Sir Albert Bore, Chairman

Sir Albert Bore was elected Chairman of the Trust on 1 December 2006 and re-appointed for a further three years on 1 December 2010. He became the leader of Birmingham City Council in May 2012, having served in the same role from 1999 – 2004. He also spearheaded key regeneration projects, including Eastside and the Bullring.

Sir Albert holds a number of Non-executive Director positions, including: Performances Birmingham, responsible for Symphony Hall and the Town Hall; Marketing Birmingham; National Exhibition Centre Limited; Birmingham Airport; and Birmingham Technology Ltd, the joint venture company developing and managing Birmingham Science Park Aston. He is also a member of the Greater Birmingham and Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership.

Dame Julie Moore, Chief Executive

Julie is a graduate nurse who worked in clinical practice before moving into management. After a variety of clinical, management and director posts, she was appointed as Chief Executive of University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB) in 2006.

UHB has performed consistently highly in national rating systems. It has 1250 beds, £620m turnover, 7200 staff, treats 730,000 patients annually and has a £545m Private Finance Initiative (PFI) new hospital building which opened on time and on budget in 2010. UHB hosts the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine and Birmingham Health Partners, a partnership for health research. The National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Centre for Surgical Reconstruction and Microbiology was opened at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in 2011.

UHB is recognised for its expertise in clinical IT systems, informatics, PFI projects and education of clinical staff. Because of this UHB has been involved in several projects in countries throughout the world, including Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait, Abu Dhabi, Australia, Libya, Sweden and India.

Julie was a member of the National Organ Donation Taskforces in 2007 and 2008 and in 2009 was a member of the Nuffield Trust Steering Group on New Frontiers in Efficiency. She is a member of the International Advisory Board of the University of Birmingham Business School, an Independent Member of the Board of the Office for Strategic Co-ordination of Health Research (OSCHR), a member of the MoD/DH Partnership Board overseeing health care of military personnel and a Board Member of Marketing Birmingham, a strategic partnership to drive the inward investment strategy for the city. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

In April 2011 she was asked by the Government to be a member of the NHS Future Forum to lead on the proposals for Education and Training reform and in August was asked to lead the follow up report.

Julie was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire in the New Year’s Honours 2011.

Kay Fawcett, Executive Chief Nurse

Kay qualified as a Registered General Nurse in 1980 and held a series of clinical posts before moving on to be a Clinical Teacher and then Nurse Tutor. She returned to clinical work as a Lecturer Practitioner and Emergency Care Manager in 1995. In 1998, Kay became an Operational Manager at the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust before joining University Hospitals Birmingham in 2000 as Head of Nursing.

Kay became Deputy Chief Nurse in 2002. In July 2005 she took the post of Executive Director of Nursing for Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust where she held responsibility for Nursing and Allied Health Professionals, Infection Prevention and Control, Governance and Risk. Kay rejoined the Trust in January 2008, when she was appointed as Executive Chief Nurse with responsibility for Facilities Management, Infection Prevention and Control and Business Continuity.

David Rosser, Executive Medical Director

David trained at University of Wales College of Medicine and completed his basic specialist training in medicine and anaesthesia in South Wales before becoming a research fellow and lecturer in Clinical Pharmacology at University College London Hospital.

He joined the Trust in 1996, became lead clinician for the Queen Elizabeth Intensive Care unit in December 1997 before becoming Group Director and then Divisional Director of Division 1 in 2002.

Dr Rosser was also Senior Responsible Owner for Connecting for Health’s e-prescribing programme, providing national guidance on e-prescribing to the Department of Health. Dr Rosser took up the role of Medical Director in December 2006.

Tim Jones, Executive Director of Delivery

After graduating from University College Cardiff, with a joint honours degree in History and Economics, Tim joined the District Management Training scheme at City and Hackney Health Authority based at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London. He joined The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust in 1992 as Business Manager for Medicine before taking up his first post at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust in 1995.

In 1999 he became the first Divisional General Manager for Emergency Services before being appointed as the Deputy Chief Operating Officer in 2002. Tim became the Chief Operating Officer at UHB in June 2006.

In September 2008 he was appointed to a newly-created role of Executive Director of Delivery. His key responsibilities are to lead on Strategy and Performance, Education, Research, Organisational Development and Human Resources. Tim is also a board member of the NIHR Health Service Research and MidTech.

Mike Sexton, Executive Director of Finance

Mike, who became Finance Director in December 2006, spent five years in the private sector working for the accountancy firm KPMG and had a brief spell at the Regional Specialities Agency (RSA) before joining the Trust in 1995.

