Our Board

Kathy is Chair of the NHS Derby and Derbyshire, Lincolnshire and Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB cluster.

Prior to this, she was Chair of the NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB and Integrated Care Partnership, as well as the Chair of NHS Derby and Derbyshire ICB.

Kathy was also Medical Director at Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for over six years, where she was also a consultant physician at the trust from 1994 until 2009.

She was the Medical Director at the former NHS Trust Development Authority for three years up to 2016 and prior to this she was the Clinical Transitions Director, helping to build the NHS Commissioning Board, which is now NHS England.

Her work has focused on improving quality by building clinical leadership and expertise across the system, supporting the most challenged organisations and leading change.

Kathy was chair of University Hospitals Derby and Burton until 2022. She has also sat as a non-executive director at Barts Health and Barking Havering and Redbridge NHS Trusts.

Additionally, Kathy is chair of the NHS Confederation’s Integrated Care System Network board.

In 2018 Kathy was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for her services to leadership across the NHS.

Amanda Sullivan has almost four decades of experience in clinical practice, commissioning, and system transformation. She is currently Chief Executive of the NHS Derby and Derbyshire, Lincolnshire and Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB cluster, before which she was Chief Executive of NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board (ICB), a role she formally assumed in July 2022. Her previous roles include the Accountable Officer for Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) where she oversaw the merger of 6 CCGs and the development of integrated system working. She was the Interim Accountable Officer for the 6 CCGs prior to this.

As well as various other commissioning leadership roles, Amanda has had a long and successfully Director of Nursing career. She was Interim Director of Nursing for the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire PCT Cluster from 2011 – 2012, and Director of Nursing, Quality and Governance at Nottinghamshire County Teaching Primary Care Trust, where she was awarded a prestigious Florence Nightingale Scholarship. Her time in leadership roles also spans acute trusts, developing a new model for nursing and midwifery practice across Nottingham University Hospitals Trust as Interim Deputy Director of Nursing there. Amanda’s career in the NHS began as a Staff Nurse in 1988, before becoming a Midwife and Consultant Midwife, an area of professional interest expanded in 2001 when Amanda was awarded a PhD for research investigating decision-making during pregnancy.

Clair brings over 30 years of experience in the private and public sector to the cluster, most recently as the Interim CEO at NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board and before that as its Executive Director for System Delivery. She also served as the ICB’s Accountable Emergency Officer, ensuring robust emergency preparedness, resilience, and response across the system, and the Senior Responsible Officer (SRO) for Planned Care, Cancer, and Urgent and Emergency Care and Women’s Health Champion.

Clair’s leadership journey includes time as Director of Operations at NHS Lincolnshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), and Chief Operating Officer at NHS Southwest Lincolnshire CCG, as well as roles in Primary Care Trusts and Strategic Health Authorities. Clair’s operational and strategic expertise spans service redesign, emergency planning, and clinically led transformation. She is known for her practical, people-focused leadership and her ability to foster strong partnerships with clinicians, system partners, and local communities. This strongly supports her current portfolio priorities of population health strategic development and planning, alongside engaging and communicating with communities to understand experiences and what matter most to the people living in and visiting our cluster’s geography.

Maria is an experienced NHS leader with almost three decades of experience in commissioning, transformation, and system delivery. As Chief Delivery Officer at the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board (ICB), which is the Maria’s substantive role, Maria is recognised for the strategic and operational leadership she provides across urgent and emergency care, elective recovery, mental health, cancer, diagnostics, and primary care.

Maria has extensive board-level experience, having led commissioning within the city of Nottingham. She played a key role in supporting financial turnaround and improving system sustainability during this, and her tenure as ‘Turnaround Lead’ at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, and was also the lead for Nottingham and Nottinghamshire’s response during Covid. Maria holds an MBA (Law) with a focus on contracting, which brings a strong commercial and governance perspective to the NHS leadership she provides, and was also a considerable factor in her successful development of the NHS System Analytics Intelligence Unit in Nottinghamshire.

Rosa joined our cluster executive team from her role as the Director of Nursing at Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB, before which she delivered in the same role at the CCG.  Rosa has had a varied career and worked in a variety of settings and in a third sector charity working with the military across the world. Following a return to the UK in 2015 she has had held a number of roles within the Nottinghamshire system all with a focus on achieving quality through partnerships, developing and embedding person centred care approaches and system leadership. 

