Executive Committee

Andrew Cannon

Chief Executive Officer

About Andrew

Andrew joined Voyage Care in 2015. Andrew was previously Managing Director of Bupa Care Services, leading a team of 27,000 across 300 residential homes and five care villages, and caring for 40,000 people. Prior to this, he was Director of Healthcare Delivery at Bupa, responsible for service call centres, claims (UK and India), administration services and a network of treatment ‘Centres of Excellence’ across the UK. Andrew is a qualified accountant with an MBA in European Business (distinction).

Jayne Davey

Chief Operating Officer

About Jayne

Jayne joined Voyage Care in 2013 as Director of Quality and Improvement. She took up her current post in 2015. Since 2005 she has held a number of senior positions both within the health and social care sector and for large corporate, quality led, service businesses. Jayne joined from Saga Healthcare where she was the director responsible for the quality, safety and governance functions along with other key support and customer-facing services.

André Simm

Chief Information Officer

About André

André is an experienced senior IT leader. He has over 30 years managing large, complex IT services across organisations such as Capgemini, Nationwide, and the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF).

André has extensive experience delivering successful programmes of transformation, turnaround, service improvement and increased business value.

He enjoys his role at Voyage Care because 'the leadership team and employees are committed to making a real difference in the world'. In his role, he can deliver technology to support the overall goal of enabling individuals to live the most independent and fulfilling life they can.

Shaun Parker

Chief Financial Officer

About Shaun

Shaun is an experienced finance professional with over 20 years in Finance Director and Chief Financial Officer roles. During this time Shaun has worked for Mars Petcare in the UK and Germany, Diageo in the USA and UK, and CPP Group in the UK. Most recently Shaun was CFO of Tunstall Healthcare Group, the leading provider of alarm equipment and response solutions to support elderly and vulnerable people in their homes. Shaun has extensive experience of finance leadership in growing businesses as well as leading corporate transactions, including numerous refinancings, an IPO, and mergers and acquisitions.

Caroline Byram

Director of Sales, Communications and Property

About Caroline

Caroline joined Voyage Care in September 2015 and now leads the Internal Communications, Marketing and Property teams (including managing our new developments programme) and is Chair of our Environment Committee, spearheading our drive to carbon neutrality. She is has over 12 years’ experience in the social care sector and joined Voyage Care from Bupa UK where she was Head of Public Sector Tendering. Caroline qualified as an architect in 1999 and was a director of an architectural practice until 2011, specialising in housing, health and community regeneration. Caroline has a BA (Hons) Architecture and a graduate Diploma in Architecture from the University of Sheffield.

Gillian Smith

Service Optimisation Director

About Gillian

Gillian qualified as a Learning Disability Nurse in 1997 and has continued to utilise her clinical skills and experiences throughout her career. Gillian joined Voyage Care in 2002 as a Nurse, before taking on the role of Service Manager of a supported living scheme and then the opening of a nursing respite service in 2005. Gillian spent a number of years working within services, delivering a variety of care models offering support to teams to ensure they deliver a high-quality service, before progressing to Operations Manager in 2009, Acting Operations Director in 2015 and since January 2016, Director of Service Optimisation. Gillian's hard work was acknowledged when she was awarded the prestigious Sade Abayomi award at the Voyage Excellence awards in 2017.

James McDonnell

Commercial Director

About James

James joined Voyage Care in 2016. James has worked within the health and social care sector leading on merger and acquisition activities as well as corporate finance roles. James came from Bupa Healthcare as Head of Business Development leading on M&A, growth and developments. Now he is part of the Senior Management Team as Commercial Director here at Voyage Care. James is a qualified accountant with a BBA in Business Management from Lancaster and Wisconsin Business School. James has a young family with three children, so life is busy inside and outside of work.

James said, “working at Voyage is amazing every day is different and the variety of work is always changing. Knowing our work is helping the business to grow and continuing to provide excellent care to more people is a great feeling.

“Good social care to me is all about providing great person-centred care in an environment we can be proud of and ensuring the needs of the people we support is at the centre of everything we do.”

Laura Jordan

Legal Director, Company Secretary and Data Protection Officer

About Laura

Laura joined Voyage Care in August 2015 as Legal Counsel and was made Legal Director and Company Secretary in January 2019. Laura leads the Legal and Benefits Teams and is also Company Secretary and Data Protection Officer for the Group. She qualified as a solicitor (England and Wales) in 2008 at Pinsent Masons LLP where she worked for 7 years as a corporate finance and private equity lawyer specialising in health and social care. Laura also spent time on secondment working in the legal team at the Business Growth Fund. Laura is a health and social care law expert with over 14 years’ experience in the sector, with a law degree (LLB Hons) from the University of Birmingham.

Louise Cherry

Director of People and Development

Walker McFadden

Eileen’s most recent roles include Clinic Director for King’s College Hospital which involved setting up and registering a Healthcare Clinic in Abu Dhabi and latterly working as Managing Director for a provider of complex homecare for Paediatric and Adult clients with a wide range of conditions from ABI, Spinal injuries to metabolic, genetic and neurological diseases and conditions.

Services

Voyage (CYP DCA) Greater London

Qualifications

BA (Hons) in Healthcare Management

Locations covered

London and surrounding counties

Adam Penwarden

Partnerships Director

About Adam

Adam joined Voyage Care in 2023. Adam was previously Director of External Relations at Lifeways Group, leading Lifeways work on relationships with Commissioners and central Government across England, Scotland and Wales. Prior to this, Adam had a long career in social care, local government and supported housing. Adam has an MBA from Brighton Business School.

.cls-1 { fill: #55367c; } our-approach-ico Our Teams

Executive Committee

Andrew Cannon

About Andrew

Jayne Davey

About Jayne

André Simm

About André

Shaun Parker

About Shaun

Caroline Byram

About Caroline

Gillian Smith

About Gillian

James McDonnell

About James

Laura Jordan

About Laura

Louise Cherry

Walker McFadden

Antonella Oliver

About Antonella

Services

Ayesha Trott

About Ayesha

Services

Brian Flynn

About Brian

Services

David Green

About David

Services

Eileen Lock

About Eileen

Services

Qualifications

Locations covered

Adam Penwarden

About Adam

Our Teams