'In Circle, everybody matters. We believe that we can't
build a great organisation with a small number of people at the so
called "top". The people listed below are simply the members
of the executive board of Circle. These are the people that
facilitate the work of many great partners across our teams.
Everything that we do that matters is done by many people whose
names and faces aren't listed here. Please don't make the usual
mistake of presuming that the people listed below are the only
people who matter in Circle.' Ali Parsa, Circle CEO.
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Ali Parsa
Chief Executive
Ali Parsa is a social entrepreneur and co-founder of Circle. His
personal belief that employees should own the companies they work
for has pioneered a new model of delivery in UK healthcare. Prior
to Circle, Ali was an Executive Director of Goldman Sachs' European
Technology Investment banking team. He also worked at Merrill Lynch
and Credit Suisse First Boston. He was the founder of Victoria and
Gilan, a media company, and a recipient of the Royal Award for UK
Young Entrepreneur of the Year. Ali has a PhD in Engineering
Physics from the University of London.
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Massoud Fouladi
Chief Medical Officer
Massoud Fouladi is co-founder of Circle. As Medical Director,
his vision has been to build a co-owned and clinically-led
partnership of healthcare professionals. As a consultant in East
Kent, he was involved in redesigning ophthalmic services for the
region, establishing the Integrated Ophthalmic Group which brought
together secondary care specialists, GPs and optometrists. This
became a national model for service redesign. In 2001, Massoud
founded the Ophthalmic Clinical Leads Forum at the King's Fund. He
was Chair of the Association of Ophthalmologists in the UK from
2003-2007.
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Ben Lloyd
Head of Business Development (NHS)
Ben joined Circle in October 2010 to develop further
partnerships between Circle and the NHS. Ben leads Circle's input
into the operational and financial work streams for Hinchingbrooke
NHS Trust. Prior to joining Circle, Ben spent 3.5 years as Director
of Finance & Performance at South Central Strategic Health
Authority. Prior to that he spent 4 years as Finance Director
at Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust, leading a major
financial improvement programme, and prior to that 2 years as
Director of Finance & IT at Poole Hospital NHS Trust. Ben
has successfully managed a number of high profile transformational
change programmes in both PCT and hospital settings. Ben is a
fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.
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Gary Mudie
IT Director
Gary started his career at the
Arcadia group, delivering many of the market leading systems that
are still in operation today. He progressed his career in
consulting within one of the largest outsourcing companies,
C.S.C. Gary later moved to Universal Music Group having
identified the music industry's need to move to digital, and
delivered the industries' first digital audio content library.
He went on to join ASOS.COM as IT & Logistics Director,
overhauling the core architecture and systems within a 24 month
time span. Under his leadership, the group achieved numerous
industry awards, including 'IT Team of the Year 2009', the
'Logistics Golden Chariot for Delivery Excellence', and numerous
website awards including 'best customer experience' and 'best
pure-play retailer'.
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Nick Boyle
Head of Business Development (Private)
Nick leads on developing strategic partnerships with other
independent healthcare organisations. He is also a general and
laparoscopic surgeon and practices part-time in Maidstone and
Tunbridge Wells in Kent. He was formerly Director of Surgery and
lead clinician for upper gastrointestinal surgery at Maidstone and
Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust. Nick trained in Southampton and at Guy's
and St Thomas' hospitals in London, and holds a Master of Surgery
from the University of London.
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Paolo Pieri
Chief Financial Officer
Paolo joined Circle as the Chief Financial
Officer in Nov 2010 after spending 5 years at lastminute.com. He
spent the majority of this time as the UK Finance Director and
subsequently became the Managing Director of some European
divisions, transforming their financial performance from loss
making to profitability. Prior to this Paolo spent 7 years in the
Virgin organisation, 3 of which as Finance Director of the
200-store strong Virgin Megastore business. Paolo has a Bachelor of
Accountancy from Glasgow University and is a member of the
Chartered Institute of Accountants for Scotland.
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Steve Melton
Head of Mobilisation
Steve has over 22 years of experience of leading large scale
operations. Prior to Circle, he was the Supply Chain Director at
Argos, where he led a number of operational improvement
programs. Previously, he was Supply Chain Director at
Scottish Courage Ltd., managing over 3,000 staff and a £165m cost
base. He began his career on Unilever's Management Trainee Program,
and has held a number of roles at Unilever, Elida Faberge and ASDA.
Steve holds an MA (First Class) in Chemical Engineering from the
University of Cambridge.
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