Our team

As Onebright’s CEO, Donald is responsible for leading the executive team and ensuring the business delivers on its mission; to create a brighter tomorrow by ensuring easy access to personalised, life changing mental health support.

Donald’s career started as a corporate lawyer followed by almost a decade in the banking and private equity industries. More recently Donald spent 12 years leading an insurances services and medical assessments business, overseeing significant growth and transformation in that time.

As Chief Operating Officer, Vicky is responsible for the clinical and operational teams in Onebright ensuring that our services are easily accessible, and our assessors and therapists are able to provide the mental health support to our clients that delivers amazing life changing clinical outcomes. Vicky’s career started in banking before moving into leadership roles in a diverse range of financial services businesses. In her most recent roles Vicky has led operational activities for insurers, ensuring that customers were at the heart of their operations and making service delivery a priority.

As Chief Financial Officer for Onebright, Colin is responsible for functions including financial reporting, planning and analysis and the financial administration of the business, working with internal and external stakeholders to deliver value creation and effective financial governance. Colin qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers, gaining experience in audit, transaction services and corporate finance advisory. Since leaving PwC, Colin has held Finance Director and CFO positions in a number of privately owned and private equity-backed businesses in the healthcare, consumer goods and retail sectors.

Shamira has been working in mental health research and clinical practice for over 20 years. She is a passionate mental health specialist providing mental health solutions, designing clinical pathways and building innovative evidence based mental health propositions for corporate organisations and large insurers at scale. These incorporate assessments, psychiatry, psychological therapy, and counselling pathways for both adults and children and young people, whilst always ensuring patient care and patient experience is optimised. As a practicing clinician, Shamira delivers clinical services and specialist consultancy shaping wellbeing, mental health training, and organisational performance solutions. She has extensive experience working with global professional services companies delivering consultancy, specialist training and corporate insights delivering benefits to people and organisations.

As Onebright’s Chief People Officer, Katy is responsible for leading HR strategy across the Group. Katy has worked across a diverse range of industries, in both publicly listed and private equity backed companies.

Katy has spent her most recent years, implementing commercially focussed global HR strategies within the healthcare tech industry, overseeing multiple organisational change programmes whilst supporting significant business growth.

As Chief Technology Officer, Paco is responsible for delivering our vision to continuously innovate and facilitate our client journey to provide life changing therapy. Applying fintech patterns from his earlier career, he is determined to amplify the human factor that makes Onebright an indisputable industry leader in delivering data driven, evidence based therapy, and a clinically led service. Bringing in technology to improve client satisfaction and clinical outcomes whilst uncompromisingly guarding data security and client privacy is his key mission.

Ed has spent over a decade supporting growth businesses across the healthcare space and is passionate about delivering Onebright’s mission to improve access to life-changing mental health support. As Chief Strategy Officer, he is responsible for ensuring we continue to innovate and evolve our services to meet our clients’ needs both today and in the future. He leads strategy development, strategic projects, and M&A activity across the group. Prior to joining Onebright in 2020, Ed worked as a strategy consultant supporting investors and management teams to deliver sustainable growth and impact.

Professor Spada leads and oversees the delivery and governance of the company’s clinical services. His role enables Onebright to continue to improve access to and outcomes from existing clinical pathways as well as drive the development of new specialist pathways. He remains Emeritus Professor at London South Bank University.