Mike Thornicroft - Chief Executive

Following an early career in the Finance sector, Mike has spent the last 30 years working across Social Care, Healthcare and charitable organisations.

Mike has been a senior manager for over 25 years and, prior to moving to Teesside Hospice, he was CEO of two hospices based in Northumberland. Mike’s passion has been to enable disadvantaged individuals to live as full and independent lives as possible via the improvement and development of needs led, sustainable services locally, regionally and across the UK. This has been supported by Mike’s MBA, which enabled him to think strategically and ensure that he strives to continuously improve all that he and his colleagues do.

Mike is very active, playing several sports and enjoying keeping fit. He recently became a grandfather and lives on the Northumberland coast.