FOUNDER

Na'eem is a Consultant Radiologist in London. He completed Academic Foundation Training at King's College Hospital and thereafter worked as a Clinical Fellow to the NitS National Medical Director, Sir Bruce Keogh and seconded to lead a review of youth engagement at DFID.

He is a former advisory board member for Mayor of London's Team London and former Trustee at Macmillan Cancer Support. He has been previously awarded the Prime Minister's Point of Light award.

PROGRAMME DIRECTOR

Dr Jahangir Alom is an Emergency Medicine doctor working across North East London. He gained his primary medical qualification from the University of Southampton where he graduated with the Deans Prize for Outstanding Contribution to the Faculty of Medicine. Dr Alom also holds a Masters in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He had experience in national health policy roles at NHS England and local experience working with the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. He has been involved with Selfless UK since 2015 and has developed several of our programmes including Porishkar, a cataract surgery service in rural Bangladesh. Jahangir has several leadership roles during his career. His efforts were recognised with an NHS Parliamentary Award and in 2022 he was ranked of the top 100 influential healthcare leaders by the Health Service Journal.

OPERATIONS MANAGER

Amna Imran has been involved with Selfless UK since 2022, helping with logistics and the development of the Global Health Leadership Programme. She has over 3 years experience working with international NGO's in Central and South America, and is a qualified TEFL teacher. Amna was the Project Lead for the Re-Wilding Reed permaculture project in Lake Atitlan, Guatemala, as well as the Team Lead for the Buena Onda Water Filtration project which took place in the surrounding Lake Atitlan villages. Whilst living in Ecuador, Amna led a local Spanish/English language exchange in Las Tunas; and later developed a canine rehabilitation programme by partnering with local vets and residents in Cuenca. In 2023, Amna led the Selfless UK Global Health Leadership Programme alongside Dr Jahingir Alom.

Chair

John-Paul is a trusted adviser to, and commercial negotiator for, entrepreneurs, private equity firms and listed companies. John-Paul was most recently COO at Gresham House Plc, where he was responsible for growing the company from £17m AUM to £2.3bn AUM, 8 to 95 people, the acquisition of 4 public companies, listing of a clean energy fund (LSE:GRID) and the creation of multiple private funds, including the sustainably-focused British Strategic Investment Fund.

Prior to that John-Paul was Investment Director and General Counsel at LDC, the mid-market private equity firm, before which he was General Counsel at Coutts & Co, which he joined from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.

John-Paul holds an MBA from London Business School and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Behind the scenes, John-Paul advises a number of private and public companies on strategy, corporate activity and direction.

Trustee

Vincent Camerlynck currently serves on the Board of a number of Companies as an Independent Non-Executive Director.

His career spanned over 30 years in Financial Services and included roles in both Investment Banking and Asset Management in New York, London, Paris and Hong Kong. He has been a Trustee of Selfless since 2017.

Trustee

Narinder is a corporate partner in the London office of CMS advising private equity sponsors, financial institutions and corporates on all manner of domestic and cross border acquisitions, disposals, restructurings and strategic joint ventures across a variety of industry sectors.

Trustee

Andrew joined Selfless in 2011 as Chief Commercial Officer for the social enterprise ventures Selfless developed in the health-tech space. He co-led various digital concepts through accelerator programmes and social investment rounds. After the spin-out of our ventures and the focus of Selfless on the Global Health Leadership Programme, in 2014, Andrew transitioned to a non-executive role and became a Trustee of the charity.

Andrew is a consulting firm partner. His team works with businesses to form and execute their growth strategies. Andrew is focused on helping clients launch new propositions and business models to deliver accelerated growth in response to changing customer needs, evolving market dynamics, and digital disruption. His background is in corporate strategy.

Trustee

Zahid originally qualified as a pharmacist and then went on to hold a number of industrial roles.

He has served as Head of Healthcare at Innovate UK (Technology Strategy Board), a former Board Member of the Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult, and Director of Population and Early Detection Research at Cancer Research UK.

Currently, he is VP of Global Innovation for Shionogi