Trust Board profiles

Jenni Douglas-Todd, Chair (IWT and PHU)

Jenni joined the trust as Chair in April 2025, leading the statutory boards for both Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust and Isle of Wight NHS Trust, which operate as an NHS Group with Boards in Common. She brings extensive leadership experience, having held senior roles in both public service and healthcare.

Jenni was Director of Equality and Inclusion at NHS England, where she focused on improving diversity across the NHS. She also served as Chief Executive of Hampshire Police Authority and the Office of the Hampshire Police and Crime Commissioner. Jenni held the role of Director of Policy and Research at the Independent Police Complaints Commission, contributing to the development of governance for the police complaints system.

In addition to her role, Jenni is Chair of University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust and a member of the Judicial Conduct Investigating Office.

Phil Berrington, Non-Executive Director and Deputy Chair (IWT and PHU)

Phil has been a Non-Executive Director with IWT since January 2019 and at PHU since January 2023. He became Deputy Chair in November 2023 and is the Chair of the Finance and Infrastructure Committee.

He was formerly an Executive Partner in IBM Consulting leading accounts where clients were undergoing large and complex transformation journeys, enabled by technological change.

In his consulting work, Phil has experience of working in the public sector, notably with a large central government department helping them transform back-office functions and processes. Most recently, Phil was IBM’s Lead Client Partner for large media production and broadcasting organisation.

Phil is a Chartered Management Accountant (FCMA), a Chartered Management Consultant, and holds a post graduate diploma in Strategy & Innovation from Said Business School.

 Dr Tim Peachey, Associate Non-Executive Director (IWT and PHU)

Tim joined the trust as a Non-Executive Director in April 2018. He qualified as a doctor in 1983 and worked as a consultant anaesthetist. Tim has held medical management roles at all levels in several acute hospitals including as the Medical Director of the Royal Free Hospital, and Chief Executive of Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals. Tim has also worked as an improvement director helping NHS trusts and as a non-executive director of University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust.

Christine Slaymaker CBE, Non-Executive Director (IWT) and Associate Director (PHU)

Christine has been a member of both Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth University Hospitals NHS Trust since 2017.

Prior to this she was Chief Executive of Farnborough College of Technology, rated ‘Outstanding’ for Quality and Financial Health. She is a business graduate and has held non-executive positions for a number of organisations including Farnborough Aerospace Consortium, Treloar School and College, a Royal Engineers’ charity and the Enterprise M3 Local Enterprise Partnership.

Christine was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours in June 2014. She is from the Portsmouth area and still lives locally.

 Professor Greta Westwood CBE, Associate Director (IWT and PHU)

Greta has been the CEO of the Florence Nightingale Foundation (FNF), a nursing and midwifery charity since September 2019, prior to that she was the Chief Operating Officer in 2017. She is a registered nurse, Florence Nightingale Foundation Alumna (2012 Leadership Scholar) and London Business School Senior Executive Programme Alumna.

Greta qualified as a nurse in 1983 and a midwife in 1987, both in Southampton. She has a PhD in nursing from the University of Southampton. Greta’s career has spanned general nursing, midwifery, clinical genetics, and clinical academic roles across the Hampshire region. Her last role in the NHS, completing an NHS career of 39 years was at Portsmouth Hospital University NHS Trust so she is delighted to return to support her now local hospital and excited to be working with new colleagues on the Isle of Wight.

In 2021, Greta was awarded a CBE in the New Year Honours List 2021 for services to nursing and midwifery.

Graham Barneston, Non-Executive Director

Graham, a Chartered Management Accountant, has over twenty years’ experience in the maritime, logistics and retail sectors and has held senior leadership positions in SMEs and multi-billion turnover businesses in these industries. Most recently he was Chief Financial Officer of the cross-Solent operator Red Funnel.

He is also a Non-Executive Director of the Solent Local Enterprise Partnership where he sits on the Funding Finance & Performance Management Group and has been a Non-Executive Director and Vice Chair of Maritime UK Solent.

