The Trustees are:-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alan Gibbs (Chairman of Trustees)
Alan Gibbs, 50, was on the Council of the RNPFN from 1996 until its sale to Liverpool Victoria in 2001 and has been the Chairman of the Burdett Trust for Nursing since its inception. His great-grandfather, Henry Hucks Gibbs, was one of the original sponsors of RNPFN in 1887. He worked for Flemings for 17 years before pursuing his own interests in the Far Eastern investment markets. He has a young family and has been a school governor for the past 10 years.

Sue Norman RGN, RNT BEd (Hons), DNCert
Sue Norman's most recent job was as Chief Executive and Registrar at the UKCC - a post she held from 1995 until the NMC was set up in April 2002. Before that she worked for 6 years at the Department of Health in London and Leeds on policy issues including resource management, education and workforce. Nine years teaching at the Nightingale School including a computer assisted learning project followed a clinical career spanning community practice, oncology nursing and intensive care - this, in Montreal, Canada.

Since 2002, Sue served a two year term as President of the National Association of Theatre Nurses (NATN) and is currently Chairman of In Touch, a supported housing charity; she also serves on the Board of a Housing Association and as an elected Council member of the Nightingale Fellowship. Sue is co-editor of Nursing Practice and Health Care, a major nursing text going into its 5th edition.

Sue is Visiting Professor of Nursing Policy and Development in the Faculty of Health at South Bank University, London and has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science from Plymouth University. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Victor West
Victor spent more than forty years in the life assurance and pensions industry having qualified as an actuary in 1964. He was with the Royal National Pension Fund for Nurses for almost twenty years retiring as Chief Executive in 1999 and then becoming a non-executive director. His work with the RNPFN brought him into close contact with the healthcare professions, particularly nursing. He was a non-executive director of the RCN Institute for four years and is now a Vice President of the RCN. He is also a non-executive director of the Florence Nightingale International Foundation.

Rodney Baker-Bates
After graduating from Oxford, Rodney qualified as a chartered accountant. His employment history includes: senior positions at Arthur Anderson; Assistant General Manager and subsequently Manager of the European, Middle East and Africa Areas Shipping Division at Chase Manhattan Bank; Group Finance Director of Orian Bank; Director of Prudential Assurance Co. and several executive posts at Midland Bank becoming successively Deputy Chief Executive of UK Banking, Managing Director of UK Banking and Group Financial Control Director. In 1993 he moved to the BBC where he was the Executive Committee Director responsible for both Finance and Information Technology.

Currently Rodney has a portfolio of directorships. He is chairman of the executive managing partners of C. Hoare & Co; chairman of the publicly quoted Westbury Property Fund; chairman of Burns e-commerce solutions and chairman of EG Consultancy Ltd.. He is a non-executive director of Lloyds Register of Shipping; and of Bedlam Asset Management Ltd and a council member of The Royal National Pension Fund for Nurses. He is also a trustee of Dolphin Square and a director of The City Arts Trust.

Previously Rodney has been chairman of Hydra Associates Ltd (1999-2000), sold to Hawkpoint Patners; chairman of The Change Partnership (1998-2001) sold to Whitehead Mann plc;chairman of CoralEurobet plc (1999-2002), sold to Charterhouse Venture Capital Partners; chairman of Zenith Entertainment Ltd (2001-2003), sold to Proven through a management buyout; a non-executive director of the Aspen Group plc (1997-1999), taken private by 3i's, and of Dexia Municipal Bank plc (1997-2001). He is a retired member of Terra Consilia, an advisory board to Terra Firma Capital Partners (previously Nomura Principal Finance Group).

Jeremy Soames
Jeremy Soames is a Senior Advisor of Marsh Private Client Services responsible for the International Family Office Practice. The Practice provides specialised Risk Management Services for the wealthiest families and individuals through the creation of global risk and insurance protection programmes.
Jeremy Soames joined Marsh in November 2000, having worked for the N.M.Rothschild Group for over twenty years in London, Hong Kong and New York. He served as a Director of N.M.Rothschild and Sons Limited, as a Managing Director of Rothschild Asset Management Limited, a Director of Rothschild Private Trust Holdings as well as Director of a number of operating companies in Asia, North America and Europe. He has been a Director of Gartmore Investment Management Limited and Chairman of the Royal National Pension Fund for Nurses. He is an Advisor to the Bessemer Group and sits on the Advisory Board of GSC Partners, a US based Specialist Investment Company. He is a non Executive Director of N.M. Rothschild & Sons (CI) Limited, and is also a Trustee and Council Member of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust.

