About Us

CHAIR of COMPANY BOARD

Jonathan is an industry veteran. He was in the founding team of the UK’s largest privately held healthcare company, Circle Health and led two of the worlds’ most prominent health & life science consulting practices at PA Consulting and GE Healthcare. Jonathan presently serves as Chair of Birmingham Health Partners, which brings together NHS healthcare providers and universities in the West Midlands. In these capacities he has a first-hand understanding of the challenges facing global health systems. Jonathan currently assists with M&A strategy and origination for a range of Private Equity firms. He was originally educated as an epidemiologist.

NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & CHAIR OF ADVISORY BOARD

Aida is an executive leader with 25+ years’ experience driving excellence, growth and digital transformation in health, care and research. She has served as Chief Executive of HCAs Harley Street Clinic and The Portland Hospital for Women & Children in London. More recently, she has served as Chief Commercial Officer for Huma, one of the fastest growing European health tech companies. In these capacities, she has led commercial and operational team with >£100m budgets and teams of 1500 people. Aida is a qualified pharmacist and is passionate about healthcare provision, it’s management and the difference this can make to human lives.

INVESTOR DIRECTOR

Marta is passionate about how technology can improve healthcare. She spent 14 years living in the heart of Silicon Valley to pursue this belief, where she completed a doctorate in biomedical and electrical engineering at Stanford University, after which she joined the Biodesign community as a faculty member of the Stanford School of Medicine. In this capacity, she became the founding director of the Center’s digital health programs which she led for a decade. This experience in Biodesign led Marta to create Nina Capital as a way to invest in and serve a growing generation of European need-driven founders at the intersection of healthcare and technology to support their businesses’ international ambitions.

FOUNDER & CEO

Prior to founding Virtue, Robert was Head of Global Strategy, M&A & Alliances for Atos, ranked by Gartner as European market share leader for cloud & IT services in healthcare. Robert has 20+ years in digital health and medical device sectors, which are testament to his passion for improving lives with technology. He caught the bug at the young age of 19 when he designed a medical device to improve the lives of wheelchair users, which he took to market across Europe & North America. Robert has been named UK Young Designer of the Year sponsored by Audi, as well as being Highly Commended in the UK Young Philanthropy Awards, sponsored by Classic FM.

CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER

Dr Barlow (FRCP, MRCP, MSc MB, ChBwas) responsible for conceiving and pioneering the UK’s 1st and largest virtual ward for Covid during the pandemic. This treated >6,500 patients, for which he has received multiple awards and special recognition from NHS England. Dr Barlow subsequently developed further pioneering models of virtual hospital care for COPD and Heart Failure patients and is an appointed member of the NHS England National Clinical Steering Group for ARI virtual wards. He is a Consultant in Respiratory and General Medicine and continues to serve as Divisional Director for Medicine and as a Board member for West Herts Hospitals NHS FT.

DATA PROTECTION OFFICER

David is a respected NHS executive who has served at board with leadership of Digital & Transformation functions, with responsibility for major change programmes at Great Ormond Street Hospital and Tavistock & Portman NHS Trusts. David is one of only a few to hold an MSc in Digital Health from the NHS Digital Academy and Imperial College University and currently Chairs a portfolio company of the Alacrity Foundation - a digital health accelerator funded by Welsh government & Venture Capital. David has served in prominent roles for private sector, most recently as Director of Health and Life Science across Northern Europe for Atos.

VP OF ALLIANCES

Reza joined Virtue from Atos where he was Global Head of Consulting for their $1.3bn health and life sciences division - ranked by Gartner as #1 market share leader for cloud and IT managed services in European healthcare. In this capacity, Reza lead teams of industry experts focused on innovation, sales and delivery of digital transformation, as well as establishing the Global Automation practice. Prior to his tenure at Atos, Reza was an Executive Consultant at KPMG. He is a business transformation expert with deep knowledge of digital and technology.

