Meet our leadership team

Andrew Trotter joined us as Chair in July 2022.

Andrew has 40 years’ experience of leading police services in London and Kent, having worked for British Transport Police for 10 years from 2004, serving as Chief Constable and Deputy Chief Constable. Prior to this, he served more than 30 years in the Kent and Metropolitan police services, including six years as Deputy Assistant Commissioner with the Met.

During his time with the police services, Andrew worked alongside London Ambulance Service teams, including for the 2012 Olympics and 7 July terror attacks.

Andrew has been Chair of Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust for seven years and will continue in this role. The Trust delivers community and mental health services in south east London and prison health services in London and Kent.

You can add Andy on Twitter: @andytrotter51.

To contact Andrew’s office, please email [email protected].

Rommel has a track record in finance, business transformation, technology, customer service, procurement and business development.

Rommel is a chartered accountant and retired as Finance Director of the Bank of England at the end of 2018. Prior to this he was an Executive Director of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme and Group Chief Operating Officer for the Metropolitan Housing Partnership. His earlier career included senior management roles at JP Morgan Chase.

He currently holds Non-Executive directorships at One Housing Group, Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and The National Archives.

Rommel is the Chair of the Audit Committee.

Sheila joined the Service in February 2017 and has over 30 years of experience at executive and board level in organisations including Norton Rose Fulbright, BP, Royal Mail, IBM and Deutsche Bank.

She specialises in delivering transformational change through the application of innovative technology solutions. She has managed international teams of 400 employees, delivered numerous complex change programmes and integrated diverse technology platforms in support of mergers and acquisitions.

Sheila spent a number of years in Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia providing consulting services to the Financial Services and Manufacturing sector. She served as a non-executive director on the board of Companies House and was also a member of the Audit committee.

Sheila is currently the Chief Information Officer at Deloitte and is the Chair of the Logistics and Infrastructure Committee and Digital999 Programme Assurance Committee.

With a professional background in HR and management, Dr Anne Rainsberry has 32 years’ experience working in the NHS at local, regional and national levels.

Before joining healthcare and life sciences consultancy Carnall Farrar as managing partner in 2017, Anne was London regional director at NHS England for four years where she led major service changes in the capital including the reconfiguration of cancer and cardiac services.

Previously, Anne was chief executive of NHS NW London and Deputy Chief Executive of NHS London and through her career has held a number of managerial NHS roles in London and the south east.

Anne was awarded a CBE in 2017 for services to the NHS.

Professor Brohi is a consultant Trauma Surgeon at Barts Health NHS Trust, Director of the London Trauma System at NHS England (London), and Director of the Centre for Trauma Sciences at Queen Mary University of London.

As a surgeon, Karim provides care for patients with vascular diseases and traumatic injury. As a scientist, Karim conducts research in the field of Trauma while supervising a range of researchers who are investigating different aspects of traumatic disease.

Karim studied Medicine at University College Hospital London.

During a career in finance and accounting spanning more than 30 years, Bob Alexander operated at board level across public sector organisations including the NHS, the Civil Service and Metropolitan Police.

He retired from the role of Deputy Chief Executive of NHS Improvement in 2018 but continues to perform numerous non-executive roles including Independent Chair of Sussex Health and Care Partnership; non-executive director of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, and non-executive director of Community Health Partnerships Ltd.

He has an MBA and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy.

Dr Mark Spencer has been a GP for 40 years and continues to enjoy clinical work.

He is also Vice Chair of the London Clinical Senate – the clinical leadership for strategy and assurance for quality of service changes across the capital and has had various roles at NHS England (London), including Deputy Regional Medical Director and Medical Director for Quality and Service Design.

He has also worked in Hospital inspection teams for the Care Quality Commission, has advised the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) on commissioning guidelines and has been part of the London Urgent and Emergency Care Clinical and Professional Leaders Group covering the whole of London for the past seven years.

As part of his new role at London Ambulance Service, Mark chairs the Service’s Quality Assurance Committee, which monitors the quality of patient care as well as encouraging new improvements and innovations.

Shera is a GP in East London and the former Chief Medical Officer at NHS Digital. She started the multi award-winning Shuri Network in 2019 as she is passionate about increasing diversity, innovation and safety and to encourage other women from minority ethnic groups to lead and engage with digital transformation.

Shera has held national leadership roles with NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care and led complex national and local programmes to improve patient outcomes and pathways. She worked at Barts Health, the largest acute trust in the NHS at the time as Director of Primary Care for six years, helping to improve patient care across organisational boundaries.

She is an international Fellow with the Robert Bosch Foundation in Berlin and has won awards for her contribution to healthcare, workforce development and EDI.  She has volunteered as a clinician with NGOs working in war and disaster zones.

Roger joined us in January 2022 and will focus on developing a strategic vision for our Service to build beyond our existing organisational strategy which comes to an end at the end of 2023.

In his most recent position at NHS England, Roger played a national leadership role in the development of the 42 ICSs, which now cover the whole of England and are set to be put on a statutory footing next year.

Since the start of 2016, he has worked with health and care leaders across the country on system transformation strategy and policy, system leadership development, clinical and professional leadership, local government and voluntary sector partnerships, public involvement, communications and stakeholder relationships.

Prior to this, Roger was Director of Communications and Head of Media and Public Affairs at NHS England.

Earlier in his career, Roger also held senior communications and public affairs roles at organisations including the NHS Confederation, the Care Quality Commission and the Confederation of British Industry.

He is also a Trustee at the English Football League (EFL) Trust, the charity overseeing the community organisations of the 72 EFL football clubs in England which run health and wellbeing initiatives across the country.