OUR FOUNDING TEAM
Meet the minds behind the mission—seasoned innovators who unite decades of scholarship, leadership and community impact to guide our apprenticeships from vision to reality.
Dr D. Saraswat PhD
Chairperson — The Arts & Health Apprenticeships
Dr Dinesh Saraswat is a veteran education and business leader with 45 years’ experience across UK higher education, corporate banking and start-up investment.
AT A GLANCE
Academic Credentials: MSc · PhD · LLM
Current Roles:
• Head of Community Outreach, leading regional partnerships and widening-participation strategy
• Non-Executive Director, Ekstasy Ltd (creative agency)
• Trustee, Ealing Community Trust
• Angel investor & mentor to early-stage founders
• Accredited Associate Mediator, CMC-UK
TRACK RECORD
Has designed outreach and employability programmes that deliver industry-ready, ethically-minded graduates, consist
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Has Built long-standing links with government, local authorities, SMEs and community groups.
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Keynote speaker and corporate trainer on leadership, mediation and social mobility.
WHAT DRIVES HIM
“Innovation must serve inclusion — every community deserves world-class healthcare and the education to sustain it.”
Dr Saraswat’s work focuses on opening doors for under-represented learners and aligning academic innovation with real-world business needs—always with a human touch and a commitment to ethical growth.
Prof. G. K. Mahadev MD · MRCS · AFRCS · FRCS
Prof. Gopal Krishna Mahadev is a surgeon-turned-strategist dedicated to making healthcare and education affordable, accessible and future-proof worldwide.
AT A GLANCE
Clinical background: 23 years in the NHS (1996 – 2019)
Entrepreneur & Deal-Maker: Leads a UK health-tech group holding £34 billion in active government contracts (partners include Microsoft).
Prof. Mahadev designed the world’s first healthcare apprenticeship, now a UK flagship scheme funding £15 billion p.a. and supporting 6.5 million learners.
EDUCATION PIONEER
Founded the first Healthcare Academy for secondary-school girls (Flixton, Manchester, 2014)
Co-created two UK medical schools — Kent & Medway (2020) and University of Bolton (2025)
Third medical school launching Jacksonville, Florida 2026
Developing five new medical-school-with-hospital campuses in India (World Bank-backed) and multiple university-hospital projects in the Middle East & USA
Prof. Mahadev is a trusted adviser to governments, multinationals and financiers on large-scale health infrastructure.
WHAT DRIVES HIM
“Innovation must serve inclusion — every community deserves world-class healthcare and the education to sustain it.”
Prof Mahadev now channels four decades of clinical insight and billion-pound project leadership into building apprenticeship pathways that bridge the arts, health and technology — preparing the next generation to deliver compassionate, globally relevant solutions.