Over the last fourteen years he has held numerous positions including Finance Manager – Clinical Services, Acting General Manager – Neurosciences and Ophthalmology, Head of Operational Finance and Business Planning, Director of Operational Finance and Performance and Acting Director of Finance.

Kevin Bolger, Executive Director for Strategic Operations (and External Affairs)

Kevin trained as a nurse at East Birmingham Hospital in the early eighties then worked in clinical haematology, respiratory and acute medicine before developing the Acute Assessment Unit. As a ward manager he gained a Masters in Business Administration.

His career then moved away from clinical responsibilities into general management and operations including managing a variety of areas, from Theatres to Accident and Emergency. He moved to the Trust in 2001 as Group Manager for Neurosurgery and Trauma and after twelve months was promoted to Director of Operations for Division 3.

In 2006 he moved to Division 2 where he also became Deputy Chief Operating Officer. He was made Chief Operating Officer (Acting) in September 2008, responsible for the day-to-day running of the Queen Elizabeth and Selly Oak hospitals. His position became substantive in June 2009.

In 2012 Kevin became Executive Director for Strategic Operations (and External Affairs).

Andrew McKirgan, Executive Chief Operating Officer (Interim)

Andrew started his NHS career as a graduate on the NHS Financial Training Scheme in September 1992. Having completed the scheme in December 1995 and qualified as an accountant (CIPFA), Andrew moved into general management and operations and held a number of posts in the North West of England, including Group Manager for Renal Services and General Manager for Women and Children.

He moved to UHB in April 2003 as the Deputy Director of Operations for Division 1 and in July 2006 assumed his first Director of Operations role. In 2009 he became Director of Operations, Division 2, and in April 2011 he became Deputy Chief Operating Officer. He was appointed Executive Chief Operating Officer in September 2012.

Fiona Alexander, Director of Communications

Fiona Alexander joined the Trust as Director of Communications following 20 years in the media, most recently as editor of the regional morning newspaper The Birmingham Post. Her portfolio also includes marketing and patient and public involvement.

Prior to this appointment she was Business Development Director (Midlands) for Trinity Mirror plc, the largest publisher in Europe; editor of the Sunday Mercury; editor of the Leicestershire Herald and Post newspaper series; assistant editor of MATCH football magazine and reporter on the Reading Chronicle.

In 2002 Fiona graduated from the University of Central England with a Chartered Institute of Marketing Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing. She is a Trustee of the Birmingham Hippodrome theatre and the National Institute of Conductive Education.

Morag Jackson, New Hospitals Project Director

Morag Jackson has the responsibility of delivering the new acute and mental health hospitals, and for managing the site master planning for both the Selly Oak and Queen Elizabeth hospital sites.

She joined UHB from St Bartholomew’s and The London hospitals where she was programme director for the New Hospital Project. She trained as a nurse, specialised in intensive care nursing and became Director of Nursing at St George’s Hospital, London in 1995.

After holding several general management posts she took her first PFI post in 2002. In 2004-2005 she was seconded to work in the Department of Health in the Private Finance Unit. Morag joined UHB in December 2006.

David Burbridge, Director of Corporate Affairs

David joined the Trust as Director of Corporate Affairs in May 2007, following two periods of secondment to the Trust as Foundation Secretary.

A qualified lawyer since 1999, he has worked with law firms based in Birmingham, London, Oxford and High Wycombe, specialising in corporate and company law. Prior to qualifying as a solicitor, David worked in the HM Customs & Excise National Investigation Service, investigating major drug smuggling and serious VAT fraud.

Viv Tsesmelis, Director of Partnerships

Viv joined the Trust in April 2010 from West Midlands Strategic Health Authority where she had worked for three years as Director of Operations. Apart from a brief spell when she lived in Queensland, Australia, Viv has worked in the Health Service in Birmingham for over 25 years.

She worked in a variety of operational and performance roles in community organisations, including a joint post with Birmingham Local Authority. Having project managed the formation of the Community Trust and taken the lead on GP fundholding, she moved to Birmingham Health Authority as policy lead for community care and services for older people.

Viv then moved into primary care and worked on the introduction and development of primary care groups which later became the primary care trusts (PCTs). During this time she also managed the Birmingham Dental Hospital.

When South Birmingham PCT was formed, she moved to the PCT as Director of Performance. The role in the PCT brought her into close working with UHB, particularly as Emergency Services Lead for South Birmingham.

David Hamlett, Non-Executive Director

David is a qualified solicitor who has worked at Linklaters & Paines (1978-1983) and Wragge & Co LLP (1983 – Present (Partner 1988)). He has a strong track record as a Birmingham-based lawyer, with the added breadth of working with clients from around the world, and across the commercial and public sectors.

