EXECUTIVE MOVES
executive moves Caresolve Care sector consultancy Caresolve has appointed Maxine Parry as a new regional director, responsible for overseeing the day-to-day management of the company. Parry was previously a senior consultant at the Warrington-based company, which she joined in in 2016. Caresolve was established in 2011 and provides strategic and operational support to care home operators and their investors. The company also works closely with local authorities, the Care Quality Commission, insolvency practitioners, banks, sales agents and solicitors. It also undertakes management contracts for investors and providers, as well as having experience in achieving the turnaround of many care homes.
Castleoak Later living and care development company Castleoak has made two board-level appointments. Kate Still has been appointed as chief operations officer, focusing on the business’s performance and organisational development, responsible for all non-financial aspects, including people; customer satisfaction; communications; supply chain management; and health, safety and environmental management. Still was previously chief operations officer at Citizen Housing with responsibility for 850 staff, 30,000 properties and revenue of more than £150 million. She has worked with some of the UK’s largest social housing companies and was previously national housing director at Sanctuary Group. With a background spanning finance, housing maintenance, social enterprise, local government and management consultancy, Still has over 20 years’ experience as a business strategist and operations leader with a focus on innovation, continuous improvement and transformational change.
Maxine Parry, Caresolve
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Lisa Gledhill also joined Castleoak as managing director, developments with responsibility for the company’s development business and joint ventures. Gledhill has more than 25 years’ experience as a development and construction leader and a background spanning real estate, infrastructure and property development, investment, construction and consultancy. She started her career with Arup, spending her first 10 years in technical, digital and project management roles. After gaining financial qualifications, she moved to Laing O’Rourke and then to Lendlease, working in investment, construction and development roles, latterly leading major mixed-use redevelopment schemes in London and Singapore. She is the non-executive director and chair at EdCity Development, a not-for-profit development which aims to create an education and charity hub in White City, London. Gledhill is also a chartered engineer.
EY EY has appointed Sylvester Oppong as head of healthcare services M&A in its life sciences and healthcare corporate finance team in the UK. He will be responsible for originating and executing transactions across the UK healthcare sector at EY, and leveraging the firm’s global reach to introduce international opportunities to clients. Oppong will work within EY’s corporate finance team led by Fraser Greenshields and alongside David Scourfield in the life sciences and healthcare corporate finance team. Scourfield and Oppong’s team advises entrepreneurs, management teams, corporates (including founder-managed businesses) and private equity firms within the life sciences and healthcare sectors. Oppong was previously head of healthcare M&A and a corporate finance partner at Smith
Kate Still, Castleoak
Square Partners. He has more than 16 years’ corporate finance experience with a focus on the healthcare services sector during the past 10 years.
GK Strategy Strategic research and communications agency and due diligence provider GK Strategy has appointed former Conservative MP and health minister Alistair Burt and ex-Financial Conduct Authority chair John Griffith-Jones as strategic advisors. The pair have been appointed to bolster GK’s political, policy and regulatory offer to the private equity sector. They join the former Liberal Democrat education and treasury minister David Laws and Labour’s former care minister Phil Hope on the agency’s advisory team. Burt served as minister of state for care at the Department of Health, overseeing primary and community care and mental health. He has held several ministerial roles over a 33year career as an MP, including at the Foreign Office, the Department for International Development and the Department for Social Security. He left the government and stepped down from Parliament last year. Griffith-Jones was the inaugural chair of the FCA from 2013 to 2018. He was previously UK chairman and senior partner at KPMG. GK advises investors and management teams on both sell-side and buy-side in a transaction process, and has provided political due diligence and environmental, social and corporate governance advice on more than 325 deals worth over $15 billion across a range of sectors. GK also works with investorbacked businesses and public providers on their communications strategies and engagement with policy-makers, providing support in the political and regulatory environment to mitigate risk and create value.
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Lisa Gledhill, Castleoak
HealthInvestor UK • September/October 2020