Rosa is an Honorary Professor at Nottingham Trent University with the School of Social Science, and works closely with the Florence Nightingale Foundation and NHS Professionals supporting advisory boards. Rosa is passionate about people and developing person centred approaches to care, and has undertaken executive leadership roles focused on learning disabilities, Autism, Down’s Syndrome, SEND and Safeguarding. As a passionate ally and supporter of equality and equity, Rosa also supports a number of networks and mentoring programmes and works to support and empower girls and young women through Girl Guiding UK.

Dave is a qualified GP who worked as a GP principle with an interest in ENT before becoming the Accountable Officer for the East Leicestershire and Rutland Clinical Commissioning Group. 

In Dave’s role at East Leicestershire and Rutland Clinical Commissioning Group, he was the system lead for both Urgent and Emergency care as well as for the Better Care Together System Programme.

More recently Dave has held roles within the Emergency Department as a practicing clinician and as the Medical Director for Professional Standards and System Improvement at at NHS England and NHS Improvement Midlands.

In all these roles Dave has led and supported clinical improvements and outcomes for the citizens of the Midlands.

Jon graduated in 1991 from Reims Business School with a double degree in International Business Administration and then spent the early part of his career in international sales management. He moved into general management roles in the late 1990s, spending eight years as a Director of the UK’s leading wholesaler of office products.

Jon has been involved with the NHS for more than fifteen years, previously chairing both a Primary Care Trust and the East Midlands Ambulance Service Since 2015, Jon has been supporting the commissioning side of the NHS, working in a non-executive capacity across multiple Clinical Commissioning Groups, before transitioning to NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB in 2022.

Jon also chairs a national conservation charity, which connects over 100,000 people together each year to protect and restore nature.

Outside of work, Jon is married with two sons and lives in Nottinghamshire. Jon chairs the ICBs’ Joint Strategic Commissioning Committee meeting and acts as the Boards’ Deputy Chair and Senior Non-Executive Member.

John is an experienced CFO / Finance Director and a qualified chartered accountant. With FTSE100 and major accounting firm experience, John has held executive roles in SME companies and Non-executive roles in Charitable trusts in the education sector. John’s experience ranges across strategy development, financial management and decision making, audit and financial compliance, legal and taxation, data protection and compliance, operational planning and delivery, and process development.

John Qualified with Ernst and Young before holding a number of financial, operational and strategy roles in The Boots Company plc. Following four years with a retail start up, John completed 15 years as Finance Director with Interflora.

Concurrently, John spent over 15 years involved with the Greenwood Academies Trust, a Multi-Academy Trust and its predecessor entities, and was latterly the Chair of The Audit Committee. John also served as Non-Executive Director at Our Learning Cloud, a wholly owned IT services spin off from that organisation.

John Chairs the ICBs’ Audit Committee in Common and the Auditor Panel in Common.

Margaret is an HR professional with 30 years’ experience at Rolls-Royce, culminating in being the company director of learning and development and divisional executive vice president of HR. Since leaving Rolls Royce in 2009, Margaret has run her own business helping organisations with major change programmes.

She has been a Non-Executive Director with the Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust since 2016, helping to develop the ‘People First’ approach which has moved the Trust to a CQC rating of ‘Good’.  Margaret was chair of the Remuneration & Appointments Committee and People & Culture Committee at NHS Derby and Derbyshire ICB, and chairs the ICBs’ Joint Remuneration Committee.

Margaret lives in Melbourne, South Derbyshire.

Stephen is a qualified accountant with a substantial knowledge of both the Public and Private sectors.  He has significant and varied board experience at both Executive and Non-Executive level working in highly complex business, legal and statutory environments.

After qualifying as an accountant Stephen joined Bass plc. and had several senior financial

roles in the company’s HQ and hotel subsidiaries.

He has had a wide variety of posts since, including five years in Hong Kong as Chief Financial Officer and Head of Development and IT for Holiday Inn – Asia Pacific. He also held successful financial roles in Belgium, Germany, South Africa, Spain and the USA.

In 2003, Stephen joined Nottingham Trent University where he held the post of Chief Financial and Operations Officer with overall responsibility for Finance, Estates, Commercial Development, Legal, Registry, IT, and Governance Services.  He was also appointed as a member of the Board of Governors and the Academic Board. Stephen left NTU in 2016 and joined Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS FT as a Non-Executive Director. He went to become Vice Chair at Notts Healthcare and to Chair the Audit and Risk Committee.

