Executive leadership team

Helen has worked in health and social care for more than thirty years. Her professional roles have spanned the NHS, the private and the voluntary sectors. She started her career as a music therapist and has a particular passion for working in the field of learning disability, autism and mental health.

She is an experienced strategic director and CEO and has served as a Trustee, Vice-Chair and Chair on charity boards for the last eight years.

Tanya joined Brandon as a support worker when the charity was founded in 1994 and her subsequent progress through the organisation allows her to bring a hugely valuable depth of understanding and experience to her current role. She has held senior roles in both quality and operational delivery, including Director of Operations. Her work to enable all staff to be leaders in quality has played a critical role in the achievement of our current, above average CQC ratings.

Tanya is a passionate champion of the people we support, ensuring that their voices, needs and wishes are at the heart of all we do.

Tracy joined Brandon in 1995 as part of an NHS transferred workforce. Since then, she has worked in roles in residential care, supported living, day services and enterprises. Her wide-ranging experience has been hugely valuable in developing the depth of understanding and expertise needed in her current role.

Through her work in senior operations and business roles, she has led the innovation of new services models and growth of new business that have played a vital role in Brandon’s development.

Tracy’s commitment to a person-centred approach is at the heart of her drive to ensure that we always work alongside people we support and families to co-design support solutions that are right for individuals.

Kate is an experienced Digital Transformation professional and has come to Brandon with a wide range of public, private and charity sector digital experiences. Kate has worked in the field of digital and IT for over 25 years and is passionate about developing universally accessible services that truly make a difference to people’s lives; through supporting independence, improving ease of access and freeing data for decision making.

Kate has a broad strategic experience; she has sat on a wide range of boards including Vice Chair of a Further Education College and Committee Chair at a south-west University. She supports the digital economy through groups such as Digital Somerset and SW Infrastructure Partnership.

Donna is an experienced People professional, with a blend of private, public, and self-employed consultancy experience, having worked in HR for over 20 years. Passionate about building people-centric approaches and bringing a modern, fresh and collaborate approach, Donna is committed to creating a ‘great place to work’, bringing the human element to everything we do and ultimately, ensuring our services deliver care and support to the people we support.

People, change and transformation is key to Donna’s work, bringing people with her along the way and aligning exciting projects to enhance Brandon’s offer, which includes equality, diversity and inclusion, wellbeing, and organisation development.

Rob is a progressive finance leader, able to simplify the complex to engage whole organisations behind strategy and understanding; demystifying performance to invigorate growth.

He brings extensive commercial experience and perspectives to Brandon, including financial leadership positions in multinational businesses.

Rob is people centric, driven to make finance work for everyone, ensuring financial decisions are  focussed on generating long-term sustainable results for our planet, people, economies and organisations.