OUR PEOPLE

Sir Andrew is an experienced Chair, Non-Executive Director and Chief Executive working in the health, life sciences, charity and consultancy sectors. He is Chair of the Board of Trustees for SJEHG and is also a Trustee on the Executive Committee of the Order of St John. Andrew joined the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) as a fast-track graduate management trainee and was a successful Chair and CEO for more than 35 years. He has worked at local, regional and national levels by invite at the Department of Health on several occasions. He has been Chair of an Integrated Care Board, led an integrated care system and was the founder CEO of the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust from 2004 to 2018.

Avey Bhatia is Chief Nurse at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Trust. Avey qualified in 1991, and her clinical experience includes theatres, general intensive care, coronary care and cardiothoracic nursing. She held various staff nurse and sister posts at hospitals in London before becoming Chief Nurse and Director of Infection Prevention and Control at St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in 2017. Avey holds a postgraduate diploma in health services management and a master’s in public administration. She is also the Trust’s Director of Patient Experience, and the executive lead for adults and children’s safeguarding, and for infection, prevention and control. Beyond Guy’s and St Thomas’, Avey is President of the Florence Nightingale Foundation and Honorary Vice President of The Nightingale Fellowship. Avey joined the Board in January 2022.

Helen Dodds is an international lawyer and board member with over 30 years’ experience in the legal and financial services sectors. She is a solicitor, a CEDR accredited mediator and a Senior Honorary Fellow of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. Helen is currently also a board member of the UK Gambling Commission and a director of LegalUK. Previously she was Global Head of Legal, Dispute Resolution at Standard Chartered Bank, and a non-executive director of the London Court of International Arbitration. She joined the Board in January 2022.

Paul Hackwood is the CEO and General Secretary of Toc H, a national community development charity. He is ordained in the Church of England and a Canon at Leicester Cathedral. Paul has extensive experience in management and governance within the not-for-profit sector and has held non-executive roles in both the NHS and the Police Service. He previously served as CEO of the Ampleforth Abbey Trust and the Church Urban Fund, where he established the Together Network, supporting communities in deprived areas across the UK, and the Near Neighbours Programme, fostering relationships between faith communities. He has also held the role of Archdeacon of Loughborough. Until recently, Paul was a Trustee of the Henry Smith Charity and currently chairs its Clergy and Projects Group. He joined the Board in January 2022.

Chris Hoult joined the Board of Trustees in January 2022 as Treasurer bringing over 25 years of board level experience in roles that have encompassed Finance, IT, Procurement, Estates and Facilities as well as international trading which included two years spent living and working in Denmark. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1987 and since then he has worked in a variety of commercial and not-for-profit organisations including four years as the Director of Finance of Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust and nine years advising NHS organisations in London on major strategic reorganisation projects. Having spent five years as the Director of Finance of the Royal Voluntary Service up to the end of 2024, he now provides interim support to charities on a range of financial and governance matters.

Jamie Ingham Clark is a Chartered Accountant and pursued a career in the Lloyd’s insurance market, where he had many years’ board experience as either Finance or Compliance Director. He served on the Court of Common Council (the local authority for the City of London) from 2013 and was the Chairman of its Finance Committee until March 2022. He is a Liveryman of the Clothworker’s and Pattenmaker’s Companies and is a member of the Knights Templar. Jamie has been involved with The Order of St John for over 40 years as a member of the Ceremonial Staff and is currently the Sword Bearer. He is the retired as Lay Chair of The Guild Church Council of St. Lawrence Jewry-next-Guildhall in April 2025. He joined the Board in 2017.  

Tim Jones is a retired solicitor, Chair of Trustees of homelessness charity The Connection at St Martins, a trustee of the Safer London charity and of the National Botanic Garden of Wales and a school governor. Tim was formerly a partner in the law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP working on a wide range of corporate and commercial projects internationally. He was managing partner of the London office between 2007 and 2011 and worked in the Madrid office between 1994 and 2000. Tim joined the Board in November 2019.  

Ismat Levin joined the Board as a Trustee in January 2022. Ismat trained and practiced as a solicitor at City law firm Dentons following which she has spent 30 years as General Counsel for commercial, international growth and technology-led industries listed on NASDAQ or in private equity contexts. She has substantial experience of intellectual property licensing, governance, risk management and regulation. Ismat has served as a committee member for the Royal College of Radiologists (2016- 2020) and on the Board of LXi REIT plc, a real estate investment trust and FTSE 250 company, listed on the London Stock Exchange, as Non-Executive Director between 2022 and 2024 until it was merged with Secure Income REIT plc. Ismat has served as a Magistrate on the North West London Bench since April 2015.

John Macaskill was a Founding Partner and Managing Director of Groton Partners, a Private Equity firm based in New York. Mr Macaskill joined Groton Partners in March 2005 and focused his efforts on alternative investments, including Private Equity. Mr Macaskill is a General Partner in several private equity and real estate funds and has spent the last forty years in the financial services industry in New York and London. He is a member (retired) of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland, and a Chapter Member of the Priory in the United States of the Order of St John. He joined the Board in January 2018. He is also the treasurer of the Priory of the USA.