Senior Management Team
For more information on the City of Wolverhampton Council Senior Management Team, see the Senior Management structure chart in the Downloads section.
Strategic Executive Board
Here you can find profiles of each of the Strategic Executive Board members of the City of Wolverhampton Council. Select a name to find out more.
Tim is Chief Executive of the City of Wolverhampton Council having been appointed to the role in July 2018.
Prior to this, he was the council’s Deputy Managing Director and Strategic Director of Place where his portfolio of responsibilities included city development, city housing, city transport, city environment, corporate property and commercialism.
Tim is an experienced strategic local government director, specialising in place shaping, organisational change management and community regeneration. He has a proven track record of developing and delivering complex, innovative projects and programmes and has overseen a regeneration programme which has £3.7 billion of public and private investment either on site or planned in the city.
In the five years he has worked at the City of Wolverhampton Council, Tim has played a major part in the transformation of the city and the council. This was nationally recognised in June 2017 when the City of Wolverhampton Council won a record four awards at the prestigious MJ Local Government Achievement Awards 2017 including Local Authority of the Year, Most Improved Council and Senior Leadership Team of the Year.
Tim has over 20 years’ experience in local government working for Liverpool City Council, London Borough of Hillingdon, Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council and Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council before joining the City of Wolverhampton Council in May 2013.
He represents City of Wolverhampton Council on a number of external forums across the region and city including the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA), Association of Black Country Authorities and Black Country Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP).
Mark, a fully qualified CIPFA Accountant, is the Deputy Chief Executive and Section 151 Officer at the City of Wolverhampton Council. He was appointed to the role of Strategic Director People in September 2017 and Deputy Managing Director in August 2018, before becoming Deputy Chief Executive in September 2019.
Following the departure of the permanent Director of Finance in early 2024, he took on the statutory role of Section 151 Officer, meaning he has legal responsibility for all of the Council’s financial affairs. He therefore works closely with the Interim Director of Finance and leads on Strategic Financial Planning.
Prior to this, he was the Council's Director of Finance where his portfolio of responsibilities included Finance, Commercial Services, Customer Services and ICT.
In the fifteen years he has worked at the City of Wolverhampton Council, Mark has played a major part in the transformation of the city and the council. This was nationally recognised in June 2017 when the City of Wolverhampton Council won a record four awards at the prestigious MJ Local Government Achievement Awards 2017 including Local Authority of the Year, Most Improved Council and Senior Leadership Team of the Year.
His portfolio of responsibilities covers Children's Services and Education, Adult Services, Public Health and Finance. The services which he leads work closely with partners to improve the health and wellbeing of the local population, and to give children and young people the very best start in life.
Mark has 33 years' experience in local government working for Wrekin District Council, Telford & Wrekin Council, Shropshire County Council and Oswestry Borough Council before joining City of Wolverhampton Council in 2009.
Mark is a Director and the Chair of WV Living, the City Council's housing development company. Mark is also the Vice Chair of Governors at the City of Wolverhampton College.
David Pattison joined City of Wolverhampton Council in February 2020.
David is the Council’s Monitoring Officer, and therefore responsible for good governance within the Council, he is Solicitor to the Council and has overall responsibility for Democracy and oversight of Elections being Deputy Electoral Registration Officer and Deputy Returning Officer - Elections & Referenda. David is the Senior Information Risk Owner (SIRO) for the Council, so is responsible for ensuring that the Council meets its information Governance responsibilities. He is also the strategic lead for the Council on Climate Action, and has overall responsibility for services within the Council’s organisation theme.
David has been a solicitor for over 20 years and has experience of Central Government, private practice and the local government sectors. Prior to joining the Council, he was Corporate Director of Governance at South Staffordshire Council, and before that, was a lawyer at the Ministry for Housing and Communities and Local Government, working on a number of pieces of local Government legislation. He started his career as a solicitor at what is now Womble Bond Dickinson, before moving to work in the City of London office of DAC Beachcroft.
David is a law graduate from the University of Warwick.
