Chair
Voting member
In post since:
April 2023
Trust Roles:
Chair: Trust board
Member: Trust Board and Remuneration Committee
Experience:
Doris has extensive human resources experience gained in a career at Ford Motor Company. Latterly she was Ford’s HR Director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Doris also led the African Ancestry Network at Ford and was named by Autocar as one of the top 100 most influential women in the Auto industry.
Doris is Chair for Prostate Cancer UK, and holds non-executive directorships at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives, Clarion Housing and the University of East London. She is also a Lay Member to HM Courts and Tribunals Service and freelances as an HR Consultant.
Professor Paul Fish - Chief Executive
Chief Executive
Voting member
In post since:
June 2021 - Chief Executive
May 2020 - June 2021 - Interim Chief Executive & Chief Nurse
February 2015 - May 2020 - Chief Nurse
Trust Roles:
Chief Executive
Chair of the Executive Committee
Member: Trust Board, Finance & Compliance and Executive Committee
Attendance at the following: Remuneration Committee, Finance & Compliance Committee, People Committee, Clinical Standards and Innovation Committee and Audit Committee
Other Roles:
Senior Responsible Officer for Sustainability, North London Partners (NCL Integrated Care System)
Visiting Professor, London Southbank University
Experience:
Paul has worked in the RNOH since February 2015, when he joined as Chief Nurse. Prior to joining the RNOH Paul held a number of senior posts in hospitals in both London and the North-East of England, including extensive experience in specialist hospitals, university hospitals and integrated care organisations.
In May 2020 Paul took up the role of Interim CEO alongside his Chief Nurse role and provided leadership for the organisation through the Covid19 pandemic. In addition to leading a number of changes in the trust in support of the wider NCL system, Paul lead the trust through a review of its strategic direction which has resulted in a confident new vision for the organisation.
Vice Chair
Voting member
In post since:
February 2020
Trust Roles:
Chair: Clinical Standards & Innovation Committee
Member: Trust Board, Audit Committee and Remuneration Committee
Experience:
Jane started her career as a consultant paediatric neurologist at Guy's Hospital. She was appointed Chief Executive of both Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and the Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity in 2001. From 2012 until 2019 she was Chief Executive of Marie Curie. She chaired the London Clinical Senate Council between 2013 and 2018.
She is an honorary fellow of UCL and the UCL Institute of Child Health, a trustee of The King’s Fund and vice chair of University College Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. She was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Birmingham in 2019.
Surendran Chellappah
Non-Executive Director
Voting member
In post since:
March 2020
Trust Roles:
Chair: Audit Committee
Member: Trust Board, Remuneration Committee and Finance & Compliance Committee
Experience:
Suren is Global Head of Risk and European and Chief Operating Officer of the financial services firm Sanford C. Bernstein; he was also the European Chief Financial Officer for the period 2003-2020. He was formerly European Chief Financial Officer for Instinet. He has many years of experience of leading on finance, operations and technology and of chairing risk oversight committees.
Outside of financial services, he has worked with Pilotlight, an award-winning charity to match skilled business leaders with charities and social enterprises across the UK.
He has a BSc in Civil Engineering, an MBA from Henley Management College, is a Fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment.
Non-Executive Director
Voting member
In post since:
April 2023
Trust Roles:
Chair: People Committee
Member: Trust Board and Remuneration Committee
Experience:
Anita is a Managing Director at Bank of America (BofA) with over 20 years of experience working in global investment banks. She drives growth in trading businesses by delivering transformative technology solutions. Anita previously worked at Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan, in Global Markets and Private Wealth Management businesses. She has worked in London, New York, and Boston where she also tutored Finance at Harvard University. Anita’s expertise is in strategy, digital transformation, governance, and risk management. She is experienced in leading complex, large scale, multi-stakeholder organisations, in highly regulated sectors.
Anita is a passionate advocate for diversity and leads a Europe-wide Equality, Diversity and Inclusion network at BofA. She has been recognised in Nasdaq’s global campaign for Women in Technology twice. She has won two industry awards for her diversity work in financial services.
Anita’s board experience spans defence, healthcare, and ESG-focused organisations, in private, public and charity sectors. She is a Senior Independent NED at the National Shipbuilding Office (Ministry of Defence). She is a NED at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, and Chair of the People Committee. Anita is a Board Advisor and Investment Committee member at the Growth Impact Fund, which backs diverse-led social enterprises. She is on the management team for EI SMART, a healthcare charity focused on high-risk infants.
