Sara is an innovative, award-winning business leader with close to 30 years’ experience leading public and private sector enterprises. Throughout her career, Sara has been motivated by a desire to reach the most vulnerable and neglected members of society, raise their living standard, and see their dignity restored.

During her time in the public-sector Sara delivered a range of public-sector frontline services that went beyond her role including mentoring young women at risk of exclusion from education, the creation of specialist outreach teams to tackle youth crime, the creation of an innovative safety project educating women in prison about the dangers of arson and the delivery of Liverpool’s super zone The Fire Fit Hub (Fire Fit).

Seeing an opportunity to create an organisation that was truly capable of and committed to making a difference in people’s lives, Sara embarked on the journey of social entrepreneur in 2016 when she founded Rise Construction Framework (Rise).

Rise is a social business that uses profits generated by the procurement of capital works and services to fund community intervention and prevention services that tackle some of society’s darkest issues including domestic violence, homelessness and mental health & well-being. In 2021 during the pandemic Rise launched Thrive an organisation that exists to help care leavers live happy, safe and fulfilling lives; since its launched Thrive has changed the lives of 100’s of care experienced young people.

Digital Health and Care Wales is a national organisation delivering the digital health services needed for modern patient care in Wales.

As a public service organisation working in partnership with NHS Wales organisations, we supply over 70 software services to users across NHS Wales and to other parts of the United Kingdom. We support doctors, nurses and other clinical professionals, helping them provide specialist care to patients in hospitals, GP practices and across the community.

Our aim is that every task care professionals undertake is supported digitally, that records are created, held and accessed electronically and that all such services work seamlessly and commonly across organisations and sectors.

National Highways, formerly Highways England, is the government company responsible for the country's motorways and main A roads. This includes modernising and maintaining the highways, as well as running the network and keeping traffic moving.