Non executive directors
The non-executive directors share responsibility with the other directors for the organisation. They have a particular responsibility to ensure the Board acts in the best interests of the public and is fully accountable for the services provided with the public funds it uses.
Non-executive directors can ensure the interests of patients and the community remain at the heart of the Board's discussions. Non-executive directors have voting rights on the trust Board.
As well as having corporate responsibility, the non-executive directors work closely with service directors, staff, service users and carers to provide a link between local people and trust management.
Overall, they provide a valuable role, giving a constructive challenge to the executive team where necessary and support when appropriate.
Before joining KCHFT and KMMH as our Joint Chair on 1st July 26, Colin built up 30 years of healthcare Board level advice and leadership. He remains Chair of Locala Health and Wellbeing, a large Social Enterprise providing community health and care services in West Yorkshire and Greater Manchester, being on that Board since 2018.
Until joining us, Colin was Vice Chair at Northeast London NHS Foundation Trust; a provider of mental health and community services that will be well known to plenty of KMMH colleagues. He was with NELFT for 5 years, including a 2-year stint as its Senior Independent Director and several years as Chair of the People and Culture Committee.
Colin’s previous professional career was a solicitor in private practice, the last 20 years of which with a leading healthcare law firm. Colin led legal and multidisciplinary professional teams on some of UK healthcare’s largest and most complex commercial projects, partnerships and procurement programmes. These covered acute, mental health and community services arrangements.
Colin’s heritage is Italian / British, he’s married to Lucy and they have 2 (occasionally) adult children. Colin has a broad range of interests and passions. On the sporting side, these include Surrey and England cricket and horse racing. Also, an enthusiastic amateur when it comes to fine wine, cooking, several genres of art and artists, live theatre and travel.
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Sean joined the Board in August 2020 as an associate non-executive director (NED) before being appointed as a non-executive director in September 2021. He retired from his role as the Kent Fire and Rescue Service, Assistant Chief Fire Officer and Director of Operations in March 2020. During his 33 years of service he progressed through the ranks developing operational and strategic experience and in 2019 he was awarded the Kent Medal for Outstanding Service.
In the Queen’s Birthday Honours list 2020 he was awarded the Queen's Fire Service Medal.
Sean previously held a National Portfolio with the National Fire Chiefs Council for the areas of Road Safety, Marine Firefighting and Dementia. Whilst holding the Dementia portfolio, he worked as part of the Prime Minister’s Challenge Group on Dementia with the Alzheimer’s Society.
Sean is the Chair of the Mental Health Act Committee and the Charity Committee, and a member of the Quality Committee.
Julius Christmas was appointed to the Board in December 2024 and brings Board-level expertise and experience in digital transformation, innovation, technology and cyber risk management to the Board. He is the Non-Executive lead for Digital transformation.
Julius has had a long career in technology and change working across multiple commercial sectors, including financial services, travel and healthcare. This experience has involved leading large-scale technology, change and transformation functions, as well as having accountability for the delivery of major technology-enabled change and transformation programmes, including major IT and data platform implementations, process digitisation and cyber improvement projects.
Most recently, Julius was Group Chief Information Officer at Saga PLC, where he was a member of the Executive Leadership team and led the technology and cyber functions. Additionally he has been an active “30% club” mentor and an industry board member and computer science curriculum adviser at the University of Kent. As well as his role on KMPT Board, Julius is also a Non-Executive Director and digital lead NED for Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust.
Kim joined the Board in August 2020 as an associate non-executive director (NED) before being appointed as a NED in November 2020. She has spent most of her career at John Lewis Partnership and for over 36 years she has worked across people, customer service, employee engagement, HR and business.
She was appointed Managing Director of John Lewis Bluewater in 2014. In 2007 she was appointed Partnership Board Director, and also as a member of the audit and risk and remuneration committees.
Her final role was to lead the pension review at John Lewis before leaving John Lewis in 2020 to continue to build her portfolio NED career in the public and private sector, including John Lewis Partnership, Central Surrey Health and Council Lay Member at University of Kent.
