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Association of Optometrists
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Who leads it
- Karan VyasDirector · since 2026
- Karen Debra GennardDirector · since 2025
- Professor David Jonathan WhitakerDirector · since 2024
- Ankur TrivediDirector · since 2024
- Andrew Charles HerbertDirector · since 2023
- Nizzakat SabirDirector · since 2023
- Paul Anthony Charles O'ConnorDirector · since 2022
- Dr Rachel Joy HiscoxDirector · since 2022
- Emma Jane SpofforthDirector · since 2015
Previous officers 107
- Paul William Chapman-Hatchett 2024-2025 View profile
- Francesca Maria Parkes 2022-2024 View profile
- Fatima Nawaz 2021-2023 View profile
- Dharmesh Shashikant Patel 2021-2024 View profile
- Tushar Majithia 2018-2022 View profile
- Dr Julie-Anne Little 2017-2026 View profile
- Gordon William Ilett 2017-2023 View profile
- Jeremy Wealbund Holmes 2015-2022 View profile
- Michael Melvyn Fegan 2014-2023 View profile
- Peter Graham Hampson 2014-2017 View profile
- Vicky Marie O'Connor 2012-2014 View profile
- Helen Elizabeth Tilley 2011-2012 View profile
- Jane Rosamund Bell 2009-2015 View profile
- Thurka Sivapalan 2008-2011 View profile
- Kevin John Thompson 2008-2021 View profile
- Michael Rhys George 2007-2023 View profile
- Alison Margaret Mcclune 2007-2017 View profile
- Matthew Edward Bickerstaffe 2006-2018 View profile
- David Michael Shannon 2004-2014 View profile
- Vivian Gordon Bush 2004-2021 View profile
- Nigel Frederick Burnett Hodd 2003-2003 View profile
- Robin Banks 2001-2009 View profile
- Lyndon Richard Taylor 2001-2015 View profile
- Rosemarie Naomi Gayzey 1999-2001 View profile
- Patricia Leaning 1997-1998 View profile
- David Simon Howarth 1997-1998 View profile
- John Hamilton Scott 1997-2000 View profile
- Peter James Warren 1997-1998 View profile
- Thomas George Bond 1997-1998 View profile
- Martin Victor Hood 1997-1998 View profile
- Adrian Hughes 1997-1998 View profile
- Lyn Fiona Price 1996-1998 View profile
- Christopher George Dudley Rushen 1996-1998 View profile
- Grant Alexandor Reid 1996-1998 View profile
- Susan Rosemary Bowers 1996-1998 View profile
- John Graham Bassett 1996-1998 View profile
- Frank John Petticrew 1996-1998 View profile
- Martin Victor Hood 1996-1998 View profile
- Lawrence Falk 1995-1998 View profile
- Professor Nicholas James Rumney 1995-1996 View profile
- Brian John Toye 1995-1996 View profile
- Elizabeth Clare Frost 1995-2007 View profile
- Surainder Kumar Puri 1995-1998 View profile
- John Beverley Bristow 1995-1998 View profile
- Simon David Browning 1994-1995 View profile
- Trevor John Warburton 1994-2014 View profile
- Stephen James Brophy 1994-1998 View profile
- Janet Helen Silver 1994-1996 View profile
- Stephen Harold Reily 1993-1998 View profile
- Philip Harry Daniels 1993-1995 View profile
- Richard James Manns 1993-1998 View profile
- Ann Patricia Duignan 1993-1994 View profile
- Helen Ann Short 1993-1995 View profile
- Ian Wallace Shaw 1993-1998 View profile
- Kenneth Alfred Nichols 1993-1998 View profile
- Lynne Rachelle Speedwell 1992-1994 View profile
- Anthony John Collinge 1992-1995 View profile
- Rosemarie Naomi Gavzey 1992-1998 View profile
- Peter Robert Worden 1992-1993 View profile
- Hugh Macarthur Campbell 1992-1998 View profile
- Elizabeth Anna Williams 1992-1998 View profile
- Jonathan Guy Dodgson Kay 1995 View profile
- John Christopher Symes 1995 View profile
- Patrick George Rope 2001 View profile
- Peter Malcolm Coleman 1994 View profile
- Grant Ewing Mcleish 2003 View profile
- Lynn Susan Hansford 2008 View profile
- Malcolm Donald Gray 1998 View profile
- Robert Ian Yarrow 1996 View profile
- Roger Graham Hulett 1996 View profile
