Board of Trustees
We are governed by a Board of Trustees
composed of 14 members, half of whom are lay members and half
medical.
All Trustees are also members of The
Council - an advisory body comprising of up to 30 members.
Our Trustees
Philip Yea
Chairman of The Board of Trustees and Member of
Council
Philip Yea's business career has spanned both
public and private companies. Philip has spent over ten years in
private equity, most recently at 3i Group plc where he was Chief
Executive from 2004 until January 2009, and previously at
Investcorp, where his main focus was on the performance of
portfolio investments.
He is the former Finance Director of Diageo,
the global drinks group, where he played a key role in the creation
of Diageo through Guinness's merger with GrandMet in
1997.
Philip is a non-Executive Director of Vodafone
Group Plc. He has previously been a director of Moet Hennessy, HBOS
plc and Manchester United PLC. Philip is a member of the Chartered
Institute of Management Accountants and has a degree in Modern
Languages from Oxford University.
Philip has been a Trustee since September 2008
and became Chairman of the Board of Trustees in March 2009.
Professor Sir Christopher Edwards
Trustee and Council Member
Professor Sir Christopher Edwards is the Chairman of the Chelsea
& Westminster Hospital NHS Trust, a Senior Research
Investigator, Experimental Physiology, Division of Medicine,
Imperial College London, and Chairman of Medical Education
England.
Prior to joining Chelsea and Westminster, Professor Edwards was
the first Principal of Imperial College School of Medicine from
1995 to 2000 before becoming Vice-Chancellor of the University of
Newcastle upon Tyne where he led a major restructuring to make it
one of the top universities in the UK.
During a distinguished medical and academic career, Professor
Edwards has held numerous senior positions including President of
the Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland and
Chairman of the Council of Heads of Medical Schools.
Sir Christopher became a Trustee in May 2009. He is also
Chairman of the BHF Council, and a member of the Nominations and
Remuneration Committees.
Dr E Jane Flint BSc MD FRCP
Trustee and Council Member
Dr Flint qualified from Birmingham University
in 1975. She has been the lead Consultant Cardiologist for the
Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust since 1988.
In 1988 Dr Flint was elected as the Treasurer and Chair of the
British Nuclear Cardiology Group and from there she has sat on many
different and varied committees.
She was elected as President of the British Association for
Cardiac Rehabilitation from 1997-1999 having already been a
founding member of the steering group (1992), a member of Council
(1993) and President Elect (1995). She was thereby a member of the
External Reference Group for the National Service Framework for CHD
(2000).
More recently Dr Flint was elected as the District General
Hospitals’ representative Council Member of the British Cardiac
Society (2000-2004) and is currently serving a term of office as
the British Cardiovascular Society’s Council Representative for
Women in Cardiology. This year she has been asked to chair a
British Cardiovascular Society Working Party to make
recommendations for tackling Heart Disease in Women - these being
our UK contribution to the European Heart Health Charter.
Dr Flint joined the Board of Trustees and Council in July
2006.
Richard Hytner
Trustee and Council Member
Richard, a law graduate from St John’s College, Cambridge
University, is Saatchi & Saatchi’s Worldwide Deputy Chairman.
He joined Saatchi & Saatchi in 2003 as Chairman & CEO for
Europe, Middle East and Africa, having graduated with distinction
as a Sloan Fellow from London Business School. Prior to that,
Richard had been UK CEO & Chairman of Publicis and Chairman of
WPP’s The Henley Centre.
Richard speaks regularly to clients, conferences and business
school classes around the world on leading strategic
transformation; Lovemarks beyond brands; communications; and
creativity. He was appointed an Executive Fellow of London Business
School, attached to the Marketing Faculty, in August 2007.
Richard is chairman of Planting Promise, a sustainable
educational enterprise in Sierra Leone; a founder trustee of
Professor Michael Hay’s Business Bridge Initiative that provides
business education to aspiring entrepreneurs around the world
otherwise unable to afford it; and chairman of the British Heart
Foundation’s £50 million Mending Broken Hearts Appeal.
He joined the BHF’s Board of Trustees in July 2011.
Professor Robert Lechler
Trustee and Council Member
Robert Lechler qualified in Medicine in Manchester in 1975.
Thereafter, he undertook four years of junior hospital doctor
training in general medicine and nephrology before embarking on a
PhD in transplantation immunology at the Royal Postgraduate Medical
School.
Following the PhD, he returned to full-time clinical work for
two years and completed his scientific training at the National
Institutes of Health in Bethesda, USA. He returned to the UK to a
Senior Lecturer Post at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in
1986 and became Head of the Department of Immunology in 1994.
