Our Board David Clayton-Smith Chair David was previously the Chair of NHS Surrey, Chair of NHS Sussex, a non-executive director at Frimley Health NHS FT and most recently Chair of East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust. He is a member of the International Board of Fairtrade having been Chair of The Fairtrade Foundation in the UK. David is director and co-founder of Andrum Consulting which specialises in supporting entrepreneurial businesses. David is a strategy, change, branding and M&A specialist; an invaluable mentor for senior teams; and also a powerful non exec director in businesses large and small. With over 25 years’ business experience, working at Board-level for blue-chip organisations including Courage, Do It All, Boots the Chemist and Halfords, David understands what it takes to take successful businesses of any size to the next level. Anna Van Der Gaag Non-executive director Anna is an experienced public service leader and Chair with recognised expertise in professional regulation, standard setting, clinical audit, quality assurance and service evaluation with a strong academic background. She has an interest in organisational growth and quality improvement in health and social care, and facilitating conversations that build trust and resolve conflict. Anna is committed to promoting best practice through transformation, good governance, research and shared decision making and has a long track record of introducing innovation in public service. Anna was awarded CBE for services to health and care in 2015 Jane Ollis Non-executive director Jane is a Non-executive director at East Kent Hospitals University NHS FT. Jane has 25 years of diverse business experience from interning at NASA to sitting on and advising boards of global companies, charities and government bodies. She is an environmental scientist and biochemist by training with a particular interest in how science and technology can shape tomorrow’s world. She is also an alumni of Sydney’s prestigious social leadership programme and a business fellow of Oxford University. Jane has an extensive background in helping ambitious people grow their business and brings connections, inspiration, know-how and first-hand experience of what is takes to be successful. Roshani Perera Non-executive director Roshani is an established healthcare management consultant with over 20 years’ experience working within the Life Sciences Industry, and across the NHS and charitable sectors. She has extensive experience in supporting blue chip companies, as well as healthcare start-ups, to bring innovative medicines and technologies into the UK and European markets. Her ambition is to drive social innovation and transformation in communities through innovative and collaborative approaches that lead to large scale, systemic and sustainable change. She is a Trustee for Tackle Prostate Cancer, helping improve cancer care services for men living with prostate cancer. She also acts as a community engagement speaker for the Royal National Institute for Deaf People with the aim of increasing understanding of hearing loss, tinnitus and deafness. Roshani runs her own healthcare consultancy and lives in Surrey. Guy Boersma Managing director Guy has focused on improving public services from within the NHS, central government, private sector and professional services firms. He has worked across the NHS in Kent & Medway, Surrey and Sussex since 2010. Des Holden Medical Director Des Holden is Medical Director of KSS AHSN, having been with the organisation throughout its first licence. Des was a consultant and the medical director at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust and then joined Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust (SASH) as Medical Director and member of the Board in 2011, a post he held until 2019 when the CQC awarded the trust an outstanding rating overall and in four of the six inspection domains. Des is now Chief of Innovation at SASH and in addition to these two roles is a non- executive director of the Southeast Health Technology Alliance (SEHTA). He is an international advisor to Public Intelligence, the Danish organisation running citizen engagement and living lab co-design for new technologies. He is a visiting professor at the University of Surrey, in the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Science. Within the Kent, Surrey and Sussex Applied Research Collaborative bid to NIHR he has the role of implementation lead. Peter Carpenter Service Delivery Director Peter is responsible for delivery oversight of the portfolio of programmes for the AHSN, including the quality improvement and patient safety collaborative portfolios, as well as the programme activity to spread and adopt innovation into practice. Peter is the senior engagement lead with Surrey Heartlands Partnership and Strategy Lead for the Academy. Working closely with the Medical Director and leading the improvement team, delivery is built upon vibrant clinical networks who are keen to improve outcomes for patients and implementing innovation. Peter is committed to the principles of change and improvement though partnership and collaborative working. Richard Lee-Wright Director of Insight Richard has a Law Degree from Bristol UWE, post graduate certificate in Leadership and Service Improvement from the University of Manchester and a Masters in Health Informatics from UCL. Having worked previously in the private sector, Richard moved to the NHS in 2011, his experience largely centres on large scale commissioning and transformational change. Richard’s focus has always been around utilising analytics and improvement science to demonstrate impact and value. Having worked for NHS England, CCGs, HEE and now with the KSS AHSN, his motivation has been in quantifying large scale system change to evidence strategic decision-making utilising robust rapid evaluation techniques. Richard oversees the delivery of all analytics, evaluation and intelligence activity for KSS AHSN and its associated programmes, as well as leading national metrics and return on investment activity. Fiona Craig Finance and Corporate Services Director (job-share) Fiona shares this role and leads the Corporate Services Professional Group with Nigel Lee. She is responsible for corporate governance, human resources and workforce, facilities management, IT, business continuity and procurement and contracting. Nigel Lee Finance and Corporate Services Director (job-share) Nigel is an experienced Chartered Accountant and has worked with KSS AHSN since early 2015. He job shares with Fiona Craig and is responsible for Finance, Property and Company Secretarial matters. He has advised many types of organisations ranging from multi-national quoted companies to smaller owner managed businesses throughout his professional life which included over 10 years of working at PricewaterhouseCoopers. 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