- Michael Noel Charlton 2014 View profile
- Dr Martin Rubenstein 1992 View profile
- David Phillip Austen 1998 View profile
- John Benjamin David Creighton Lewis 2002 View profile
- Richard Hoare 1998 View profile
- Philip Martin Pratt 1992 View profile
- Margaret Anne Packman 1998 View profile
- David King 1995 View profile
- Derek Marcus 2001 View profile
- Hugh Seymour 1998 View profile
- Edward Mcvey 2007 View profile
- Alan James Rundle 1998 View profile
- Gerard James Mcginty 1992 View profile
- James Wood 1993 View profile
- Frank Ernest Barraclough 1995 View profile
- Samuel Rosenthal 1998 View profile
- Michael Hargreaves 1996 View profile
- Daska Barnett 1998 View profile
- David John Clegg 1995 View profile
- Jeffrey Thomas Baker 1992 View profile
- Edmund James Davison Proctor 1993 View profile
- Hendrena Elizabeth Souten 2004 View profile
- Stephen Charles Abery 1992 View profile
- Nora Smith 1993 View profile
- Peter Cole Yeo 1999 View profile
- Amy Lilian Isherwood 1996 View profile
- William Dudley Ashworth 1998 View profile
- Bruce Drummond 1998 View profile
- Donald Clinton-Smith 1997 View profile
- Samuel James Bonnar Barbour 1998 View profile
- John William Powell 1994 View profile
- Robert Francis Haigh 1993 View profile
- Andrew Merry 2008 View profile
- Donald Alexander Cameron 2006 View profile
- Steven Anthony King 2007-2012 View profile
- Robert Gurth Hughes 2005-2007 View profile
- Ian Hunter 2005 View profile
Directors and secretaries as filed at Companies House.
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About
- Incorporated
- 20/02/1946
Board analysis
Board DNA
How this board is put together, from the Companies House officer record and Charity Commission trustee records - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Companies House officer record: the current directors only, past directors excluded.
9 directors on the board
- Emma Jane Spofforth Director · appointed 2015
- Andrew Charles Herbert Director · appointed 2023
- Nizzakat Sabir Director · appointed 2023
- Dr Rachel Joy Hiscox Director · appointed 2022
- Professor David Jonathan Whitaker Director · appointed 2024
- Karan Vyas Director · appointed 2026
- Paul Anthony Charles O'Connor Director · appointed 2022
- Karen Debra Gennard Director · appointed 2025
- Ankur Trivedi Director · appointed 2024
Directors past 6 years
- Emma Jane Spofforth Director · appointed 2015
First-time vs portfolio directors
First-time (7)
- Emma Jane Spofforth Director · appointed 2015
- Dr Rachel Joy Hiscox Director · appointed 2022
- Professor David Jonathan Whitaker Director · appointed 2024
- Karan Vyas Director · appointed 2026
- Paul Anthony Charles O'Connor Director · appointed 2022
- Karen Debra Gennard Director · appointed 2025
- Ankur Trivedi Director · appointed 2024
Portfolio (2)
- Andrew Charles Herbert Director · appointed 2023
- Nizzakat Sabir Director · appointed 2023
Also govern a charity
Left in the last 12 months
- Dr Julie-Anne Little Director · appointed 2017 · resigned 2026
Where else this board sits iWhere else this board sitsThe charitable fields these directors govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this company and any charity it is the legal face of.
The sectors these directors govern in elsewhere. This company, and any charity it is the legal face of, are excluded - counting them would just tell you what you are already looking at.
Sources
Official record from Companies House. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Company number
- 00404790
- Status
- Active
- Type
- PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
- Labels
- Official record from Companies House · Calculated derived by Governance Register.
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