Executive moves

4ways Healthcare Radiology reporting service 4ways Healthcare has appointed Susan Veness as chief financial officer. Veness is a chartered accountant with experience across the biotech, housing, manufacturing and travel sectors. She was previously chief financial officer at Phlexglobal, a specialist technology provider, responsible for the delivery of financial planning, treasury and financial reporting. Before that, Veness was chief financial officer at Vivomedica.

Veness replaces 4ways’s current chief financial officer Richard Holland, who takes up a new role as head of performance and strategy support, responsible for assisting with the ongoing growth and development of the business.

Achieve Together Achieve Together, a provider of services for people with learning disabilities, autism and associated complex needs, has appointed Mike Parish as its new chair. Achieve Together was formed in 2018 following a merger of the two companies, Care Management Group and Regard, and provides specialist support services to children and adults

58 with learning disabilities, physical disabilities, chronic and enduring mental health needs, and sensory and communication impairments. Parish is currently chief executive of the charity, Care UK and is also chair of the Samuel Ward Academy Trust.

Achieve Together is owned by AMP Capital, an infrastructure investment company headquartered in Sydney, Australia, with a stronghold across the UK and Europe.

Executive search firm Compass Executives advised on Parish’s appointment.

Cigna Global health service company Cigna has appointed Arjan Toor as chief executive of its European operations.

As part of a company restructure, Toor will lead the newly-combined operational team which spans international organisations, European employers, and globally mobile individuals.

Toor joining Cigna in 2011 and previously spent two years as chief executive of Cigna International Organisations, Africa and Global IPMI – Cigna’s business for globally mobile individuals. ▶

He has also served as chief marketing officer for Cigna International Markets, based in Hong Kong.

Phil Austin, who previously headed Cigna’s European business, has been appointed as head of strategy and global business development for Cigna International Markets.

Cigna has offices in the UK, Belgium, Spain, Kenya, Dubai, the US and Malaysia. ▶

Inspired Villages Inspired Villages has appointed Ben Ling as village manager at Great Alne Park, one of its Warwickshire-based villages.

Ling joins the company from the hotel group Hilton where he was most recently operations manager for the Hilton Garden Inn Birmingham Brindley.

Located in Alchester, Great Alne Park offers 166 apartments and cottages in its picturesque grounds. Residents have access to facilities including a bar, restaurant, bistro, swimming pool, spa, gym, library and event space, as well as numerous sports and arts activities. The home also offers flexible, on-site domiciliary care services.

Kingsley Healthcare Kingsley Healthcare has appointed Jay Lambert and Daniel Wellings as data analysts. Lambert is a maths graduate from the University of Kent and previously worked for a company involved in the offshore oil and gas sector.

Wellings joins Kingsley after graduating in economics at Lincoln University.

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Ben Ling, Inspired Villages

Both Lambert and Wellings will be based at Kingsley’s head office in Lowestoft, Suffolk.

L&M Healthcare L&M Healthcare, which provides homes specialising in dementia care, has appointed Donna Miles to the newly created post of group training manager.

Miles has a degree in dementia studies and has written three co-authored publications based on her practice in the field. She has designed, implemented and facilitated a number of successful research projects which focus on innovation within dementia care and she has also developed a framework and training model called ‘Never Ending Story’

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She has also worked with Liverpool Hope University and lectured at Salford, Edgehill and Bangor Universities.

Legal & General Capital Legal & General Capital has appointed Ben Rosewall as head of investment within its later living team.

Rosewall will be responsible for increasing the scale of Legal & General’s later living portfolio, working alongside Phil Bayliss, chief executive of the later living team.

Rosewall has more than 15 years’ experience providing consultancy and valuation services to operators, investors and lenders across the healthcare and retirement housing sector and was previously senior director in the healthcare and retirement housing division at CBRE. The company has also appointed Dandi Li as investment manager. Li has six years investment experience in the hospitality and residential sector and was previously a senior associate at London & Regional Properties.

Liva Healthcare Copenhagen and London-based health tech company Liva Healthcare has appointed Jonas Hjortshøj as chief commercial officer. Hjortshøj has more than 10 years’ pharmaceutical industry experience. He was previously associate global director of commercial partnering activities at Novo Nordisk, responsible for developing a digital platform for patients and driving the company’s digital health strategy for obesity.

Jonas Hjortshøj, Liva Healthcare

NHS England Deborah Sturdy has been appointed as the strategic advisor for social care nursing at NHS England. The newly created post aims to ensure the voices of nurses in care homes are heard at the very top of the nursing profession.

Sturdy’s appointment is also in line with the NHS Long Term Plan, which aims to give care homes stronger links with local GPs and community services.

Sturdy will work closely with chief nursing officer Ruth May, providing her with advice from nurses working to deliver high-quality care for people living in care homes.

Nordic Capital Nordic Capital has promoted Daniel Berglund to partner.

Berglund joined Nordic Capital Advisors in 2010 and has since advised on several of Nordic Capital’s major acquisitions and exits including Bambora, Trustly, ArisGlobal and ERT.

Nordic Capital has a total of 20 healthcare and technology and payments companies in its current portfolio.

Octopus Real Estate Octopus Real Estate, part of Octopus Group, has appointed Marcus Adam as development director of its retirement team, responsible for underwriting, negotiating and coordinating the new developments for the retirement team, as well as overseeing the marketing of each development.

Adam joins from real estate developer Amro, where he spent two years as development director, responsible for the overall direction and delivery of developments in build to rent and purpose-built student accommodation projects in the UK and Europe.

The Octopus Real Estate retirement team partners with institutional investors, operator senior management and developers of retirement communities, helping to build modern fit-forpurpose retirement housing.

Last year Octopus Real Estate formed a joint venture with the real estate arm of Schroders to fund the development of four retirement villages with the Audley Group, a provider of luxury retirement villages.

Schoen Clinic Schoen Clinic has appointed Jasy Loyal as general counsel to its UK management board. Loyal has more than 30 years’ independent healthcare experience and was previously a member of the executive board at HCA International. n

Daniel Berglund, Nordic Capital