Executive Team

Education for Health is led by our Chief Executive, supported by our Executive Team, also identified as the Senior Leadership Team.

Richard Brown
Chief Executive Officer

Richard Brown has worked within the third sector since 1996, when he started his journey at The Big issue in the North. He rose to managing director of the company and chief executive officer of the charity (The Big Issue in the North Trust) and oversaw a period of financial growth, enabling the organisation to work with more homeless people, providing them with the skills to move away from a life on the streets. During this time, he was also the inaugural manager of the England Homeless World Cup team, taking various squads of players to competitions all over the world and working with more than 1,000 people over an eight-year period
Following this came the opportunity to lead Listening Ear, a mental health counselling organisation based in Merseyside. This included developing the largest suicide bereavement support service in the UK, providing timely support to people bereaved by suicide.
With significant experience of people and operational development, Richard will enjoy the challenges that will enable Education for Health to thrive.

Jackie Moore
Director of Finance and Operational Efficiency (Company Secretary)

Jackie has over 20 years experience working in financial roles. She graduated from the University of Warwick with a degree in Maths, Operational Research, Statistics and Economics and worked abroad for several years whilst gaining her CIMA qualification. She spent the early part of her career working for large corporate organisations such as Hewlett-Packard, IBM and National Grid before joining the charity sector where she worked in education.  She has also held various trustee roles with charities and not for profit organisations before joining Education for Health.

Dr Vanessa Williams
Director of Learning Design and Quality

Vanessa has over ten years’ of experience in higher education, with a particular focus on adult learners and professional training. Her former roles include Assistant Dean of New Programs at Rutgers Law School in New Jersey and Assistant Director of Off-Campus Programs and Training at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She has taught a range of classes at the undergraduate level as well as for continuing professional development education programmes. Vanessa is particularly interested in student-centred learning and equitable access to education.

Preeti Minhas
Director of Clinical Development

Preeti oversees Education for Health’s clinical portfolio, and works with charities and industry partners to develop our programmes ensuring we deliver quality outcomes for patients. Preeti is a pharmacist and Independent Prescriber, a member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, and has completed her PG certificate in Learning & Teaching in Clinical Practice, and a PG certificate in Advanced Pharmacy.

Preeti also takes a lead role in representing the organisation in clinical groups, committees and service development pathways. More recently Preeti has been appointed to the London Asthma Leadership and Implementation Group, and has been elected for a second term as the Co-chair of the Alliance for Heart Failure. She is also involved in several research projects and publications, and is active in raising awareness of the impact of long term conditions with government.