Non-Executive Director
Voting member
In post since: April 2024
Trust Roles: Non-executive director
Chair: Finance and Compliance Committee
Member: Trust Board, Remuneration Committee
Experience: Michael is global head of healthcare and pharma partnerships at Huma Therapeutics, a UK-based technology company dedicated to digital-first care and research. Previously Michael was director of partnerships and deployment for DeepMind, a leading AI lab, and then for Google Health working in the UK and internationally. He was also director of strategy for NHS England and then national director of system transformation.
Manish Tiwari
Non-Executive Director
Voting member
In post since: October 2024
Trust Roles: Non-Executive Director
Chair:
Member: Trust Board, Remuneration Committee
Experience:
He is Royal Society Wolfson Fellow and Professor of Nanoengineering at UCL. Currently Director of Research in UCL Mechanical Engineering, where he helps curate the research strategy and related priorities. He has been part of UCL’s Wellcome/EPSRC centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences (WEISS) from inception and will continue to engage in the centre for his work on the engineering innovations for interventional healthcare. He co-led the Manufacturing Futures Laboratory in UCL’s new campus in Queen Elizabeth Olympic park from conception and is currently part of the steering team. Manish is interested in nanoengineered systems for energy and healthcare, with special emphasis on sustainable materials and manufacturing technologies.
Manish has received a number of prestigious fellowships for his research. This includes Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship, Starting and Consolidator fellowships from the highly competitive European Research Council (ERC) and Yusuf Hamied Visiting Professorship from the Royal Society.
Deputy Chief Executive and Chief Medical Officer
Voting member
In post since:
October 2019
Trust Roles:
Responsible Officer, CCIO
Co-Chair: Clinical Standards & Innovation Committee
Member: Trust Board, Executive Committee, Finance & Compliance, People Committee and SRO for Health Inequalities
Experience:
Lila joined the RNOH as Chief Medical Officer in October 2019, having been Consultant Anaesthetist at the Royal Free Hospital London for 18 years and most latterly, Divisional Director of Surgery since 2017.She has a strong background in education, dealing with doctors in difficulty, clinical governance and change management. She manages the RNOH Academic portfolio, is SRO for a number of major clinical digital projects, and manages a number of programmes to enhance clinical governance and digital safety. She took on the role of Deputy Chief Executive in December 2021 with a focus on growth and clinical efficiency. She took up the role of Regional Clinical Director for Anaesthetics for NHS E/I London Elective Surgery Recovery and Transformation Programme in April 2021 and holds a number of ICS leadership roles, as NCL Covid Oxygen and Equipment Resilience Lead and co-chair of the NCL Evidence Based Interventions Committee. She is an NHSE London Responsible Officer Appraiser. She continues to work as a Consultant Neuroanaesthetist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, UCLH part time.
Deputy Chief Executive and Chief Financial Officer
Voting member
In post since: March 2020
Trust Roles:
Member: Trust Board, Finance and Compliance Committee and Executive Committee
Attendance at the following Trust Board Committee: Audit Committee
Experience:
Caroline started her career in the NHS on the NHS National Graduate Management Training Programme where she had exposure in working in the various sectors of the NHS including Mental Health, Primary Care and an Acute Hospital.
Following the Graduate scheme Caroline went on to work for Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust where she undertook various roles including being the Associate Director of Finance for Strategy, Planning and Service Line reporting.
Caroline then took a role with Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust in July 2015 where she worked until March 2020, undertaking various roles including the Deputy Director of Finance role.
She’s currently a member of the London Regional Talent and Diversity Board, which promotes talent and Diversity within the finance community in London.
Qualifications include BSc Administration (Banking and Finance), CIMA qualified (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants)
Chief Nurse
Voting member
In post since:
January 2022
Trust Roles:
Co-Chair: Clinical Standards & Innovation Committee and People Committee
Member: Trust Board and Executive Committee
Experience:
Louise is a children’s nurse with many years’ experience in senior roles within nursing leadership, operations and education. She has worked across acute, community/mental health and specialist/tertiary services, as well as Health Education England (HEE). Her most recent role was Director of Nursing at Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust. Louise holds an MSc in Nursing. She has a particular interest in practice development and improving communication skills, particularly with children and young people. Louise has been the clinical lead for the CapitalNurse Preceptorship programme since its inception in 2017.
