Graeme Walker Email & Phone Number

Hereford, England, United Kingdom

Non Executive Director (and Chair of the Finance committee)Taurus Healthcare was set up by all GP Practices in Herefordshire to support the long-term sustainability of general practice and allow practices to work collaboratively - supporting teams with the necessary services and technology systems to continue delivering high quality patient care.With strong links and established partnerships both locally and nationally, Taurus represents practices in discussions with Clinical Commissioning Groups, local NHS trusts, local authorities and voluntary services, to deliver joined up care across communities.On behalf of all GP practices, Taurus operates the extended hours service as well as the GP out of hours service., as well as providing practices with training and recruitment support.Ultimately the aim is to help patients have more control over their own wellbeing and healthcare, promote the prevention of illness, and to improve access to general practice so that your GP service is consistent 24 hours a day, 7 days a week

Ross-On-Wye, England, United Kingdom

PGL Travel is the market leading adventure travel business, which has subsidiaries in a number of countries around the globe. PGL is recently Private Equity backed and I provided support to the Finance Department as it transitioned under its new investors.

allpay operates in a heavily regulated sector with parts of the business being regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority

I was responsible for all aspects of the strategic leadership of Company Finance, Client Finance, Procurement, Treasury and Contracts, for this market leading financial services Group. I was also the company's registered Money Laundering Reporting Officer.The Group is a market leader in Bill Payments for the Housing, Central Government and Local Government sectors and also includes significant Credit Card Manufacturing businesses.The Bill Payments part of the group currently collects almost £9 Billion per annum on behalf of its clients.allpay has an eMoney licence and is regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.

Trustee and non executive director of the Percy Hedley Foundation.The Foundation is a very large charity with over 900 staff and operates a number of special needs schools, specialist facities and colleges and has a global reputation.As well as the Board, I sat on the Finance Committee (Vice Chair), Remuneration Committee and HR & Organisational Development Committees and I was Vice Chair of the College Board of Governors.

My role was to lead the Finance, HR, IT Services, Change Management and Service Excellence departments in NCFE.NCFE was a commercial, innovative, market leading, rapidly growing and multi-award winning education services company, with a true belief in service. NCFE was a Sunday Times Top 100 employer for a number of years and was one of the fastest growing Awarding Bodies ("Exam Boards") in the UK.We provided over 3/4 Million online qualification registrations and certificates annually and the provision of careers advice and services (under a joint venture with the leading recruitment company Reed) to a growing number of colleges in the UK. I was instrumental in setting up and managing the JV with Reed.The market in which NCFE and Reed/NCFE are successful is heavily regulated, very complex, competitive and dynamic.NCFE is a sophisticated eCommerce-like business, all transactions being processed online which demands a high degree of IT competence and expertise.I worked with a very wise and experienced Board which employed the highest standards and best practice of corporate governance

Uk, Europe And The Middle East

CODA is a large, global, market leading financial software provider. Specializing in budgeting, planning, forecasting and business intelligence I had fantastic experience of working with the Directors, senior IT and Finance management in a wide range of FTSE 100, other blue chip businesses and large multi-national companies across a range of sectors, throughout the UK, Europe and the Middle East. A number of the projects and my experience are detailed in the projects section below.Working closely with the IT teams and Finance teams and senior management of such high profile organisations was a truly exceptional learning experience.As a short term interim role whilst waiting to join CODA, I was engaged as a consultant on behalf of Durham Council Finance and Transport management departments to work on a fascinating project. ,This also included also working with- a range of finance management and transport management in other councils around the UK and- a number of large bus companies (including Cheshire and Staffordshire) to write a feasibility study for the Council to invest in a fleet of dedicated School Buses. This detailed study was adopted and the fleet of yellow (US style) school buses was acquired by Durham.

An experience of the rapid growth, funding, development, exit planning, huge changes and leadership challenges of a rapidly expanding retail/healthcare business. The Health Clinic had a unique USP, requiring considerable investment at an early stage of developing its management and systems.It was fantastic experience of a highly geared private equity environment moving to an exit.

Senior Finance positions (Financial Controller and Finance Director) for these large UK and New York listed groups of companies in the retail and sports goods wholesale sector including international experience, responsibility for budgeting for the French subsidiary in addition to the UK and reporting to a US parent company.

Sunderland

Large local firm (now part of Baker Tilly) and north east representative office of Stoy Hayward

Fellowship

Activities and Societies: Member of the IT Faculty, Member of the Faculty of Finance and Management FCA 2000 ACA 1987

Post Graduate Diploma In Non Executive Director Skills, Corporate Governance, Non-Exec Director Skills, Effective Board Behaviours

A Level 7 (Masters Degree equivalent) qualification in the skills required to be an effective Non Executive Director. My motivation is two.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Administration And Management, General

Electives chosen were - International Business, - Operational Management and International Marketing - Project Management (PROMPT.

Geography (Ba Honours Degree), Geography

Activities and Societies: Geographical Society social secretary Specialized in the physical sciences of Geography - Geomorphology.

Programme Management Practitioner Level, Programme Management (Change Management)

MSP qualified Programme Manager (MSP is the Programme Management qualification endorsed by the UK Office of Government Commerce). It.

Practitioner Level

Completed the Practitioner Level in 2008 and Foundation level in 2007. Practitioner re-registration pending

Foundation

UK government standard for IT Service Management ITIL is the most widely adopted approach for IT Service Management in the world

Accredited Enterprise Planning Consultant

Enterprise Planning is a software tool that allows sophisticated budgeting and forecasting models to be created, which mirror the key.

Education record