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Trustees

Robin Broadhurst, CVO, CBE, FRICS (Chairman)

Robin Broadhurst joined Jones Lang Wootton in 1969 and became a partner in 1973. He was Chairman of Jones Lang Wootton International for five years from 1993 to 1997. In March 1999, the firm merged with LaSalle Partners, to become Jones Lang LaSalle where Robin was European Chairman until his retirement in 2003, in which year he was awarded a CBE. He was appointed as Chairman of Grainger Trust plc, the UK’s largest quoted residential property company, in 2007. He is a member of the Prince's Council, the advisory body to the Duchy of Cornwall, a Trustee and Director of the holding company of Grosvenor, Property Consultant to Sir Robert McAlpine, and a senior advisor to Credit Suisse First Boston.  He is also a non-executive director of the British Library, Sableknight Ltd and MPG Properties Ltd. Robin is a Freeman of the City and a liveryman of two companies, the Drapers’ and the Surveyors. He is a governor of Rugby school and a trustee of several charities. He is married with four children and lives in London.

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David Badenoch DM, MCh, FEBU, FRCS (Urol)

David took a B.A. Honours in Animal Physiology at Lincoln College, Oxford then went on to study at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College from 1972 to 1975. He worked as a Consultant Urological Surgeon to Royal London Hospital and St. Bartholomew’s Hospital between 1988 and 2000 where he now holds an honorary position. He was accredited in Urology by the Specialist Advisory Committee in April 1986.

Since June 2000 David has been an Honorary Senior Lecturer at The Joint Medical College of St. Bartholomew’s and The London Hospital and a Consultant Urological Surgeon to King Edward VII Hospital for Officers. He holds various extracurricular appointments/positions including President Elect Section of Urology, Royal Society of Medicine since 2006 (For 2008-2009) and Vice President of Section of Urology, Royal Society of Medicine since 2005.

He has written over 60 Publications in Medical and Scientific Journals and two within published books. David is married with two daughters and two sons and lives in London.

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John Barton CA MBA (Treasurer)

John Barton qualified as a chartered accountant in Scotland in 1968 and went on to do an MBA at Strathclyde University. He spent time working in various industries in Canada, London and the Far East before returning to London in 1983 to become Chief Executive of what was then Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group plc, an insurance broker based in the City of London. He is now Chairman of NEXT PLC, senior non-executive of WHSmith Group PLC and Hammerson plc. He is married with two sons and a daughter. His hobbies include golf, squash, travel and reading.

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Mark Kibblewhite

Mark joined Barclays Wealth in 2005 to develop their UK Private bank franchise. In 2009 he took on the additional responsibility of building the Ultra High Net Worth Business across EMEA. Mark joined from Barclays Capital, where he was Managing Director and Head of Debt Capital Markets and Risk Management for the corporate and public sector in EMEA. Until February 2004, he also ran Investment Banking UK, allowing him to take responsibility for the largest relationships Barclays have in their home country and was responsible for delivering all of the Barclays Capital and Barclays’ services to clients.

Mark is recognised as an expert in transforming the way the private banking industry delivers advice and services to the growing population of Wealth individuals throughout EMEA. In addition to his Barclays commitments Mark invests time in his philanthropic interests working with a range of charities and trusts.

Mark is married with 3 children and lives in Kent. His hobbies include golf, cycling and keeping fit.

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Peter Norman, LVO

Peter Norman has spent the last 30 years in the marketing of luxury goods, from toys, which every parent will confirm are an expensive luxury, to Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH), where he was Managing Director of Parfums Givenchy Ltd for 14 years, and then three years running Halcyon Days.

Prior to this business career, he served seven years in the 9/12th Royal Lancers culminating with a posting as Equerry to HM Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother. He is Chairman of Look Good…Feel Better, the cancer support charity funded by the Cosmetic Toiletry Perfumery Industry. His involvement in Orchid stems from his experience of seeing his son suffer, and subsequently recover, from testicular cancer. Skiing has played a major part in his life, but is now being taken over by tennis (real and lawn), golf, opera and ballet, as well as country pursuits. His married with two children and lives in London.

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Tim Oliver MD FRCP

Consultant Oncologist and Professor Emeritus of Medical Oncology, St. Bartholomew's and The Royal London Hospital School of Medicine and Dentistry.

Tim Oliver studied at St John's College, Cambridge and at The Royal London Hospital. After training in cancer medicine at St. Bartholomew's, he moved to the Institute of Urology and pioneered the drug treatment of men's cancer. Returning to Bart’s and the Royal London, he linked up with centers in East Anglia and Essex to create a clinical trials organisation large enough to study the new treatments that emerged from his work. In 1991 he was appointed to the Maxwell Joseph Chair in Medical Oncology. He has also contributed to international research initiatives in prostate and testis cancer treatment through the European Organisation for Research and Treatment in Cancer (EORTC). Retiring from the NHS in Sept 2006, he is continuing both his research work and private practice to care for patients who ultimately provide the inspiration for all his work.

