William joined Coloplast in 2020 and is the Vice President of Marketing for Chronic Care, UK & Ireland.

South African born, William relocated to the UK in 2001 and has spent time in a variety of Sales and Marketing leadership roles over the last 20 years, within the UK, Europe, and Emerging markets.

Primary medical device experience with Stryker where he had responsibility for launching Mako Robotics, followed by leading marketing for Boston Scientific in Interventional Oncology before joining Coloplast.

William is married to Sally and has two children, Liam, and Lily Blake.

He is a keen sportsman, involved in coaching Rugby and running as he prepares for his first Marathon this year.

Duncan joined Coloplast in 2015 as the UK Sales Director for our Continence Care business. He has brought with him over 20 years of experience in the pharmaceutical and medical device healthcare industries. Duncan has gained significant success leading UK and European sales including a significant period at Boston Scientific. This success has been gained whilst in operational and strategic roles and he has broadened his approaches across UK marketing functions to ensure that the business generation work integrates with sales fulfilment.

Duncan has enjoyed lead involvement in designing and implementing bespoke sales model transformations and is proud to coach national teams as they develop cultural based change that puts sales at the heart of delivering what consumers want, need and have a right to access. These ‘rights to treatment’ drive Duncan to enable his teams to focus on ensuring that the NHS specialist is aware of the innovations available so that ultimately consumers can fulfil their ambitions to enjoy the best life possible.

In 2020, Duncan was promoted to Vice President for our entire UK Chronic Care Sales.

Duncan is married to Claire and has four children. A keen sportsman, he is currently enjoying a new passion for marathon running and completed his first, of hopefully many, in around 4 hours in Nottingham this year.

Kris joined Coloplast in October 2012 and is the Vice President, Direct UK & Ireland. Kris brings with him over 20 years of consumer marketing experience from media, luxury goods and financial services industries and is dedicated to continuously improving the customer experience.

During his time at Coloplast, Kris has been instrumental developing business transformation programmes to support people with intimate healthcare needs and becoming a Healthcare Provider. This drive and passion is to ensure more support, choice and access to high quality treatment for the growing generation of healthcare consumers.

With his wife Donna and three boys, Henry, Archie and Charlie (not forgetting Pringle the family black Labrador) he lives in Oundle and spends most of his time on the side of rugby or cricket pitch.  A relatively keen cyclist and has recently taken up running to keep the fitness up and the weight down.

Mary joined Coloplast in 2011 following 20 years nursing experience of which the latter 10 years were as a Stoma Care/ Colorectal Clinical Nurse Specialist. 

Mary spent the first 6 years in Coloplast working in the Continence Division as Peristeen Advisor, Senior Clinical Manager and then Regional Business Leader for Peristeen for the North of the UK.

Mary’s aim now is to inspire, motivate and focus the Coloplast Nurse Team on delivering high quality patient care through implementing the Chronic Care Model, ensuring we continue to improve the lives of many more consumers in line with the Chronic Care ambition.

One of Mary’s favourite quotes is :-

 ‘To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, that is to have succeeded’

                               (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

 This for Mary is the essence of her nursing and commercial career and she believes working in Coloplast with the best people, the best products and the best services allows her to succeed in making lives easier.

 Mary lives in Motherwell, Scotland with her husband, 2 children and dog and enjoys hill walking and going to the gym.

Myles is the UK Business Support Director, who joined the UK team in October 2014. Myles joined Coloplast after 7 years with Reckitt Benckiser where he was Supply Finance Controller for their Global Healthcare division.

Myles is a Chartered Management Accountant and brings a wealth of business and commercial expertise to the UK team.

His objective is for the Business Support function to provide the support and the tools, to allow the business to deliver both best in class customer experience and the business financial targets.

Myles and his family have made their home in Grantham.

Ruth joined Coloplast in February 2018 as People and Culture Director. Prior to this role she held a number of HR and Learning Manager roles in Caterpillar Inc., her last role being their Global Strategy and HR Manager. Ruth has a BA (hons) Business Management degree and is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

Her choice to join the Coloplast UK team was heavily influenced by it’s great culture. Her aim is for Coloplast to continue to be a great place to work, to maintain it’s standing in the ‘Times Top 100 companies to work for’ and it’s great employee engagement scores.

Ruth lives in the Peterborough area with her husband, son and daughter.

Andy joined Coloplast UK as Payers and Evidence Director in November 2015 having 20 years commercial experience in the Life Science and Medical Device industry with Amersham Biosciences, Johnson & Johnson and with Life Science and Medical Device start-up ventures. During this time Andy has worked in the US and had extensive experience throughout Europe and Japan in increasingly commercial roles including sales management, Head of Business Development and Sales Force Effectiveness Director. Andy has always looked to develop innovative partnerships between industry and NHS or private providers over the last 20 years. 

Andy graduated from Liverpool University and completed a Ph.D. from the Institute of Cancer Studies at University of Birmingham.

Andy’s philosophy on business is about investing time and energy for the long-term; embracing innovation and delivering practical change. Honesty and integrity are the main building blocks of success in any business.