TRANSFORMATION DIRECTOR

Dan has over 20 years’ experience in delivering complex digitally enabled transformation programmes in health and care, including 15 years at Cerner (Oracle Health) where he served as Consulting Director for Population Health across UK and Europe, as well as establishing their Consulting Practice for optimisation of Electronic Patient Records. Dan started his career as a Critical Care nurse at Kings College Hospital NHS where he went onto lead Operations for Cardiac Services. He still works once a month as an Intensive Care nurse at Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS. Dan is trained as a 6-sigma black belt.

CLINICAL SAFETY OFFICER

Rebecca has served as a Clinical Safety Officer nationally for NHS Digital and locally for Humber NHS Foundation Trust. In these capacities, she has been responsible for clinical safety for informatics for a multitude of programmes including prescribing data, integration of pharmacy into other care settings, Summary Care Record and Shared Care Records. She was Clinical Safety Lead for the Yorkshire & Humber Shared Care Record programme, during which she established clinical safety strategy and assurance processes.

HUMAN CHANGE LEAD

Angela is an experienced human change leader with over 30 years Project Management and Process Improvement experience in sectors such as Government, Aviation, Health and Oil & Gas . Along with training clients around the globe on behavioural change management, most recently Angela was the lead for Change Management training for the Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust implementation of their EPR programme Hive, and the Senior Business Change lead for the implementation of Epic in Northern Ireland.

HEAD OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

Chris is self-confessed geek who spends his spare time on technology hobbies. He is a technology leader who is comfortable with detail whilst maintaining an eye on the bigger strategic picture. He leads by example in personally spearheading innovation, whilst also leading our devleopment team in the collaborative effort of innovation and development. His experience includes >10 years of leading teams in medical device software development, as well as personal experience as a solution architect and back end developer.

WELLNESS OFFICER

Taslima serves at Virtue as PA to CEO but is also our nominated Wellness Officer, responsible for staff wellness. In this capacity, she leads initiatives to uphold physical, mental and spiritual health of employees. This includes a range of support resources and employment benefit schemes, directly intended to ensure that Virtue prioritises how we care for our greatest assets - our people.

ACADEMIC ADVISOR

Professor Dunscombe is the appointed member for healthcare on the UK Government AI Council, reporting to the Cabinet Office. She is a visiting Professor at Imperial College London’s Global Healthcare Policy Unit, where she formerly led the NHS Digital Academy which has trained >300 senior NHS professionals. She is associate digital editor for the British Medical Journal and most recently has joined Dedalus Group as Chief Industry Advisor. Rachel is the founding CHIME ambassador in the UK, as well as chair of the HIMSS UK advisory board. She ranked #8 on CIO Magazine’s CIO 100 list in 2018 as well as Talent Unleashed’s most disruptive CIO in Europe 2016.

NURSING ADVISOR

James is Chief Nurse Information Officer (CNIO) & Deputy Director of Nursing at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, in which capacity he is responsible for leading 27 virtual wards across North West London, spanning multiple NHS providers and specialities. His work being at the forefront of virtual ward development and scale, he is a frequent speaker on the domain. James is an innovative, delivery and results focused, senior nurse, with significant operational and corporate experience. He has a passion for building systems and clinical cultures which enable nurses to deliver the best care.

SOCIAL CARE ADVISOR

Mike is a serial entrepreneur who has built and sold several successful social care businesses to Private Equity acquirers. His exceptional grasp of the social care sector, having grown such organisations from grass roots, provides us with invaluable expertise, which enables us to design effective integrations between acute and social care sectors. Mike currently serves as Chair of Trinity Homecare Holdings and as Director of Optimism Heath Group, which delivers ophthalmology services to the NHS. He has recently served as Board Treasurer of the UK Care Association.

RESPIRATORY ADVISOR

Dr Sibley (MBChB, MRCP, MSc) is a Consultant Respiratory Physician at Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital who is nationally recognised as a pioneer of Virtual Wards - her work being the subject of multiple awards and publications. Sarah holds a number of leadership roles at regional level, including: Clinical Lead for the Cheshire and Merseyside(C&M) Respiratory Clinical Network, Senior Responsible Officer for the C&M Board, North West Clinical Lead for the NHS@Home Programme and British Thoracic Society Integrated Care lead.