Meet our non-executive directors

Mrunal has over 20 years of experience leading large complex organisations and change programmes. Before becoming Chair at EEAST, he was Director and Co-chair of the National Network of Parent Carer Forums (NNPCF), a national organisation that represents the families of children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities.

Before joining the NNPCF, Mrunal was a director at Leonard Cheshire Disability and has extensive experience of the charity sector developing strategy and new services. Prior to this Mrunal was a director of strategic change management at Deutsche Bank.

Catherine's executive career was as a HR Director for over 30 years in the retail and biotechnical sectors. She was the Group HR Director at Genus PLC until 2018, and prior to that worked for 20 years for Tesco PLC, including as Group HR Director. In both roles, Catherine's focus was on leadership development, talent management, reward development and delivering change programmes. She brings experience of developing diverse and inclusive programmes to organisations.

Since 2018, she has had a portfolio career. She is a Board Director at two public limited companies: Renishaw PLC and The Works.co.uk PLC. Together with being a member of the Board of HFL Education, a social enterprise that provide education and business services to Hertfordshire schools.

Chris has had extensive experience of leading large-scale change and transformation programmes across both the telecoms and logistics sector. He has specialised in cultural change over the last five years with a focus on creating a culture of service to colleagues, customers and the community. This focus enabled growth through building a culture focused on delivering service excellence.

He is currently the HR Director for Kuehne + Nagel in the UK. Prior to this Chris held various senior leadership positions at BT within the Business and Consumer sectors driving cultural and digital change, as well as deploying major new product introductions.

George is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants. His executive career was as a Chief Financial Officer and Finance Director for over 30 years in the asset finance, banking and rail sectors. He was Finance Director at Rail Delivery Group until 2018, and prior to that Chief Financial Officer at Angel Trains Limited, initially as part of the British Rail privatisation team. Before which, he had been Group Finance Director for a Banking and Financial Services PLC.

Since 2018, George has had a portfolio career as interim Chief Financial Officer and Advisor on projects, including managing a cross-industry review on sustainable pensions and providing specialist evaluation services to the Department of Transport. He is a member of the Finance Boards, and chairs the Audit and Risk Committees, at both Ely Cathedral and Ely Diocese.

Julie trained as a nurse and specialised in District Nursing before a long career in NHS Management. She has held executive positions for acute, community and mental health trusts as well as for commissioners. Julie established her own consultancy company and has been working as an independent consultant for provider, commissioner and private organisations which have been awarded NHS contracts.

Julie is also a Trustee for the Patients Association and continues to provide management and development support on contract to NHS organisations across the country.

Susan is a Registered Nurse and has over 40 years of experience of working across multiple nursing portfolios within the NHS.
During her career she has held a number of senior clinical roles, including being a clinical nurse specialist, supporting and leading a team of clinical nurse specialists, a Divisional Head of Nursing , Associate Director of Nursing and Deputy Chief Nurse. She has worked across a number of Trusts, in 2020 she took up the position of Executive Chief Nurse for an integrated NHS Foundation Trust within Suffolk. During the first 2 years of her tenure she lead the organisation on the response to the Covid pandemic.

Susan retired from her Chief Nurse role in July 2025 and is keen to continue to use her knowledge and experience and pursue her ambition to support innovative, safe high quality care for our communities.

Victoria is Director for Health and Local Crisis Response at the British Red Cross, leading the implementation of targeted design and delivery of person-centred services and programmes in areas of high health inequality. Previously, Victoria held a number of strategic development roles within NHS England, including Head of New Care Models and Transformation Director at Eastern Academic Health Science Network. She was the Chief Innovation Officer at Brunel Partners Academic Centre for Health Sciences.

Victoria is also a Trustee at Brandon Centre, a charity delivering mental health and sexual health services for young people in North London.

We have one associate non-executive director who is not a voting member of the Board, but who provide additional advice and expertise to the Board leadership:

Omid is a portfolio Chief Information Officer (CIO), and has held executive technology and digital leadership roles in the private, public, and third sectors.

He holds a regional role as a member of the Mayor of London’s Data for London Board and had the privilege of setting up the London Office of Technology and Innovation (LOTI). Omid's current portfolio includes Trustee of P3 Charity and consulting/advisory engagements with LOTI, Croydon, Camden and Newham where he also acts as strategic advisor to the Mayor.