Annual Report and Accounts - The Great Western Hospital

Rowland Cobbold, Non-Executive Director, Deputy Chair (until 31 December 2011) and Senior
Independent Director
Rowland has over 40 years commercial experience in the aviation and tourism industry including
seven years on the Board of Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd where his responsibilities included
marketing, customer service, corporate communications and IT. He is currently Chairman of Ecco
Tours Ltd which he helped to set up 17 years ago and he has also served as a Non-Executive
Director on the Boards of Air Partner PLC (1996 to 2004) and Groundstar Ltd (1999 to 2004).
Rowland holds a masters degree in law and attended the London Business School’s Executive
Programme. Rowland was the Deputy Chairman of the Trust up until 31 December 2011. Rowland
is the Trust’s Senior Independent Director being re-appointed to this position by the Board in
2011/12. Rowland was re-appointed as a Non-Executive Director in July 2011 for a further term of
one year ending 31 December 2012.
In 2011/12 Rowland was Chair of the Patient Safety and Quality Committee and the Remuneration
Committee and is a member of the Audit, Risk and Assurance Committee and Vice-Chair of the
Mental Health Act/Mental Capacity Act Committee. In 2012/13 Rowland will become Chair of a
new Clinical Governance Committee. He will stand down as a member of the Mental Health
Act/Mental Capacity Act Committee, but will continue to Chair the Remuneration Committee until
30 September 2012 to coincide with his Senior Independent Director appointment.
Angela Gillibrand, Non-Executive Director and Deputy Chair (from 1 January 2012)
Between 1984 and 1999 Angela was the Finance Director at the University of Cranfield’s
Shrivenham Campus, and helped set up one of the first PFIs - the academic contract between the
University and the Ministry of Defence. More recently Angela was the Head of Finance, Planning
and Company Secretary at U.K. Nirex Ltd, the U.K.’s radioactive waste management company.
Since 2003 Angela has combined a career as a Non-Executive Director in the NHS, Government
and a Housing Association with work for a family company. Angela holds a degree in Physiology
and Psychology from Somerville College, Oxford and a MBA from INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France.
Angela has been a member of the Board since 1 July 2004. Angela was re-appointed as a Non-
Executive Director in January 2012 for a further term of two years ending 30 June 2014. In
2011/12 Angela was Chair of the Audit, Risk and Assurance Committee, the Academy Strategic
Board and the Charitable Funds Committee and was a member of the Remuneration Committee.
Angela was also appointed Deputy Chairman of the Trust with effect from 1 January 2012, initially
until 30 June 2012 and this was subsequently extended until 2014 coinciding with her reappointment.
In 2012/13 Angela will stand down as Chair of the Audit, Risk and Assurance
Committee and will no longer be a member of that Committee, noting that she is now Deputy
Chairman of the Trust. Angela will also stand down as Chair of the Charitable Funds Committee
and the Academy Strategic Board respectively, but she will remain as a member on those
Committees. Angela will become a member of the Mental Health Act / Mental Capacity Act
Committee and also a member and later Chair of the Clinical Governance Committee.
Liam Coleman, Non-Executive Director
Liam Coleman is currently Deputy Group Treasurer of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group. Prior to
that Liam was Group Director - Treasury at Nationwide Building Society. Prior to joining
Nationwide, Liam worked in banking roles at Mitsubishi Bank, Hambros Bank and National
Westminster Bank. Liam holds a BA Honours degree from the University of Manchester and an
MBA from Warwick Business School; he is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers
and the Association of Corporate Treasurers. In 2011/12 Liam was Chair of the Workforce Strategy
Committee and was a member of the Remuneration Committee and the Finance and Investment
Committee. In 2012/13 Liam will stand down as Chair of the Workforce Strategy Committee but
remain as a Committee member. However, he will take on the role of Chair of the Finance and
Investment Committee.
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