Senior management team

Our senior management team is made up of Steve Ford, our chief executive, and 6 directors.

Steve Ford, Chief Executive

Steve joined Parkinson's UK as chief executive in 2005 after a career as general manager and chief executive in the NHS.

Under his leadership, we've made significant progress towards our vision to find a cure and improve life for everyone affected by Parkinson's:

• We've seen our income increase by 60% in 5 years.
• Our local groups now support 30,000 people and we have a UK-wide network of information and support workers.
• Our award-winning rebrand in 2010 saw the change to Parkinson's UK and a new sense of being a movement of people affected by Parkinson's.

Steve believes strongly that change is best delivered in partnership.

He's worked with the MS Society and the Motor Neurone Disease Association to establish Neurological Commissioning Support - held up by government as a leading example of third sector leadership in the new NHS.

Steve is also chair of the Neurological Alliance, an umbrella body of 70 charities representing 8 million people living with a neurological condition.

Putting people living with Parkinson's at the heart of the charity has created passion, urgency and determination. Steve believes that this is the basis on which the charity needs to drive forward to achieve our ambitious goals.

Directors

• Dr Kieran Breen, Director of Research and Innovation
• Val Buxton, Director of External Relations
• Paul Jackson-Clark, Director of Fundraising
• Carolyn Nutkins, Director of Organisational Development
• Richard Penney, Director of Finance and IS
• Barbara Williams, Director of Support and Local Groups

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