Governance

Joined the Board of Horder Healthcare in October 2016 and is Chair of the Finance and Resource Committee

Catherine’s executive career was in the Department for Business, which she left in 2005 to take up a number of non-executive roles. She led the Department as Permanent Secretary.

Since 2005, Catherine has built up wide non-executive experience at board level in the public, private and regulated sectors, including the Department of Health, the Civil Aviation Authority, United Utilities Group, and National Grid. She currently sits on the Board of Cadent Gas Ltd. and is a member of the Competition Appeals Tribunal. 

Joined the Board of Horder Healthcare in March 2023 and is Chair of the Board of Directors.

Following an executive career in banking and insurance, Sue has held a number of non-executive roles in the health, housing and charity sectors.  Sue chaired Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust from 2012 to 2017 before chairing Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust, based in Guildford, from 2017 to February 2023.

Joined the Board of Horder Healthcare in 2019 and is Chair of the Audit Committee.

Jenni is a Chartered Accountant and has worked in a variety of organisations within the healthcare sector including HCA (a large London based private provider), Eastern Academic Health Science Network (an NHS innovation agency) and previously held a Commercial Finance role at Horder Healthcare. In between these roles she also completed a Master of Business Administration at the University of Cambridge.

Jenni lives locally, has an interest in property development and enjoys travelling and cooking.

Joined the Board of Horder Healthcare in January 2018 and is Chair of the Clinical Governance Committee.

Amanda trained as a nurse at The Middlesex Hospital, London and has worked in the NHS for more than 25 years specialising in operating theatre practice, governance and quality and risk management. Amanda’s previous posts were as the Director of Nursing and Quality at the Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (2009-2015) and at Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (2015 – 2017) where an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ was achieved as a part of the 2016 CQC inspection.

Amanda is married, has three children, lives locally and enjoys travelling and felting.

Richard Tyler joined Horder Healthcare as Chief Executive Officer in November 2016.

Richard’s previous post was as CEO of Queen Victoria Hospital, (QVH) East Grinstead, where he achieved an “Outstanding” rating for patient care as part of the 2016 CQC inspection. Richard has over twenty-five years of healthcare experience in a wide variety of settings, the last ten of which have been at board level.

Richard lives locally with his wife Rachael and is a keen fisherman.

Joined the Board of Horder Healthcare in January 2018.

Born and brought up in the Tunbridge Wells area, David qualified in Medicine from Southampton University in 1977, and went on to specialise in Anaesthetics and Intensive Care. In the course of his training he worked in Wessex, Bristol and London as well as spells abroad in Sweden, South Africa and Zimbabwe, before returning as a consultant to Tunbridge Wells. Now retired he still works part time for the Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust.

For 20 years he had a leading regional role in Postgraduate Medical Education and served as Director of Medical Education for Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust and as Associate Dean for Quality Management for the Kent, Surrey and Sussex Deanery.

Married to a doctor, his interests include travelling, music, gardening and Alpine pursuits.

Richard McCarthy joined the Board of Horder Healthcare in January 2022 and is Chair of the Remuneration Committee.

Richard is an experienced Non-Executive Director. He is currently Chairman of the Smart Data and Communications Company (DCC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Capita which is responsible for developing and managing the UK telecommunications network for Smart Meters; Fera Science Ltd, a Capita joint venture with DEFRA; and Andium Homes, the Jersey Government owned affordable housing provider. He is also a Board Director of Funding Affordable Homes, a niche housing investment fund, and its subsidiary Funding Affordable Homes Housing Association.

Richard began his executive career in the housing association sector, where he held a number of roles including Chief Executive of the Peabody Trust and Chair of the National Housing Federation. He then moved to central Government in 2003 where he was the Director General responsible for housing, planning, regeneration, local economies and building standards. This was then followed in 2012 by a move to the private sector at Capita plc where he was an Executive Director of its Property & Infrastructure Division and then became Group Senior Director – Government Affairs.

Richard received a CBE in the 2009 New Year’s Honours for his services to housing and planning.

Joined the Board of Horder Healthcare in September 2022.

Jonathan retired at the end of 2021 after a long career with Kearney, a leading global management consultancy firm, where he led the Europe and Middle East healthcare practice for over a decade. In his career as a consultant he worked on many different projects both in the UK and globally across all parts of the healthcare system. His clients included governments, hospitals and community care providers, private health insurers, pharmacies, medical technology companies and pharmaceutical companies, with a particular focus on digital transformation and commercial strategy.  Jonathan also has a number of advisory roles with health technology start-ups in areas such as genomics and digital therapeutics.

Jonathan lives locally when he is not enjoying alpine pursuits in France. 

Joined the Board of Horder Healthcare in September 2022.

Diane is a consultant specialising in brand and marketing strategy, with experience in senior marketing roles, having held positions in a variety of private and public sector organisations, including Sainsbury’s, Barclays, Manchester Airport Group and The Open University.  Most recently Diane was Director of Marketing for BHSF, a not-for-profit provider of corporate healthcare services, with a remit to transform the organisation to become more customer focused and marketing led.

Diane holds a first-class degree in Psychology and has provided brand and marketing consultancy to a range of charities.  She is currently a Trustee of two Midlands based education charities, EmployabilityUK and Godiva Awakes Trust.

Diane moved to Sussex in 2020 to spend more time with family and go walking with her puppy.  She enjoys interior design and travelling, including to her holiday home in Spain.

Joined the Board of Horder Healthcare in September 2022.

Martin currently acts as a Trustee and Audit & Risk Committee Chair for the Chichester College Group of Sussex further education colleges, having previously acted as Chair of the Finance Committee at the GBMET group prior to its merger with Chichester College Group. In recent years Martin has Chaired Audit and Risk committees at a leading prep school and an art therapy teacher training organisation. He also currently acts as Chair for a local charity providing supported accommodation.

Martin qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1973 with KPMG London. After 25 years working in senior finance positions with US multinationals in the financial services and technology sectors, he joined a private equity funded technology start up in the mortgage sector. Following this he established his own consultancy business to provide financial consultancy services to the renewable energy, fintech and pharmaceutical sectors.

Martin lives near Forest Row in Sussex and is married to Patricia a retired special needs teacher, they have two children now living in London and Singapore. His interests include sports, mainly golf, tennis and skiing, gardening and music.   

Joined the Board of Horder Healthcare in September 2022.

David has held positions in the NHS continuously since 1974.  David has worked as a Consultant (in three Trusts), Chief Executive, Medical Director (in four Trusts), and Non-Executive Director (three Trusts) in that time, as well as spending time as a Chair in the Charity Sector, a Specialist Advisor to the Care Quality Commission, a Medical Appraiser for NHS England and a Medical Director for BUPA in the Private Healthcare Sector.

David has worked in diverse organisations from South Yorkshire to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, the Cromwell Hospital in Knightsbridge and NHS Blood and Transplant in senior roles. He is currently a Non-Executive Director at Southern Health Foundation Trust, one of the largest mental health providers in the country.

David wishes to bring the insights he has gained so far to contribute to Horder and help bring about change that result in the best of safe care and positive experience for patients, families, carers and staff.

In his spare time David enjoys Grandparenting, football and gardening.