Meet the Board

Liverpool & Sefton Health Partnership Ltd

Dave Sweeney

CHAIRMAN

Dave joined the LSHP Board as Chair in Autumn 2022. Dave was one of the first fully integrated Executive Strategic Commissioners that span both the CCG, LA, Community, Voluntary Sector, Sport, and Environment.

Dave has 21 years’ experience working in NHS and LA transformation/various levels of change management. A multi-award-winning commissioner, Dave was awarded UK Social Value Leader 2016. Passionate about mental wellbeing, social movement and harnessing the power of communities. In December 2016 Dave picked up an NHS Leadership Award for ‘Service Development and Innovation’.

Dave is now a Director in the newly established NHS Cheshire and Merseyside and leads on Sustainability and a wide range of system aspects including the Green Plan and implementing place and scale opportunities to meet the net zero targets. Anchor institutes, Executive lead for the voluntary sector, social value and personalised care.

Georgi Shopov

DIRECTOR

Georgi is the second BBGI Director representative on the Board. In his current role in BBGI, he is part of the business' valuation, asset acquisitions and asset management teams.

Prior to joining BBGI, he graduated as a Masters in Finance from London Business School and began his career in the Public Private Partnership (PPP) and Private Finance Initiatives (PFI) schemes in 2011 in a financial modelling capacity for advisory businesses working on multitude of transactions in the economic and social PPP/PFI sectors.

Andy Muir

DIRECTOR

Andy became a Director on the LSHP Board in October 2021, and is the North West Regional Director for Community Health Partnerships. His previous roles include working across Cheshire and Merseyside as a Strategic Estates Lead in NHS England, and with over 20 years NHS experience, he’s also spent significant time working in Commissioning, Primary Care and Commissioning Support.

Andy gained his Masters at Salford University in 2007, and has extensive experience managing relationships across the public and private sectors. Prior to his NHS career he worked in leasehold and social housing.

Ian Tayler

DIRECTOR

Ian is the BBGI representative on the Board. He is a Chartered Management Accountant and has a wealth of corporate and operational experience of delivering and managing public sector contracts and PPP/PFI schemes across several different sectors.

Gideon Ben-Tovim

DIRECTOR

Gideon Ben-Tovim OBE is Hon Senior Fellow in the Dept Sociology University of Liverpool where he Chairs the Liverpool Institute for Health Inequalities Research. Deputy Chair of the Mayor of Liverpool’s Heath Commission, Chair of the Northwest Coast Academic Health Science Network as well as the Liverpool City Region Local Nature Partnership.

Andreas Parzych

DIRECTOR

Andreas Parzych is an Executive Director and member of the Management Board of BBGI Global Infrastructure S.A.. He has over 20 years’ experience in infrastructure investment across transport, social infrastructure, and renewables in Europe and North America.

He joined BBGI in 2016 as Director, Head of Business Development, responsible for identifying, evaluating, and executing investment opportunities for the fund, and has played a key role in implementing our growth strategy since joining BBGI.

Before joining BBGI, he was a Managing Director with John Laing, responsible for the primary investment activities in Continental Europe. He also worked at PwC in the infrastructure, government, and utilities advisory business.