Non-executive directors
Judy Gillow MBE
Interim Chair
Chair of the Transforming Care Together Steering Group, Chair of the Appointments and Remuneration Committee
Date of appointment: 1 May 2025
Date of expiry: 30 April 2026
Judy Gillow is a nurse by background and completed her training at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London. She has had a varied career across the NHS following this and has worked in a range of clinical settings in acute, community, primary care and education. Roles have included director of nursing and organisational development at University Hospitals Southampton and she has also been a non-executive director at Dorset County Hospital.
Judy has been a specialist professional advisor for the Care Quality Commission (CQC), supporting hospital inspections and will be involved with helping to oversee that the trust meets the needs of its patients by providing high quality clinical care.
Helena McKeown
Date of appointment: 1 October 2023
Date of expiry: 30 September 2026
Helena is currently Medical Director (Professional Development and Quality) at the Royal College of GPs. Her background includes being Chief Officer and Board Member at the British Medical Association (BMA), a Council member of the World Medical Association and member of the NHS Equality Diversity Council. She has served on numerous partnership groups, including the Standing Commission on Carers and a period as an elected councillor in Wiltshire.
Sharath Ranjan
Chair of the people and culture committee
Date of appointment: 3 April 2023
Date of expiry: 31 March 2026
Born in Bangalore, India, Sharath completed a degree in hospitality from the University of Mysore and moved to the United Kingdom in 2004.
After several stints with Holiday Inn, British Gas, Centrica and Expleo (formerly SQS), he joined Hampshire Constabulary as a police constable in 2013.
Sharath graduated from the Fast Track to Inspector scheme run by the College of Policing in December 2020. He is currently a chief inspector with responsibility for missing, exploited and trafficked children, youth offending and education partnerships across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. Sharath is committed to adopting an ‘institutionally inclusive’ approach to promote equality, diversity and inclusion and in particular tackling race discrimination and disproportionality in policing. He was the previous chair of the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic support group - BEAM. Under his leadership, BEAM was shortlisted for ‘Outstanding Diversity Network - 2022’ award by Inclusive Companies - UK.
Sharath has been an independent governor on the board of governors for Solent University, Southampton since 2020 and is a member of Solent University’s governance committee. He mentors students at the university and is passionate about making a difference to people at pace.
Claire Whitaker CBE
Senior independent director
Date of appointment: 1 October 2023
Date of expiry: 30 September 2026
Claire is CEO of Southampton Forward, an independent charity with a remit across culture, including culture-led regeneration, festivals, events and tourism for the city, having previously led its shortlisted bid to be UK City of Culture.
Claire was an owner/director of international live music producers, Serious, for nearly 25 years. She has combined her executive roles with a successful career as a non-executive Director on a range of educational, philanthropic, housing, health and charitable organisations, as well as being a member of several high-profile advisory groups. She is currently a main board member of Aster Group Ltd, Chair of Aster's Customer and Community Network committee and a Governor of Arts University Bournemouth.
Claire's expertise ranges from the creation and delivery of ambitious cultural events and programmes, advising companies and organisations on equality, diversity and inclusion and the development of strategic partnerships with a broad range of stakeholders and communities. She is actively involved in policy development across culture, civil society and placemaking.
Femi Macaulay
Chair of the charitable funds committee
Date of appointment: 16 December 2024
Date of expiry: 15 December 2027
Femi Macaulay has over 35 years experience at senior levels in banking, insurance, health, education, and management consulting. He was Executive Director at JP Morgan Private Bank in London and New York, and Chief Marketing Officer of GE Capital in Switzerland. Other roles included Global Head of Marketing Operations at Zurich Insurance Company, and Director of Brand and Marketing at HSBC in the US and he UK. He started his career with PricewaterhouseCoopers in London in 1985.
Currently, Femi is chairman of Linacre College, University of Oxford. He has previously been Associate Non-Executive Director of University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust where he chaired the Charitable Funds Committee, served on the Audit and Risk Committee, and the People and Organisation Development Committee.
Femi is also a trustee and co-founder of Stuckton Adventure Centre, a charitable incorporated organisation based in the New Forest that helps young people reach their potential using practical outdoor experiential learning and adventure.
Femi graduated from University of Oxford with a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in Management Studies. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts (BA) first class honours degree in Economics.
Andrew Doe
Associate non-executive director
Date of appointment: 16 December 2024
Date of expiry: 15 December 2026
Andrew Doe trained as an engineer, obtained a First Class degree in Electronic Engineering from Southampton University and started his career at IBM as a Systems Engineer. He was then awarded a scholarship from Lord Sainsbury to complete his Masters in Business Administration MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau.
His experience ranges from hands-on leadership of some of the largest, global digital and eCommerce business units, through industrial-scale digital transformation programmes, to building and scaling VC-backed digital businesses as CEO, angel investor, non-exec director and Chair.
He has a successful track record of creating value globally for some of the world’s top VCs, Private Equity investors, corporate businesses in B2B and B2C sectors as well as the public sector, with particular expertise in retail, eCommerce, online travel and digital healthcare.
Andrew lives in Poole.
Tracie Langley
Chair of the audit committee
Date of appointment: 6 January 2025
Date of expiry: 5 January 2028
Tracie Langley has had a distinguished career as a senior strategic executive across both public and private sectors. She is a qualified accountant and has held a number of director roles across a variety of organisations and industries, most latterly as Chief Operating Officer and Finance Director of Cornwall Council.
Tracie has a deep understanding of how the public sector functions and how to overcome the challenge of the provision of quality services in a financially constrained environment. She has an ability to connect and grow strong collaborative relationships between health and social care organisations to best support the patient's needs.
Tracie lives in Dorset with her husband and is committed to ensuring that Dorset offers the best healthcare in the country.
Michael Marsh
Chair of the quality committee
Date of appointment: 1 September 2025
Date of expiry: 31 August 2028
Dr Michael Marsh joined the Board as a Non-Executive Director in September 2025, bringing with him a wealth of experience in the healthcare sector. Michael qualified at Guy’s Hospital Medical School. Most of his paediatric training was at the Evelina Children’s Hospital, at Guy’s Hospital where he was appointed as a consultant in 1995. In 1998 he was appointed director of paediatric intensive care in University Hospital Southampton before becoming clinical director of paediatrics and then divisional director of Women and Children’s Services. He was executive medical director in Southampton from 2009-2016.
Michael was medical director for specialised commissioning for NHS England in the London region from 2015 to 2019. In 2016 he was appointed as a non-executive director at Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust, a post he held until 2019 when he joined the Council of the General Medical Council. In 2019 he took up the post of regional medical director and chief clinical information officer for NHS England in the South West region.
Alastair Matthews
Chair of the Finance and Performance Committee
Date of appointment: 20 October 2025
Date of expiry: 19 October 2028
Alastair Matthews brings extensive senior strategic, financial, and commercial experience from across the NHS, higher education, and the wider public and private sectors. Before joining UHD, Alastair served as a Non-Executive Director at the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, where he had chaired the Finance, Audit and Charity Committees and the Integration Programme Board. His earlier executive roles include Finance Director and Deputy Chief Executive at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Chief Financial Officer at the University of Plymouth, Finance Director at Ordnance Survey and Chief Financial Officer at Computer Sciences Corporation. He worked as a Senior Manager with Price Waterhouse having qualified with them as a Chartered Accountant.
At UHD, Alastair chairs the Finance & Performance Committee and contributes to a range of assurance and oversight activities across the Trust. He is committed to strengthening financial governance, supporting operational excellence, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality, sustainable care for the communities served by UHD.
