Meet the Team
Helen Bingley
Helen Bingley is currently working as Managing Director of Bingley Consulting Ltd, a business that has been established to support senior managers in the NHS with strategic change. Prior to this she worked as Head of Teaching and Learning in the Centre for Ethnicity and Health at the University of Central Lancashire. Helen qualified as a nurse in 1979 and took up her first management post in the NHS in 1984 gaining promotion through the different management levels in the NHS. During this time she managed, on behalf of the UK Department of Health, a research project in Nahaqi Hospital Pakistan designed to gather data on an indigenous South Asian population to provide answers to some questions about the healthcare needs of South Asian people living in the UK. Helen was a Non Executive Director on the Board of National Health Service Personnel for two years, and is a founder member and has responsibility as Treasurer of The Abaseen Foundation UK. She is will be advising primarily on the work of the Flying Doctors Foundation.
Kath Temple, MSc (OccPsych), Bsc (Hons) Psych, DipHypPsych, LTNLP, MPNLP, TEFT, EFT.Adv
Kath is a warm, vibrant, charismatic, experienced and skilled MSc Business Psychologist, ICF registered coach and solution focused brief therapist. She is an innovative and wise world change agent and an entertaining motivational speaker too. She received the national award for business excellence in 2008 and will be advising both on management issues and on the work of the trust.
Mr Dimeji Owofemi
Mr Owofemi is the current chairman of Multitrex Investments, the largest cocoa producing factory in the whole of West Africa. He is an established and dynamic entrepreneur renowned for his organisational and managerial skill throughout Nigeria. He has supported Flying Doctors Nigeria Ltd from the very start through investment and mentorship.
Captain Kiddie Dare
Captain Kiddie Dare is our aviation consultant and he is one of the most-respected figures in the Nigerian Aviation Industry. He relocated back to Nigeria from the States where he took up his position as a senior executive in ExonMobil. In the aftermath of the disastrous plane crashes of 2006, he was head-hunted by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) where he together with Dr Demuren, Head of the NCCA, completely turned the department around. The benefits of the drastic improvements in standards and safety that he and his team brought about revolutionised air travel in Nigeria. He presently runs his own aviation consulting and jet hire service.
Dele Adesina (SAN)
Mr. Adesina (SAN) has practiced law for 26 years and has run the law firm Adesina And Co for over of 16 years. Dele Adesina (SAN) is a life member of the National Executive Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association and a past General Secretary of the Association. He is also a past Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association, Ikeja Branch and a former member of the Nigerian Legal Aid Council. He is a member of the Business Law Section of the International Bar Association and a member of the Negotiation and Conflict Management Group an alternative dispute resolution organisation based in Nigeria. He was a member of the National Political Reform Conference where he served as a member of the judiciary and legal reform committee of the conference and also a member of the distinguished Body of Benchers, the highest regulatory body in the legal profession. Mr. Dele Adesina (SAN) was elevated to the prestigious rank of a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) – the highest recognition of excellency in the legal profession by the Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee on the 30th of October, 2007 at the Supreme Court of Nigeria. He is the company’s principal legal advisor.
R A Oyedele, Chief Magistrate
Chief Magistrate Oyedele has practiced law for 24 years and was appointed to the post of Chief Magistrate in Ondo State 3 years ago. Her career path has been exceptional; she is one of the only females in the state to reach this level of seniority within the judiciary. She also works as an advisor to the Ondo State government and has varied experienced in business and healthcare enterprise.
Mr James Olaleye
Mr James Olaleye is the current Nigerian Ambassador to Japan having formerly served at the Nigerian Embassy in Britain. His involvement in Flying Doctors Nigeria will strengthen our relationship with Japan, through promotion of the Busola Memorial Fellowship as well as with Britain.
Dr R Akomolafe, FRCPsych
Dr Akomolafe is a consultant psychiatrist that works privately throughout the UK specialising in learning disorders. He combines this work with his role as advisor to the Ondo state government helping to oversee the launch of the new healthcare plan for the state. He also has a lot of experience in the UK private sector providing infrastructure as well as management and financial advice to various companies.
Dr Leke Pitan
Dr Leke Pitan was appointed Commissioner for Health by his excellency the Governor of Lagos State Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. His commitment to the provision of equity in service, led to the establishment of LASAMBUS Lagos State Ambulance Services in 2001. Dr. Pitan has received many awards and honours in recognition of his various contributions to the service of humanity. In March 2006 Dr Leke Pitan was moved to the Ministry of Education as Commissioner after serving in the health sector for 7 years. Dr Pitan in many ways is the personification of all of the values we stand for here at Flying Doctors Nigeria and we are privileged to have him as an advisor.
Dr Ola Orekunrin
Dr Ola Orekunrin is the Managing Director of Flying Doctors Nigeria Ltd, West Africa’s first Air Ambulance Service. She graduated from the University Of York, one of the youngest doctor’s in the UK and has worked in the NHS for nearly ten years . She has a specialist interest in trauma and pre-hospital care, buttressed by her private work at motor-racing circuits across the country. She has published her own book along with several articles in high-profile medical journals and has sat on various influential boards at the British Medical Association. In 2008, she was awarded the prestigious MEXT Japanese Government Scholarship and produced ground-breaking research in the field of regenerative medicine through her work with induced pluripotent stem cells. She also is a member of the American Academy of Aesthetic Surgeons and holds their board certification.
Professor David Warrell
Professor Warrell is a professor of tropical medicine and infectious disease at the University of Oxford who worked in Nigeria for many years studying the management of tropical disease. He is our primary advisor for the management of snake bites.
