Ciarán Devane, Chief Executive
Professor Jane Maher, Chief Medical Officer and consultant clinical oncologist
Maureen Rutter, Regional Director for East Midlands and Northern England
Stephen Richards, Regional Director for London Anglia and South East England
Elspeth Atkinson, Director, Office for Scotland and Northern Ireland
Cath Lindley, General Manager for Wales
Heather Monteverde, General Manager for Northern Ireland
Clara Avery, Head of Direct Marketing & Trading
Jane Lloyd, Legacies Promotions Manager
Amanda Bringans, Director, Fundraising
Professor Jessica Corner, Chief Clinician
Jim Elliott PhD, Head of Research
Harry Cayton OBE, Social Care Adviser
Mike Hobday, Head of Campaigns, Policy & Public Affairs
Ciarán Devane, Chief Executive
Ciarán was educated at University College, Dublin where he gained first class honours in biochemical engineering. He also holds a Masters Degree in International Policy from George Washington University, Washington DC. He worked for ICI for 8 years before joining Gemini Consulting, an international management consultancy firm, where he became Head of their UK Life Sciences Practice. He has also served as Chairman of a major UK Housing Association. Ciarán joined Macmillan Cancer Support as Chief Executive in May 2007.
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Professor Jane Maher, Chief Medical Officer and consultant clinical oncologist
Jane is a Consultant Clinical Oncologist at Mount Vernon Cancer Centre and Hillingdon Hospital, where she has worked for the past 20 years and retains a busy clinical role at both hospitals. She is a senior clinical lecturer at University College London and Visiting Professor in Cancer and Supportive Care at the Centre for Complexity Management at Hertfordshire University.
In her role at Macmillan, Jane has developed a medical service strategy, providing medical services advice at board and senior management level and maintaining the charity's links with the royal colleges, universities, the Department of Health and the NHS.
In 1994/5 Jane was elected Hospital Doctor 'Oncologist of the Year' and she is the co-founder and medical director of the Lynda Jackson Macmillan Centre for Cancer Support and Information at Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, which has won annual national and international awards since 1999 (including the NHS 'Oscar', the Nye Bevan award.) She leads a supportive oncology research group with more than 100 published articles.
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Maureen Rutter, Regional Director for East Midlands and Northern England
Maureen trained as a nurse at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle Upon Tyne and spent the next 20 years in various roles in the NHS, including as a ward sister where her long-held clinical interest in lung cancer developed. Maureen's expertise in caring for patients with cancer in an acute hospital was recognised in an award for 'Outstanding Contribution to Patient Care'.
Maureen holds post graduate qualifications in Teaching, Cancer and Palliative Care and an MBA.
As a senior NHS Manager she became aware of issues of access and equity for patients and continues to pursue these with Macmillan.
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Stephen Richards, Regional Director for London Anglia and South East England
Stephen initially pursued a career in banking and then trained to be a general nurse at the Oxford School of Nursing. He later gained a mental nurse qualification at the Bethlem and Maudsley Hospitals in London. Stephen's nursing career has spanned both the NHS and hospice sector. He was a Macmillan nurse and managed a range of Macmillan services whilst at Newham Healthcare NHS Trust.
Stephen holds a first degree in political science and a masters degree in care, policy and management. He is also a Kings Fund and Smith and Nephew bursary award winner.
Stephen holds a particular interest in developing services which overcome barriers, particularly amongst the most vulnerable in our society. With access in mind, he is also interested in the scope of cancer care within the private independent sector.
He joined Macmillan in 1997 as a Nurse Consultant and was appointed Regional Director for London Anglia and South East England in 2003.
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Elspeth Atkinson, Director, Office for Scotland and Northern Ireland
Elspeth joined Macmillan as Director for Scotland and Northern Ireland in October 2005. She was previously Head of Economic Development at Edinburgh City Council, where her responsibilities included Edinburgh's Hogmanay, regeneration of the waterfront and planning economic strategies and scenarios to 2020.
Elspeth has worked in economic development and planning for most of her career, including spells as Head of Rural Operations at Scottish Enterprise and several roles at the Scottish Development Agency. She holds a PhD from Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh in assessing the role and impact of Government on the Highlands and Islands economy.
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Cath Lindley, General Manager for Wales
Cath has been with Macmillan since July 2001, and is the main spokesperson for Macmillan in Wales.
She has worked in the voluntary sector in Wales for twenty years. After working for Age Concern and Victim Support, she was Director of the mental health charity Newport Mind for twelve years, then Senior Policy Officer at Wales Council for Voluntary Action for four years. In this role she contributed to the establishment of arrangements for the working relationship between the new Welsh Assembly Government and the Welsh voluntary sector, as well as being the WCVA policy lead for Health and Social Care.
Cath has represented the voluntary sector on a number of consultation bodies and working parties, including the national planning groups for health reform in Wales. She has also undertaken work in the quality assurance field, and was the Wales observer on the Quality Standards Task Board.
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Heather Monteverde, General Manager for Northern Ireland
Heather moved to Macmillan in 1999 - first as a nurse consultant, then as Service Development Manager and more recently as General Manager for Northern Ireland.
Heather started a combined general and paediatric nurse training course in 1981 in the Ulster Hospital. In 1986 she specialised in oncology nursing in Belvoir Park Hospital and in November 1986 was appointed as a specialist breast care nurse back at the Ulster, the first in Northern Ireland.