He became Dean of Hammersmith Campus at Imperial College Faculty
of Medicine in 2001 and Head of the Division of Medicine in 2003.
He moved to King’s College London as Head of the School of Medicine
at Guy’s, King’s College and St Thomas’ Hospitals in September 2004
and was appointed Vice Principal (Health) at King’s
College in October 2005. In June 2009 he was appointed as
Executive Director of King’s Health Partners Academic Health
Sciences Centre.
Professor Lechler joined the Board of Trustees and the BHF
Council in July 2010.
Professor Sir Michael Marmot MBBS, MPH, PhD, FRCP, FFPHM,
FMedSci
Trustee and Council Member
Director: International Institute for Society and Health
MRC Research Professor of Epidemiology and
Public Health, University College London
Michael Marmot has been at the forefront of research into health
inequalities for the past 30 years.
He is Principal Investigator of the Whitehall Studies of British
civil servants, investigating explanations for the striking inverse
social gradient in morbidity and mortality. He leads the English
Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) and is engaged in several
international research efforts on the social determinants of
health.
He chairs the Department of Health Scientific Reference Group on
tackling health inequalities and the National Institute for
Clinical Excellence (NICE) Research and Development
Committee. He also chairs the British Heart Foundation Primary
Prevention Committee and has been a member of the BHF Council since
2000.
He was a member of the Royal Commission on Environmental
Pollution for six years.
In 2000 he was knighted by Her Majesty The Queen for services to
Epidemiology and understanding health inequalities.
Internationally acclaimed, Professor Marmot is a Vice President
of the Academia Europaea, a member of the RAND Health Advisory
Board, a Foreign Associate Member of the Institute of Medicine and
the Chair of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health set up
by the World Health Organisation in 2005. He won the Balzan Prize
for Epidemiology in 2004 and gave the Harveian Oration in 2006.
Professor Marmot was first elected to join the the Council
and Board of Trustees in 2000.
Roger Pilgrim MA FCA
Trustee and Council Member
After graduating in Economics from Trinity College, Cambridge,
Roger joined Peat Marwick (later KPMG), where he qualified as a
chartered accountant.
After qualifying, he spent two years in
the US, where he was involved in audits and due diligence work
mergers and acquisitions. On his return to the UK, he
spent three years with KPMG before joining the private equity
team of Charterhouse (now Charterhouse Capital Partners LLP) in
1987. Roger is a senior member of the investment team, which
makes unquoted corporate investments.
Outside work, Roger is a keen real tennis
player and amateur musician. He is also undertaking an Open
University degree in humanities (focusing on History of
Art). In addition to his work for the BHF, he is a member of
the Campaign Council of Cambridge University and the Development
Board of Somerville College, Oxford.
Roger was the Chairman of The Ranulph Fiennes
Healthy Hearts Appeal, the BHF’s first ever capital appeal, and
played a key role in successfully raising £2 million.
Roger is a member of the Audit and Investment
Committees and became a member of Council in May 2007. He became a
Trustee in 2008.
Dr Denise Pollard-Knight
Trustee and Council
Member
Dr Pollard-Knight is the Managing Director for Nomura
Phase4 Ventures. She has been responsible for Nomura's
BioPharma investment activities since 1999 and has been a venture
capitalist for over ten years.
Prior to joining
Nomura Dr Pollard-Knight was an investment manager
in the Bioscience Unit of Rothschild Asset Management, a unit
managing over US$500 million in biotech companies in the US and
Europe. Dr Pollard-Knight has held R&D management
positions at Amersham and Fisons plc and was a main board Director
at Scientific Generics.
Dr Pollard-Knight holds a PhD and BSc
(Hons) from Birmingham University and was a Fulbright scholar at
the University of California, Berkeley. She holds a diploma
in Company Direction from the Institute of Directors. Dr
Pollard-Knight is a Director of Nabriva, Cerimon, Idenix and
DeveloGen.
Dr Pollard-Knight is a member of the
Nominations Committee and joined the Council and Board of Trustees
in 2005.
John Salmon
Trustee and Council
Member
John Salmon Council Member John Salmon was a senior partner in
the UK firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers before his retirement. He is
a chartered accountant and was admitted to the partnership of Price
Waterhouse in 1976.
As well as his client responsibilities, he led the firm's
services to non-executive directors of major listed companies and
was Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the
partnership.
He is a non-executive director of St Modwen Properties plc, a
member of the advisory board of Savile plc and is also the chairman
of the governors of an independent girls’ preparatory school. He is
currently Chairman of the Nomination and Audit Committees, and
member of the Council and Remuneration Committee.
