Our Trustees

Geraldine has worked in the NHS since 1990 when she joined as a public health specialist, developing services in response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic in South London. She has since worked in many areas of the NHS including senior roles in public health, commissioning and system leadership and as Accountable Officer, successfully established, lead and merged a number of CCGs across the Sussex ICS. Geraldine is currently Managing Director of Foundry Healthcare PCN in Lewes. She manages the Practice's business operations across its five sites, and heads up their population health and transformation programme. Alongside other colleagues from Foundry she is also a Director of GP Networks - a workforce optimisation and e-rostering platform for General Practice and she is also co-founder and Chair of Arch Homeless Healthcare CIC in Brighton.

Kerry is a Clinical Psychologist, specialising in parent-infant mental health, parenting and parent-child attachment and working as a Principal Neonatal Clinical Psychologist in the NHS.  She holds additional qualifications as a Play Therapist, in. Eye Movement De-sensitisation and Re-Processing (EMDR) and Video Interaction Guidance (VIG), as an Expert Witness in Family Law (Cardiff University Bond Solon) and in Attachment and Biobehavioural Catch-up (ABC).

‘When I had my first child 20 years ago, I really struggled. I felt very anxious. All of my confidence and sense that I understood myself and could cope disappeared…Something that really blew me away was that difficult experiences from my own childhood came to the surface and had to be reworked at each age that my child was. At the same time, I was training to be a clinical psychologist. I felt I learnt more from my introduction to parenting than any doctorate could teach, including a healthy dose of humility!

I set up BrightPIP because I’ve been there and know how devastating it can feel not to be able to connect with your child the way you want to - despite loving them more than anything. I feel passionately about letting the world know these barriers can be overcome with the right caring compassionate support. Please know that practitioners at BrightPIP will never judge you as a parent and will always be there respectfully to learn from you on your journey of parenthood. I am forever grateful we have the honour of working with babies and young families in the first 1001 days, the most important time of their lives’

Simon is a Chartered Accountant by training and brings a wealth of finance and business experience from 11 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers and 26 years working in commerce. His spell at PwC included 3 years in Kenya carrying out corporate rescue and recovery assignments. He took his first Finance Director role in a fashion retail business, but most of his career has been spent in Finance Director roles with large UK housebuilders. Simon has prior experience of charity management and governance from the 5 years he spent as trustee of a community management organisation, delivering services to a major new housing development in Kent.