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Professor Wendy Reid, chair of Manx Care, the Isle of Man’s integrated care system, and non-executive director on the board of Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, joined the trust this month.
A respected national leader, Wendy was the medical director and interim chief executive of Health Education England, and also served as vice president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.
Previously she was a dean of postgraduate medicine in London and an advisor to the Department of Health.
Vivek Ahuja is a senior business leader, with over 30 years of global finance experience, and joins the RFL on Tuesday 1 October.
He is a non-executive director at the FTSE 250 company PZ Cussons plc and a non-executive director at NatWest Markets plc, in addition to his role as a council member of King’s College London. He was most recently the chief executive officer of Terra Firma Capital Partners, a private equity firm.
For many years, Vivek was a senior executive at Standard Chartered plc, serving latterly as their deputy group chief financial officer, and various senior global and international finance roles. Vivek is a Fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
Wendy said: “I’m delighted to join the Royal Free London board and am looking forward to bringing my experience of medical leadership to this role - supporting the trust in its ambitious five-year clinical strategy.”
Vivek added: “I’m very pleased to be joining the Royal Free London board and excited to be supporting the trust in the next chapter of its extraordinary journey - helping to ensure patients across the trust can continue to receive the very best care.”
Mark Lam, trust chair, said: “I’m so pleased to welcome Wendy and Vivek to the board. They both have a huge amount of experience in, respectively, healthcare and finance, and I’m sure they will prove very valuable additions to our team of non-executive directors. I look forward to working with them both.”