Kim has become the Chair of the People Committee.
Mickola joined the Board in August 2020 and is a non-executive director (NED).
She is an Executive Director at Seven Dials Fund Management, a real estate investment Consultancy and has a number of non-executive roles. She is a NED the Mailbox Investment Holdings PLC and an advisor to the Mercers Livery Company.
She is also a very active member of the Chartered Surveyors Livery leading a programme to support students from disadvantaged backgrounds through university.
Mickola is Chair of the Finance and Performance Committee and a member of the Remunerations Committee.
Stephen joined the Board in January 2023 and he has had a long and varied public sector career. At the Department of Health his roles included private secretary to the Secretary of State for Health, Head of the National Cancer Programme and chief of staff for a former Chief Executive of the NHS. He ran a whole health economy NHS reconfiguration programme in south west London, and led the production of the cross-Government Mental Health Strategy, ‘No Health without Mental Health’.
Stephen currently works on an interim, part-time basis for the Greater London Authority on health and care policy and partnership working.
Stephen recently stepped down from the role of vice chair of trustees for a leading national charity that works alongside people with an acquired brain injury and physical disabilities offering specialist community-based and residential support to help them live as independently as possible after a six-year term of office.
Pam joined the Board in February 2025 as Associate Non-Executive Director. She has extensive cross-sector experience. She worked for many years in local government before joining the NHS as a Non-Executive Director. This led to her taking up a substantive Director post for the NHS in Bexley. Following this as Borough Director she led joint commissioning, alongside public health and health improvement.
Finally, before leaving the NHS Pam fulfilled the role of Managing Director at NHS Southeast London Bexley Business Support Unit. In 2012 Pam moved to work in executive roles in the charitable sector, spending 10 years with Age UK and more recently supporting adults with autism and complex needs.
Dr Hammond is a multi-award-winning NHS GP and health columnist for The Voice Newspaper. She has a specialist interest in women’s health and mental health and is a passionate health equity advocate committed to improving healthcare accessibility.
She has experience in multiple leadership roles including Steering Group Member for the London Inspire Programme, Kent Community NHS Foundation Trust Health Governor, NHS Clinical Entrepreneur, Core20 NHS Ambassador, BMA EDI Advisory Group Member, and UN Women UK delegate. As a Trustee of West Kent Mind and Chair of its DEI subgroup, she champions mental health inclusivity. She also actively collaborates with NHS England and grassroots organisations to tackle health inequalities.
Kevin was appointed to the Board in April 2026. He is a Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Trust’s Audit and Risk Committee.
Kevin is a qualified accountant with a background in finance and investment management, advising pension funds, families and government institutions. As a former Chief Investment Officer and asset management executive, he brings strategic, commercial and risk management expertise.
He currently serves as Vice President of the University of Reading, where he chairs the Scrutiny and Finance Committee and the Investment and Development Committee. He has also previously served on its Audit Committee.
Kevin has a longstanding interest in mental health, shaped by personal experience, having lost his partner to suicide. He is a trustee of Mind, the national mental health charity, where he chairs the Finance, Risk and Audit Committee. He also chairs Suicide & Co, a charity supporting those bereaved by suicide.
Having just retired as the Chief Nursing Officer of the Southeast Coast ambulance Service (SECAMB) and with 40 plus years of working in the NHS as both a clinician and in Operations, I am delighted to be joining KMMH at this point of my life as a NED. My experience is wide and varied starting as a paediatric nurse but quickly moving across all specialities and disciplines. Initially starting as a paediatric nurse and then manager and clinical leader within Acute trusts, as a senior leader I also had the privilege of some very valuable postings within Community, Ambulance and Mental Health services in Executive, Director and senior leadership roles, as well as system-wide roles.
Patients and Service Users have always remained at the heart of what I do and what I strive to achieve, recognising that our colleagues (both employees and volunteers) are the most valuable resource to achieving high quality, safe and compassionate care.
