Trust Board Members
Non-Executive Directors
Amanda Gibbon, Trust Chair
She is also a Non-Executive Director of the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust since April 2021 where she is the Senior Independent Director.
Junaid Bajwa, Non-Executive Director
He co-founded “VelocityHealth” as Europe’s first prevention-focused digital-health accelerator, in partnership with Telefonica, and led his team to deliver the "NHS Testbed" in partnership with Verily Life Sciences (part of Alphabet) which the Health Service Journal recognized as the "Best Pharmaceutical Partnership with the NHS” in 2018. Junaid has worked across primary care, secondary care, and public health settings in addition to acting specialising in informatics, digital transformation, and leadership.
He has consulted for health care systems across the US, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and Europe, in addition to being seconded by the NHS to work with IBM. Junaid completed his MBA at the Imperial College Business School in London and has studied health strategy and quality improvement at both Harvard and the Institute of Healthcare Improvement in Boston. Academically, he is a Clinical Associate Professor at UCL, and Visiting Scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health. Junaid is also a Non-Executive Director at University Hospitals London NHS Foundation Trust.
Professor Mark Emberton, Non-Executive Director
Mark Emberton is Professor of Interventional Oncology within the Division of Surgery and Dean of the Faculty of Medical Science at University College London. He is clinically active and holds the position of Honorary Consultant Urologist at University College London Hospitals NHS Trust where he works as a specialist in prostate cancer.
His academic work has focused on developing novel diagnostic strategies and new therapies for men with prostate cancer. His research has resulted in the transformation of both the diagnostic and therapeutic pathways. These have been incorporated into international guidelines.
He has published over 500 peer review papers, holds a large grant portfolio, and lectures widely around the world and holds international honorary professorships.
He is a founding Pioneer of the charity Prostate Cancer UK.
Nailesh Rambhai, Non-Executive Director
Baroness Glenys Thornton, Non-Executive Director
Rob Vincent CBE, Non-Executive Director
In the NHS, he previously served as Deputy Chair of Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust. At Whittington Health, Rob is Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee and is lead Non-Executive Director in support of the Freedom to Speak up Guardian. In October 2020 Rob also joined the Board of University College Hospitals London NHS Foundation Trust where he chairs the Workforce Committee.
Executive Directors
Selina Douglas, Chief Executive Officer
Ms Rantimi Ayodele, Chief Medical Officer
Ms Rantimi Ayodele joined Whittington Health as Chief Medical Officer in May 2026.
A paediatric orthopaedic surgeon and senior medical leader with extensive experience across acute and system leadership, she joined Whittington Health from King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, where she was the Deputy Chief Medical Officer.
She has held a number of senior roles including Medical Director for Strategy and Healthcare Equity, Interim Chief Medical Officer, and Site Medical Director at the Princess Royal University Hospital.
She brings a values-led, clinically grounded approach to leadership, with a focus on quality, equity, and creating conditions in which staff can thrive and provide quality, compassionate, and timely care to patients.
Anna Bokobza, Chief Strategy Officer
Anna Bokobza has extensive experience spanning acute, community and mental health services, informed by senior leadership roles at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, alongside an earlier career in strategy consulting with KPMG and iMPOWER Consulting.
Throughout her career, Anna has worked at the interfaces between hospital services, community provision, primary care, adult social care and the voluntary sector, leading complex transformation programmes that deliver more integrated, person-centred care.
Anna was previously Director of Strategy at Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust.
Living in North Central London with her family and serving as a trustee of North London Hospice since 2022, she brings a strong local connection and a deep understanding of the communities the organisation serves.
She is strongly committed to social impact and addressing the wider determinants of health, and is a visible champion of inclusive leadership, actively supporting working parents and others with caring responsibilities to thrive in all roles.
Tina Jegede MBE, Joint Director of Inclusion
Giovanna Leeks, Chief People Officer
Giovanna joined us from The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust, where she was Chief People Officer. She has over 20 years of experience and knowledge of people-led initiatives including recruitment; workforce and performance management; staff wellbeing and employee relations, from both private and NHS organisations.
Her NHS career started in human resources (HR) as the first head of HR for NHS England (NHSE) Midlands and East in 2013. She has since undertaken a variety of contracts in the NHS across London and the east of England including at Kingston Hospital, Royal Free London Group, Hertfordshire Community Trust and Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, with contracts in the private sector including FTSE100 and small and medium-sized enterprises organisations.
Ellis Pullinger, Interim Chief Operating Officer
Ellis has over 20 years of operational management experience in the acute hospital sector. He is an experienced Chief Operating Officer who has held this position at several other trusts including Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He joins us this week from Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust.Swarnjit Singh, Joint Director of Inclusion
Terry Whittle, Chief Finance Officer and Deputy CEO
Terry took up his post in November 2023. He joined the Trust from Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust where he has worked as Director of Finance since 2021. Prior to joining Milton Keynes, he was Director of Financial Performance for the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. Terry began his NHS career with the NHS graduate programme and has subsequently held a number of senior finance roles including Head of Finance for NHS Improvement in London, as well as in a national capacity for the Department of Health and Social Care in England.
Sarah Wilding, Chief Nurse and Director of AHP
Board Members Declarations of Interest
The public rightly expect the highest standards of behaviour in the NHS, and we take our responsibility as custodians of taxpayers’ money very seriously. Decisions involving the use of NHS funds should never be influenced by outside interests or expectations of private gain, but we recognise that conflicts of interest are unavoidable in complex systems.
That is why we publish a Declaration of Interests for our Board Members, downloadable below:
