Bill Mather is Managing Director of SocialPioneers, the leading UK Social Development Agency designing and developing large scale social enterprises and social franchising businesses to deliver competitive, outcome focused, public services.

He is also a Director of Haspion, a new organisation formed specifically to build the presence and impact of social enterprises in health and social care. As a leading expert in public service transformation, he delivers innovative solutions for public expenditure reductions and service performance shortcomings, drawing upon 18 years’ experience as Chief Executive of social enterprises.

He is an authority on devising public service delivery vehicles, commissioning systems, commercial capabilities, mergers, change leadership, and performance troubleshooting. For 12 years he has worked with major public, private and civic society organisations on initiatives worth from just tens of thousands of pounds to several billion in fields including health, social care, criminal justice, employment, education, diversity and regeneration.