Heather stayed in this role for 9 years and saw the service grow and develop into one of the leading breast care units in Northern Ireland.
In 1995 she made a career change to Zeneca Pharmaceuticals as an oncology nurse advisor. This role took her all over Northern Ireland teaching health professionals about diagnosis, management and treatment of breast and prostate cancer and the administration of drugs. This then led to a training role with a remit of developing and supporting new staff UK wide.
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Clara Avery, Head of Direct Marketing & Trading
Clara joined Macmillan in 2003 and heads up the growing Direct Marketing team which utilises a broad range of direct response media to generate in excess of £13 million per annum from new and existing individual supporters. She is a member of the Institute of Direct Marketing.
Since graduating from Goldsmith's College in 1995, Clara has accumulated over nine years of customer / donor focused direct marketing experience in both the commercial and voluntary sectors. She has spent the last five of these working in the field of donor marketing and developed supporter recruitment and retention communication programmes at the Royal Association for Disability and Rehabilitation and later at The Children's Society.
Most recently Clara was Senior Account Director in the one-to-one fundraising team at The Children's Society where she was responsible for generating a net income of £2.5 million for the charity, as well as devising and managing a fully costed mix of income generating campaigns across a variety of channels to market. Whilst there, she also chaired the User Panel of the Public Fundraising Regulatory Association, representing charity members interests at local government level.
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Jane Lloyd, Legacies Promotions Manager
Jane is the Legacy Promotion Manager at Macmillan. She has worked in the not for profit sector for ten years and has worked in legacy marketing now for over 7 years.
As Legacy Promotion Manager she feels one of her most important roles is to break down the barriers and preconceptions that can exist about legacies. She is also a firm believer that the most effective method of legacy promotion is to make it an integral part of all the fundraising the charity does.
After studying for a degree in Political Science she worked at Leicester City Council before joining Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine working in Alumni relations and fundraising.
Before joining Macmillan, Jane worked for Age Concern England in Direct Marketing and then Legacies and High Value donors.
She is the Chair for the Legacy promotion campaign to raise the profile of legacy giving.
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Amanda Bringans, Director, Fundraising
Amanda began her career in advertising and marketing at Thompson Regional Newspapers, Television South West, and TVam. She became a mature student in 1989 to study an Honours degree in English Literature at Goldsmiths College, and then moved into the voluntary sector to work on Red Nose Day 95 for Comic Relief.
In 1995 she joined Macmillan as a Corporate Fundraiser then became Head of Fundraising for the London Anglia and South East Region. After a secondment for a year as interim Head of Brand Management she took up the post of Deputy Director of Fundraising.
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Professor Jessica Corner, Chief Clinician
Jessica is responsible for the strategic development of Macmillan's services and for championing improvement in the quality cancer services across the UK. She is also Professor of Cancer and Palliative Care and Deputy Head of School, at the University of Southampton's School of Nursing and Midwifery.
Her first professorial appointment was in 1996 as the first professor of cancer nursing in Europe at the Institute of Cancer Research in London. She is visiting Adjunct Professor at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and a member of the England Department of Health Lung Cancer Advisory Group. She has written over 80 papers for academic journals, and has also written three books and numerous chapters for edited texts.
She undertook her Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing at Chelsea College, London University graduating in 1983, she studied for her PhD at King's College, London, awarded in 1990, and she trained as a cancer nurse at the Royal Marsden Hospital, London in 1984-5.
She is most well known for developing a new approach to managing the symptom of breathlessness in advanced lung cancer.
She was also the first nurse to be awarded the Nuffield Trust's prestigious Queen Elizabeth the Queen Fellowship in 2001 and has published a monograph entitled 'Between you and me: closing the gap between people and healthcare'.
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Jim Elliott PhD, Head of Research
Jim was appointed as Macmillan's first permanent Head of Research in March 2004. He is responsible for the strategic direction and leadership of research across Macmillan and influencing the priorities of other cancer research funders to reflect the needs of people affected by cancer.
Jim's research training and background are in academic biochemistry and microbiology at the universities of Southampton and Warwick. He then spent four years in the commercial sector managing the development of novel biochemicals for the pharmaceutical industry followed by nearly twelve years managing the NHS research and development programme in the East of England.
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Harry Cayton OBE, Social Care Adviser
Harry Cayton OBE is Social Care Advisor to Macmillan Cancer Support. He started his career in social work and special education before becoming director of the National Deaf Children's Society then Chief Executive of the Alzheimer's Society.
As well as advising Macmillan and a number of other charities he is 'Patient Csar' at the Department of Health and a senior associate of the Health Foundation.
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Mike Hobday, Head of Campaigns, Policy & Public Affairs 
Mike leads Macmillan's work to change policy, thinking and practice to improve the lives of people living with cancer. In particular, he is responsible for developing and implementing Macmillan's Better Deal campaign which highlights the financial costs associated with a cancer diagnosis.
Mike's background includes 20 years of professional public affairs work, and he joined Macmillan from the League Against Cruel Sports where he led the campaign against fox hunting. Mike has an M.A. from the University of Cambridge and has just completed an M.B.A. at the University of Hertfordshire.
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