Stephen King

CFIOSH DipSm FIIRSM FRSPH

Chief Executive Officer and Chairman

Stephen King co-founded PHSCL in 1990 with Nicola Coote. He has over 30 years of experience in health and safety management, having qualified in 1985. He left a role as Personnel Manager at Delta Enfield Cables Ltd in 1986, moving to the News International printing facility at Wapping, London.

At News International, he was the Occupational Health and Safety Manager, in charge of a team of practitioners responsible for the well-being of over 4,000 staff. In 1990, he joined Reuters plc as UK Health and Safety Manager. He left employment with Reuters plc in 1992 and continued to service their health and safety requirements through PHSCL. He has acted as Secretary of the South East Branch of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health and served a two-year term as Chairman of the London Occupational Health and Safety Group by whom he was granted honorary Life Membership. He chaired the annual Tolley Health and Safety Conference for three successive years and has presented papers at a number of conferences.

He currently chairs Kent Health and Safety Consultants Forum, a group set up by the Health and Safety Executive that has a remit to improve the standard of advice given by all independent safety consultants in the county.


Nicola Coote

CFIOSH MCIPD

Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Deputy Chairman and Head of Marketing

Nicola Coote co-founded PHSCL in 1990 with Stephen King. After seven years of working in occupational safety and health with News International, she moved to Reuters plc in 1990 sharing the UK Health and Safety Manager role with Stephen King, and qualified as a health and safety practitioner in 1991. She left their employment in 1992 and continued to service their health and safety requirements through PHSCL.

Nicola has served as Secretary of the South East Branch of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health and has chaired the annual Tolley Health and Safety Conference. She has been a national examiner for the National Examination Board in Occupational Safety and Health and on the editorial board of Lexis Nexus Butterworth Tolley. She continues to write and update editorial material for their publication Tolley’s Health & Safety at Work Handbook and has acted as author, consultant editor or contributor to more than 30 titles produced by publishers such as Croner. She was the first female fellow of IOSH in the south of England and continues to support the institution by, inter alia, sitting on the panel for applicants applying for chartered membership and chartered fellowship status. She is also a Registered Expert Witness and works on both criminal and civil cases.

Nicola works both operationally and strategically within the group, monitoring and developing suitable and high-quality products and services against current and future client requirements. She attained the level 6 Diploma in Marketing with the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) to support the development of the Group’s marketing strategy and oversees the Group’s marketing strategy and activities.


Frank Moxon

Non-Executive Director

Frank Moxon was appointed a non-executive director of PHSC plc in October 2024. He has extensive experience over the past 20 years, as a non-executive chair or non-executive director of private businesses and companies listed in London, Australia and Canada. He is currently also a senior independent director at Jersey Oil & Gas Plc and president of the East of England Co-operative Society.

Previously, Frank was a corporate financier and financial adviser to companies operating in a wide variety of industry sectors, ranging from start-ups to businesses over £3 billion in size by market capitalization.

Throughout his career, Frank has successfully advised growth-focused companies on financial structuring, equity and debt capital raisings and M&A transactions across a variety of different strategic contexts and geographic locations.

Frank has a BSc in Economics and is an Honorary Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment.


Lorraine Young

Non-Executive Director

Lorraine Young was appointed a non-executive director of PHSC plc in April 2016. She runs a board review, advisory and consultancy practice, as well as being an accredited mediator, and serves on the advisory board of Indigo Independent Governance.

Lorraine is a former non-executive director of City of London Group plc, an AIM-quoted company in the financial services sector where she chaired the remuneration committee. Lorraine has held senior governance roles at several blue-chip companies, including Standard Chartered plc and Brambles Industries plc.

Lorraine ran her own company secretarial and corporate governance advisory practice for 13 years, in 2016 she merged with the company secretarial team at a UK top 50 law firm, where she was a partner. Lorraine is on the Court of the Worshipful Company of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators one of the modern livery companies, where she chairs the Finance & General Purposes Committee. She is also a past president and fellow of the Chartered Governance Institute.

Lorraine is chair of the audit committee and is a member of the remuneration committee

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