An Independent Team of Committed Professionals

THE BOARD

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Director

PAUL NEWSHAM

Paul is a partner at RfM Preston, which is a progressive and proactive Chartered Accountancy practice based in Leyland, Lancashire. He has over twenty years' experience in helping and advising owner-managed businesses to achieve their potential, whether that be to maximise value on disposal or to run their companies more efficiently and profitably.

RfM provides a full suite of accountancy, audit and tax planning and advisory services for a wide range of clients in many different sectors. Paul is inspired by all aspects of financial compliance and possesses strong leadership skills, which are an invaluable asset to the PCA.

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Commercial Director

Kyle Cowell

Kyle has over a decade’s experience working in the temporary worker and contractor payroll market having occupied positions for both recruitment and umbrella firms; he has also worked as a contractor, so he is perfectly qualified to recognise the effects that acts of non-compliance have upon the ever-growing contingent workforce.

Inspired by the aspirations and remit of the PCA, Kyle holds a pivotal position within the organisation and as Commercial Director, serves as the conduit between our team, potential members, stakeholders and ultimately, the contracting fraternity. Kyle is based in Kent but travels the UK to champion the PCA agenda and to encourage like-minded businesses and individuals to actively join and support this visionary organisation.

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Director

OLIVIA SPRUCE

Having completed her degree at de Montford University in Leicester, Olivia deliberately embarked on a career in recruitment, cutting her teeth as a consultant for a construction and property agency. The experience gave her an insight into the complex workings of the recruitment business and enabled her to prove herself at the sharp end of the industry.

Tenacious, driven, and honourable by nature, these qualities propelled her career to executive level before taking over the running of Positive Healthcare in 2018. The hitherto faltering agency has now evolved into a multi-million-pound brand with over 35 staff representing hundreds of candidates in the medical, health, social care, and mental health sectors.

Her personal attributes have instilled integrity and honesty into the business and set the standards by which to continue Positives’ accelerated growth plans. Olivia has embraced the opportunity to join the PCA as she is committed to transforming the umbrella landscape to ensure it provides a transparent and reputable outsourced payroll function to the assignment-based supply chain.

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Director

Martin Innes

As a data expert, strategist and policy maker, Martin has extensive experience of delivering large-scale structural and cultural change projects in the public sector, including numerous high-profile roles in the NHS, with a focus on improving efficiency, financial management and overall performance.

Among his varied experience, Martin has led a team that facilitated an NHS cost reduction of £1.24 billion in agency staffing spend and, during the pandemic, he directed a team of data specialists to provide insight and clear advice to ministers and key decision makers from COVID-19 surveillance studies.

His experience with the NHS has given him significant insight into the risks faced by the growing number of healthcare staff paid by umbrella companies due to a minority of fraudulent providers. He joined the PCA Board to seize the opportunity to work towards ending this exploitation of innocent workers.

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