Mick Laverty – Associate non-executive director

Mick is a chartered accountant and experienced chief executive. Mick is currently chief executive of the ExtraCare Charitable Trust, a charity that builds and runs the UK’s largest retirement villages. Before joining ExtraCare he was chief executive of the Student Loans Company, a government-funded ‘digital exemplar’ organisation that distributes circa £20 billion per annum and has over seven million customers.

Mick has also previously been chief executive of Advantage West Midlands, the regional development agency for the West Midlands. Additionally, he has held a number of non-executive director roles in the public, private and charity sectors and is currently a Council Member and chair of the Audit Committee at the University of Birmingham and a non-executive director of Sandwell and West Birmingham Trust, where he chaired the committee that oversaw the construction and commissioning of the new Midland Metropolitan University Hospital. Mick was appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant for the West Midlands in 2018.