Chief Operating Officer
Non-voting member
In post since: June 2024
Trust Roles:
Member: Trust Board, Executive Committee, People Committee, Clinical Standards & Innovation Committee and Finance & Compliance Committee
Experience:
Tanya joined RNOH in January 2017 working across a number of senior operational roles. Tanya has operationally led cancer services at RNOH leading to significant pathway improvements particularly post covid19 pandemic, resulting in even better access to treatment for patients in a timely manner. Prior to joining the RNOH Tanya has worked in operational roles across acute and specialist tertiary services including emergency and maternity services. Tanya holds an MSc in Leadership and Management in Health.
In June 2024, Tanya commenced in post as the Chief Operating Officer, she is keen to see further improvements made across all pathways to reduce waiting times, ensure a great experience for patients and staff and reduce health inequalities.
Director of Research, Stanmore Musculoskeletal Academic Research Teams (SMART) Centre
Non-voting member
In post since:
January 2017
Trust Roles:
Member: Trust Board, Clinical Standards & Innovation Committee
Attendance at the following: Executive Committee
Other Roles: Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, UCL and Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital
Specialist interest: revision hip surgery
Experience:
Professor John Skinner has now been a Consultant at Stanmore since 1999, initially as Senior Lecturer in Orthopaedics at the UCL Institute of Musculoskeletal Science, with an Honorary Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon contract at the RNOH since 2003.
He has collaborated and published with more than 200 co-authors worldwide and mentored and supervised several MD theses and supervised research projects for trainees, medical students and other researchers.
John has also contributed to work at the RNOH by taking various leadership roles, such as chairing the Infection Control Committee for 11 years and the Medical Staff Committee for five years.
Nationally, he chairs the Joint BOA –MHRA Expert Advisory Group on Metal Bearing Hips and has been President of the British Hip Society.
He is on the council of the British Orthopaedic Association and the Editorial Board of the Bone and Joint Journal.
Director of Estates and Facilities
Non-voting member
In post since:
November 2003
Trust Roles:
Member: Trust Board and Executive Committee
Experience:
25 years management experience in estates and facilities having worked both for the NHS and the Private Sector.
MSc in Planning Buildings for Healthcare.
B.Eng (Honours) Degree in Building Services Engineering.
PRINCE2 Registered Practitioner.
Chartered Engineer.
Fellow of the Institute of Healthcare Engineering and Estate Management.
Chief People Officer
Voting member
In post since:
January 2020
Trust Roles:
Member: Trust Board, Executive Committee and People Committee.
Attendance at the following: Remuneration Committee
Experience:
Laura started her HR career running the graduate recruitment programme for an international management consultancy firm.
Laura joined the NHS in 2002 as an HR Advisor at West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust, where she subsequently took on the role of Senior HR Manager and then Associate HR Director. Laura became Deputy HR Director for West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust in 2014 and was responsible for the effective running of all operational HR services in the Trust. In this post, Laura delivered a significant HR transformation programme, supporting the Trust to dramatically reduce its vacancy rate for nurses and move to become a top quartile Trust for staff experience.
In January 2020, Laura joined the RNOH as the Chief People Officer. Laura holds a BA honours degree in English Literature from York University and is a qualified member of the CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development).
Director of Allied Health Professions
Non-voting member
In post since:
July 2019
Trust Roles:
Trust Board, Clinical Standards & Innovation Committee, People Committee and Executive Committee
Experience:
John joined the RNOH as Director of Allied Health Prrofessions in July 2019. John trained as a Physiotherapist at the University of Southampton before later completing his Master’s degree in Physiotherapy at Kings College London. He is currently undertaking an Executive MBA at Ashridge Business school. John has worked in leadership roles in both the NHS and Independent sector. He has previously worked in clinical roles as St Georges Hospital, Imperial College NHS Trust, Ashford and St Peters NHS Trust and Frimley Park Foundation Trust. John is also a trustee of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy Charitable Trust.
Chief of Staff & Director of Corporate Affairs
Non-voting member
In post since:
September 2022
Trust Roles:
Attendance at Trust Board, Executive Committee, Finance and Compliance Committee, People Committee, Audit Committee, and Clinical Standards and Innovation Committee.
Experience:
Having initially completed an honours degree in Sports Science, Fraser spent the early years of his career in the fitness industry. He joined the NHS in 2004 and since then has held a number of leadership roles spanning Estates and Facilities, Operations Management, and Corporate Governance, gaining an MA in Corporate Governance in 2012. Fraser spent six years as Chief of Staff for two consecutive Chief Executives at Cambridge University Hospitals, and is an Associate of the Chartered Governance Institute of the UK and Ireland