Executive Directors

Our Executive Directors are responsible for the operational management of the Trust.

Professor Clive Kay, Chief Executive

Professor Clive Kay joined King’s as Chief Executive in April 2019. Clive has extensive clinical and leadership experience, and prior to taking up his position at King’s he was Chief Executive at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust from January 2015. Previously he was Clinical Director of Radiology (2001-2006) and subsequently the Medical Director (2006-2014) at Bradford.

Prior to working at Bradford, Clive was a Visiting Associate Professor of Radiology at the Medical University of South Carolina. He was a Member of Council of the Royal College of Radiologists, and former Chairman of both the Royal College of Radiologist’s Scientific Programme Committee and the British Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology. He is currently a Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

Julie Lowe, Deputy Chief Executive

Julie took up the Deputy Chief Executive role at King’s in July 2024. She joined the Trust in October 2020 as Interim Site Chief Executive for the King’s College Hospital site, and was made substantive in the role in April 2021. Julie joined the NHS in 1992 as a national NHS management trainee. She has worked in hospitals in London, Yorkshire and Hertfordshire in a variety of positions, including nine years in Chief Executive roles. Prior to joining King’s, Julie spent three years as Programme Director for the South East London Integrated Care System.

Ms Rantimi Ayodele, Chief Medical Officer

Ms Rantimi Ayodele joined the Trust in 2022 as Site Medical Director for the Princess Royal University Hospital and South Sites, and Deputy Chief Medical Officer at the Trust. She is currently Acting Chief Medical Officer for the Trust, a role she will hold until Dr Mamta Shetty Vaidya takes up the role on a permanent basis in January 2025.

Before joining King’s, Rantimi worked at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, where she was Deputy Divisional Director for Surgery, and a Consultant in Paediatric Orthopaedics. Having qualified from Imperial College School of Medicine in 2000, she has over two decades of experience working in the NHS, and has held a number of senior roles, including being a Vice Chair for a regional Health Inequalities Board and Surgeon Advisor for a regional operational delivery network. She is also a global health researcher, having worked on projects with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine for over two decades.

Tracey Carter MBE, Chief Nurse and Executive Director of Midwifery

Tracey Carter joined the Trust in June 2023. Prior to this she worked at West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, where she has been Chief Nurse and Director of Infection Prevention and Control since 2014.

Tracey has over 30 years’ experience as a nurse, and has held several other senior nursing positions, including Deputy Chief Nurse at Barts Health. In May 2019, Tracey received a prestigious Chief Nursing Officer award, and in 2020 she was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for her nursing leadership and services to the NHS.

Roy Clarke, Chief Financial Officer

Roy joined the Trust in March 2024 on secondment from Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, where he was Chief Financial Officer. He was made substantive in the role at King’s in November 2024.

Prior to joining the team at Norfolk and Norwich in 2020, Roy held a number of Board positions within the NHS, including as Chief Financial Officer at Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

Roy is a Chartered Management Accountant, and is also a Trustee at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. He has also worked as an Executive Reviewer for the Care Quality Commission.

Anna Clough, Site Chief Executive (King’s College Hospital)

Anna joined the Trust in April 2023 as Site Chief Operating Officer for King’s College Hospital. She became Site Chief Executive for King’s College Hospital in July 2024.

Anna joined the NHS in 2001 and has held a number of senior roles within the health service. This includes a previous period at King’s, first as Business Manager for Women’s and Children’s services, and then Divisional Manager for Liver, Renal and Surgery.

Since then Anna has worked in leadership roles, including at NHS Improvement, where she was performance lead for London. Prior to re-joining King’s she was Deputy Chief Operating Officer at St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Angela Helleur, Site Chief Executive (Princess Royal University Hospital and South Sites)

Angela joined the Trust in September 2023 as Interim Site Chief Executive for Princess Royal University Hospital and South Sites and was made substantive in the role in November 2023. She joined the Trust from the South East London Integrated Care Board (ICB), where she was Chief Nursing Officer. Angela has 40 years’ experience in the NHS having trained as a nurse in Exeter and a midwife at King’s.

She was previously chief nurse, chief operating officer for Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, and also held senior leadership roles in acute providers, a Strategic Health Authority and NHS Improvement.

Mark Preston, Chief People Officer

Mark joined the Trust as Chief People Officer in September 2021.

Mark was previously Executive Director of Organisational Development and People at Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, a role he held for five years before joining us here at King’s.

Mark brings significant experience to the role, having worked at a number of secondary and tertiary providers across London, including a previous period at King’s where he was Associate Director of Human Resources.