David Highton, Esq

Career: Turquands Barton Mayhew (now Ernst & Young): articled clerk 1975-78, qualified CA 1978, audit sr 1978-79, audit supr 1979; fin accountant Tunnel Avebe Starches Ltd 1979-81, London controller R P Martin plc 1981-83, fin planning and analysis mangr Watney Mann & Truman Ltd 1986-87 (fin controller (central staffs and Cos) 1983-86), regnl fin dir SE Region Prudential Property Services 1987-89, md Property Mail 1989-90, chief exec Ealing HA 1991-92 (dir of fin and purchasing 1990-92), dir of fin and business devpt Riverside Hosps 1992-94; chief exec: Chelsea and Westminster Healthcare NHS Tst 1994-2000, St Mary's Hosp NHS Tst 1998-99 (on secondment), Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust 2000-03; chm Healthwork UK 2001-05, chm Skills for Health 2002-03 (non-exec dir 2007-11), md Clinicenta Ltd 2003-10, head of business devpt MediHome Ltd 2010-11, exec dir Hamad Medical Corp Qatar 2011-; vice-pres Sittingbourne RUFC 2008- (treas 1976-90, chm 1991-94 and 1997-99, pres 1999-2008), vice-pres Imperial Medical RFC 1999-, fin sec Gore Court Cricket Club 1994-97; FCA 1989