Ian became the City Council’s Director of City and Economy and Partnerships in March 2024. Prior to that he was Director of Visitor Experience and Communications. In his current role, Ian is responsible for corporate communication, city events, arts and culture services, digital and external funding, the Wolverhampton Pound and City Investment. He is a director on the Wolverhampton City Centre BID Board, chair of the city’s cultural compact and currently working on establishing a citywide Destination Management Board and plan.
Between 1998 and 2014 he worked for Staffordshire Police rising to the position of Head of Communications. During his tenure with the force, he led the communications response to a number of high-profile, national incidents, gave evidence to the Leveson Inquiry and was the West Midlands regional police communications strategy and planning lead for the 2012 London Olympics.
Ian is an International Politics and History honours graduate from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and also holds the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) Diploma in Public Relations and the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) Diploma in Marketing.
John is the Director of Public Health for the City of Wolverhampton Council having been appointed in November 2017 and is responsible for determining the overall vision and objectives for Public Health in Wolverhampton.
John has over 25 years of experience working in NHS and local authority organisations and has a proven track record of partnership, delivery and improvement in health outcomes for citizens.
John joined City of Wolverhampton Council from Birmingham City Council where he was the Assistant Director of Commissioning with responsibility for health and social care intelligence, commissioning Public Health services, commissioning providers of Adult Social Care and Early Years services.
When working for the NHS, John gained a broad range of experience and expertise working in both hospital and GP settings, these included using information and intelligence to increase access and the quality of cancer services, improve surgical services as well as improve the quality of GP services.
John firmly believes that the greatest influence on health and wellbeing is having the best start to life, an excellent education, a stable rewarding job and a decent home in a thriving community. As such, John and the Public Health team are focused on working in partnership with all areas of the Council, the NHS and other appropriate sectors and agencies who can influence the health and wellbeing of the city.
Richard is the Director of City Development at the City of Wolverhampton Council having been appointed to the role in August 2018.
Richard is an experienced director with over 25 years' experience in regeneration in the private and public sectors. He has held senior roles across local authorities and consultancy and has extensive delivery based experience ranging from master planning and funding assembly, to land and property management and development. He has expertise in delivering housing, property, economic development and skills, transport, conservation and tourism schemes. Richard has led on large scale regeneration projects in the South East and the East and West Midlands including throughout the Combined Authority area.
He chairs the i54 development steering group and the Association of Black Country Authorities Heads of Regeneration whilst sitting on a number of external forums across the region supporting the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA). Richard oversees the City Development, Planning and Assets functions and leads the city’s key regeneration priority projects such as Interchange and I9, Brewers Yard, City Learning Quarter, Canalside South and City Centre West.
Charlotte is the Executive Director for Economy and Transformation at the City of Wolverhampton Council, having been appointed to the role in February 2024. She was previously Director of Strategy with responsibility for policy and strategy, digital and IT, data and analytics, customer services, strategic projects and external funding.
Since joining the Council in 2012, Charlotte has held a number of leadership roles in relation to strategy, organisational development and transformation and front-line services such as libraries and cultural venues.
Charlotte is an experienced public sector professional, having joined local government on the LGA’s national graduate development programme based at Telford and Wrekin Council, working in a variety of policy, performance and project management roles. Following experience at the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, Charlotte was a Director at Arts Council England, managing the integration of museum and library funding to the organisation including the £40 million Renaissance regional museum programme.
Charlotte has a degree in History from the University of York, a Post Graduate Diploma in Local Government Management from the University of Warwick and an MBA from the University of Wolverhampton.
John has been the Director for Resident Services since early 2023 and is responsible for many key frontline services including, Highways and Transportation, Waste, Environmental Services, Regulatory Services, Parks, Cemeteries, Crematoria, and Housing.
Starting his career as an Environmental Health Officer John has held many operational and senior/strategic management positions across a number of authorities. He has extensive knowledge of both high profile, operational services and successful delivery of large scale, multi-million pound projects and programmes.
John has led the transformation of services and with responsibility for the strategic direction of the city’s housing, drives the investment in social housing worth over £500million in the next 5 years.