered
Mental Nurse, Steve has worked in a variety of different clinical
fields including HIV, critical care and neurosurgery. He was
previously a member of the Chief Nurse’s Healthcare Associated
Infections and Cleanliness team at the Department of Health. He was
also Director of Nursing and Director of Infection Control at Epsom
and St Helier University Hospitals.
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Directors
Peter Suter, Director of Information Management and
Technology
Peter Suter began working with us in November
2004, after serving as head of information technology at Sussex
Police for 10 years. Before that, he had worked for
Siemens-Nixdorf, GEC in South Africa, and BT.
Sandra Adams, Director of Corporate Services
Sandra
Adams took up this newly-created post in July 2009. Sandra
joined us from Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, where
she had project managed its application to become one of the first
NHS foundation trusts in the country. Previously she worked on the
London Patient Choice Project which aimed to improve patient
satisfaction and waiting times, as well as in operational posts in
acute and community services, and as a commissioner in posts in
South East and South West London.
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