Our Charity Executive Committee

Katie joined St Andrew’s Healthcare as Chief Executive Officer in June 2018.

Her role prior was Chief Executive for West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust, where she successfully led a transition programme to steer the organisation out of areas deemed to be inadequate by the CQC.

Originally trained as a nurse, Katie has a long and distinguished record in improving the quality of care and enhancing patient experience. She established her career within the NHS, where she held a number of senior leadership and board level positions.

Appointed as a Trustee: 25 June 2018.

Dr Sanjith Kamath has been a Consultant Psychiatrist since 2007, working in both the NHS and the private sector before joining St Andrew's Healthcare in 2012. He has an interest in service development and is also a Founding Fellow of the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management. He also has a MBA.

Sanjith became Clinical Director for the Women’s Mental Health Pathway in 2015 and has been involved in developing new services including establishing our Women’s Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) last year. More recently, he has been heavily involved in implementing outcomes driven, value-based healthcare across the charity.

Appointed as a Trustee: 1 May 2018

Martin Kersey joined St Andrew's Healthcare in November 2014 from Rentokil Initial, where he had been Divisional Human Resources Director, responsible for business transformation, since 2011.

Prior to that, Martin held senior HR positions at Mediabrands, Mayborn Group, Burger King and Hertz.

Appointed as a Trustee: 17 November 2014.

Dr Vishelle Kamath completed her specialist training in old age psychiatry in Cambridge before working in the NHS as a Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist in Bedfordshire.

She was then appointed Clinical Director for Liaison and Older Adult Mental Health in Bedfordshire for three years during which she went through the Yale University Global Health Leadership Programme. She led the development and implementation of a commissioned liaison service across Bedfordshire and Luton during this period.

Vishelle joined the Neuropsychiatry team at St Andrew’s in 2014 as a Consultant for dementia and progressive neurological conditions and was appointed as Clinical Director for the Neuropsychiatry service in 2015.

Claire Carless joined the Executive Team at St Andrew's Healthcare in 2016 as General Counsel and Company Secretary. An accomplished lawyer and General Counsel, Claire has substantial experience in managing complex corporate and commercial projects, and ensuring effective corporate governance, for major global corporates.

Having started her career in private practice, Claire went on to hold senior roles in RWE and Vodafone. Her most recent position was General Counsel for Siemens plc in the UK.

Claire spent four years as a non-executive director for South Central Ambulance Service NHS Trust, and is currently a member of the Audit and Scrutiny Committee for the University of Oxford.

Alex joined St Andrew’s Healthcare in September 2018 as Director of Finance.

Her prior role was as Finance Director and Company Secretary for the MAXIMUS UK Human Services Division (incorporating both Remploy Ltd and MAXIMUS People Services Limited), leading in Remploy’s successful exit from DWP and transformation into a commercially focussed, employee-owned organisation.

Alex qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2002 and has worked as an Auditor in Private practice as well as holding leading finance roles in the not for profit, education and welfare to work markets.

Dr Ankur Agarwal joined St Andrew’s Healthcare in 2014 as Lead Psychiatrist for the Birmingham site, having been a Consultant in both the NHS and independent sector. He has a particular interest in innovation and the application of technology to improve patient care and outcomes. Ankur holds an MBA from Imperial College.

Ankur is also the clinical lead for St Andrew’s in the West Midlands Reach Out, an innovative partnership with the NHS which aims to improve service provision and outcomes for patients in the West Midlands.

Dr Katina Anagnostakis joined St Andrew’s from the NHS as a Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist in 2008. Her clinical focus has been in adult forensic mental health services, especially where there is complex co-morbidity with personality disorder.

She is a qualified Dialectical Behaviour Therapist (DBT), is actively involved in clinical research and has held senior leadership roles in medical education, medical regulation and with the Royal College of Psychiatrists. She has a record of fostering a creative learning culture to drive quality improvement and innovation.

Dr Roychowdhury joined St Andrew’s in August 2003 and is trained in both general adult and forensic psychiatry. His main clinical interest is in quality improvement of in-patient services, and he has published in major peer-reviewed journals and presented at key academic conferences on topics related to recovery, ethics, quality improvement, risk assessment and using technology to improve healthcare outcomes.

Ash has held a number of senior leadership positions including Lead Psychiatrist for Men’s Medium Secure Services and CAMHS secure services.

Dr Paul Wallang joined St Andrew’s Healthcare as a Consultant Psychiatrist in October 2012. He previously worked in the NHS, and since joining the Charity has worked on several wards caring for patients in both low and medium security.

Paul’s specialist areas are neuro-developmental disorders and early trauma. He is also the outcomes lead for the Charity and has an interest in Value Based Healthcare.

Tom joined St Andrew’s as Communications Director in February 2015.

He joined the charity from the BGL Group - owners of a number of financial services brands including comparethemarket.com - where he had been Associate Director, Group Communications since 2008.

Tom has been a communications and corporate affairs professional for many years, joining Accenture as a graduate trainee and then working for Diageo both in the UK and the Far East, where his final role was as their Corporate Relations Director, Asia Key Markets, based in Bangkok.

Tom also has overall responsibility for Workbridge, Voluntary Services and [email protected]’s.

Alex joined St Andrew’s Healthcare as Director of Estates & Facilities in June 2018. He is responsible for estates and asset strategy, hard and soft facilities management, project delivery and service delivery improvement.

A Chartered Surveyor, Alex has held senior roles within medical organisations including Nuffield Health, Virgin Care and BUPA Care Services. In addition he has worked at infrastructure businesses including Manchester Airports Group where he sat on the Divisional Executive Board of the Estates and Development arm.