Stephen also acts as Non-Executive Director / Governor with each of the following local organisations: –

• Non-Executive Director at Futures Housing Group;
• Non-Executive Director at Birmingham Women’s and Children’ s NHS Foundation Trust;
• Chair of the Nottingham Business Improvement District (BID);
• Governor / Trustee at Nottingham High School;
• Governor / Trustee at Portland College.

Outside of work, Stephen is keen participant and spectator of sports of all kinds and has a passionate interest in environmental issues. Stephen chairs the ICBs’ Joint Finance Committee.

Mehrunnisa has been a Non-Executive Director on the University Hospital Birmingham Board for 6 years. She chairs the Trusts People and Culture Committee and is a member of the Clinical Quality Committee.

She brings with her over 20 years’ experience of working with diverse sectors across local government, voluntary sector and HM Prison Service. She completed her employed career with the Solicitors Regulation Authority where she was Director of Inclusion leading a portfolio which included Consumer Affairs, Corporate Complaints and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

Mehrunnisa works as a freelance OD disrupter and consultant specialising in cultural transformation around EDI, workforce, conflict resolution and stakeholder relationship management.

She is currently the EDI strategic lead for Coventry University Group and a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy’s Fitness to Practice.

 She is also a member of the Post Office Scandal Research Advisory Group.

 Mehrunnisa started to volunteer within her community and the wider society from the age of 10 and her faith and upbringing have been a major influence in defining the values by which she lives her life. She mentors and supports a number of individuals to thrive and progress in their careers.

 She is a member of the Seacole Group and Asian Professionals National AllianceNHS Group.

 Mehrunnisa has held a number of non-executive positions in the health and voluntary sector within the East Midlands. She has served on Strategic Health Authorities, Advisory Committee on Clinical Excellence Awards and on the board of a Clinical Commissioning Group.

Nationally she has been a member of the Doctors and Dentists Pay Review Body. She has a Postgraduate Diploma in Health Studies, a Joint Negotiating Committee Qualification in Youth and Community Work and an MA in Health and Community Studies.

Sharon has been a registered nurse for 44 years and is an experienced senior NHS leader, having held a wide variety of clinical leadership positions including Board level Executive and Non-Executive roles across the East Midlands.

Sharon is recognised as a collaborative and inclusive leader with a focus on person-centred care and population health management, who brings an extensive knowledge and experience of frontline clinical services to the ICB Cluster Board, and a track record of improving the quality, safety and experience of healthcare services. Sharon was appointed to the NHS Lincolnshire ICB Board in August 2023 and currently chairs the ICBs’ Joint Quality Committee.

Mark became Chief Executive of Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust on 3 April 2023.

Prior to commencing with the Trust, Mark worked as Managing Director and Deputy Chief Executive at Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust. Mark, who lives in Derby, was appointed after a rigorous national recruitment process.

Mark has over 20 years’ experience of working in the NHS and previously worked for Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust as Chief Operating Officer, leading the Trust’s initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Previously Mark has worked as Executive Director of Operations at Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.  He also has experience of working in public health, developing community health improvement programmes for children with obesity.  He has also worked in acute, community and mental health commissioning through a previous role at South Staffordshire Primary Care Trust.

Mark is an ‘other member’ of the ICB Board, appointed by all three ICBs for his knowledge and experience in connection with services relating to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of mental illness.

Helen is an experienced executive having held numerous board level roles in NHS commissioning organisations over the past 20 years. Helen joins the cluster from NHS Derby and Derbyshire ICB, where she was Chief of Staff, providing the most senior management support to the Chief Executive Officer and ICB Chair to ensure the ICB exercised its functions effectively, efficiently and economically. She undertook many responsibilities in this position where she directly managed and led multiple functions across the NHS, such as HR, OD, patient and public engagement, communications, system oversight and governance functions, all of which lend themselves to her current role supporting colleagues to develop our cluster to best serve the communities we are accountable to. Helen also has significant experience of leading multiple complex organisational change and development programmes including as the executive lead for establishing CCGs, ICBs and merging and restructuring NHS organisations.

Prior to joining the NHS, she worked in a range of management positions within commercial and legal sectors. Helen’s first degree is in law and she also holds an MBA.