Bill is a senior independent director at Newcastle Hospitals and chair of the audit committee. 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.
Bill has chaired the international advisory board at Newcastle University’s business school since 2015 and joined the council of Newcastle University in 2020. He is also a director of Newcastle Gateshead Initiative, chairing its finance group, as well as a member of the ethics board of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland.
