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Bringing comfort home
In-Home Health Group is an investment consortium consolidating the home care sector.
Our mission is to provide peace of mind and comfort delivering the best possible service of tailored care solutions in home environments.
All decisions, all rewards, and all accountability will be conditioned by that commitment. Our objective is to become a major player and be recognised for standardising our core values across the group & wider sector – Respect, Compassion, Dependability & Continuous improvement.
In-Home Health Group Leadership Team
David Gravells
Chairman
David is an experienced portfolio entrepreneur, chairman and company director with extensive, proven expertise in leading and transforming organisations across a wide spectrum of businesses and leadership roles. Chairing, directing and managing over 20 SME companies achieving a demonstrable track record of: multiple personal investment in company acquisition; enhancement of shareholder value; and the exiting of businesses across multiple sectors. Currently chairing a publicly quoted generalist venture capital trust, with funds under management of £85mn invested in approximately 40 companies with regular new investment and realisation activity, consistently achieving high yields for investors. Previously non-executive director and chair of Remuneration and Organisational Design Committee of the Student Loans Company (SLC), which is responsible for providing £18 billion per annum in funding for the Higher and Further Education Sectors and managing an asset book of more than £130 billion, representing an outstanding public policy success; instrumental role in implementing the SLC’s major transformation programme including successfully conducting very sensitive, high level and public disciplinary issues & proactive personal ‘hands on’ control of critical operational issues in a variety of businesses, achieving inter alia; the remedying of ineffective and inefficient organisational structures and the reduction of overhead costs; launching and implementing entry into mature markets as a disruptor; significant reduction in customer concentrations; sensitively resolving damaging interpersonal relationships; the prompt replacement of underperforming senior managers; restructuring and recovery of bank debt.
Carlos Biggemann
Founder and Principal
Carlos is passionate about healthcare with a background in recruitment at the highest level for the Pharmaceutical Industry. For the past 7 years Carlos has worked for Top Life Science recruitment consultancies such as Barrington James & Volt International – he’s lead Global teams to assist Pharma / Biotech organisations from SME’s and Top 10, assemble world class teams for their specific areas of focus helping them attract and retain talent in line with company objectives.
Carlos has personally closed over £2 million worth of deals in that time and has brought on more than £1 million worth of business for the wider company. After successfully acquiring two properties through LBO’s between 2019-2021 valued at £1 million – Carlos decided to implement a similar model at a bigger scale in combination with healthcare in order to make an impact and tackle problems the industry faces today.
Jonathan Miller
Partner
Jonathan has over 30 years senior leadership experience in customer facing, multi-site operations. Until 2022 he was CEO of convenience store retailer McColl’s plc, a business with 1,600 stores, 15,000 employees and turnover of £1.2bn. Prior to this he was the group’s CFO. As well as extensive commercial, operational and financial experience, he has significant involvement in MBOs, leveraged finance, M&A and equity fundraising, including an IPO.
He is passionate about great customer service, delivering a fantastic employee experience and providing vital services to local communities. He is currently a member of the GOSH Charity Corporate Partnership Board, and led a £1m fundraising campaign to build new parent accommodation at the hospital.
In 1995 he was part of an MBO team that acquired the 640 store Forbuoys newsagent chain from Gallaher Tobacco Ltd. This was closely followed by the £80m acquisition of 780 Martins newsagent stores, creating McColls Retail Group. He was a principal in a secondary buyout in 2005, and then led the store development programme, driving expansion, with over 300 independent convenience stores acquired in 5 years. He ran an IPO process in 2014, raising £130m on the main market.
In 2016 he completed the £117m acquisition of 298 convenience stores from Co-op which was integrated with the existing business in 2017, adding 30% to revenue and 40% to EBITDA. He has completed numerous smaller corporate acquisitions and strategic disposals, as well as a number of debt refinancings.
