Jennifer Winter is Chief Executive Officer of veterinary and pharmaceutical company Animalcare Group, where she has integrated separate business units to drive efficiency and growth. She has also been a Vice President at AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline.

Jennifer brings many years of experience of the healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors to the charity.

David Blake is a Chartered Accountant and corporate finance professional. Before founding his own advisory business in 2002, he spent 15 years working for major international investment banks, including HSBC Investment Bank and Citigroup.

In his career he has assisted many public companies, private businesses and entrepreneurs in achieving their strategic objectives. His expertise spans a broad spectrum of transactions and industry sectors both in the UK and overseas, including healthcare.

He currently holds a number of non-executive and finance appointments, including senior finance roles at other charitable foundations.

David is a Management Sciences graduate of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology.

Helen started her professional career in the Design and Advertising industry, where she specialised in Packaging Design, Branding and Marketing.

As a keen Philanthropist, Helen started working with Action On Addiction as a volunteer events planner and organiser. She has also worked for Munich International School where she spearheaded the creation of various projects to promote international relations within the community. Helen worked with The Arnold Foundation, where she introduced event fundraising.

In 2012 she joined the Fundraising Committee at Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals Charity to help with the Hybrid Theatre Appeal and continues to support the Charity with fundraising events.

Matt has over 20 years’ experience in the technology and telecoms industries. He’s led marketing, commercial strategy, supply chain, partnerships and product management at household names, such as giffgaff, Virgin Media O2, Tesco Mobile and IBM.

Having had life-saving surgery at Royal Brompton Hospital as a child, and having been under its care ever since, Matt loves to do all he can to help the Charity, including chairing key quarterly leadership meetings, and more recently by joining the Charity Board as a Trustee.

Caroline has 30 years’ experience in financial services and capital markets ranging from equity research to investment banking and asset allocation in both public and private markets and is an experienced Non-Executive director.

Caroline has worked in London, Paris, Frankfurt, and New York and is Managing Partner at CounselRock Partners, a specialist alternative investment consultancy.

She is currently a Non-Executive director of British Business Investments, healthcare management consultancy Lexica, Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), social impact investment platform Ethex, and Chair of Tribe Technology Plc, a mining equipment manufacturer.

She is also a Trustee of the African Conservation Foundation.

Charlie has over 30 years integrated marketing experience from startup businesses to complex global matrix organisations in the entertainment, telecommunications and finance sectors. Charlie is a strong and collaborative female leader passionate about promoting diversity and empowerment, while developing high performing teams.

Charlie is currently Senior Vice President, Marketing and Communications, UK & Ireland at Mastercard and brings to the Charity extensive experience in Brand, Advertising, Media, Partnerships and Communications.

Stuart Corbyn is a Chartered Surveyor and a past President of the British Property Federation. Following his retirement in 2008 after 23 years as Chief Executive of the Cadogan Estate, he has had a number of non executive and Trustee appointments including Derwent London plc, the Church Commissioners for England, the Pollen Estate, Royal Hospital Chelsea, Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 and Royal Albert Hall.

He has been a co-opted member of the City of London Corporation Property Investment Board and the Mercers’ Company Property Committee.

Gira Davda is a senior executive with a deep passion for healthcare and over 25 years’ experience in financial services. She has held senior roles at UBS Investment Bank, NatWest, and currently serves as Chief of Staff and Chief People Officer at Brightwell Pensions.

Gira brings a unique blend of strategic and operational expertise, having worked as a Healthcare Investment Banker, Chief Operating Officer, and Transformation leader. She is a Chartered Accountant and member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England & Wales.

Her motivation for joining Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals Charity is deeply personal—her mother received outstanding care at the Royal Brompton hospital.

Antonio is an academic cardiologist, working as a Clinical Senior Lecturer at King’s College London and clinically at King’s College and St Thomas’ Hospitals. He studied at the University of Glasgow, completed his PhD at Imperial College London, and trained clinically at Imperial, Royal Brompton, Harefield and St Thomas’ hospitals.

He holds an MBA from Imperial College Business School and sits in several national academic committees and research networks. He brings many years of experience in frontline healthcare and academia to the charity.

Priya is a Solicitor who was Company Secretary of one of the Great Twelve City of London livery companies for 15 years, where she was responsible for overseeing the management of a substantial commercial property portfolio and operational matters.  She also advised its governing body on governance and strategy, and the Investments Committee on corporate and charity property holdings.

Previously, she was the Group Solicitor for a listed commercial property company for many years. She brings to the Charity in-depth knowledge and experience in a broad range of commercial and charitable activities

Tom Wilkinson is Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the University of Southampton, Faculty of Medicine, Associate Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Honorary Consultant at University Hospitals Southampton.

He trained at the University of Cambridge and Barts and the London School of Medicine and completed his PhD at UCL studying disease mechanisms driving Infective Exacerbations of COPD with Professor Wisia Wedzicha.

He is lead of the Southampton COPD research group, the Respiratory Theme of the NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre and Senior Clinical Lead of the National Respiratory Audit Programme.

His research seeks to improve understanding of the mechanisms which drive susceptibility to respiratory infections and exacerbations in patients with chronic lung disease, and to develop new vaccines and therapies to impact on these. Tom has taken these mechanistic discoveries through translation into new treatments in COPD and COVID-19.

He is co-founder and Chairman of the health technology company mymhealth which is the leading provider of digital therapeutics to the NHS in asthma and COPD. He has published over 200 peer reviewed papers and reviews on the topics of airways disease, infection and airway immunology. In 2023 he was appointed as an NIHR Senior Investigator in recognition of his contribution to respiratory research.