Kerry joined the Alder Hey Board in September 2018 and was reappointed by the governors for a second three-year term to September 2024. She is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and a finance, risk and internal control leader with over 24 years’ experience in “Big 4” professional services and as a Non-Executive Director covering governance, finance, risk management and internal control. Kerry is Chair of our Audit and Risk Committee and a member of the Safety and Quality Assurance Committee. Kerry is the Trust’s NED lead for Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response and Freedom to Speak Up.
She was a Senior Manager at Deloitte for 11 years where she provided internal audit services to numerous organisations and industries both in the private and public sectors. She then spent three years as Head of Internal Audit at Universities Superannuation Scheme Ltd followed by three years as the Director of Retail Banking, Internal Audit at Ernst & Young (EY).
Kerry spent nine years as a Non-Executive Director at Liverpool John Moores University where she was Chair of the Finance Committee and a member of the Nominations and Remuneration Committees and Chairman’s Group and also served on the Audit Committee. She is a Non-Executive Director for South Lakes Housing in Cumbria, a member of the Audit and Risk Committee. Since leaving EY she has been managing her own portfolio of 10 rental properties in the North West.