Wol Kolade

Wol Kolade joined us as Deputy Chair of NHS England on 25 March 2022, after serving as a non-executive director on the NHS Improvement board from August 2018 to March 2022.

Wol is the Managing Partner and Head at Livingbridge. He joined the firm in 1993 and is responsible for the leadership and strategic development of the firm – and takes an active involvement in the firm’s investments. He trained as an engineer, having studied civil and structural engineering at King’s College London and spent three years with Barclays in various head office roles, before joining Livingbridge.

Wol is a trustee of Somerset House Trust and a co-founder of the 10,000 Black Interns Initiative. He also sits on the advisory boards of Acorn Capital, Level 20 and the Prudence Trust.

Wol was formerly Chair of the £1 billion Guys and St Thomas’ Foundation, one of the UK’s largest medical endowments, and is also a member of the Scale Up Taskforce at the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. He was appointed an Emeritus Governor of the London School of Economics in 2017 and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Exeter in 2014. Wol was awarded a CBE for services to financial services in the Queen’s 2021 Birthday Honours.