A resident of Cowes on the Isle of Wight, Graham is a Governor of the Isle of Wight College where he is Vice Chair of the Audit Committee and a member of the Capital Committee. He is also a Trustee of two Island charities, Independent Arts and the Isle of Wight Literary Festival.

A Fellow of the Institute of Directors, Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute, and Associate Fellow of the Nautical Institute, Graham holds a BSc (Econ) from University College London.

Stephen Brooks, Non-Executive Director

Stephen joined the trust in January 2024 as a Non-Executive Director. In the first part of his career, he held senior HR roles in Bank of America, General Electric, Morgan Grenfell, and Deutsche Bank. He subsequently became a management consultant and partner at KPMG and PA Consulting. He led a wide range of business projects for public and private sector companies in the UK and abroad. His clients included Northern Rock, DWP, HM Treasury, NHS, BBC Worldwide, and Channel 4.

He is also a Governor of the Isle of Wight College and Coventry University. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, and the Royal Society for Arts, and an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Medical Leadership & Management. Stephen lives in Cowes.

Deborah McKenzie, Non-Executive Director

Deborah is an experienced public sector and private sector leader with a passion for supporting people and organisations to thrive. She has worked in the health sector since 2005, starting as a non Executive director at the Royal Surrey County Hospital before working at the London Strategic Health Authority, followed by the Department of Health and Social Care. Deb joined Public Health England  in January 2013 as it was created, moving to NHSBT in autumn 2021. She has served on the Boards of both NHS Blood and Transplant and Public Health England as Chief People Officer and is a Fellow of the CIPD.

Prior to 2005 she worked as an independent OD practitioner, and before that was an associate partner with Accenture she led several large-scale change programmes. Her early career was spent in the private sector. Deborah joined the Trust Board in April 2024.

Penny Emerit, Chief Executive

Penny joined our trust (IWT) as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in June 2023 following the creation of a Group between IWT and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust (PHU). Penny is an experienced and highly capable NHS leader and is also the CEO at PHU, a role which she has held since March 2021. Penny joined PHU in January 2018 as Director of Strategy and Performance and later added the Deputy Chief Executive portfolio to her responsibilities prior to taking on the CEO role. As CEO, Penny led PHU to a second CQC Good rating in July 2022 following a well-led inspection and core service inspection of medicine and urgent care services. She also led the development of the Trust’s ‘Working Together’ strategy. 

Penny has many years of experience in healthcare at national, regional, and local levels, covering policy, regulation, and service delivery, with a credible track record of delivery across the NHS in London and the south. Her expertise in strategy development and implementation alongside regulation and performance improvement drives her passion and commitment to delivering sustainable improvement for the benefit of patients, communities, and staff.

Penny joined the NHS as a management trainee and holds an Economics degree and Post Graduate Diploma in Healthcare Management.

Joe Smyth, IWT Chief Officer

Joe joined our trust in October 2019. In his previous role he worked with 8 CCGs and 4 acute trusts to develop an acute clinical site strategy for North West London. Prior to that, Joe was the Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Hillingdon Hospitals for seven years and led on the creation of their Integrated Care Partnership. He was also the Director of Service Improvement at Epsom and St Helier in South London and spent 3 years at the Royal Bournemouth NHS Trust as their Deputy COO where he led the reconfiguration of their hospital sites.

Mark Orchard, Chief Financial Officer / Deputy Chief Executive 

Mark joined PHU in October 2019 as Chief Financial Officer before taking up the joint role with IWT in September 2023. Previously Mark was Executive Director of Finance at Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, one of four NHS providers working together with the Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group, as a wave one integrated care system. Mark is currently national chair of the NHS Providers Finance and Commercial Directors Network. Mark has also held the Wessex system Finance Director post at NHS England, the Commissioning Finance Director role at Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire, and more latterly, at NHS Bournemouth and Poole. Mark was national president of the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) during 2016/17 and served a full 10 years as Trustee on their national Board between 2009 to 2019.

Hayley Peters, Chief Nursing Officer

Hayley has a clinical background in critical care and a strong interest in the holistic care of our older people. In 2004, Hayley also became of the very first Physicians Associates (Anaesthetics) to qualify and practice in England. Hayley returned to nursing management in 2013 and held her first Board position in 2015. 

