Trustees

Warren Cohen

Warren joined the Orchid Board of Trustees in 2016.

He is Chief Operating Officer for fashion brand River Island. He is a strategic and commercial finance leader with significant experience in the consumer goods and service industries.

Warren is a passionate person who blends strategic development, business transformation, change management and commercial financial management with building great teams of people who share his passion.

David Badenoch MA, DM, MCh, FEBU, FRCS (Urol)

David is a former consultant urological surgeon. He is a past President of the Section of Urology, Royal Society of Medicine, a past Trustee of King Edward VII Hospital, a past President and Trustee of the Chelsea Clinical Society and previously Honorary Surgeon to the Royal Scottish Corporation.

He took a BA Honours in Natural Sciences at Lincoln College, Oxford in 1970 and then went on to study clinical medicine at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College, qualifying in 1975. David was on the consultant staff of the Royal London and St. Bartholomew’s Hospitals between 1988 and 2006.  He is an Honorary Consultant at King Edward VII Hospital and The London Clinic.

He was awarded the BAUS Curgitex Prize in 1987 and Grand Prix de l’Association of the European Association of Urology in 1988. He gave the Creevy Memorial Lecture to the Minnesota Urological Society in 2001 and was a visiting Professor to the Department of Urology at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA, 2001. He has written widely in medical journals and published two books.

David is married with two daughters and two sons and lives in London.

Jerry Shedden

Jerry has been a Vice President of Orchid for almost 20 years and is honoured and delighted to become a Trustee.

His background is steeped in the Drinks Industry and he is currently a Commercial Director at Asahi, but has over 17 years of Director-level experience across well-known brands such as BrewDog, Sipsmith, Heineken, Bacardi and AB InBev.

His key skillsets are driving transformational change and strategic projects that deliver bottom line growth in complex organisations. He describes himself as an inclusive people-orientated leader with a natural ability to build, develop and inspire high-performing teams to achieve their full potential.

Without doubt, this stems from his background as a Professional Rugby Player, primarily with Exeter Chiefs, and Jerry’s connection with Orchid and our Chair Colin Osborne, goes back to this era in 2003 when he himself was diagnosed with Testicular Cancer. Like most young men, he had very little knowledge of Testicular Cancer or the associated symptoms. Since then, he has done numerous talks to Schools, Universities and Prisons to raise awareness.