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Non Executive Directors

Non Executive Director - Audit Committee Chair - Geoffrey Donnelly (Voting Member)

Geoffrey relocated to the village of Giggleswick in the Yorkshire Dales six years ago. He is married with two daughters, and his wife is a Consultant Paediatrician practising in Cumbria. His successful business career has included appointments as Finance Director and Company Secretary of Legrand UK Ltd and Financial Controller for Marks & Spencer, the latter during a particularly successful period of that company’s history.

He currently holds a number of directorships and is a Chartered Director. He is an Independent Governor of Oxford Brookes University and a director of the Higher Education Academy. He is also a director of the National Examining Board in Occupational Safety and Health.

Geoffrey has previously been the Vice Chair of the Thames Valley Strategic Health Authority and a Non Executive director of Craven Harrogate and Rural District Primary Care Trust.

He is a Fellow of both the Chartered Management Institute and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

Non Executive Director - Liz Burnley CBE (Voting Member)

Liz Burnley has an MSc in Occupational Psychology and also an MBA.  She pursued a varied career in Human Resources in the commercial sector and in consultancy.  She was Employee Relations Director and then General Manager and Director of RFS Locomotives before joining Boots plc as Selection and Assessment Manager and then People Development and Country Support Manager for Boots Retail International.  She then became Business Services and UK HR Manager for the Huntsman Corporation before joining Common Purpose as the Programme Director for York and North Yorkshire.  Liz is also currently Chair of Trustees and Chief Guide for Girlguiding UK, and she lives in Womersley.

Non Executive Director  - David Harbourne (Voting Member)

David Harbourne was brought up in North Yorkshire and later studied at the London School of Economics and the Ecole National d’Administration in Paris. He worked for the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food for ten years and served as Private Secretary to three Ministers. In 1989, he was appointed Director of the National Association of Master Bakers, and later became Chief Executive of the Hospitality Training Foundation. During this time, he was also an elected member of North Hertfordshire District Council.

David returned to North Yorkshire in 1999 to become Chief Executive of the local Training and Enterprise Council. He oversaw the transfer of responsibilities to the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) and was Executive Director of LSC North Yorkshire until October 2005. He now works as a freelance consultant in the field of education and training policy.

Non Executive Director  - Rachel Mann (Voting Member)

Rachel Mann is a local business woman with extensive experience of the public sector.  She is founding partner and managing director of an executive coaching and leadership development company based in Harrogate.

Rachel has many years of experience in health and local government and the skills sectors.  For over 10 years Rachel worked at director and chief executive level, initially in the health service and subsequently local government.  Rachel was Chief Executive of Craven District Council in North Yorkshire for 5 years from 1999 to 2004.  In addition to this executive experience Rachel has held non-executive posts over the last 8 years.  She was a member of the learning and skills council for North Yorkshire from 2001 to 2006 and appointed chair in 2006.  She also served on the Regional Board of the learning and skills council from 2006 to 2008 and last year was appointed Regional Chair.  The regional learning and skills council is responsible for the £1 billion budget that funds all post-16 skills and further education across the region.

Rachel has particular skills in change management and organisational development and holds a masters degree in Leading Innovation and Change.  She currently works extensively in leadership and partnership development.

Non Executive Director - Roy Templeman (Voting Member)

Roy lives in Easingwold and his career has spanned 32 years in Local Government and recently (since May 2009) as managing director of his own company working in business and people development. He started work as an Environmental Health Officer and when working in Coventry in the early 80's developed one of the Country's largest health education units and worked on a number of housing and environmental issues relating to the 'health divide' helping to tackle inequalities in health. His career quickly developed to senior management roles which have helped to deliver nationally recognised centres of excellence in procurement, development and regeneration, transport planning and performance management.

In June 2004 he became Chief Executive of Chester-le-Street Council and over the four years from 2004 - 2008, has transformed the performance and service delivery of the Council to become the first local authority in the Country to progress from a poor to good authority as measured by the Audit Commission.

Roy has maintained a strong interest in improving the health of all members of our communities and has delivered a diverse range of services that have helped to improve living conditions and lifestyles for the people he has served. In 2008/09 he was a member of the steering group for Smoke Free North East helping to deliver a significant reduction in smoking and related illnesses within the North East Region.