As a direct consequence of his desire to fight male cancer and his established record in research, Tim helped to found Orchid with his former patient Colin Osborne, and was the driving force in developing the work that Orchid funds. His vision of breaking through conventional research streams and identifying potential novel linkages and dependencies within male cancer disease types, has advanced understanding and provided new solutions. By bringing together basic science, epidemiology and clinical research, together with enabling activity such as histopathology, cell culture, tissue bank and IT/data management, in the form of a holistic programme, Tim Oliver pioneered a broad spectrum of exciting research. A direct result of his vision was the establishment in 2006 of a new Clinical Trials Unit in the Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre in the Bart’s and London School of Medicine in QMUL. Beyond the conventional medical and scientific environment, he is also concentrates on the role of fitness and healthy living in preventing cancers from being triggered in later life. In sum, for Tim, patient outcomes remain the highest priority in the fight against male cancer, and Orchid is privileged to have his continued support and inspiration to guide its efforts.

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Stephen Raby

Stephen graduated from Swansea University with a degree in Psychology before qualifying as a Chartered Accountant with Arthur Andersen in their London Office. He next joined Michael Page, then a small accountancy recruitment company, becoming the director responsible for building their continental European business, opening offices in Brussels, Paris and Amsterdam from his base in Brussels. In 1988 he started his own executive search company in Paris, where he lived for two years, before moving back to London in 1990 to start Stephen Raby Associates, now a leading specialist City search practice.

Stephen was diagnosed with testicular cancer in 1995 when he had the tumour removed, and underwent chemotherapy in 1996. He is an avid Rugby Union fan and has a strong interest in most sports, including playing the occasional round of golf (poorly). Outside sport, he enjoys food, wine and cinema.

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Stuart Seymour BA

Former Testicular Cancer patient Stuart Seymour, completed a degree at the University of Newcastle in geography before playing cricket in South Africa.  He returned to the UK in 1998 and started working for the Investment Property Databank where he managed a large portfolio of funds.  He joined the Royal Bank of Scotland in 2001 and is currently a member of the Financial Analysis and Modelling Team.  Stuart has made a fantastic contribution to Orchid, raising more than £16,000 by organising a gala event at the Café Royal and completing a cycle ride from Lands End to John O Groats.  Stuart is a keen sportsman playing cricket for Berkshire and he also enjoyed fine wine, cooking, stocks and shares.

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Dona Selby

Dona Selby’s career covers a range of roles within marketing, in which she spent a number of years in consumer and business to business marketing for the Royal Mail. As a senior manager, she moved to the charity world, initially with the World Wildlife Fund, where she developed valuable skills in the areas of commercial licensing and Copyright/Trade Mark Law, while working on a diverse portfolio of corporate partnerships.

Joining Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity (GOSHCC) in 1992, Dona helped to set up and promote Peter Pan Children’s Fund in Japan, and negotiated the ongoing licence for a Peter Pan credit card with the Orient Corporation, royalties from which GOSHCC continues to benefit. As Executive Director Fundraising, she led a team of over 50 staff with an extensive fundraising and PR programme that included the successful management of the now established Jeans for Genes Appeal (J4G). Dona was also Managing Director of GOSHCC and J4G trading companies.

In 2006, she turned her attention to the leadership of J4G fundraising, and in 2007 worked with Orchid on a part time basis to develop its structure and capacity, before becoming a Trustee in 2008. She also works as the Special Projects Executive with the London Air Ambulance charity. Dona lives in Esher with her husband.

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Robert Lane

Robert Lane trained as a Corporate/Commercial lawyer at Slaughter and May, and since 1988 has been at CMS Cameron McKenna in the City, specialising in Energy related work. He worked extensively on the England & Wales electricity restructuring between 1988 and 1990, and continues to advise on the various changes and issues which arise.

He has since 1990 been a partner in CMS Cameron McKenna LLP, where he is Head of Regulated Industries, advising on utility commercial and regulatory issues in the UK and overseas. He acts principally for transmission companies, suppliers, traders, banks, generators, distribution companies, water companies, infrastructure funds, governments and regulators.

He is Chairman of the UK Government’s Power Sector Advisory Group, and an Executive Member of the Parliamentary Group for Energy Studies. He is Secretary and Executive Member of the British Energy Association and also Chairman of the City of London Solicitors Company’s Energy Committee. Formerly Chairman of the Utility Committee of the International Bar Association, he was appointed CBE in 2001 for services to overseas trade.

He lives in London, and is married with three teenage children.

