Our Board

Meet the Care Dorset Non Executive and Executive Teams

Non-Executive Team

Caroline Tapster

Chair of the Board of Directors

Caroline has been appointed as Chair of the Board of Directors, having spent over thirty years working in Health and Social Care, before retiring from full time work ten years ago as Chief Executive of Hertfordshire County Council. Since then, she has been a Non-Executive Director for the Disclosure and Barring service at the Home Office, a trustee for the Terence Higgins Trust. She is currently a Non-Executive Director for University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust where she is the Senior Independent Director and chairs the Quality Committee.

Chris Brophy

Non-Executive Director

Chris Brophy is a newly appointed Non-Executive Director of the Care Dorset board. Chris is a solicitor with over 30 years’ experience of being a commercial lawyer. He worked for 24 years with CapSticks, a specialist health and care law firm advising public and private sector clients on a range of corporate, contract and advisory matters. Chris is a co-founder of Resolving Together, which is a legal business consultancy advising social enterprises, voluntary organisations, charities and other health and care organisations.

Nicola Rowland

Non-Executive Director

Nikki Rowland is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and joined the NHS in 2003, after leaving her previous role as a Company Accountant in a Car Dealership and took on the role of Chief Finance Officer of the Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group in January 2020, following successful promotion from her previous role as the Deputy CFO. Nikki will be leaving the NHS at the end of August 2022. Nikki is taking a career break to focus on non-executive roles that can make good use of the skills and experience she has to offer.

Andrew Billany

Non-Executive Director

Andrew works as Corporate Director of Housing and Community Safety for Dorset Council and has been in this role since October 2020. He comes to Care Dorset with a wealth of leadership experience across the housing, local authority and voluntary sector worlds – and with a strong non-executive/board track record. He is Chair of the Board at Soho Housing Association and is into his final tenth year as a trustee of the Social Justice charity, Nacro. His work has included roles such as Director of Housing and Public Protection at Newham and Managing Director of Homes for Haringey. He has also been Chief Executive of two Housing organisations in Slough and North London and a UK-wide charity working in the refugee and modern slavery fields. His first Chief Executive role was for Hornsey Housing Trust in North London, and spent seven years building up a diverse range of supported housing and care services, including a ground breaking multi-cultural extra care scheme. Spending more than half his career on the ‘provider side’ has helped him in his later local authority career, understanding how to enable and support others to deliver the priorities of a Council and its people.