David co-leads Wragge’s health business, a practice which has developed and grown predominantly as a result of being retained by the Department of Health as independent legal advisors to independent sector treatment centres and 46 health trusts. Working for Wragge’s health practice has taken David around the world to destinations such as Abu Dhabi and Bahrain to advise on joint partnerships.

In addition to his health expertise, David has a strong track record working in defence; another highly regulated and complex sector.

Angela Maxwell, Non-Executive Director

Angela achieved prominence as one of the region’s most dynamic entrepreneurs after she powered Fracino, the UK’s only manufacturer of espresso and cappuccino machines from a £400,000 turnover in 2005 into a £2.6million world-class leading brand when she sold her interests in 2008.

A former European adviser to UK Trade & Investment and finalist in Businesswoman of the Year 2005, Angela is a Board member of Advantage West Midlands.

Acuwomen, her latest enterprise, is the UK’s first company to bring an all-women group of entrepreneurs under one roof. Angela is also an accredited business advisor for Business Link and UKTI. In 2010 Angela was awarded an honorary doctorate for business leadership from University of Birmingham and made an OBE for services to business. She recently co-launched Vibe Generation, specialists in intellectual property creation and product commercialisation.

David Ritchie, Non-Executive Director

David Ritchie worked at a senior level in Government for a number of years most recently as Regional Director, Government Office for the West Midlands – the most senior official in the region.

He was responsible for an annual budget approaching £1 billion and around 300 staff, mostly engaged on the physical and industrial development of the region. He was also Chair of the Oldham Independent Review into the causes of the Oldham Race Riots in 2001.

David Waller, Non-Executive Director

David is Chairman of Network Group Holdings plc, the public company arm of Pertemps Ltd, one of the UK’s largest recruitment, training and people contracting businesses with a turnover of over £400 million. He is also chairman of Birmingham Chamber of Commerce Group, a director of the National Exhibition Centre (NEC), his own investment company, Delami Investments Ltd, Country People Ltd and Nexus Professional Network Ltd. He is also a director of Millennium Point Trust Ltd.

Up until January 2009, David has been Senior Partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Birmingham Office and PwC Regional Chairman with responsibility for 2500 professional staff and over £250 million of revenues. He also headed PwC’s regional Management Consultancy practice and represented PwC Middle Market interests globally. He was lead partner for several major clients in both the Private and Public Sectors. During his time with PwC he has been actively involved with over 200 clients of all types and sizes.

Gurjeet Bains, Non-Executive Director

Gurjeet Bains is a qualified nurse and a successful businesswoman who joined the Trust as Non-Executive Director on 1 December 2008. After starting her first business in Peterborough in 1986 she later became a journalist for the Northampton Chronicle which eventually led her to join The Sikh Times, Britain’s first English Punjabi newspaper as Editor in 2001.

Her role expanded and she has since become Editor of Eastern Voice – a successful national newspaper, and has established herself in a prominent role at Birmingham-based Eastern Media Group. Aside from being the editor of two national newspapers, she became the first woman to chair the Institute of Asian Businesses (IAB).

Gurjeet won the ‘Business Woman of the Year’ award in 1991 and was recently awarded with an Honorary Degree from Aston University.

Currently Gurjeet is Chief Executive of Women of Cultures, an organisation which empowers women from ethnic minorities and is also a member of the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce and Industry Council and one of fifty Ambassadors for the 2012 Olympics. She was appointed as a Governor for Birmingham Metropolitan College in 2010.

Professor Michael Sheppard, Non-Executive Director

Professor Sheppard was appointed a Non-Executive Director of the Trust in December 2007 and is Provost and Vice-Principal of the University of Birmingham.

He graduated from the University of Cape Town with MBChB (Hons), and was later awarded a PHD in Endocrinology.

His career in Birmingham began in 1982, when he was appointed as a Wellcome Trust Senior Lecturer in the Medical School. He then subsequently held the roles of the William Withering Professor of Medicine, Head of the Division of Medical Sciences, Vice-Dean and Dean of the Medical School. Michael’s main clinical and research interests are in thyroid diseases and pituitary disorders.

He holds honorary consultant status at the Trust, has published over 230 papers in peer reviewed journals and has lectured at national and international meetings, particularly the UK, Europe and the USA Endocrine Societies.

Professor David Bailey, Non-Executive Director

Professor David Bailey started his role as a new Professor at Coventry University’s rapidly-expanding Business School on 1 May 2009. Prior to that, he was Director at the University of Birmingham’s Business School.

David has written extensively on globalisation, economic restructuring and policy responses, the auto industry, European integration and enlargement, and the Japanese economy. He has been involved in several major research projects and is currently leading an Economic and Social Research Council project on the economic and social impact of the MG Rover closure.