Meet the Team
Executive Leadership

Professor Michael Sheppard
Chair

Judith Stewart
Commercial Business and Economic Development Director
Senior Leadership Team

Tammy Holmes
Associate Director of Commercial and Business Development

Jodie Mazur
Associate Director of Implementation and Improvement

Emma Suggett
Associate Director of Delivery and Partnerships

Rabia Gowa
Interim Associate Director of Delivery and Partnerships
Implementation & Adoption

Chris Clowes
Innovation Programme Manager

Anisha Leith
Innovation Project Manager

Anna Edwards
Innovation Project Manager

Blair Elliott
Innovation Project Manager

Jordan Leith
Innovation Project Manager

Joanne Terry
Innovation Project Manager

Sabeel Sajid
Innovation Project Manager

Joe Robinson
Innovation Project Manager

Mark Wroe
Innovation Project Manager

Deepa Dadhania
Innovation Project Manager

Victoria Savage
Innovation Project Manager

Philippa Richards
Innovation Project Manager

Kanwal Umar
Assistant Project Manager
Innovation & Commercial

Ellen Hughes
Innovation Project Manager

Fran Ives
Human Factors Specialist

Helen Hunt
Interim Senior Programme Manager

Joanne Mewis
Digital Enterprises Lead

Reena Sidhu
Commercial Enterprises Lead

Amy Kooner
Innovation Exchange Navigator
Safety & Improvement

Victoria Harrop
Assistant Programme Manager

Daniel Hodgkiss
Interim Senior Programme Manager

Caroline Maries-Tillott
Assistant Programme Manager

Nasrin Khan
Improvement Science Manager

Dale Jenkins-Lyons
Assistant Project Manager

Claudia Li
Assistant Project Manager
Corporate Services

Shaun Richards
Business Analyst

Gloria Karim
PMO Officer

Sarah Walsh
Communications Lead

Karen Stevenson
Communications Lead (Interim)

Hayley Jary
Digital Marketing Coordinator

Laura Simpson
Events Coordinator

Matthew Byatt
Office Manager

Haleema Ghafar
Admin Officer

Phil Aulman
Admin Officer

Onyeka Ogbunude
Systems Support Analyst

Prima Leung
Secretary / Supervisor
Management Board

Professor Michael Sheppard
Chair
Health Innovation West Midlands

Tim Jones
Chief Officer
Health Innovation West Midlands

Daniel Peters
Director of Innovation Implementation
Health Innovation West Midlands

Judith Stewart
Commercial Business and Economic Development Director
Health Innovation West Midlands

Amanda Risino
Corporate Affairs and Performance Director
Health Innovation West Midlands

Amy Owen
Secretariat / Associate Director of Operations
Health Innovation West Midlands

Neil Hanley
Pro Vice-Chancellor
University of Birmingham