INTERHEALTH CARE SERVICES (UK) - Key Persons


Andrew Hughes

Job Titles:
  • Chief
  • Financial Analyst
  • Member of the Corporate Leadership Team
Mr. Andrew Hughes, is the Chief Financial Analyst for InterHealth Care Services. He is a British national educated in the United Kingdom where he studied a Bachelor of Science in Finance and Accounting. As Chief Financial Analyst, Andrew prepares activity, operational, costing and financial models to support tenders for new business. Since joining the company in 2006, Andrew has been involved in numerous projects undertaken in the United Kingdom, Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and the Caribbean.

Dr Emad El Dukair

Job Titles:
  • Board Director
  • Member of the Board
  • Board Director to the Main Board
After obtaining his membership of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (London) in 1984, Dr. El Dukair opened the El Dukair Medical Center in Riyadh, a Poly clinic specialising in the provision of Obstetrics and Gynaecology services which later expanded to provide several other specialities and the first Women Fitness Centres in Riyadh and established a medical equipment supplies and maintenance business which represented a raft of international medical equipment manufacturers. In the late 1980s, Dr. El Dukair moved into the provision of hospital management services, providing clinical and non-clinical services to the Ministry of Health. A Construction operation was added to the Group's activities, where a Total Turn Key Solution was offered, encompassing the design and construction of hospitals, equipping them and eventually operating them. In 1998, Dr. El Dukair was appointed as a Board Director to the main Board of InterHealth Care Services. Since 2005, he has worked on developing Public Private Partnership (PPP) solutions to meet the healthcare needs of developing countries. This model enables the integration of the requirements for Financing new Healthcare infrastructure and the provision of clinical services and facilities management services within a single integrated contract.

Dr. Denise Braithwaite-Tennant

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Corporate Leadership Team
  • CEO TCI
Dr. Denise Braithwaite-Tennant is a native of Grand Turk and daughter of Pastor Frederick Braithwaite and the late Susan Fulford-Braithwaite. She was the valedictorian of the Helen J. Robinson High School and Academic recipient of the Governor's Award for academic excellence. She has a Bachelor's Degree in Biology with a minor in Chemistry from Liberty University in the United States and later graduated from the University of the West Indies Trinidad and Tobago campus with an M.B.B.S. degree in July 1999 with honors in Biology and Physiology and distinction in Pharmacology in her pre-clinical examinations. Dr. Braithwaite-Tennant worked in Jamaica for the Ministry of Health and Human Services as a medical officer from August 1999 to May 2009. During her tenure in Jamaica, she gained invaluable experience working with several of the large hospitals in the area of Emergency Medicine, Trauma and Disaster management. She gained her specialist medical certification in the field of Emergency Medicine from the University of the West Indies at its Mona Jamaica campus. During her training, she was responsible for the management of patient care and flow, junior medical and nursing staff and continuing educational programs. She also visited the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Barbados and the Hartford Hospital in the United States during her international elective period as part of her specialty training. During this period, she gained insightful exposure on the service delivery at regional and internal emergency departments. Dr. Braithwaite-Tennant returned to the Turks and Caicos Islands and worked for the Ministry of Health and Human Services from July 2009. During her tenure at the Ministry, she joined the health care team as the Turks and Caicos Islands' first Belonger consultant specialist Emergency Medicine physician to be employed. In April 2010 when the Turks and Caicos Islands Hospital InterHealth Care Services commenced operations Dr. Braithwaite-Tennant was transferred to its Cheshire Hall Medical Centre Emergency Department where she was the lead Consultant. In May 2014, Dr. Braithwaite-Tennant was promoted to Chief of Medical Services. Dr. Braithwaite-Tennant was recently awarded a Masters in International Management with a specialization in Health sector management from the University of Liverpool United Kingdom in November 2014. Effective December 1st 2020 Dr. Denise Braithwaite-Tennant was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of InterHealth Care Services.

Dr. Małgorzata Świątkiewicz

Job Titles:
  • Director of the Żywiec Hospital

George Commander

Job Titles:
  • Board Director
  • Member of the Board

GM Poland


Malgorzata Swiatkiewicz

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Corporate Leadership Team
  • Hospital Director Poland
Małgorzata Świątkiewicz is the Director of the Żywiec Hospital, the first hospital in Poland built in the PPP formula. She played an important role in taking over medical services by InterHealth Care Services from the Public Partner. Her task is to introduce new standards of care in Poland, modeled on the experience of InterHealth Care Services hospitals. She completed her medical studies at the Military Medical Faculty in Łódź and obtained a medical doctor's diploma. After graduation, she completed a post-graduate internship at the Silesian Medical Center in Katowice, and then began working as a cardiac surgery resident at the Department of Cardiac Surgery of the Polish-American Heart Clinics in Bielsko-Biała under the supervision of an outstanding professor Andrzej Bochenek. In her career, she completed many specialization courses, including courses in heart ultrasound and percutaneous aortic valve implantation - TAVI. She also worked on innovative medical projects at the Research and Development Center of American Heart of Poland. Apart from medical activities, Dr. Małgorzata Świątkiewicz has her own company which provides social services - she runs a nursing home for the elderly and a nursery. From April 2019, she served as the deputy director for development, medical services and innovation at the Regional Hospital in Kalisz. She was responsible for the restructuring of the hospital and created a hospital recovery plan, which she then successfully implemented. In February 2020, she began cooperation with InterHealth Care Services on the finalization of the project of the New Hospital in Żywiec, which began operating on September 24, 2020 and has been the director of the hospital since then.

Matthew Bird

Job Titles:
  • Financial Controller

Nicholas Thadaney

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board

Nicola Plaistow Smith

Job Titles:
  • Director Business Development

Nikola Plaistow-Smith

Job Titles:
  • Business Development Director

Piotr Bednarski

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Corporate Leadership Team

Steve Stein - Secretary

Job Titles:
  • Board Director
  • Corporate Secretary
  • Member of the Board
Steve Stein, is the Corporate Secretary of InterHealth Care Services. He graduated from The Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto Canada in 1977 with an Honours Degree in Business Administration and received his Chartered Accountants designation in 1980. Mr. Stein worked for a National accounting firm for 41 years, was an audit partner for 31 years and was the managing partner of the Toronto Office of the firm for 12 years. He was in charge of the annual audit of InterHealth Care Services for 20 years until his retirement in 2018 when he joined the Board of Directors of that Company.

Wadim Kurpias

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Corporate Leadership Team
  • GM Poland