Sign inTinnitus UK recruits experience across the board, and a new chair
Tinnitus UK is an independent charity leading the world in its support of patients and research for a condition that is notoriously difficult to treat, research, and narrate. Under the guidance of a new CEO for less than a year, and facing an urgent fight funding, the group is reinforcing strategically and structurally.
The transformation of world-leading charity Tinnitus UK is continuing apace, a new chair and new trustees joining the group’s board, as well as the introduction of new team members.
Rebuilding after a difficult period during which a financing crisis reached existential degrees, the charity, which receives no direct funding, has a new strategic plan, and has shifted back from a fully digital conference to a hybrid physical-digital gathering. As it seeks a higher profile not just for the charity but for tinnitus as a whole, new expertise has not been long in coming under the group’s new CEO, Alex Brooks-Johnson.
A refreshed and rejuvenated Board of Trustees has a new chair in Pierre Espinasse, a former Chief Executive of a medical research funding foundation, and someone with extensive experience of charity governance and strategy development having served on the boards of other charities, including the UK Research Integrity Office. Pierre has been learning to live with tinnitus over the last few years.
Courtesy of Read Easy UK
“I am honoured to be appointed as Chair of Tinnitus UK and to support it at such an important stage as we embark on our new strategy. Tinnitus is an insidious, hidden condition which affects so many people in so many different ways.”, he says.
“I am fortunate in that I am, gradually, learning to live with tinnitus but I am acutely aware that, for many, tinnitus has a huge impact on their life and their mental wellbeing. Together we can work to alleviate that burden and strive towards a world without tinnitus,” Espinasse continued.
Two other new trustees join Tinnitus UK
Importantly, the group is bolstering its input from the audiology profession. Pete Byrom has over 20 years’ experience in the NHS as an audiologist, including in paediatrics and working in ENT, and as an audio-vestibular consultant he has led clinics, now running a very successful private audiology practice.
Emma Stone is an FCA chartered accountant with more than 15 years of experience in finance, risk, compliance and assurance roles within professional practice, the FTSE 50, and the non-profit sector. Emma chairs the Tinnitus UK Finance Committee and supports the Board on matters of finance, governance and risk.
Alex Brooks-Johnson, Tinnitus UK CEO, said, “Tinnitus UK continues to forge ahead with our transformation plans, led by a new strategy created together with the tinnitus community. Being joined by people with the calibre and experience of Pierre, Emma and Pete will significantly improve our ability to help more people with tinnitus and represents our ambitions for the future as we work towards a world without tinnitus”.
Source: Tinnitus UK
