Board of Directors

Appointed 2023

Background and experience: Tom has been a Non Executive Director of CNWL since the summer of 2016 and was Deputy Chair of the Trust and Chair of the Quality Committee from  2019 until 2023.

Tom has dedicated his career to improving healthcare. He was previously Executive Director of the Institute for Public Policy Research. While at IPPR, Tom founded and chaired the Commission on Economic Justice and a major review into the future funding of the NHS which helped to secure the multi-year funding settlement.

Tom co-founded the non-profit Innovations in Healthcare which supports social entrepreneurs around the world.  

Amanda is an experienced Government economist, and was until recently Chief Analyst at the UK Department for Transport. Previous roles include Chief Analyst at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, and Chief Economist at the Department for Work and Pensions, the Competition Commission, and the Office for National Statistics. 

Amanda was a member of the CNWL Board from 2014 to 2017. She is currently Deputy Chair of Brunel University, and is on the Council of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research   and of the Society of Professional Economists. 

Appointed 2019

Background and experience: Paul chairs the CNWL Charity and CNWL Quality Committee, is a member of the BBC Appeals Advisory Committee and was a Visiting Professor at Bayes University, Centre for Charity Effectiveness from 2018-2024. Prior to CNWL he has extensive Non Executive experience in the NHS and Charity sector, including as Vice Chair of the HealthCare Commission (the predecessor to CQC); Chair of the NHS/DoH Rare Diseases Advisory Group, and Chair of Contact a Family.

From 2013 to 2024 he was Chief Executive of the Lloyd’s Bank Foundation, an independent charity funded by Lloyds Bank supporting 1000s of small local charities across the UK; after a career in the voluntary and public sector and work in International development (Sight Savers), Human Rights (Amnesty International), professional and service regulation and health and social care. He was Chief Executive of Diabetes UK; the Health Development Agency and the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board. Immediately prior to the Foundation he worked as a Senior Civil Servant in the Department of Health heading up Public and Patient Engagement and Experience. In 2003 he was appointed an OBE for services to people with diabetes, and a CBE in the 2025 New Years Honours for Services to the Voluntary Sector.

Paul has three children and lives in East Sussex, but hails from North Yorkshire.

Appointed 2021

Background and experience: 

Meena is an experienced Human Resources professional. Most recently she was the Managing Director and Chief HR Officer for a 30,000 strong financial services organisation based out of Malaysia.  

Returning home in June 2020, Meena now enjoys a portfolio career which includes being a Trustee of a multi academy trust, the Non-Executive Director of a housing association and the Board Advisor for an HR publication based in Asia.

In addition to her Board work, Meena is an active Career Coach with a particular interest in working with neurodiverse people and those early on in their careers.  

Appointed October 2018

Background and experience: Ian Mansfield has over 35 years of commercial, strategic, operational, supply chain and governance experience across the private and third sectors.

Prior to joining CNWL, Ian held many roles with Baker Hughes, an oil services company, including Operations Director, Materials Director and Commercial Director, during which he was responsible for business transformation projects and technology governance.

He served as Chair of Richmond CVS until October 2019, providing infrastructure support for all charity, community and voluntary activity in Richmond upon Thames, improving local health and wellbeing, and leading on health related initiatives such as Community Independent Living Services and Social Prescribing.

Ian is also Chair of QTS, our Estates and Facilities wholly-owned subsidiary

Appointed in September 2022.

Background and experience: He is a GP in Brent and former senior executive in a Life Science company.

He holds a blend of clinical, commercial and managerial board expertise and has worked in CNWL in the past.

Dr Ali has worked in a number of commissioner roles and has had strong involvement in strategic health care planning for London, and was the National Commissioning Champion working with the Department of Health, shaping healthcare legislation.

Dr Ali promotes social inclusion and has a strong clinical interest in mental health, supporting refugees and the homeless.

He lives in North London with his wife, who is a GP, two school-aged children and a cat.

Professor Deenan Pillay has extensive experience of the Healthcare sector and is a professor of virology with a background as both a practitioner and leader in healthcare.

