Expert Patients Programme CIC Board and Leadership

The Expert Patients Programme CIC board comprises of the following members:

Chair - Stephen Jacobs OBE

Stephen’s experience of working in health, housing and social care regeneration within inner-city areas and deprived communities spans 35 years and he was appointed to the role of EPP CIC’s Board Chair in 2006.

His vast experience has seen him occupy a variety of senior executive roles both in the public and private sector, including most recently, the volunteering programme manager at the Greater London Authority.

Prior to this, Stephen has also held the positions of director of the Canning Town & Custom House Regeneration Project at the London Borough of Newham, and Chief Executive of Stratford Development Partnership which included a 12 month secondment to the post of Director of Community Relations to the London 2012 Olympic Bid Team.

In addition to his role as chair of the EPP CIC board, Stephen’s other non-executive roles include board chair of the EPIC Housing Trust, a specialist housing association providing services and homes to a variety of special needs residents, and between 2003 and 2010, board chair at Whipps Cross University Trust Hospital - a large acute hospital serving the population of London Borough of Waltham Forest and the surrounding area.
 

Non executive directors

Renata Drinkwater

Since December 2010 Renata has been interim Chief Executive of the Expert Patients Programme CIC and was previously a non-executive director of the company, which she joined in July 2009.

Renata has over 25 years’ experience of providing strategic business advice at board level to commercial, public sector, and charitable organisations in the UK, Europe and the Middle East. Most of her career has been in management consultancy with global professional services firms. She spent some 11 years at KPMG, followed by seven years at Ernst & Young as the partner responsible for establishing and managing its European Leisure and Tourism industry management consulting team. She is currently a Director with the Business Transformation & Innovation team at Capita Symonds, part of the FTSE 100 listed Capita Group Plc, the UK’s leading provider of integrated professional support service solutions.

Renata has had a long standing interest in health sector issues, with a strong focus on the improvement of outcomes for people with long-term conditions. She is an elected Trustee of Diabetes UK, the largest patient member charity in the UK. Until recently she was a Non Executive Director of an acute hospital Trust, where she chaired the Improving Patient Experience Group. She is currently a Non Executive Director of NHS West Essex Primary Care Trust where she is a member of the Patient Safety and Experience Group.

Colin Webber

Colin joined the EPP CIC board in July 2008 after retiring from full time work when diagnosed with cancer. He brings with him over 30 years experience from the customer service sector. Before his retirement, Colin held several senior management and director roles within the food industry supplying food to Marks and Spencer.

Outside of his work interests he has been actively involved in many organisations including the CBI on the Yorkshire and Humberside Regional Council and as an Advisory Board member of Common Purpose, Sheffield.

Colin is married with two daughters and five grandchildren.

Directors

Colin Norman – Finance Director

Raised and educated in Guernsey, Colin left the Channel Islands to attend Lancaster University. After obtaining a degree in Economics & Marketing, Colin has had numerous finance roles in a number of industries including engineering, cattle breeding, technology and the retail motor trade. More recently, Colin has worked in private healthcare with two large chains of hospitals bidding for NHS work to add to their existing workload. Colin is Director of Finance at EPP CIC and is responsible for the Finance and IT functions