Lorraine Young

BSc (Hons) FCG ACIArb

Non-Executive Chair

Lorraine Young was appointed a non-executive director of PHSC plc in April 2016 and was appointed Chair of the Board in October 2024. 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 Remuneration Committee and a member of the Audit Committee.


Nicola Coote

CFIOSH, MIIRSM, MCIPD

Chief Executive Officer

Nicola Coote co-founded PHSCL in 1990 and has worked operationally and strategically in building the company organically, as well as via acquisition. With a background as a Chartered Health & Safety Professional, she further qualified to level 6/degree level in environmental management. She is also qualified for a level 6 diploma in Professional Marketing with the Institute of Marketing to support the growth strategy.

Nicola has served as Secretary of the South East Branch of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health and continues to support the Essex branch. She 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. She has acted as an 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.

Nicola acts as a Registered Expert Witness and works on criminal and civil cases.

Nicola is also a Non-Executive Director on the Board of The Thera Trust, having joined in June 2022.


Frank Moxon

BSc(Hons), CF, Chartered FCSI(Hon), FEI, CQRM

Non-Executive Director

Frank Moxon was appointed a non-executive director of PHSC plc in October 2024. He chairs the Audit Committee and is a member of the Remuneration Committee.

Frank 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 a non-executive director 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.


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