As a chair of Independent SAGE, Deenan is experienced in public engagement and communication. He has experience as a NED for UCL North Middlesex hospital and is actively engaged in NHS service delivery and the future shape of NHS services. His experience will be a valuable asset on matters such as Health inequalities and the delivery of high quality care.

Rashda Rana SC (Senior Counsel), is a commercial/construction Silk with almost 30 years of international experience as a barrister and arbitrator. Rashda has been a keen and active promoter of diversity and inclusion including having established the Alliance for Equality in Dispute Resolution, a not-for-profit organisation which stands for increased diversity and equality of opportunity regardless of sex, location, nationality, ethnicity or age in the legal profession. She has been a Professor of Law at Sydney University and is a former NED on the Board of Governors at London South Bank University.

Appointed January 2007

Background and experience: Over 40 years NHS experience holding various clinical and managerial posts in inner London mental health services. Claire has played a key role in planning new models of service and contracting. She has broad experience in partnership and professional development work.

Qualifications: Registered mental health nurse, honours degree in social policy.

Appointed 2022

Background and experience: Graeme joined our team in Camden in September 2010. 

He has been a Borough, then Service Director before taking his first Managing Director role in 2017 (including working in Milton Keynes).

For the past three years he has led Goodall, the largest division of the Trust, as well as Chairing the Camden Integrated Care Partnership and leading several systemwide programmes in North West and North Central London.

Appointed March 2023

Tom is the executive lead for finance, business intelligence and the Trust’s Charity, as well as QTS, our Estates and Facilities wholly-owned subsidiary. 

He is a chartered Management Accountant, and has worked in various roles in NHS finance for the last 13 years. Prior to joining CNWL, he was the Site Chief Financial Officer at St George’s Hospital in Tooting. He joined the NHS on the National Graduate Management Training Scheme and has worked in a number of organisations within London and the East of England including acute, specialist, and community providers.

Appointed 2015

Background and experience:

Con got his medical qualification in Ireland 30 years ago before moving to train in Psychiatry in London.  He spent eight years as a psychiatrist for Older Adults in City and Hackney, where he also had a number of other roles including Clinical Director for older adult services, Medical Director and Chair of Medical Staff Committee.  For a number of years Con had a close association with the Alzheimer’s Society primarily enabling carers. Since joining CNWL in 2001 he has been Clinical Director for Older Adults and Acute Services, Divisional Medical Director and three years ago became Chief Medical Officer for the Trust.

Con’s qualifications:  MB BCh, BAO, MPhil, FRCPsych

Appointed 2024

Background and experience: Amanda qualified as a mental health nurse in 1993 and spent much of her early clinical career in adult acute mental health in both inpatient and community services, holding a number of nursing leadership positions within South London and Maudsley NHS Trust.

She also has an extensive academic background, completing the prestigious Florence Nightingale Foundation Leadership Scholarship, an MSc in Leadership and Healthcare Improvement at London Southbank University, and is also a trained Improvement Advisor from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.

Amanda helped to lead Barnet, Enfield and Haringey NHS Trust from ‘Requires Improvement’ to ‘Good’ at their 2019 Care Quality Commission inspection and again in February 2022.

Appointed: July 2023

Background:

He joins the People Directorate at CNWL, encompassing recruitment, staff wellbeing, leadership development, and workforce resourcing. With a background in human resources and leadership, Nick has previously worked across a range of sectors including local authority, social care, education, transportation, food retail and the BBC. Before coming to CNWL, he led the HR department for high street brand Dunelm.

Ross is responsible for Strategy and Digital portfolios across CNWL as well as leading a number of programmes and workstreams across our three ICS footprints.  He is CNWL’s executive lead for BLMK and a member of the BLMK Integrated Care Board. Previously Ross led NHS Southwark CCG and was joint SRO for Community-based Care (primary and community) across South East London ICS. 

Prior to joining the NHS, Ross co-founded Prederi, the award-winning public sector management consultancy, now part of BearingPoint, where he ran the firm’s NHS practice and worked with NHS and local authority clients across London and the South East.  Ross started his career working with the global technology firm Accenture and spent his early career working with a number of private sector organisations including Royal and SunAlliance, Orange, BP and Unilever.