Meet the Board

The Rt. Hon. the Lord Bradley of Withington is Honorary Special Adviser at the University of Manchester. From 2018 Lord Bradley became Chair of Council of Salford University and he is also Chair of MaST Estates Partnership and BTG Estates Partnership, a member of the Advisory Board on Female Offenders (MoJ) and Trustee of the Centre for Mental Health and the Prison Reform Trust. Formerly Member of Parliament for Manchester Withington 1987–2005, he was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Social Security (1997–98), Deputy Chief Whip (1998–2001), Minister of State at the Home Office (2001–02) and a member of the Health Select Committee (2002–05). He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 2001 and ennobled in 2006. The Bradley Report on people with mental health problems or learning disabilities in the criminal justice system was published on 30 April 2009.

Andy became a Director on the MaST Board in October 2021, and is the North West Regional Director for Community Health Partnerships. His previous roles include working across Cheshire and Merseyside as a Strategic Estates Lead in NHS England, and with over 20 years NHS experience, he’s also spent significant time working in Commissioning, Primary Care and Commissioning Support.

Andy gained his Masters at Salford University in 2007, and has extensive experience managing relationships across the public and private sectors. Prior to his NHS career he worked in leasehold and social housing.

Director Charlotte joined the asset management team at Equitix in June 2016. She has particular focus on the real estate assets within the Funds. Charlotte has over 13 years of transactional and advisory experience in Real Estate. Prior to Equitix, Charlotte was an Assistant Director within the Real Estate Corporate Finance team at Ernst & Young“ undertaking transactional activity, strategic consultancy and restructuring across the Care Homes, Retail, Office, student accommodation and residential sectors for a range of private and public sector clients. Charlotte trained as a Commercial Property Surveyor at King Sturge, has a BSc in Chemistry from the University of Birmingham, an MSc in Real Estate Management from Oxford Brookes University and is a member of RICS.

With over 25 years’ experience at Board level in the NHS, Alan has extensive knowledge of health and social care policy and implementation. A chartered accountant with an academic background with a master’s degree in health economics from the University of Sheffield have helped him to lead major programmes of change and innovation in Greater Manchester where he chaired the Stroke Board and Neurosciences Network along with other roles.

Alan is passionate about population health and linkages between good health and economic prosperity. He currently works on the application of actionable  analytics to support earlier interventions in people’s health to maintain well being.

Alan became a Director of MaST boards in 2011.

Stewart Small is a Board Director appointed by Equitix in November 2022. He holds responsibility for a number of projects across a broad range of social infrastructure sectors including healthcare, education, police and student accommodation.