Our Team

Jill Clark

Jill is the Chair and Founder of CancerWatch having lost her husband at the age of 46 to oesophageal cancer when her two children were nursery age.  She has campaigned against cancer ever since and became aware of the lack of interest in preventing cancer before the disease develops, rather than treating it once the disease has occurred.

She therefore set up CancerWatch to remedy this failing and to make people more aware of the lifestyle modifications they can make to prevent cancer.  Prior to her chairmanship of CancerWatch, she was a financial professional in the City.

John Kell

John is an experienced policy professional, having worked in the private, public and voluntary sectors over the last 20 years.  This includes more than a decade in health policy, including 5 years as Head of Policy at the Patients’ Association.  Having initially provided policy support to CancerWatch, John remains with us as a trustee.

Adrian Thompson

Adrian is a retired professional trustee.  He has taken a keen interest in cancer since his mother was diagnosed with it over 15 years ago, and has recently been diagnosed with prostate cancer himself.  Adrian was a school governor for 12 years (including 2 years as chairman) and has also served as a governor of an NHS Foundation Trust.  He travels extensively but when at home splits his time between London and North Wales.

Andrew Dixon

Andrew is a policy and communications consultant. He works with charities and third sector organisations to help them develop their policy ideas, their messages and their influence. As well as his consulting work, he works part-time leading the policy work of a social cohesion charity and is also a local councillor, elected in May 2022. He has over 15 years of experience working in policy and public affairs, having previously worked as Head of Policy for a leading trade association and Head of Public Affairs and Policy for a large charity.