Prior to joining IWT and PHU as group Chief Nursing Officer, Hayley was Chief Nursing Officer for an integrated organisation in the Southwest of England; this role brought together three organisations to become one, integrated provider with community, mental health, acute, learning disability and primary care services, serving the county of Somerset.

During the pandemic, Hayley was seconded to commission the Bristol Nightingale Hospital alongside healthcare colleagues and the Armed Forces. Hayley is a strong advocate of multidisciplinary working, welcoming our diverse professions in coming together as one to serve our patients and communities. Hayley is Board champion for maternity and paediatric services alongside our Armed Forces personnel and communities. 

Natalie Borman, Acting Chief Medical Officer

Dr Natalie Borman became the Acting Chief Medical Officer for the Group in July 2025, having been the previous Deputy Chief Medical Office since July 2024. Prior to this Dr Borman was a Divisional Director and Consultant nephrologist at PHU. Dr Borman completed her Medical Degree at The University of Wales College of Medicine and Joined PHU in 2007 where she completed for specialist training in Nephrology and her Research MD at the University of Southampton. Dr Borman was appointed as a Consultant Nephrologist at the Wessex Kidney Centre in 2014 and Specialised in Home Haemodialysis running Europe’s largest home Haemodialysis services. Dr Borman continues to hold the position of Deputy Chair for the UK Dialysis Society.

Kelvin Cheatle, Chief People Officer

Kelvin has spent his whole career in HR spending the last 28 years as a Director in NHS Trusts and the Private sector after an early career in local government. He was HR Director at Broadmoor Hospital and then West London Trust, undertook national work on pay, conditions and Speak Up whilst leading the Capsticks HR Advisory service. Since 2016 he was Chief People Officer for Kingston Hospital, latterly working in partnership with Hounslow and Richmond Community Trust as part of a single Executive team. In 2021 Kelvin was given a lifetime achievement award by HPMA which he treasures as it was voted on by his peers.

Kelvin joined the Board in April 2024 as Interim Chief People Officer to help build an integrated People function and lay the foundations pending a permanent employment.

Professor Anoop J Chauhan MBE, Chief Research Officer  

Anoop has been the Director of Research at PHU since 2009 and is also a practising physician in respiratory and general medicine. Anoop has developed opportunities for patients throughout the region to participate in high quality research trials, introduced innovations in clinical pathways, developed new models of care, and helped set up a nationally recognised severe asthma centre in Portsmouth. His research has resulted in a positive impact on disease control, quality of life, healthcare usage and health economic benefits in patients with respiratory conditions. Anoop has helped multiple small and medium-sized businesses to secure funding, develop high-quality research studies and technology trials in support of the NHS. He has also set up the Portsmouth Technology Trials Unit to allow more health technology companies to work with patients and the NHS.

Lee McPhail, Chief Delivery Officer 

Lee was appointed Chief Delivery Officer of Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust and Isle of Wight NHS Trust in January 2024. Lee has more than 20 years’ experience within the NHS, including leading operational roles at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, Barts Health NHS Trust and, prior to this, North Middlesex University Hospitals NHS Trust.

Before commencing with our organisation, he had been at Croydon since 2018.  He was appointed Chief Operating Officer for that Trust in 2019, with a focus on bringing them and NHS Croydon Clinical Commissioning Group closer together to maximise the resources available for the frontline.

Michelle Stanley, Chief Strategy Officer

Michelle was appointed as Chief Strategy Officer for both Isle of Wight and Portsmouth Hospitals NHS trusts in April 2025. She has worked in the NHS since 1996 and has extensive senior operational experience, having successfully managed two community hospitals in the Midlands.

She is a registered physiotherapist specialising in frailty and balance disorders and holds a registration with the Health and Care Professions Council. Before moving to the island in 2020, Michelle worked as a consultancy director, travelling the UK to work with NHS organisations on improvement, transformation and strategy.

Michelle has also held the positions of Programme Director of Strategy, Partnership and Transformation and Director of Strategy and Improvement for IWT.