Trustees

Sue Killen – Chair

Sue joined the Board as Chair in December 2021. She also chairs the representative body for community pharmacy in England and the Katie Piper Foundation. She is the former vice-chair of Clarion Housing Group. She was previously the CEO of St John Ambulance. She also worked for over 20 years as a senior civil servant including as a Director General at the Department for Transport and as the Director at the Home Office responsible for leading cross-departmental work for tackling drug misuse. She also led an independent review of children and young people’s palliative care for the Secretary of State for Health.

Dr Caroline Shuldham – Vice Chair

Caroline is a registered nurse with a background in critical care and cardiac nursing. She is an independent consultant, with experience in clinical governance, management, research and teaching. She is a non-executive director on the Board of Directors of RCNi (RCN Publishing Ltd of the Royal College of Nursing Group) and a specially appointed commissioner at the Royal Hospital Chelsea. Caroline is an advisor on care matters to the trustees of a charity which provides independent living accommodation and a care home for older residents. Previously Caroline was a non-executive director at a community care provider, where she chaired the Quality and Safety Committee, and was executive director of nursing and clinical governance at Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust.

Caroline has a strong commitment to the wellbeing and safety of patients and beneficiaries and to providing excellent care. In 2009 she was awarded an OBE for services to nursing and healthcare.

Richard Wilson – Trustee

Richard became a Trustee of Change Grow Live in September 2022. He chairs the Audit and Finance Committee. Richard is a Chartered Accountant and was for many years a partner in EY. He retired from EY in 2020. He has experience working across a number of sectors.

Richard also serves as a trustee at The Disabilities Trust, where he chairs the Audit and Risk Committee, and the Charity Go beyond where he chairs the Finance Committee. He is also a trustee of The Harpur Trust. Previously, Richard was a trustee at Victim Support and The Challenge.

Tim Sampey – Trustee

Tim has worked in service user involvement and peer-led services since 2005. He uses his lived experience to inform his work, as a previous Service User Co-ordinator for Kensington and Chelsea, and brief stints as both a Recovery Worker and a Drugs Awareness Tutor for Westminster Adult Education Authority. He is currently Chief Executive for Build on Belief and a steering group member for the College of Lived Experience Recovery Organisations (CLERO). He is passionate about embedding the voice of lived experience in the wider treatment system and developing peer-led projects in partnership with that system to improve the health and wellbeing of people struggling with a substance use disorder.

Deborah Rozansky – Trustee

Deborah joined as a trustee in December 2021. She is currently the Head of Policy, Research, and Information at the Social Care Institute for Excellence. She leads a team supporting improvements in social care through evidence generation, knowledge translation, and policy influencing. Her experience includes conducting research studies and leading complex change programmes for the government and the NHS, including recent initiatives in integrated care.

Deborah previously held executive director roles at the Office for Public Management, the Health Foundation, and the Royal College of Nursing. She began her career as a civil servant working for the Medicare and Medicaid healthcare programmes in the USA. She was educated at Harvard University and UCLA, and she is currently completing an MSc in Healthcare and Design at Imperial College London.

Her previous appointments were with charities providing health, mental health, and social care services, including alcohol and drug treatment. She is an advocate for improving care quality through co-production                                                                           with people who draw on services.

Craig Denholm – Trustee

Craig works as a consultant providing executive coaching to public sector leaders. He has extensive experience in developing and mentoring senior executives. Craig has also acted as an advisor during the development of public sector selection processes and the validation of new post-graduate level degree courses.

Before moving into consultancy, Craig served as a senior police officer, his last post being Deputy Chief Constable with Hampshire Constabulary.

He has a broad range of policing experience, both operational and in strategic development. He served as a chief police officer in three forces, including Commander in the Metropolitan Police Service. He led several national programmes, including the development of multi-agency mechanisms designed to support vulnerable individuals at risk of radicalisation into violent extremism.

Michael Vavakis – Trustee

Michael Vavakis has spent over 30 years of his career helping organisations to transform and create alignment between business strategy, culture, and business operations.

Michael has had an international career working in the USA, Asia, Australia, and Europe and has experienced the fast-paced environment of the IT industry in the Silicon Valley, as well by driving long dated economic, and social impact to cities and communities through urban regeneration agendas across major global cities working in the Property industry.

He has been a Chief People and Transformation Officer in a publicly listed company for over a decade as well as a Chief Operating Officer.

Michael has experience working as a non-executive director in the Australian chapter of UN global compact and in an advisory role with UK Charities including Cartwheel Arts in the North-West region of the UK. In 2023, Michael was appointed a Fellow (Enterprise Specialist) at the University of Melbourne, Faculty of Business and Economics. In partnership with the academic community, Michael is creating course content related to organisation strategy and leadership development delivered to corporate and executive audiences.

Jon Paull – Trustee

Jon has worked for the last 22 years building a number of successful energy companies, service innovators and disruptors across both Australia and the UK. Jon played a key role in establishing leading Australian energy suppliers Engie Australia and Alinta East Coast retail holding a number of senior roles across operations and customer experience.

Jon is currently the Chief Operating Officer of Octopus Energy Group.

He has played a pivotal role in building and leading some of the most awarded and customer obsessed teams and the architect behind Octopus Group’s famed operating model. Jon holds a Masters in Business Administration from La Trobe University and Chifley Business School.

Hamza Drabu – Trustee

Hamza is a commercial lawyer by background and the Head of Health at international law firm DAC Beachcroft LLP, where he sits on the Executive Board.

His experience includes advising NHS commissioners and providers, medtech and digital health companies, independent health and social care operators, and voluntary sector organisations on commercial and regulatory issues. He is a regular author of articles within industry publications, lectures on health law and strategy at NYU Law School and speaks at global conferences on the commercial and regulatory issues facing the future of healthcare.