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Simon Barber

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Self Employed Management Consultant at Simbar Consulting Limited
📍 Stockport, England, United Kingdom

Simon is an experienced CEO with over 25 years of board-level experience across the public and private sectors, including a 13-year tenure leading an NHS Trust. He specializes in transformation, M&A, and financial turnaround and holds a BA from Durham University.

Following his retirement, Simon emigrated and now operates his own management consultancy. He serves as a Non-Executive Trustee and Chair of the Audit Committee for The Reader, a national charity focused on shared reading, indicating an interest in literature and community.

After a long career in healthcare leadership, he retired from the NHS and emigrated to start a new chapter.

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Experience
27 Years
Current Role
Self Employed Management Consultant
Job Level
Senior
Location
Stockport, England, United Kingdom
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Healthcare Transformation
As CEO, he led an NHS Trust through significant growth, successfully improving quality and achieving three successive "Good" ratings from the CQC.
Mergers & Acquisitions
He gained significant M&A experience in the private sector with United Utilities and now applies this expertise in his management consulting practice, Simbar Consulting Limited.
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Career

Work history

6-2021
Self Employed Management Consultant
Simbar Consulting Limited
12-2007 - 5-2021
Chief Executive Officer
North West Boroughs Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
11-2013 - 1-2018
Non Executive
The Reader UK
5-2006 - 12-2007
Self Employed Management Consultant
Simbar Consulting Limited
5-1994 - 5-2005
Director Finance
United Utilities
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Education
1985 - 1987
BA(Hons)
Durham University
2012 - 2012
Postgraduate Cetificate in in Executive and Business Coaching
Leeds Beckett University
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