Jane Ollis
Chair
Jane is an experienced Chair and medical innovator. She has 25 years of diverse business experience from interning at NASA to sitting on and advising boards of global companies, charities and government bodies. She is an environmental scientist and biochemist by training with a particular interest in how science and technology can shape tomorrow’s world. She is also an alumni of Sydney’s prestigious social leadership programme and a business fellow of Oxford University.
Jane has an extensive background in helping ambitious people grow their business and brings connections, inspiration, know-how and first-hand experience of what is takes to be successful.
Des Holden
Chief Executive Officer
Des Holden has been with the organisation throughout its first licence as Medical Director.
He was a consultant and the medical director at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust and then joined Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust (SASH) as Medical Director and member of the Board in 2011, a post he held until 2019 when the CQC awarded the trust an outstanding rating overall and in four of the six inspection domains.
Des is now Chief of Innovation at SASH and in addition to these two roles is a non- executive director of the Southeast Health Technology Alliance (SEHTA). He is an international advisor to Public Intelligence, the Danish organisation running citizen engagement and living lab co-design for new technologies. He is a visiting professor at the University of Surrey, in the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Science. Within the Kent, Surrey and Sussex Applied Research Collaborative bid to NIHR he has the role of implementation lead.
Zoe Nicholson
Non-executive director
Zoe is an experienced leader in health care, with 30 year career in health and social care in the Surrey and Sussex area. She co founded one of the largest health care social enterprises in the South East, growing the organisation from scratch to an award winning, CQC rated “Outstanding” health care provider.
She has practical experience of creating collaborations and partnerships at scale that put citizens in charge of their health care journey’s and achieve lasting impact on whole health and care systems.
Zoe is also a local Councillor and Leader of a council with experience in partnership working across local authorities in Sussex.
Fiona Craig
Finance and Corporate Services Director (job-share)
Fiona shares this role and leads the Corporate Services Professional Group with Nigel Lee.
She is responsible for corporate governance, human resources and workforce, facilities management, IT, business continuity and procurement and contracting.
Nigel Lee
Finance and Corporate Services Director (job-share)
Nigel is an experienced Chartered Accountant and has worked with KSS AHSN since early 2015.
He job shares with Fiona Craig and is responsible for Finance, Property and Company Secretarial matters.
He has advised many types of organisations ranging from multi-national quoted companies to smaller owner managed businesses throughout his professional life which included over 10 years of working at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Kate Lancaster
Non-executive director
Kate joined the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) as Chief Executive in March 2019, having previously held a number of Board Director roles in both the English and Scottish National Health Service, including roles at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS FT, Royal Papworth NHS FT and NHS Forth Valley. Kate also held senior leadership roles within Cambridge University Health Partners, an academic health science centre, and the eastern academic health science network where she built partnerships across the health service, industry and academia.
In addition to her Chief Executive role, Kate is a Non-Executive Director of the Kent, Surrey and Sussex Academic Health Science Network and until recently was a Trustee of Magpas, the Air Ambulance Charity.
Kate mentors a number of senior leaders, is a qualified leadership coach and is an Associate Alumni of the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.
Roshani Perera
Non-executive director
Roshani is an established healthcare management consultant with over 20 years’ experience working within the Life Sciences Industry, and across the NHS and charitable sectors. She has extensive experience in supporting blue chip companies, as well as healthcare start-ups, to bring innovative medicines and technologies into the UK and European markets. Her ambition is to drive social innovation and transformation in communities through innovative and collaborative approaches that lead to large scale, systemic and sustainable change.
She is a Trustee for Tackle Prostate Cancer, helping improve cancer care services for men living with prostate cancer. She also acts as a community engagement speaker for the Royal National Institute for Deaf People with the aim of increasing understanding of hearing loss, tinnitus and deafness.
Roshani runs her own healthcare consultancy and lives in Surrey.
Hatim Abdulhussien
Medical Director (job-share)
Hatim is a practising General Practitioner and Executive Medical Director for Health Innovation KSS and National Clinical Lead for AI and Digital Workforce at NHS England. In 2018, Hatim was a National Medical Directors Clinical Fellow to Professor Wendy Reid by the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management and he holds Membership of the Royal College of GPs and Faculty of Clinical Informatics.
Hatim is an Honorary Reader at Keele University, working with European partners to develop a Masters in Explainable AI in healthcare management. Hatim is also a member of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Technology Appraisals Committee. He has published in and speaks nationally on AI, Digital Health, Primary care and Medical Education.
Outside of work Hatim enjoys travelling and football, and you will likely find him touring England’s best restaurants with his family.
MaryAnn Ferreux
Medical Director (job-share)
MaryAnn has international experience working across both the Australian and UK health system, with specialist qualifications in health system leadership, management, and public health. She has been a medical leader in both primary and secondary care, and is passionate about improving the patient experience and delivering better integrated care.
She is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators, Australasian College of Health Service Management and Faculty of Clinical Informatics, as well as being a certified health executive and organisational coach. She has a special interest in researching health equity and the impact of the social determinants of health, her current research focus explores health inequalities in the NHS within the Kent and Medway region.