Ray Greenwood
Ray Greenwood qualified as a general nurse at Kings College Hospital, London in 1972. He undertook post basic qualifications and worked in a number of London Hospitals as a clinical nurse before becoming Director of Nursing at the Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford in 1982. In 1985 was appointed to the Department of Health as Nursing Officer for acute services, palliative care and cancer nursing. In 1991 he was appointed Regional Director of Nursing for East Anglian Regional Health Authority and subsequently Anglia and Oxford and South East NHS Regional Offices. In 2003 he was appointed Head of Nursing and Director of Emergency Services of the Directorate of Health and Social Care (South). He left the Department of Health in 2004 to become Chief Executive of the St. John and Red Cross Defence Medical Welfare Service.

Ray Greenwood has a keen interest in medical law and in 2003 graduated with a LL.M degree in Legal Aspects of Medical Practice at Cardiff Law School. He is married to a nurse and has 5 adult children

Richard Hambro
The Trustees are delighted to announce that Richard Hambro has agreed to become a Trustee. Details about Mr Hambro will be available on this website in due course. 

Eileen Sills CBE
Eileen Sills is the Chief Nurse and Director of Clinical Services at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and has been in post since January 2005. In addition she also holds visiting professorial posts at both King's College London and London South Bank Universities.

Eileen started her nursing career in Stockport, qualifying at Stepping Hill Hospital in 1983, and then went on to specialise in Accident & Emergency nursing taking up her first sisters post in London in 1985. In 1990 Eileen took the opportunity to become a ward sister on a medical ward and over the following 3 years developed the ward into a nursing development unit, becoming one of the first units to receive pump priming funds from the King's Fund Centre.

Following this Eileen took up a number of senior nursing/general management posts across London and was appointed to her first Director of Nursing post in 1999 at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. In July 2001 she moved to Whipps Cross University Hospital as their Director of Nursing becoming Deputy Chief executive in 2004, just before she left she had a period of being the Acting Chief Executive.

Eileen received a CBE in the 2003 New Years Honours list and has a Masters degree in Health Service Management from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Eileen is married with two children aged 14 and 10 years and they keep her feet firmly on the ground.

Andrew Martin Smith
Andrew Martin Smith is 55 and began his career at Hambros Bank in 1975 as a graduate from Oxford University. He has over 30 years experience in the financial services industry and currently works on private equity related matters with Guinness Asset Management. He is Chairman of Parmenion Capital Management and a Director of other investment related companies including Church House Trust PLC, Runciman Investments, and Atlantis Japan Growth and M&G High Income investment trusts.

Andrew has spent the last 15 years specifically involved in the fund management industry firstly as Chief Executive of Hambros Fund Management where the RNPFN was a long established client. He joined Berkshire Capital Securites after Hambros' successor fund management interests were acquired by Investec. His experience at Berkshire has involved him in providing advice and raising capital for several new independent fund management companies and he remains an advisory director.

He is a trustee of several family and charitable organisations and a school governor.

Dr Khim Horton, PhD, BSc(Hons), RN, RCNT, RNT, PGCEA.
Dr. Khim Horton has been a lecturer in the Division of Health and Social Care, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, at the University since February 1997.

Khim was born in Singapore and completed her education there before leaving for England to commence her nursing in St. Albans, Hertfordshire in 1976. Since qualification, she took various posts and subsequently completed a degree in nursing and developed a specialism in Gerontological nursing
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During her period at the University of Surrey, Khim was awarded an Economic and Social Research Council studentship which enabled her to complete her PhD. Her PhD focuses on the social meaning of falls among older people and the negotiations between older people and their family members in the prevention of future falls. She was a Post Doctoral Research Fellow during 2005-7 in the Centre for Research in Nursing and Midwifery Education, at the university. Khim has developed a programme of research on care of older people, telecare and nursing and nurse education using both qualitative and quantitative research methodologies and has published in peer-reviewed journals and books. She is currently co-Director of Studies on the MSc Advanced Practice. As a member of the British Society of Gerontology Khim was their Honorary Treasurer (2004-06).

Khim is married with one son, aged 13.