Lantern Health is a social enterprise community interest company comprising (currently) three GP surgeries in East London with 12 GPs and approximately 50 support staff including practice managers, nurses, health care assistants and receptionists looking after the healthcare needs of 16,000 patients. Surgeries are located in Stratford, Church Road and St Lukes. Lantern Health CIC is part the Newham Clinical Commissioning Group and the local Newham Federation. All three of our surgeries have been ranked Good by the Care Quality Commission. We have recently become a teaching practice.

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Responsible for developing & implementing strategic and tactical business plan, within budget-Full P&L responsibility-Accountable to MD and TUK Board-Forecasting portfolio & commercials for annual and 5 yr plan-Exceptional KOL and customer management-Responsible for identifying & delivering new business opportunities within defined mkt segments-Project management of key commercial projects

Multi-award-winning digital media and advanced software agency.Achievements and competencies:• Start-up company, self-financed at first with subsequent support of loan capital;• Rapid growth from inception (net profitability achieved in <18 months) and generated a net (pre-tax) profit of >£300,000 in 2000 on a turnover of £1.4 million;• Clients included Ford Motor Company, Jaguar Cars Ltd, British Aerospace, Smiths Industries, ICSTIS, MTV, Cambridge University Press, Kellogg (developed their first European Intranet site), the Music Publishers’ Association (database of popular and sheet music), International Maritime Organization (shipping database), BT plc (first e-learning academy), BG plc (e-learning applications), HSBC Bank and Aventis Pharma; • MultiJac won numerous awards and various professional accolades (IVCA, Communiqué, New Media Age);• Principally, the company developed media-rich multi-lingual interactive CD-Roms and web-based applications for product launches, for e-learning and publishing including the CD-Rom version of the Complete Works of John Ruskin for Cambridge University Press, which comprised 20 million words and several thousand images on a single disc. • In 2001 MultiJac achieved a ranking of 18th in The Sunday Times TechTrack Awards of the fastest growing UK technology companies (7th fastest growing company in London alone), having achieved organic sales growth of 139.48% per annum between 1998 and 2000 inclusive. At its peak, MultiJac employed 40 highly skilled individuals.Key responsibilities included:• Managing the company’s business development, growth and strategy, as well as its sales and marketing teams;• Managing the other key responsibilities commensurate with holding the dual positions of managing director and chairman, including the preparation of statutory annual reports and accounts, comprehensive business plans and presentations to the City;