Chief Executive - Kevin Lavery

Kevin is an experienced CEO with public and private sector experience in the UK and overseas. He began his role as chief executive in March 2022 under a designate position until our ICB was formally established on 1 July 2022. Before this, Kevin had worked as CEO for the City of Wellington in New Zealand City, having previously held the same role in Newcastle upon Tyne and Cornwall Council. 

From his local government roles, Kevin has extensive experience of working with deprived communities and regeneration initiatives. He’s also worked extensively with the health sector on child protection, adult social care and public health. Kevin has been a consultant with Price Waterhouse, was CEO of technology firms Agilisys and Serco Solutions and a director with BT. He was managing director for Enterprise PLC which was headquartered in Leyland.

Kevin’s wealth of experience in business planning and development, infrastructure, technology and leading large organisations, amongst many other skills, provides a solid foundation for developing our ICB. He is also committed to building strong partnership links with health and care organisations across Lancashire and South Cumbria in order to improve health and wellbeing within our communities.