Deputy Chairman: Gary Clarke

Since 2008, Gary Clarke has been UK Chief Executive Officer of Campus Living Villages, a global developer and operator of large scale university halls of residence.  Prior to that, he spent 23 years in the investment banking sector, working in London and Asia, having most recently held the position of Managing Director of Corporate Finance for Europe and the Americas at ANZ Investment Bank.  In this role Gary was responsible for the bank’s structured debt and equity financing activities, with a particular focus on infrastructure investment and public finance.

Chairman Demelza House Trading: Post Vacant

Philip Brown LLB (Hons), Leeds University

Bar Vocational Course, Inns of Court School of Law

Practising barrister for the last 19 years dealing predominantly with Real Property; Landlord & Tenant; Commercial law including property and insolvency; Wills, Trusts & Estates.

Member of the Chancery Bar Association

Age 45  Married with 4 children [aged 8-14].

Paul Comfort

Appointed 2008, b. 1956. Chairman of the Care and Finance Committee (Dec 2008 – Mar 2011).  Formerly a diplomat with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade where he served in Islamabad, Amman, London and Nairobi, the latter as Australia’s High Commissioner to Kenya and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Environment Programme. Currently working for a London security company as a risk consultant. Partner in an IT business.

Dr Helen Issler

Helen Issler qualified from Oxford and trained in paediatrics in London and Toronto. She was a Consultant Paediatrician in South East London for 25 years retiring from clinical practice in 2007. She was lead clinician for cancer for Greenwich Healthcare Trust and chaired S.E. Thames paediatric cancer network. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and for many years was a postgraduate examiner for that College both in the UK and abroad. Helen is already known to Demelza as she was commissioned to report on medical services at Demelza during 2008. She is married and has 2 daughters neither of whom have followed her into the medical profession.

Jacky Turner

Currently working at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and manages the clinical team providing the oncology pharmacy service to the Haematology and Oncology Service Directorate Unit.  Jacky is the Macmillan Principal Pharmacist and Network Pharmacist for the South East London Cancer Network and therefore has invaluable experience of clinical governance and medicines management.  Her presence at the Board will add significant skills in the field of medication.

Chair of Fundraising and Finance Committee - Pauline Hargraves

Pauline was appointed as a Trustee in October 2010 and is a member of the Fundraising sub-committee and the Care and Finance sub-committee and was one of the interview panel for the recruitment of the Finance Director.  Pauline is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and worked in Audit and Management Consultancy for Price Waterhouse for thirteen years. She spent twelve years in the not for profit sector as Head of Core Services at the Actuarial Profession and Director of Finance at the Inns of Court School of Law.  As well as finance, Pauline has extensive expertise in audit and corporate governance and was Head of Group Internal Audit at The Burton Group. Pauline is a past member of the Main Committee and the Business Board of the London Society of Chartered Accountants where she served as a member of the Ethics working group.  Pauline is a Lay Adviser for the Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangements in Sussex and is an active member of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce where she has been a Fellow for many years.

Gerard Collins

With over 20 years HR experience, Gerard is currently employed as HR Director for Pfizer Pharmaceuticals delivering HR strategy internationally to their Research & Development and Medical Divisions.  Gerard’s experience encompasses large complex organisations providing HR strategy together with organisational design and delivery.  Gerard will be able to offer Demelza a strong HR contribution together with a broader business perspective.

Gerard lives in Kent with his wife and his 3 daughters.

Fiona Hoye

With over 20 years HR experience in the retail, facilities management and entertainment sector, Fiona is currently employed as UK HR Director with Warner Bros. Entertainment.

Her generalist HR role includes all HR Administration, Employee Relations, Organisation Design, Training & Development and Recruitment & Retention for approximately 1000 UK based staff.

She is presently on extended leave having adopted 2 young children in 2011.

Paul Denham

Paul is a highly experienced retailer having spent thirty years in senior positions with blue chip retail brands in Europe and the United States, including Marks and Spencer, Arcadia, Laura Ashley, The Lego Group and The Co-operative Group.

Since returning from his last role in Italy in 2009, Paul has been involved in the start of two new businesses and now also provides retail consultancy.  He is a Governor at his daughters’ primary school.  Paul is married to Emma and they live in Kent with their three young children, India, Eliza and Charlie.

Company Secretary: Sarah Hazelwood