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Poonam Kumar

Poonam Kumar leads the company’s expansion efforts in emerging markets. Her current focus is on building the company’s presence in India in partnership with Mega Ace Consulting, a prominent consulting company with a broad presence in India and several emerging economies.

Poonam has over 30 years experience in international business development, with a deep knowledge of emerging economies. She has advised government and private sector customers across the world in areas of trade and investment policy development, business strategy, organisational development and capability building, among others.

Poonam has Master’s degrees in both Cost Accountancy and International Economics, and a Bachelor’s of Commerce degree from the University of Mumbai. She has completed programs in Human Resource Management and Global Strategy Management at INSEAD. Poonam has also completed the executive education program for company owners/presidents at Harvard Business School.

David Thomas

David is Managing Director of Matrix Knowledge India. He is also Senior Vice President of Matrix International and Head of Matrix International Healthcare Services. David’s current work focuses on assessing the prospects for major international healthcare partnering; Matrix’s knowledge-based and strategic development and systems reform offers and development of public private partnerships in the health sector in India.

David is a highly experienced healthcare manager operating at executive board director level for twenty years in the NHS (major Academic health centre’s / teaching hospital acute Trusts) and management consultancy firms with a comprehensive economics based strategic and operational management track record.

David’s last role before joining Matrix was as Executive Director of Strategic and Business Development Imperial College Health Care NHS Trust / formerly Hammersmith hospitals NHS Trust. In this and his other roles he has had considerable experience in health systems in the US and Asia. He has proven experience and track record on over 250 major health care projects including a large number of high profile NHS planning projects and many with a significant international health care dimension.

David Welbourn

David Welbourn leads the Health and Human Services team, which is a part of the company’s Strategic Analysis and Consulting unit. David joined the company with over twenty years of management experience in both public and private sector organisations. At different points in his career, his responsibilities have included leading: research and development, finance, IT, program delivery, marketing, and corporate strategy.

Immediately prior to joining Matrix Knowledge Group, David led the development of organisational governance processes for a consortium of London Primary Care Trusts, which provide health services to London residents. Previous work experience includes serving as executive director of performance in a strategic health authority (SHA) in the UK National Health Service. His work for health care delivery providers has focused on organizational governance and implementation of governance initiatives.

David has a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Edinburgh University, and a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Natural Sciences from Trinity College, Cambridge. In addition, he is a Chartered Engineer and a Chartered Physicist.

David Pritchard

David Pritchard leads the team within the Strategic Analysis and Consulting unit which brings to bear deep capabilities in quantitative and qualitative research and evaluation. His team is comprised of statisticians, economists, data analysts, evaluators, researchers and management scientists.

Before joining the company, David, a British citizen, spent the bulk of his career in the United States, working for eleven years as a management consultant with a large professional services firm in Washington D.C. Much of his work there focused on reform of US. federal government. Previously, he worked for four years as an economist with the New York City government.

David has a Master’s degree in Public and Private Management from Yale University’s School of Management, a Master’s degree in Peace Studies from the University of Notre Dame, and a Bachelor’s degree from Oxford University.

Myriam Lugon

Myriam Lugon is the company’s medical director, serving as an internal consultant and resource on a wide variety of health and human services projects.

Myriam has deep knowledge and extensive practical experience in a range of areas that include: patient safety, clinical excellence, clinical governance, and development of clinical services. In addition, she has convened a standing panel of clinical experts to help inform Matrix Knowledge Group’s work in areas related to health and human services.

Myriam received the Diplôme Fédéral de Médecin in 1976 from the Medical School University of Geneva, Switzerland and was made Member of the Royal College of Physicians in the UK in 1982. She became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1994. She has also completed several additional educational courses in the fields of Development Studies, Accounting and Financial Management.

Myriam currently serves as the Chairperson for Victim Support for Kensington and Chelsea and the Health and Social Care Development Agency CIC.

John Newman

John Newman is a Managing Consultant with over 15 years of experience working in healthcare, both in the UK and in Australia. John began his career as a Physiotherapist working in large teaching hospitals in Australia and as a case manager for a major public sector insurance company, before moving into more general management and strategic planning roles. Since moving to the UK in 2002, John has worked in a number of senior leadership positions, including with the Healthcare Commission, North East London Strategic Health Authority, and most recently as the Director of Integrated Governance for Newham University Hospital NHS Trust in East London. John has a broad range of skills and experience which includes strategic planning and service redesign, corporate governance and risk management, health information, and performance management. John is currently a Member of the Chartered Management
Institute in the UK and holds a Bachelor of Physiotherapy degree and an MBA in Business Law.

Stephen Thomas

Stephen has been an Executive Director of Matrix since 2006, following the acquisition of Aspira Communications. As Managing Director he is responsible for the group’s technical services, using rapid and agile methodologies to develop products based on our proprietary software aspiraHub™ that are sold across the private and public sectors.

He is responsible for building strategic relationships with our technical partners that include Microsoft, 7Global and Steria.

Within Matrix he is responsible for IT & IS, developing performance management systems that help the board steer the company and the business managers to control their projects.

Much of Stephen’s career has been in the private sector providing advice to senior executives on internal and external corporate communication, stakeholder engagement and performance management; developing a ‘triple bottom line’ approach to reporting within large international enterprises and maximising the use of appropriate technology.

Raj Neergheen

Raj is a Managing Consultant and Head of Informatics at Matrix Decisions and has been with the organisation since it started. He has a background in mathematics and information technology and is also an experienced systems analyst and software programmer. Raj has extensive health data and health data analysis experience and acts as analytical lead and provides technical support to a wide range of Matrix projects, including projects for the NHS, Criminal Justice System, Home Office, Local Government and the private sector.

Raj has worked in the public service arena for the last 17 years. His experience and expertise in modelling and decisions analysis helps to unlock the value in the information and interpret the data to give clients insight and enable evidence informed and transparent decision-making.