Bill is Vice Chair at Newcastle Hospitals and Chair of the Finance and Performance Committee.
Bill has been a member of Council at Newcastle University since 2020 and Chair of the Audit, Risk and Assurance Committee since 2022. He was Chair of the International Advisory Board at Newcastle University’s Business School between 2015 and 2022. He is also a Non-Executive Director of Newcastle Gateshead Initiative, chairing its Finance Group, as well as the Chair of the Ethics Board of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland.
He is a Chartered Accountant and was a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP for 25 years specialising in audit.
He held a number of senior positions with the firm including senior partner of the Newcastle office. On a national basis, he served on PricewaterhouseCoopers UK’s Supervisory Board, chaired the firm’s own Audit and Risk Committee and his final role was as the firm’s ethics partner with oversight of professional ethics and conduct.
