Roger Paffard
Chair
Sue Ryder Care
Roger’s career has spanned the business, public and voluntary sectors in a variety of chief executive and non-executive roles. He is currently chairman of Sue Ryder (one of the leading care providers in the voluntary sector providing 4 million hours of care) and a trustee of WRVS (with 50,000 volunteers).
Roger’s commercial experience is in the consumer goods and retail sectors starting in marketing with Lever Bros and Bristol Myers in the 1970s. Over the next 20 years he was chief executive of Alberto toiletries, Limelight furniture, Staples office superstores and Thornton’s chocolates.
In the last decade he has worked in the public and voluntary sectors – initially as chief executive of Remploy (a non-departmental body and the leading provider of employment and training opportunities for disabled people) and then as ceo of United Lincolnshire NHS Trust. Over this period he also has been a trustee and strategy advisor for Marie Curie cancer care, an independent consultant on business turnarounds and growth strategies and a trustee of a number of other smaller funding and educational charities.
Roger read modern history at Oxford University and currently lives in both Nottinghamshire and London.
In the last decade he has worked in the public and voluntary sectors – initially as chief executive of Remploy (a non-departmental body and the leading provider of employment and training opportunities for disabled people) and then as ceo of United Lincolnshire NHS Trust. Over this period he also has been a trustee and strategy advisor for Marie Curie cancer care, an independent consultant on business turnarounds and growth strategies and a trustee of a number of other smaller funding and educational charities.
Roger read modern history at Oxford University and currently lives in both Nottinghamshire and London.
