Bevan Ellis

I am current Chair of Board of Trustees for Active Southland (formerly Sport Southland). I am honoured to work alongside the Executive to help promote, govern and assist the amazing work they do. "Everyone Active, Every Day" is something I am completely bought into and see the direct link between activity, wellbeing and physical and mental health.

I have been involved in the design, implementation and ongoing success fo the Escalated Care Program across the South Island. This is a complex project involving ACC, Specialists, Consultants, Physiotherapists and a range of other health care providers working together to deliver better healthcare for clients.

I am working with small and medium sized businesses ranging from startups through to fast growing companies across a range of business areas. This is a combination of executive coaching and more directional advice and mentoring on specific issues as they arise.

Recent project work ranges from reviewing and implementing new financial reporting structures, facilitating a review of company shareholding and ownership through to setting up basic accounting processes to ensure financial fidelity and record keeping.

I was a key bid writer and reviewer in a tender for a successful £15M contract in the UK and have provided due diligence for two business acquisitions in both the UK and Australia. I am currently helping various clients with both growth and consolidation strategies for their businesses and enjoy helping them shape and achieve their goals.

I am active in the Health and Wellbeing space and have most recently worked on an ACC tender to propose redesigning services and integrating health and wellbeing services across the South Island.

This is a complex project management and advisory role to bring together the clinical, operational, financial and relational parts of a pathway redesign project we are undertaking with ACC

It involves bringing together expertise across sectors (Allied Health, Surgical, Secondary Care, IT, DHB's GP's etc) and designing new ways in which patients might interact with Health Providers and ACC in the future.

Working alongside CEO and Senior Managers as a trusted advisor for the business drawing on previous experience as an founding owner

This was a varied role that provides a critical friend and independent governance role for the company as well as high level tender writing for national contracts and executive coaching.

This was a growing and ever changing role that developed as my business grew. As the complexity of the business increased so did the requirements for its structure and function. The business delivered 120-130k appointments annually across 25-30 sites and my key milestones and achievements included:

• Leading strategic direction including mentoring/line managing Senior Managers
• Providing financial leadership and monitoring of business units and key external contracts
• Organizational restructure at various growth points
  Implementation of Financial, Operational and Clinical Governance structures
• Acquisition (and integration) of other businesses into the Group.
• Development of Internal and External KPI's and financial reporting systems for staff and customers
• Implementation of Performance Management Systems
  Development of strategic and tactical business plans including financial planning for the Group.
• Scoping and project managing facilities refurbishments including running IT tenders
  Developing and managing relationships with large external clients and commissioners
• Writing (including project managing a team of writers) large tenders and subsequently contract managing large public contracts with the National Health Service
  Implementing both electronic and face-to-face triaging systems for populations of >300k people
• Dealing with high level complaints that have escalated through the company's complaints procedure
• Dealing with a range of HR related issues including the implementation of Share Options Schemes, interviewing and selection of senior managers, running disciplinary hearings and providing training and development for staff