Catherine Cullen and Gayle Willis

As an experienced and established senior level job share partnership, they bring a wealth of combined experience in impact, funding, strategy, communications and partnerships.

Their most recent shared role was as Executive Directors at Guy’s & St Thomas’ Foundation, one of the UK’s largest place-based health foundations. There they had a broad remit for communications, marketing, digital, policy and influencing, and for four years led the Foundation’s work as an NHS charity. During their tenure, Catherine and Gayle helped shape and implement a transformational new organisational strategy and achieved a complete repositioning of the organisation through an ambitious new five brand portfolio. They built a multi-disciplinary department and established the Foundation’s reputation at a national and international level for leading edge work on urban health. 

Prior to joining the team, they have over 20 years’ experience driving impact and social change including senior positions at Shelter, Teenage Cancer Trust and Health Innovation South West (Catherine); Alzheimer’s Society and Tommy’s (Gayle).

(Left-right: Catherine Cullen, Gayle Willis)