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Management Team
Sir William Wells, aged 68
Chairman
Sir William has a wealth of experience in healthcare having held a number of senior board positions in the NHS since 1968. Latterly he was chairman of the NHS Executive South East Region until 2001 when he was appointed chairman of NHS Appointments Commission. He is also currently: chairman of the Council of the University of Surrey; a member of the General Council and Management Committee of the King s Fund; and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.
Sir William is a chartered surveyor by profession and retired in 1997 as chairman of Chesterton International plc; former director of Pearl Group Limited and Pearl Assurance plc; Norwich & Peterborough Building Society; AMP (UK) Public Limited Company, AMP (UK) Holdings Limited, AMP Invest Public Limited Company and AMP (NPI) Holdings Limited, Exel plc and HHG plc and chairman of the Advisory Board for St Wenceslas Property Trust and Covenant Healthcare Limited.

Jeremy Davies, MRICS, aged 61
Managing Director and Company Secretary
Jeremy is a chartered surveyor who founded his own practice, Davies Knight and Partners, in 1973 which specialised in healthcare properties. In 1993 he co-founded NHP plc, as estates director. Until NHP's acquisition for £563.5 million by The Blackstone Group in January 2005, it was the UK's only listed property investment group specialising in the purchase and leaseback of care homes. Jeremy resigned from NHP in November 2001. In 1994 Jeremy was a founding director of Woodland Healthcare Limited, acquired by ADL in February 2004, and in March 2003 he founded Newsham House Limited, which was also acquired by ADL in February 2004.

Pearl Jackson, aged 49
Operations Director
Pearl is a registered general and psychiatric nurse who from 1988 to 1989 was a nursing homes registration and inspection officer before becoming area manager for Westminster Healthcare plc. In 1990 she founded her own care home consultancy which, between July 2000 and February 2004, provided advice to ADL and Woodland Healthcare Limited. Pearl was also the owner and director of Solutions (Yorkshire) Limited, which was acquired by ADL in July 2006, that owns and operates a care home in Leeds with 40 operational beds.