 

 

Clare J Fowler CBE, FRCP

 Clare Fowler is Emeritus Professor of Uro-Neurology at UCL, having retired from full time work at UCLH National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in 2010. Coming from a background training in clinical neurophysiology she developed the clinical speciality of Uro-Neurology and established a department of that name at the National Hospital in 1987. Concerned primarily with the neural control of the bladder and how it is affected in neurological disease, her clinical interests were in treatments and methods of improving continence in patients with neurological problems. Her research was carried out in the Institute of Neurology and included clinical trials, studies of how treatments work, and investigation of better methods of management. She and her colleagues have recently published a book “Pelvic Organ Dysfunction in Neurological Disease”.

In 2010 she was awarded the St Peter’s Medal by the British Association of Urological Surgeons and in the 2012 New Year’s Honours the CBE. She is a Trustee of several other medically related charities. She is married and has two children, three grandchildren and a large garden in Surrey. Since retirement she has started to work her way through the RHS exams in horticulture.

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Colin Osborne MBE, Founder Trustee

 

Colin Osborne is a lithographer at one of the leading print management companies. He is a former Director of Ilford Golf Club in Essex and plays off a handicap of six. Colin most importantly, is the founder trustee and driving force behind. Colin possesses the best qualifications of all for his role in Orchid - he has endured two years of treatment for testicular cancer.

Colin's battle with cancer began in August 1994. Ironically, he discovered his lump at the same time as his wife discovered she was pregnant with their second child. An ultrasound scan showed the lump was malignant and he underwent surgery - orchidectomy (removal of the affected testis). Following this surgery, blood tests and CT scans showed the cancer had spread to his abdomen and Colin's fight for survival began. The next treatment was four months of chemotherapy, the side effects of which were vomiting and hair loss, but this was quite easily endured as his chances of survival were quoted as 80%. Colin achieved remission at Christmas 1994 but by January 1995 blood tests were again showing positive which meant that some of the cancer cells had survived the standard chemotherapy treatment. Over the next three months the doctors tried to identify these cells with every known test- including tests still in the research process. But the cells could not be traced.

On 3rd April 1995, Colin's second son (Elliott) was born. Elliott was only two weeks old when Colin was told that at last the cancer cells had been found. Unfortunately, they had now taken hold in his body and had formed solid tumours in both lungs and in his pelvis. The chance of survival had dropped to 40%. After a month of further chemotherapy, a repeat scan showed the tumours had grown showing the chemotherapy was not working. Colin now needed a miracle. Professor Oliver discussed with Colin using a new drug that had not been tried in testicular cancer before, but was showing signs of being successful with other types of cancer. There was no option other than to try it. The chance of survival was now down to 20%. After just one course the tumours shrank, by two courses they were just small specks and as Colin achieved remission from his disease the decision was made to complete the treatment with a bone marrow stem cell transplant.

A bone marrow transplant requires the patient to be exposed to very high doses of chemotherapy to kill off their bone marrow before healthy bone marrow cells are replaced. The treatment requires isolation in hospital for four to eight weeks and totally destroys the body's immune system, leaving the patient open to any infection. Prior to the stem cell transplant, Colin had septicaemia twice, the second time requiring treatment in the intensive care unit. He was warned that there was a risk that the treatment could kill him, but when you are thirty three years old and have two small children, you have no option but to grit your teeth and summon up the strength, courage and determination for the final round. The transplant was a success but Colin's treatment was not quite finished. Just six weeks after the transplant, Colin had to have further surgery to remove all the lymph glands in his abdomen and pelvis to ensure that all the areas that had been diseased were removed and that no cells were to remain that could survive the treatments. Colin was positive throughout all his treatments, he never gave up hope and it was sheer guts and determination that got him through. Colin has utilised his knowledge of the physical and emotional rollercoaster that a man suffers when being diagnosed with and having treatment for cancer and now acts as a counsellor for fellow cancer patients.

It was during his treatment that the financial crisis facing Professor Oliver's research unit came to light. With the knowledge that without the skill and dedication of Professor Oliver and his staff, and without the previous research carried out by the unit, Colin would not have survived, he felt he had to do something to help save the unit and continue the valuable research.

So, together with Professor Oliver the possibility of starting a charity was discussed. Thus the seed (or should I say bulb!) was planted. The first fund raising event for Orchid was a Pro/Am Golf Day at Ilford Golf Club which together with a grand raffle raised almost £20,000. The enthusiasm that greeted this event greatly encouraged and inspired Colin and Tim. After the success of that venture Orchid was registered as a charity.

Colin has appeared on several television shows - notably "Esther", "Open House" with Gloria Hunniford and "Good Morning" with Richard and Judy. Articles were featured in most of the national newspapers and magazines as well as local press and radio. 2004 saw Colin win the prestigious Daily Mirror Pride of Britain award, which was featured on ITV and GMTV.

Raising public awareness is Colin's personal goal. In Colins words "If only one life is saved as a result of better self awareness resulting in contacting a doctor earlier with a tumour, then all the hard work has been worthwhile."

Colin also serves on the Executive Committee of the Men's Health Forum and the NCRI Testis Trials Board.