Non Executive Director - Maureen Vevers (Voting Member)

Maureen Vevers graduated in Economics and Statistics and has pursued a varied and extensive commercial career with large private sector companies.  She was Principal Consultant for nine years with KPMG Management Consulting before joining Makro Self Service Wholesalers as IT Director, moving to East Midlands Electricity and then Powergen plc as Group IT Director.  In addition to her IT expertise and experience, Maureen has held non-executive roles with both the Learning and Skills Council and the Institute of Cancer Research.  She is currently an Audit Committee member of both the University of York and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, and she lives in York.

Associate Non Executive Director - Janet Dean (Non voting member)

With more than twenty years experience of strategic and high level management in the public sector, Janet Dean has worked as Director in London and the North of England managing most universal public facing services housing, social services, planning, environment and transport. In 2005 Janet co-founded the Dean Knight Partnership, a specialist architectural and project management company and in 2011 Janet established a collaborative venture, The Open Channel, through which she delivers leadership development and organisational change projects. Janet is currently Chair of Sheffield Homes, the country’s largest arm’s lengths housing company, Deputy Chair of the Governing Body of Sheffield Hallam University, and a Board Member of the National Federation of ALMOs.  A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Janet has been designated a Public Appointments Ambassador by the Government Equalities Office, and appointed by DCLG to serve as a member of Doncaster Council’s Recovery Board.

Executive Directors

Chief Executive - Jayne Brown OBE (Voting Member)

Director of Finance and Contracting - Adrian Snarr (Voting Member)

Adrian qualified in 1998 as a Chartered Management Accountant and is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants Public Sector working group.  He has 20 years' experience working in the NHS.

He held numerous positions within the former North Yorkshire Health Authority and then worked for Selby and York Primary Care Trust as Head of Finance.  In 2006 he took up the post of Associate Director of Finance and Contracting for Community and Mental Health Services, this role also covered Estates and Facilities.  In December 2010 Adrian took up his present post of Director of Finance and Contracting for NHS North Yorkshire and York.

Director of Standards - Bill Redlin (Voting Member)

Bill is a science graduate of the University of St Andrews and spent the first ten years of his career working in private industry for multinational companies.

In 1990 he moved into NHS management to take up the post of Business Manager for Surgery in City Hospitals, Sunderland.

In 1992 he joined a large GP fundholding practice in East Lancashire as Business Manager, moving two years later to the East Lancashire Health Authority, with responsibility for commissioning hospital services from a wide range of secondary providers.

With the introduction of Primary Care Groups, Bill moved to be Chief Executive of the Burnley PCG. He subsequently moved to Harrogate PCG where he held a similar post for three years until the formation in 2002 of the Craven, Harrogate and Rural District PCT, which Bill joined as Director of Performance and Information.

Deputy Chief Executive - Director of Localities - Director of Commissioning Development for NYY Cluster - Sue Metcalfe (Voting Member)

Sue began her NHS career as a state registered Podiatrist moving into general management in 1991 for Northallerton Health Services NHS Trust, where she occupied roles as Therapy Manager and Community Business Manager.

Following a move to Tees Health Authority in 1994, Sue moved through a series of contracting and commissioning roles to become Assistant Director of Commissioning covering a wide spectrum of services.

Sue then took up the appointment of Director of Acute Services, Planning & Development in North Tees and Hartlepool Hospitals Trust and then in 2004 moved into primary care as Director of Commissioning and IM&T with Hambleton & Richmondshire PCT.

She moved to Hull PCT in 2006 to take up the role of Locality Director and Executive Director of Commissioning & Strategy for the PCT, leading the overall commissioning process and strategic health service planning across the city of Hull.

Sue joined NHS North Yorkshire and York in July 2009 as Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Localities.

Medical Director (Primary Care) - Dr David Geddes

David Geddes qualified as a doctor in 1987 from the Royal London Hospital Medical College. He moved to Yorkshire to train as a GP on the York vocational training scheme in 1989 and became a GP principal in 1993. He lives in York with his wife and three children.

David has a special interest in community psychiatry, and for several years worked as a clinical assistant with one of the community mental health teams. He is a trustee for a local mental health charity supporting rehabilitation of patients with chronic mental health problems.

David joined the Selby and York Primary Care Trust initially as a member of the Professional Executive Committee, before being appointed as the Medical Director for Primary Care in May 2004. He now combines his role as a GP in York city centre, three days a week, with his role as Medical Director for Primary Care with NHS North Yorkshire and York.

Interim Director of Public Health (voting member) - Dr Phil Kirby

Biography to follow.

Interim Director of Nursing - Julie Bolus