The Board

Members and associates of the Responsible Gambling Strategy Board.


Brian Pomeroy CBE, Chair

 

Brian was the Senior Partner of Deloitte Consulting until 1999 when he took up a number of public, private and voluntary sector appointments. He is currently a non-executive director of the Financial Services Authority and Deputy Chairman of QBE Insurance Europe Ltd. He was formerly Chairman of the Treasury's Financial Inclusion Taskforce, the Gambling Commission, the Payments Council, the National Lottery Commission, Centrepoint and Homeless Link and a member of the Disability Rights Task Force and a trustee of Money Advice Trust for which he now acts as an ambassador.

 

Christopher Bell, Quintain Estates & Development

 

Chris Bell is a Senior Independent Director of Quintain Estates and Development. Prior to this, he was Chief Executive of Ladbrokes Plc from 2003 to 2010. Chris was appointed to the Board of Ladbrokes plc (formerly Hilton plc) in June 2000.  He joined Ladbrokes in 1991 and became Managing Director in 1995. He has held a number of senior positions with Allied Domecq. He is also Vice Chairman of the Association of British Bookmakers, Chairman of the Bookmakers Committee and a member of the Horseracing Betting Levy Board.

 

Paul Bellringer, Consultant

 

Paul Bellringer has 27 years’ experience of working with responsible gambling issues and has been an adviser to governments, regulators and the gambling industry and a principal architect of the social responsibility codes of practice on gambling. He was the founder and first CEO of GamCare

 

Dr Henrietta Bowden-Jones, Consultant Psychiatrist

 

Henrietta Bowden-Jones is an elected member of the Addictions Faculty Executive Committee of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. She is also the spokesperson on Problem Gambling for the College. She is the founder and Lead Clinician of the National Problem Gambling Clinic, the first NHS clinic of its kind in the UK, and is employed by Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust as an Addictions Psychiatrist. She is Honorary Senior Lecturer at Imperial College, London where she researched the effects of orbito-frontal cortex impairment on treatment retention in alcohol dependency. She is a Trustee of Sporting Chance Clinic, a charity for sports people addicted to drugs, alcohol and gambling.

 

Russell Hoyle, RB Hoyle Limited

 

Russell Hoyle runs an independent business consultancy advising small and medium sized companies on their strategic development opportunities. He is a Director of Business in Sport and Leisure, a membership organisation that is a strategic body representing the Sport, Leisure, Hospitality and Tourism sectors. In addition, he is a Special Partner with Vitruvian Partners LLP, a mid market private equity firm and has interests in Social Housing. Until mid 2010, he was Chairman of Inspired Gaming Group plc, an AIM listed technology provider to the land based gaming market.

 

Richard Ives, Managing Director, Educari

 

Richard Ives has extensive experience of prevention and education work with children and young people, especially in relation to illegal drugs and alcohol. He runs the company, educari, which has produced educational resources on, for example, drug and substance abuse. Richard has carried out an evaluation of the Gamble Aware website.

 

Alan Jamieson, Executive Consultant

 

Now an Executive Consultant, Alan began his career in industry moving via the Public service and the City to the Third Sector as a Regional Officer for Relate, Director of the National Aids Helpline, and most recently Deputy CEO of the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP). He has extensive experience in the creation, management, development and funding of service delivery organisations. He has also served as an Expert Advisor to various governments, regulators, commerce, the European Commission, WHO, and so on, on treatment and public education models in relation to public and mental health and well-being strategies. He is a Trustee of the Responsible Gambling Fund and also chairs the RGSB Treatment Panel. He is a member and Fellow of the BACP.

 

David Miers, Professor of Law

 

David Miers is a former Professor of Law at Cardiff Law School. He has a long-standing research interest in and has published extensively about the regulation of commercial gambling. He is regularly consulted by government and the regulatory bodies and in 2003/04 was a Special Adviser to the Joint Committee on the Draft Gambling Bill. He is also a Trustee of the Responsible Gambling Fund.

 

Gerda Reith, Professor of Social Science

 

Gerda Reith is Professor of Social Science and Director of the Gambling Research Group at the University of Glasgow. Her research focuses on the role of social, cultural and environmental factors in the development of different types of gambling behaviour, and on the implications of these for public health and policy.

 

Eleanor Roaf, Consultant in Public Health

 

Eleanor Roaf was appointed to the Strategy Board in June 2009. She is a consultant in public health with NHS Manchester and a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health. She has 20 years' NHS experience and was Director of Public Health for North Manchester Primary Care Trust from 2002-2006. Her background is in social science and research. She has worked extensively on safeguarding children and on reducing health inequalities. She is also a Trustee of the Responsible Gambling Fund. She has recently been appointed as the independent Chair of East Cheshire's Safeguarding Children Board.