The Board

Sir William Wells
Non-executive Chairman

Aged 70 - Sir William brings a wealth of experience to the board having held numerous positions in both the public and private sectors in a career that has spanned more than 40 years. From 1964 Sir William worked as a Property Consultant becoming Partner at Chesterton and Sons in 1966, Managing Partner in 1984 and Chairman of the business following incorporation in 1991 until his retirement in 1997. His board level experience commenced in 1972 and since that time he has held positions in many well known organisations. Sir William began a parallel career in the public sector in 1968 as a Governor of the Royal Free Hospital in Grays Inn Road and has continued unbroken in the NHS to date, together with other posts in health, education and science including: Chairman of the NHS Appointments Commission (2001-2007); Chairman of the Commercial Advisory Board to the Department of Health (2003-current); Member of the King's Fund Executive and Management Committees.

(1) Appointments committee
(2) Remuneration Committee

Stephen Minion
Executive Deputy Chairman

Aged 63 - Stephen is a chartered engineer with a long career in the design and development of commercial property. Following the award of his BSc degree he initially joined the London Borough of Harrow, leaving three years later on gaining Chartered Engineer status to join GeorgeWimpey & Co., where he learnt his main 'stock in trade' as a property developer, leaving in 1978 to start his own company. In 1991 he founded Ashley House with colleagues who have since retired. His specialist area of responsibility centres around the overall delivery of the company's core product and the initial development of new services.

Jonathan Holmes
Chief Executive

Aged 42 - Jonathan joined Ashley House in 1998 and has led business through a significant growth path: from 4 to 80 people; from privately held company to AIM listed plc; from small scale surgery developer to a business centrally involved in Public Private Partnerships, managing a £100m property portfolio and still looking after its GP clients.  Prior to joining Ashley House he worked in sales and marketing with an emphasis on setting up new ventures. In the 1990s he worked in the City for Thomson Financial Services and latterly the capital markets and Eurobond regulator ISMA. At Ashley House he is responsible to all stakeholders, clients, shareholders, employees, and trading partners for the continued commercial success of the business manifested in Ashley House’s consistent delivery of its commitments and promises.

Antony Walters
Finance Director

Aged 43 - Antony qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1992 and has an Executive MBA from Warwick University.  He joined Ashley House in February 2010 having held various management positions within Celesio Group / Lloyds Pharmacy which he joined in 1996.  Immediately prior to Ashley House, Antony was MD of Sapphire Primary Care Developments which Ashley House acquired from Lloydspharmacy in November 2009.

David Hartshorne
Chief Operating Officer

Aged 56 - David has been with Ashley House since November 2008, and is responsible for the operations of the Company. David is a Chartered Engineer by training and prior to joining Ashley House David has spent his career working on Infrastructure Projects most recently with John Laing where he established a successful NHS LIFT business amongst other projects.

Andrew Gibson, MBE
Non-executive Director

Aged 60 - Andrew began his career as a high-ranking army officer specialising in logistics. From there he went on to become one of the top performing chief executives within the NHS gaining the coveted three-star rating in every year it was published, initially as Chief Executive of City Hospitals Sunderland and latterly as Chief Executive of Newcastle PCT before stepping down at the end of 2005. He now holds a number of posts acting as a consultant to both the public and private sectors with approximately half of his time spent with Ashley House, which he joined in January 2006, where he is helping to lead the company's expansion into Clinical Services.

(1) Appointments committee
(2) Remuneration Committee
(3) Audit Committee

Jake Arnold-Forster
Non-executive Director

Aged 45 - Jake is the CEO of Dr Foster Intelligence ('Dr Foster'), a fast growing and highly successful 50:50 Joint Venture involving the Health and Social Care Information Centre (a special health authority of the NHS) and Dr Foster, a commercial provider of healthcare information. The JV aims to improve the quality and efficiency of health and social care through better use of information.

(1) Appointments committee

John Coghlan
Non-executive Director

Aged 52 - John is Chairman of Inchcape Shipping Services and a Non-Executive Director of DX Group, both private equity-owned businesses. He is a Director of Yell plc, where he is the Chairman of the Audit Committee. John is former Deputy Chief Executive and Group Finance Director of Exel plc, where he spent eleven years up to the time of its takeover by Deutsche Post in 2006. Prior to joining the Board of Exel/Ocean Group plc in 1995, he spent seven years with Tomkins plc in various financial roles, having joined them after eight years with Arthur Andersen, where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant.

(2) Remuneration Committee
(3) Audit Committee

Andrew Willetts
Non-executive Director

Aged 47 - Andrew graduated from Keble College, Oxford in 1985 with a degree in Modern History before going on to qualify as a chartered accountant with what is now PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1991.

Since then he has held senior financial roles in a number of companies in the retail and wholesale sectors, including Waterstones Booksellers, and most recently as Director of Shared Services at Hagemeyer (now Rexel SA), prior to joining Lloydspharmacy in July 2003 as Head of Management Reporting. Andrew was appointed to the position of Director of Financial Operations for Lloydsparmacy, effective 1st January 2005 before being appointed Finance Director Designate on 1st December 2006. Following a three month secondment to Celesio in Stuttgart he became Finance Director of Lloydspharmacy on 1st April 2007. He is also a trustee of the Group pension fund and had main board responsibility for Sapphire Primary Care Developments.

(3) Audit Committee

Steve Gray
Non-Executive Director

Aged 49 - Steve is Trading Director of Lloydspharmacy and is responsible for the end-to-end delivery of the service proposition to the customer, from product buying, clinical service development, property management and how the brand is marketed. Steve began his career in Finance at Britvic Soft drinks before opening his own retail and wholesale business in 1984. After seven years Steve sold a successful business and went on to hold various roles within Operations, HR, Logistics and Business Development functions at Our Price / WHSmith and multi-channel company Retail Variations. Steve began his career at Lloydspharmacy in 2004 as Regional Manager. He joined the Lloydspharmacy Board in April 2008 as Operations Director before gaining additional Board responsibilities as Trading Director in January 2010