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Valerie brings extensive commercial experience from a career in a variety of functions in leading UK retailers and consumer companies including Somerfield, Debenhams, Boots and Clarks.  Valerie studied Economics at Warwick University and has a post graduate Diploma with the Financial Times. Valerie has a deep understanding of consumer marketing, as well as experience in strategy development, business transformation and property management.

In addition to her role at UHP, Valerie works with a number of other organisations that strive to improve the health and wellbeing of local communities across the South West.  She is Chair of Circadian Trust which operates leisure centres on a not-for-profit basis and she is also Chair of Plymouth Community Homes, Plymouth's largest social housing provider with 16,000 properties providing homes to over 35,000 people across Plymouth and the surrounding areas.