Directorate Change

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Optima Health plc announced that Chief Financial Officer Heidi Giles will depart on July 31, 2026, after a significant tenure that included facilitating the company's 2024 IPO. Andrew Bones is slated to become Interim CFO, contingent on the successful completion of the PAM Healthcare acquisition. Giles will remain a director to ensure a smooth transition.

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Optima Health PLC
23 March 2026
 

Optima Health plc

("Optima", the "Company", and, together with its subsidiaries, the "Group")

 

Directorate Change

 

LONDON, UK, 23 March 2026, Optima Health (AIM: OPT), the UK's leading provider of technology enabled corporate health and wellbeing solutions, today announces that Heidi Giles, Chief Financial Officer, will leave the Company on 31 July 2026. Subject to the successful completion of the recently announced acquisition of PAM Healthcare, Optima will appoint Andrew Bones as Interim Chief Financial Officer. Heidi remains a director of the Company during this period, and will continue to fulfil her current role facilitating a smooth transition. Further announcements will be made as appropriate.

 

Jonathan Thomas, Chief Executive Officer of Optima Health, said: "Heidi has made a significant contribution to the success of Optima Health, bringing professionalism, expertise, and rigour to our financials and through wider support throughout the business. Heidi's committed and diligent work was fundamental to Optima executing the IPO in 2024, and the strong strategic progress made since, and leaves a strong platform for our future success. Heidi has been a great colleague and business partner, and I thank her for her service to Optima Health and wish her nothing but the best in her future."

 

 

Enquiries

 

Optima Health

Jonathan Thomas, CEO

Heidi Giles, CFO

 

+44(0)3300085113

media@OptimaHealth.co.uk

Nominated Adviser and Co-Broker

Panmure Liberum Limited

Emma Earl / Will Goode / Mark Rogers

Rupert Dearden

 

Co-Broker

Cavendish Capital Markets

Geoff Nash/Ben Jeynes/George Lawson/Julian Morse/Michael Johnson/Nigel Birks

 

 

 

+44 (0)20 3100 2000

 

 

 

 

+44 (0)20 7220 0500

UK Financial PR Adviser

ICR Healthcare

Mary-Jane Elliott / Angela Gray / Lindsey Neville

optimahealth@icrinc.com

 


 

 

About Optima Health

 

Optima Health is the UK's leading provider of occupational health and wellbeing services, directly influencing and improving people's lives for 25 years. Optima Health's incredible team of professionals quickly and effectively encapsulate client's needs, supporting organisations of all shapes and sizes. Through tailored solutions and innovative systems, Optima Health offers unparalleled clinical expertise to its clients. These solutions ensure that processes are simple and allow its clients to spend more time focusing on their employees driving a healthy, high-performing workplace. For more information visit www.optima health.co.uk

 

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