Our Board
Alan McNab
Alan joined the Board of Trustees in 2022 and has lived in Richmond Borough for 30 years. His career was in the retail energy sector delivering customer-led improvement initiatives in many markets globally. Also a trustee at Age UK and Outward Housing based in Tottenham Hale, he is committed to reducing inequality, improving quality-of-life and enabling appropriate living-independence for each individual in the community.
Annette Arnold
Annette has lived in Richmond for over 25 years. She is a pharmacist by background, having worked for over 35 years in the UK, across the NHS and independent hospital sector. Latterly in senior management, consultancy and the implementation of health system innovations and service integration within the NHS.
Annette has an interest in combining her healthcare experience with an interest in improving patient and public involvement in the co-design of health and social services. As a Healthwatch Trustee and volunteer, she brings past charity sector involvement, experience of working across wide socio-economic demographics, serving on patient safety, patient experience, quality and governance committees, and ‘lived experience’ as a carer.
Anne Marimurthu
Treasurer and Trustee
Dugald Millar
Dugald was born at Hampton Court and has been a Richmond resident all his life. Dugald trained as a social worker after a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics. He spent forty years in the care sector including in Hounslow, Wandsworth, Hillingdon, Wiltshire and Slough. Responsibilities included service delivery and commissioning, and he specialised in integrated approaches across health and social care.
He has a strong commitment to the importance of the patient voice in planning and monitoring services. He sat on three government working groups on Quality and on End of Life care. He began his career working for a refugee charity and other charity work includes being a Trustee of local charity INS.
James Hunt
James initially joined Healthwatch Richmond Governance Committee before becoming a member of the Board. James does not have any direct experience within the world of Health & Social Care but with his background in HR combined with his MSc in Psychology, James will bring a different perspective to the Board.
Joe Hill
Joe grew up in Richmond, and moved back to the area in 2020 - he currently lives in Twickenham. He worked as a civil servant and policy adviser in Westminster for seven years, before moving to a technology company which works with clients across the public sector. Prior to joining Healthwatch, Joe was a trustee of Richmond Borough Mind.
Lynda Crellin
Lynda has been a resident of Richmond Borough for over fifty years. She raised her family here and has made full use of local services. She therefore has a strong commitment to ensuring user views are reflected in the development and improvement in those services.
Lynda spent her working life in Local Authority children’s social care and worked in several London Boroughs. Her final position was Assistant Director Childrens Social Care. Since leaving full time work she chaired Children and Adult Safeguarding Boards and Case Reviews. She is now retired but volunteers for a local charity working with young children.
Phil Bunnell
Phil is a long term resident of Richmond Borough. He initially qualified and worked as a teacher and then worked in human resources in the finance sector. He did masters in organisational psychology and cofounded a consultancy partnership providing quality assurance advice to companies. He became interested in patient care and took on advisory roles with three health regulators in medicine, dentistry and chiropractic.
He has trustee experience with three other charities and remains a special advisor to one of them.
Phil sits on the Management Board of the Royal Colleges of Physicians. He is member of an NHS Citizens Panel overseeing the implementation of a new system to improve patient safety.
Sian Rees
Sian is a qualified Banker. She also has a PhD in modern history. Sian spent much of her career with Barclays Bank PLC. Roles include Group Head of Corporate Finance, Director Financial Strategy, Assistant Director Sovereign and Country Risk as well as relationship management of multinationals, major financial institutions and charitable organisations.
She is currently a Director of InterExec a Global Career Management Company where she focuses upon the financial and professional services sectors placing clients into senior executive positions within sector or into other sectors including Not for Profit (NFP) organisations. Hence she has experience of both the financial and recruitment sides of the NFP sector.
As a resident of Richmond she also has a personal commitment to the area and has substantial experience of signing off the accounts of small (local resident companies) as well as larger company accounts. She has similarly acted as a Director of small and large companies.
Simon Boddis
Simon has lived in Richmond for over 30 years. He joined HM Prison Service working as a Forensic Psychologist in a number of prisons before becoming a main stream civil servant. Simon became an Executive Director Board member in HMPPS and his last two roles were being responsible for all prison and probation services in Wales and then leading a major change programme across all prisons. After leaving HMPPS Simon has been CEO of two charities and is also Chair of Citizens Advice Hillingdon.
