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