Professor Kay-Tee Khaw CBE FRCP
Trustee and Council Member
Professor Kay-Tee Khaw is Professor of Clinical Gerontology in
the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Gonville & Caius
College, Cambridge.
Born in Singapore, Professor Khaw studied medicine at the
University of Cambridge and at St Mary's Hospital, University of
London. She trained in epidemiology at the London School of
Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and has held clinical and academic
posts at the University of London and at the University of
California, San Diego.
The focus of Professor Khaw's research interests is the
maintenance of health in later life and the causes and prevention
of chronic diseases including cardiovascular disease, cancer and
osteoporosis.
Professor Khaw is a principal investigator in EPIC-Norfolk, part
of EPIC, a prospective population study on diet, cancer and chronic
disease initiated in 1992. Over 400,000 participants from ten
collaborating European countries are involved in the study that
aims to find out more about the long-term health of people
living in the community.
Professor Khaw was awarded the CBE in the 2003 Queen's Birthday
Honours List.
She became a member of both Council and the Board of Trustees in
July 2006.
Professor Patrick Sissons MD FRCP FRCPath FMedSci
Trustee and Council Member
Professor Sissons is currently the Regius Professor of Physic at
Cambridge University (since October 2005), succeeding Professor Sir
Keith Peters.
Professor Sissons joined the University in 1988, where he
established an academic division of Infectious Disease within the
Department of Medicine and developed the Infectious Disease
Service. In 1993 he became Head of the Department of Medicine.
Professor Sissons has served on numerous national grants
committees and advisory bodies and his personal research has been
supported by a UK Medical Research Council programme grant for 20
years. He was appointed a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences
in 1998.
Professor Sissons joined Council in 2005 and has since become a
member of the Nominations Committee.
Professor Paul M Stewart
Trustee and Council Member
Paul Stewart was born and educated in
Harrogate and graduated from Edinburgh Medical School in 1982,
attained MRCP in 1985 and completed his higher professional
training with accreditation in Endocrinology/Diabetes Mellitus and
General Internal Medicine in 1991. In 1989 he was awarded an MD
from Edinburgh University with Honours and a Gold Medal. From
1992-2002 he held a MRC Senior Clinical Fellowship in Birmingham
and since then has held an honorary Consultant contract with the
University Hospitals Birmingham Foundation NHS Trust. In 1995 he
was awarded a personal Chair in Medicine and Fellowship of the
Royal College of Physicians of London and in 1999 was elected as a
Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. He is currently
Dean of Medicine at the University of Birmingham.
Paul supervises an active Endocrinology
research group funded currently by programme grant support from The
Wellcome Trust (but also MRC, ERC, NIH and industry) that focuses
on corticosteroids, specifically cortisol metabolism via
11b-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenases. His work has lead to new
discoveries in hypertension, obesity, ageing and polycystic ovary
syndrome and is truly translational as selective 11b-HSD1
inhibitors are in phase II development for patients with Metabolic
Syndrome.
He has a major commitment to Clinical Medicine
both within the NHS Trust and at National and International level.
Clinical expertise includes the management of Pituitary and Adrenal
disorders, Endocrine hypertension and Reproductive Medicine.
Nationally, he serves or has served on Society for Endocrinology
committees, Wellcome Trust Molecular and Physiological Sciences
Strategy and Capital Investment committees, and is currently Chair
of the MRC Clinical panel. Internationally, he has played a
leadership role in the US Endocrine Society and is Secretary
Treasurer for the International Society of Endocrinology.
He has over 250 original peer reviewed
publications with over 13,000. He has delivered over 130
plenary/symposium lectures to specialist societies including the
RCP Linacre, Goulstonian and Simms lectures, the RCP Graham Bull
prize, the Society for Endocrinology Medal Lecture, the Clinical
Endocrinology Trust Medal Lecture, Sir George Pickering Medal, and
the Clinical Investigator Award Plenary Lecture at The Endocrine
Society.
Professor Stewart joined the Board of Trustees
in September 2010.
Lance Trevellyan BSc(Hons) ACA FRSA
Lance Trevellyan is founder and Chairman of the Trevellyan
Group, a trading and investment group specialising in petrol
retailing, fine art publishing, property investment and development
and wood fuel production and marketing. He is a member of the
Institute of Chartered Accountants England and Wales, a Fellow of
the Royal Society of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce and Chairman of
Tilford Parish Council.
Lance joined the Board of Trustees in 2009.
