Trustees

Warren Cohen

Warren joined the Orchid Board of Trustees in 2016

A qualified Chartered Accountant, he is the former Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the fashion brand River Island. With over 30 years of board level leadership experience in the consumer sector, Warren brings a unique blend of strategic, operational and financial experience to the charity.

Like many, Warren was drawn to Orchid through personal experience, when diagnosed with Testicular Cancer in 2015. Orchid helped Warren navigate the way through his journey and since then, he has helped guide Orchid through theirs.

Warren is married with two daughters and lives in London.

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 Surgitex 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 associated with Orchid for over 20 years in the roles of Vice President and now Trustee.

Jerry’s connection with Orchid and our founder Colin Osborne, goes back to when he was a Professional Rugby Player with Exeter Chiefs, when in 2003 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.

Aside from this, his background is steeped in the Drinks Industry and has over 18 years of Director-level experience driving transformational change and strategic projects that deliver bottom line growth across well-known brands such as AB InBev, Bacardi, Heineken & Asahi.