Chris Nolan
Non-Executive Director
Chris brings to the board the Commercial & Public Sector Health & Social Care Industrial expertise having held Executive appointments in both the NHS & Local Authorities, and a holder of NHS Fit & Proper Person status for Adults & Children’s Services.
Chris is an experienced Chair and Non-Executive, and holds a HM Government Ministerial appointment, as Vice Chair of the Ministry of Defence Veterans & their Families Advisory Committee with a specific portfolio of Health & Wellbeing including Complex & Elder Care needs. He has played key roles in Leadership support including Professional Standards for both CQC & Ofsted, achieving organisational Centres of Excellence and Total Clinical Quality with Regulatory Compliance, Stakeholder Engagement and Staff Development responsibilities, ultimately achieving quality care for residents.
A strong advocate of people development, Chris is a qualified mentor and has led organisations engagement and professional development programmes with multi matrix teams, including during acquisitions, mergers, organic growth and divesting He brings over 25years leadership experience across the private and public sectors as an Executives, NonExecutive & Independent Board Advisor, including with organisations engaged with mergers, acquisitions and divestment across a variety of sectors.
Joanna Grant
Non-Executive Director
Joanna has a wide-ranging background in both the NHS and Independent sector. Choosing to work in the community early in her nursing career, she has worked in a variety of settings including schools, community nursing and Continuing Care. During her years spent in community care, Joanna has worked with several independent healthcare providers as an advisor working to improve the level of care received by people in their own homes.
More recently Joanna was a Chief Nurse in large corporation providing homecare across the UK. She held the overall responsibility for clinical governance and operations as well as being the nominated individual for the Care Quality Commission. Joanna is passionate about supporting people to achieve their chosen goals whilst remaining in their own environment whether this is funded by health and/or social care.
She supports nurse-led care, especially for those with complex needs and has been asked to speak on this subject a number of times including at the Care Show and for the Homecare Association. Most importantly, Joanna is an advocate for those people who need care at home and for the nurses and carers that provide this.
Jonathan Barraclough
Non-Executive Director
Jonathan trained as a Chartered Accountant and has many years working in Finance in both Multi Nationals and also SMEs. The smaller businesses including a number of start-ups and businesses growing organically and also via acquisition then integration.
His first Finance Director post being in 1998 since when he has held a number of Finance Director / Chief Financial Officer positions. Retaining the core disciplines and skills of a Finance Professional, which also covers working on legal and regulatory / compliance areas, he is commercially astute and enjoys working on operational matters to better the business in its performance and organisation.
He believes that the relationship between a business and Client or Supplier works at its best when it is fair and balanced. In that situation ‘all win’ and that includes the team who provide the service day to day and individual Clients.
He has worked in predominantly service businesses which includes building a Nursing Home Group mostly by acquisition. This involved the full gamut of work from evaluation of target units to negotiation, Due Diligence work and arranging funding. Following the deals conclusion he ensures the smooth integration of the new unit in to the Group, supporting the unit management team and ensuring the delivery of operational saving and income / cost improvements.
Kevin Mercer
Non-Executive Director
Kevin has been a lawyer for over twenty-five years. He qualified and spent many years at leading USA headquartered law firm, Weil Gotshal & Mange's, as an Associate in the Commercial/Corporate team.
He then joined a USA based technology client of Weils, and spent the next fifteen years working in the tech sector in multiple jurisdictions.
Thereafter, he worked for leading private equity firms, such as KKR, and worked in the private education, retail and payments sector.
He is a very senior general commercial and corporate lawyer, who has worked across all of EMEA, the Americas and Asia Pac. Primarily, for organisations in sectors undergoing growth or change.
He has worked on a variety of complex commercial transactions, M&A, technology contracts, large-scale staff reorganisations, complex litigation and disputes, new market entry, public enquiries and has worked with domestic and international regulators.
He has sat on many leadership teams and boards. Built and led Legal, Contracts and Compliance teams.