David Cooke has a professional 40-year career, David has progressed from Chartered Accountant, from KPMG and CFO to a highly skilled negotiator and effective relationship builder and Non-Executive Director/Chairman. He has proved to be a versatile and invaluable executive; driving innovative strategies to stimulate commercial and profitable growth. His adaptability has allowed David a strong portfolio of success across a range of industries including construction, healthcare, education, and government services both in the UK and internationally. His unique understanding of problems and the ability to seize the solutions required to fix them as opportunities have made him an instrumental facilitator in not only rescuing businesses but also helping them achieve ambitious objectives. 

David was recently the former Chief Financial Officer at Skansen Group LTD and prior Director of investment Projects at Kier Group PLC. 

A dynamic Global ‘C’ level - Senior Business Executive and Non-Executive Director with a proven history of success pioneering high-level strategies, driving growth across the international arena. With over 30 years of industry insight, Peter has supported a diversity of boards, from private equity to public companies, by establishing robust governance frameworks, defining strategic direction and aligning financial and operational models to improve efficiencies. Both a visionary leader and adept communicator, he has negotiated multi-million-pound contracts, developed and managed strategic partnerships and mobilised multi-cultural workforces around the globe. An influential voice in the board room, has supported Executives with constructively challenging advice, ensured accountability at all levels and embedded consensus cultures to unite businesses under a shared vision and improve overall profitability. He is an accountant by back ground and also holds a MA in Finance.

Jinder has significant experience in supporting organisations in identifying and understanding the legal, commercial and reputational impact of their business decisions. She provides oversight to ensure that strategy is underpinned by sound legal judgement and that potential risks are identified and mitigated. She brings a proven track record of delivering results within a highly-regulated and scrutinised environments and is confident navigating organisations through complex legal and regulatory changes. She is now cultivating a portfolio of high level Non-Executive Directorships. 

A most recent role was that of Legal & Compliance Director for the Poundland Group, (a former FTSE 250 listed company) with a turnover of over £l.2 billion and 18,000 employees. Where Jinder during her eleven years with Poundland was an incremental part of the growth in the company. Poundland grew from 252 national stores to nearly 900 international retail stores, operating in the UK, Republic of Ireland, Spain, France, and Poland. Jinder's primary role had been to manage legal and compliance risk but this evolved to a more strategic role as Poundland went through some significant corporate changes over, in corporate terms, a very short period.

Chief Executive Officer:
Sebastian de Neergaard

Sebastian is a by trade a Chartered Physiotherapist, with expertise in Biomechanics and Rehabilitation. A passionate Athlete himself and award-winning Coach including that of professional martial artists and policemen applying for the Danish special anti-terror force (AKS). Sebastian is an ambitious entrepreneur, spearheading a high profile team with core specialties in various fields of finance, accounting, industry-specific experts and mergers & acquisitions. With a combined experience of 200+ years, 100+ transactions/deals, and raised £ Billions of finance this team is set out to create a new and dynamic healthcare platform in the UK. Sebastian is also founder and leading a team in an emerging Global Macro Hedge Fund.

Healthcare Governance Expert :
Andrew Vallance-Owen

MBE, DUniv (B’ham), MBA, FRCS Ed

Chief Medical Officer (P/T), Medicover AB
Chair, Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN)
Senior Independent Director, Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS FT

(recently, Group Medical Director and Chief Medical Officer, Bupa)
Andrew Vallance-Owen qualified at Birmingham University Medical School, later undertaking surgical training in Newcastle upon Tyne and Melbourne, Australia.

His career within the British Medical Association, BMA, started as Provincial Medical Secretary for the North of England followed by promotion to the post of BMA Scottish Secretary.  Latterly he moved to London to become Head of Central Services and International Affairs, a role which also developed into Head of Policy Development.  

He became Medical Director of Bupa Hospitals in 1994 and, in 1995, became Bupa’s Group Medical Director (Chief Medical Officer) where he furthered his interests in the quality of health care, clinical audit and the measurement of patient-reported outcome; he continues to be invited to speak on the latter at international conferences.  Reaching the age of 60, he retired from Bupa in March 2012.

Since leaving Bupa, Andrew has established a portfolio of non-executive roles in healthcare. He is Chief Medical Officer of Medicover AB (EU and India). He chairs the Private Healthcare Information Network, which analyses and publishes comparative data from the UK’s private hospitals and consultants and he is Senior Independent Director at the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust (a leading specialist cardiac and respiratory hospital). He also chairs the Scientific Advisory Board of ‘iamYiam’, a digital health promotion and wellbeing company.

He started working with UK Trade and Investment in 2011 when he became Chairman of UKTI’s Healthcare Business Group. He left that role and became the Specialist Medical Advisor to Healthcare UK from when it was formed in 2013 to January 2016. He has spoken for them in a number of countries and covered various missions to Brazil, China, Columbia, India, Libya, Mexico and Saudi Arabia.

Andrew was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to healthcare in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2014 and awarded an Honorary Doctorate of the University by the University of Birmingham in July 2012.

Operational Expert:
Martin Haines

Martin is an internationally recognised and experienced Chartered Physiotherapist, Biomechanics Coach, former Remedial Gymnast and Recreational Therapist with expertise in sports medicine, biomechanics, and rehabilitation. Additional experience as Managing Director, business owner and creator of start-up companies, provides Martin with a unique experience. He started working for the NHS, then he was head hunted to work for Arsenal FC and Crystal Palace FC before setting up his own clinic in London. Here he came to treat many of the world’s leading sports people and provided performance-enhancing programmes for 5 Olympic champions as well as the England rugby team, including many top-level amateur sportspeople. After 10 years in the clinic, he moved on to become the consultant to several sports/fitness/occupational health companies and worked with, among others, McLaren Racing team and the Police force as well as lecturing internationally. He then set up an education business, which was aimed at educating the global sports, medical, health and fitness markets. Martin then founded Brytespark, which is a Brains Trust with experts from throughout the world who work with him on consultancy projects.