Our trustees
Our Board of Trustees is responsible for shaping the strategy and direction of Macmillan. We meet regularly to ensure our policies and strategies help us be there for people with cancer.
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He was Chair of University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust from 2010 to 2017. He is also a Senior Adviser at Rothschild, Chair of United Trust Bank Ltd and a Director of UTB Partners Ltd.
Previous roles include Director General of the Panel on Takeovers and Mergers (2003-2005) and positions at Linklaters & Paines, Kleinwort Benson Limited and Goldman Sachs International.
Richard is also Chair of UCL Partners Ltd, a member of the Medical Research Council and a Trustee of the Royal Society of Medicine and of Epilepsy Society.
Richard is married with three children and lives in London.
Iain was Chairman of St James';s Place plc from 2011 to 2021 and also spent three years as Chairman of Shawbrook Bank. He was a founding member of the Prudential Regulatory Authority Board from its formation in 2013 until 2015.
Iain is married with two children and lives in Yorkshire.
Jag joined the Board in April 2017 and chairs Macmillan’s Charitable Expenditure Committee. He is currently the Chief Clinical Officer at the Eastern Academic Health Science Network and a Fellow in Health Management at the Cambridge Judge Business School, from where he holds an MBA. He is also a non-executive director of the Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, where he chairs a number of committees, including the Trust’s Clinical Ethics Committee.
Prior this, Jag worked for Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) as Executive Medical Director and then Director of Digital. He previously practised as a Consultant Neonatologist, having qualified in medicine in 1986 from Cambridge and London. He completed postgraduate training in neonatology in Cambridge and Melbourne.
Jag is married with 3 grown-up children and lives in Cambridge.
Jane joined the Board in 2014, and is a member of the Charitable Expenditure and Remuneration Committees. A registered nurse specialising in emergency care, Jane has held a wide variety of clinical and managerial roles, including as Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) for England from 2012 to 2019. From May 2020 to June 2021, Jane was a senior advisor in the Department of Health and Social Care, supporting the response to the covid-19 pandemic.
Jane is also a clinical Ambassador for the children’s charity Over the Wall, Clinical Adviser for Perfect Ward, and Chair of the Royal College of Nursing Foundation. In April 2020 she was appointed as a Trustee of the Covid-19 Health Care Support Appeal, a subsidiary of the RCN Foundation.
Kate joined Macmillan’s Board in October 2019, and sits on the Fundraising Marketing & Communications Committee. She is currently Executive Director at MSQ Partners, and honorary secretary of the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA) where she is also a Fellow and as well as a member of the Marketing Group of Great Britain and The Marketing Society.
Kate’s previous board-level roles include Exec Director & Chief Growth Officer Dentsu Aegis Network UK&I, Regional President FCB Europe, Board CMO Gala Coral Group, and MD Leo Burnett London.
Kate lives in London.
Mohammed joined Macmillan's Board in October 2019, and is a member of the Charitable Expenditure Committee. He is currently a non-executive director of both Hafren Dyfrdwy (Severn Dee) and Public Health Wales, and has many years' experience of local government in England and Wales. Mohammed’s previous roles include Chief Executive of Denbighshire and Powys County Councils, Director of Children’s Services at Peterborough City Council, and Director of Regeneration and Education at Islington Borough Council.
Previously he worked at BP plc for 27 years, most recently as Group Vice President in Communication and External Affairs.
Mark is married with three children and lives in London.
A passionate diversity and inclusion champion, Rachel sponsors a number of global development programmes for women and the LGBTQ+ community. She has wide-ranging governance experience from her corporate career and being on the boards of several charities, advisory and industry bodies.
Rachel also serves as Chair of the Board of Trustees of FACT, the UK's leading digital arts charity that believes in enriching lives and shaping the future through film, art and creative technology.
Nick is business Chair of the Professional & Business Services Council, which works with the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy to drive the UK’s growth agenda. Nick is also a Trustee of Teach First, chairing their Business Leaders’ Advisory Council, and is a Council member of Heart of the City.
Nick is married with 4 children and lives in Surrey.
Jean co-leads the Integrated Cancer Medicine theme and the Breast Programme in the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre. Jean is deputy theme lead for Cancer at the Cambridge NIHR Biomedical Research Campus. She is Chief Investigator of eight national/regional trials. She received a National CRUK PhD Fellowship, receiving her PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2011.
Her research aims to use multi-modal data integration to develop predictive and prognostic tools to provide individualised treatment for breast cancer patients.
