Managing Director: Jane Kilpatrick, AISTD

Jane founded Physiosculpt@Work Limited in 2004. Jane has over 12 years experience of working at senior management level within the charity sector. Her last position was Fundraising Director at the British Homeopathic Association. She has vast knowledge of marketing, fundraising and public relations and is skilled in strategy and new business development. Jane has excellent interpersonal skills coupled with exceptional customer service ability. Prior to this Jane taught ballet for 6 years at the prestigious Vacani School of Dancing in London. She is an Associate of the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing.

Finance Director: Richard Dare, FCCA

Richard is a Fellow Member of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants. With 10 years post qualification experience Richard has a wide breadth of commercial and technical experience gained both in public practice and commercial environments.
He trained in practice in London before relocation to a large independent firm in Southampton where he managed medium sized company and FTSE 100 Audits and was part of the Corporate Finance Team.

Richard's commercial experience was gained with a company that had both distribution sites and retail shops. When he joined the business the operations were based solely in the UK but within 6 years the company turnover had grown by 500% and had operations in 5 different countries including the US, Canada, Holland and Scotland. Growth came both organically and by way of acquisition. When he moved to his current role Richard was the EMEA Financial Controller and Financial Accountant for the Group.

Business Development Director: Nigel Kilpatrick

Nigel is an internationally reknowned sales and marketing executive with many years experience both in North America and the United Kingdom. During his eight years in New York, Nigel was involved in maximising the valuation of early stage technology companies and was subsequently involved in merger and acquisitions. Upon his return to the United Kingdom he founded a new media asset management company that was valued at £10 Million within 18 months of operation and most recently as Sales and Marketing Director for a leading UK governance and compliance software company.

Sales Manager: Emma Ross

Emma is as a Chartered Physiotherapist specialising in musculoskeletal injuries and also a qualified Stott Pilates Instructor and Professional Method Putkisto Instructor. Through her training and my work she has become more and more aware of the importance of prevention of injury rather than just the cure. So many health problems and injuries stem from lack of movement, poor posture, stress and a sedentary life style. As a leading UK therapist Emma brings immense knowledge and skill to our clients.

 

Non-Executive Board members:

Jo Dale MSc, BA, CIPD

Jo is an organisational development consultant with 16 successful years of experience helping organisations with employee development. Originally a languages graduate, Jo became interested in the complex relationship between organisations and their employees and went on to study and complete an MSc in Organisational Behavior.

Jo has held a number of roles ranging from selection and marketing at London Business School to strategic graduate recruitment at Merrill Lynch. Projects in the past have included providing change management support for a global outsourcing exercise, management development coaching in a merger environment, Board-level facilitation and on-going talent management and succession-planning consultancy. Jo’s key focus is to help leaders and managers improve productivity. Jo works with a number of public and private sector clients on leadership development. Jo is pragmatic and insightful of the challenges that organisations face and has the skill to deliver solutions in a creative and positive manner.

Chris Watkins

Chris has an Honours Degree in Business & Marketing and many years experience in the publishing business. in Leeds. As Managing Director in 1974 he grew his first company to include three retail shops, a library book supply company and a book wholesaler which has later sold to an Edinburgh based plc. As Group Managing Director of the enlarged library bookselling group which then included ‘The Morley Book Company’ (later known as The Cypher Group) he managed and controlled sales in excess of £35m.

Chris has also held Managing Director posts at Coutts Information Services Ltd and John Smith & Son Group Ltd and was appointed Head of Central Services, responsible for Operations, I.T., Human Resources and the estate’s property portfolio.