Our Board

Jane is an experienced Chair and medical innovator. She has​ 25 years of diverse business experience from interning at NASA to sitting on and advising boards of global companies, charities and government bodies. She is an environmental scientist and biochemist by training with a particular interest in how science and technology can shape tomorrow’s world. She is also an alumni of Sydney’s prestigious social leadership programme and a business fellow of Oxford University.

Jane has an extensive background in helping ambitious people grow their business and brings connections, inspiration, know-how and first-hand experience of what is takes to be successful.

Hatim is Chief Executive Officer for Health Innovation KSS, and alongside this role, he continues to practice as a General Practitioner.

In 2018, Hatim was appointed National Medical Directors Clinical Fellow to Professor Wendy Reid by the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management. His key achievements were co-author and member of the Sir Keith Pearson Commission into NHS Staff and Learner Mental Health and co-founding the ‘Topol Programme for Digital Health Fellowships’ launched by Secretary of State for Health and Social Care in 2019. He later became the National Clinical Lead for AI and Digital Workforce at NHS England providing clinical leadership to the NHS Digital Academy and leading on AI in the NHS’s historic Long Term Workforce Plan. Hatim is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at Keele University and is also a member of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Technology Appraisals Committee, and the Coalition for Health AI Steering Committee. He regularly speaks internationally and has contributed to the publication of academic papers and white papers spanning workforce, education reform, primary care, digital health and AI.

Zoe is an experienced leader in health care, with 30 year career in health and social care in the Surrey and Sussex area. She co founded one of the largest health care social enterprises in the South East, growing the organisation from scratch to an award winning, CQC rated “Outstanding” health care provider.

She has practical experience of creating collaborations and partnerships at scale that put citizens in charge of their health care journey’s and achieve lasting impact on whole health and care systems.

Zoe is also a local Councillor and Leader of a council with experience in partnership working across local authorities in Sussex.

Kate joined the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) as Chief Executive in March 2019, having previously held a number of Board Director roles in both the English and Scottish National Health Service, including roles at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS FT, Royal Papworth NHS FT and NHS Forth Valley. Kate also held senior leadership roles within Cambridge University Health Partners, an academic health science centre, and the eastern academic health science network where she built partnerships across the health service, industry and academia.

In addition to her Chief Executive role, Kate is a Non-Executive Director of Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex and until recently was a Trustee of Magpas, the Air Ambulance Charity.

Kate mentors a number of senior leaders, is a qualified leadership coach and is an Associate Alumni of the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.

Nigel is an experienced Chartered Accountant and has worked with Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex since early 2015.

He is responsible for Finance, Property and Company Secretarial matters.

He has advised many types of organisations ranging from multi-national quoted companies to smaller owner managed businesses throughout his professional life which included over 10 years of working at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

MaryAnn has international experience working across both the Australian and UK health system, with specialist qualifications in health system leadership, management, and public health. She has been a medical leader in both primary and secondary care, and is passionate about improving the patient experience and delivering better integrated care.

She is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators, Australasian College of Health Service Management and Faculty of Clinical Informatics, as well as being a certified health executive and organisational coach. She has a special interest in researching health equity and the impact of the social determinants of health, her current research focus explores health inequalities in the NHS within the Kent and Medway region.