SCCL - Key Persons


Andrew New

Job Titles:
  • Member of the SCCL Board
Andrew joined SCCL as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in September 2021. Prior to joining SCCL, Andrew was the Executive Director for Procurement and Supply Chain at JCB where he was responsible for the Supply Chain globally. Andrew has also held senior roles at Magnox Ltd (now a subsidiary to the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority) and Babcock International Group PLC and brings experience across Retail, Leisure, Engineering and Property sectors. Andrew has extensive experience in business transformation programme leadership, total lifecycle cost management, customer and supplier engagement and deploying technology to optimise business operational performance. He also holds a Masters in Business Administration and BSc in Chemical Physics from the University of Bristol.

Duncan Kendal

Job Titles:
  • Member of the SCCL Board
  • Chief Supply Chain Officer for the Wolseley Group
Duncan is the Chief Supply Chain Officer for the Wolseley Group. At the Wolseley Group, his responsibilities include overseeing: inventory, physical distribution, transport, customer fulfilment and property. He has redesigned the Group's network to remove significant logistics costs and to increase the productivity and quality controls within the distribution centres. He has worked for a number of well-known traditional and e-commerce retailers including Wickes, Amazon.co.uk and Argos and brings a wealth of supply chain and change leadership experience which will support the supply chain expertise within NHS Supply Chain. He is also a Chartered Fellow of the Institute of Logistics and Transport and holds an MSc in Supply Chain Management from Cranfield University.

Heather Benjamin

Job Titles:
  • Member of the SCCL Board

Heather Tierney-Moore

Job Titles:
  • Member of the SCCL Board

Mark Swyny

Job Titles:
  • Member of the SCCL Board
Mark Swyny has 30 years of leadership experience across the financial services sector including in business transformation and change management. He has held various leadership roles in the Lloyds Banking Group including recently as supply chain director. He is currently a non-executive director of Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust and The Kemnal Academy Trust (45 schools across south and east England).

Miranda Carter

Job Titles:
  • Member of the SCCL Board
  • Director of Provider Development at NHS England
Miranda is currently director of provider development at NHS England. Miranda joined Monitor in 2004 where she was responsible for the assessment of NHS foundation trust applications and reviewing NHS mergers and acquisitions. More recently she has taken responsibility for the provider transformation and provider policy teams within NHS England focusing on the development of the provider sector with systems to support the delivery of the NHS Long Term Plan commitments. A qualified chartered accountant, Miranda started her career at Deloitte working in the UK and Hong Kong. In 1997 she joined PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and spent four years in the transaction services department in London focusing on due diligence assignments. Her portfolio of financial experience is wide-ranging and includes mergers and acquisitions, due diligence and initial public offerings (IPOs).

Rommel Pereira - CFO

Job Titles:
  • Finance Director
  • Member of the SCCL Board
  • Member of the North East London Audit Chairs Group
Rommel is a highly experienced finance director with a career spanning more than 40 years including as finance director at the Bank of England. He currently holds non-executive director roles at Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, London Ambulance Service NHS Trust, The Riverside Group and The National Archives and he also chairs their audit committees. Rommel is also a member of the North East London Audit Chairs Group and South West London Finance NEDs' Group, providing guidance and oversight to the formulation of these regional NHS Integrated Care Systems.