Meet the team behind our successful projects.
Director of property
Jeremy Sharp
Director of customer experience
Dave Reavy
Head of contracts and performance
Joining RLPS in 2022 to head up our contracts and performance team. Dave brought over 20 years of facilities management experience gained within the National Health Service (NHS). Having a keen focus on service delivery and improvement, notably in developing and taking forward new ideas, to create improved service delivery through innovation and efficiency, Dave has delivered innovative change in the way in which RFLPS delivers its services reducing service costs whilst improving performance.
A proactive self-starter with strong analytical and organisational management skills, focused on problem solving and achieving desired results, while motivating the team and managing stakeholder expectations. Experienced in working across varied NHS organisations directly managing in-house and contracted out services, developing and tendering service specifications of more than £25m per annum across a wide-ranging estates and facilities portfolio.
Mark Wittich
Director PFI
Before being appointed PFI Director in October 2024, Mark was Skanska UK’s Regional Healthcare Director
responsible for delivering Skanska’s PFI obligations at the St Bartolomew, the Royal London and Royal Papworth
hospitals.
Prior to joining Skanska, Mark was Regional Director at Carillion responsible for the John Radcliffe, Churchill and
Nuffield hospitals and all local authority properties in the Oxford region with additional responsibility for supporting
Carillion’s healthcare interests in Qatar.
Previous to his work at Carillion, Mark was UK Director for Healthcare operations at Mitie and Sodexo and corporate
operations at ISS, partnering the NHS since 2008.
Mark began his career in retail, with Halfords, John Lewis Partnership, Vodafone UK and ASDA Wallmart and holds a Post Graduate
Diploma in Business Management.
Steve Last
Director of Estates & Facilities, Royal Free/ Chase Farm
Steve Last has over two decades of experience in the NHS, having served at various prominent London Trusts. He believes in a hands-on approach, preferring a back-to-the-floor working style to understand and address challenges directly. An avid cyclist, Steve often explores the scenic routes of the Essex and Suffolk countryside. In his spare time, he enjoys perusing Autotrader, scouting for his next car.
Alison Foster
Director of transformation (Interim)
Alison brings over 30 years’ experience across the NHS, private and voluntary sectors. Beginning her career as a mental health nurse, she has spent the past two decades in senior leadership and transformation roles. Alison has held a number of executive level positions, including Director of Nursing and Quality, and most recently Programme Director for an NHS Trust within the New Hospital Programme.
She has a proven track record of delivering large-scale, complex programmes and is deeply committed to the power of diversity, engagement and collaboration in achieving outstanding outcomes for staff, patients, and the public.
Alison currently leads a large multidisciplinary team delivering a broad range of Transformation and Programme Management services.
Paddy Hennessy
Technical Operations Director
With a background in construction management and building surveying, Paddy worked in various roles in the construction industry and Local Authority in Ireland prior to moving to the UK in 2009. Since then, he has held a number of senior leadership positions in Acute NHS organisations in the London area, focusing on Estate, Facilities and Capital delivery functions. Paddy enjoys working in challenging and complex environments, and always strives to improve and enhance facilities for the benefit of patients, visitors and staff.
Jeremy Sharp
Director of Customer Experience
Jeremy Sharp began his NHS career as an NHS Hotel Services National Trainee and since then has held several senior facilities management posts throughout the southwest, midlands and been London based since 2001. Exposure at senior management level in primary care, specialist acute and the acute environment delivering facilities management services ranging from in-house operations, direct contract management, within retained estate and PFI environments. Jeremy engages with teams to deliver FM services that not only deliver compliance but also ensure that every service area and individual aims to deliver a first-class staff and patient experience.
Maggie Robinson BA Hons MRICS is the Director of Property, a property professional operating at director level in the NHS since 2009. Drawing on over 20 years’ experience including from the private sector she provides expert advice on asset management relating to land and buildings. She leads a multi discipline team focussed on facilitating delivery of clients business and clinical strategies, delivering optimised value to support realisation of organisational and NHS objectives for benefit of patients and staff. Areas of expertise include master planning, town planning and disposal/partnering opportunities; management of keyworker accommodation, workplace and space planning strategies and general estate management. During tenure at RFL has orchestrated and overseen delivery of over £150m from disposals. She is an active and widely respected member of the STP estates board and provider representative on the London Estates Delivery Unit with excellent system connections.
Joined the NHS in 2002 and held a number of Estates & Facilities Director and Workforce and Procurement roles prior to being appointed as Managing Director of RFLPS in 2018. Prior to 2002 Andrew worked in commercial design, surveying and project management consultancy for over 18 years. Andrew has a successful track record of establishing and leading commercial and healthcare property organisations, formulating policy, transforming operational service delivery of project and front line services across a variety of estates and delivering strategic developments. Andrew had led the construction of hospitals, business parks, courts, offices, shopping centres and residential developments.