BENWILLIAMSTRUST.ORG.UK - Key Persons
Alec Stewart is the third most capped England cricketer of all time. In 133 tests, he scored 8,463 runs at an average of a shade under 40, and took 263 catches and 14 stumpings. In all first class cricket, he scored over 26,165 runs at an average of 40, taking 721 catches and 32 stampings. He also played for his country in 170 one day internationals, scoring 4,677 runs, taking 159 catches and 15 stumpings.
Alec's most memorable moments in his career include scoring two centuries in Bridgetown in 1993-1994 and leading England to their first major test win for 12 years, against South Africa. He received a standing ovation after scoring a century in his 100th test.
Alec is a much sought after commentator on cricket related matters and has been Surrey CC's Director of Cricket since 2014, with the Club winning its first County Championship in 2018 since 2002 .
Job Titles:
- Trustee
- Chartered Physiotherapist
David Newman is a Chartered Physiotherapist specialising in sports related injuries. He was the physiotherapist for Hampshire Cricket Club from 1985 to 2003, and sat on the England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) Science and Medicine Advisory Group as Physiotherapy Advisor. His roles have included the ECB's Injury Surveillance Officer, with the main responsibility for monitoring injuries within the First Class game in the UK, and the Honorary Secretary of the Physiotherapists in County Cricket. He has lectured extensively on sports injuries to fellow Sports Medicine practitioners at an International level and was medical officer for the 2019 cricket World Cup.
Debbie Grimwood is a qualified NHS Manager with extensive experience of working within both hospital and community based services. As a former manager of Haslemere Hospital and Surrey County Council home care services, Debbie has a keen interest in local health and social care issues and runs her own training and project consultancy business. Her business specialises in developing and running programmes of training for health and social services staff on the impact of caring for families and the importance of providing them with adequate support.
Jan Till MBBS,BSc,MD qualified at St Bartholomew's Hospital London and is a consultant paediatric electrophysiologist based at the Royal Brompton Hospital, London. She is also Divisional Director of Children's Cardiac Services. She was at one time the only designated consultant in her field in the country and leads one of the the largest services nationally offering specialist support and provision for children with heart rhythm irregularities.
Her areas of expertise include childhood arrhythmia, channelopathies, inherited cardiac disease and cardiomyopathies. She is a council member of the Association for Inherited Cardiac Conditions.
Gilly Williams, Ben's mother, has recently retired from her role as a Principal Speech and Language Therapist, working for the Solent NHS Trust with pre-school children with special educational needs and specific language impairment. Before specialising in paediatrics, she also worked with adults with communication difficulties, resulting from severe trauma, strokes and progressive neurological disorders. She currently works on a part-time basis at St Dominic's School in Hambledon and the Hunter Centre, Haslemere's dementia day care centre.
Jonathan Williams, Ben's brother, graduated from Worcester College, Oxford in 2010, where he read Economics and Management and is working for HMRC as part of the Government Economic Service. Jonathan has provided a huge amount of support to the Trust behind the scenes, particularly as our IT guru, and has largely been responsible for the design and build of the website.
Job Titles:
- Trustee
- Solicitor and Partner at IBB Law
Paul Grimwood is a qualified solicitor and Partner at IBB Law. He has specialised in litigation since qualification, including medical professional negligence, and is now part of the specialist contentious probate team. He is also an ADR (Alternative Dispute Resolution) Group Accredited Mediator, registered with The Civil Mediation Council.
Job Titles:
- Trustee
- Chairman of the Trustees
Phil Williams (Chair of the Trustees), Ben's father, qualified as a Chartered Accountant. He has considerable experience of management consultancy, project and programme management and regulatory governance gained within public practice and the insurance industry. He has recently retired from his role with AXIS Capital as Head of Business Governance. Following Ben's death, he has also been diagnosed with an arrhythmia, and therefore has considerable first hand knowledge of Inherited Cardiac services from both a parent's and a patient's perspective.