Danielle Oum, Chair
Danielle Oum has a strong leadership background in strategic development, stakeholder engagement and transformational change - spanning the public, private and voluntary sectors.
Immediately prior to her appointment as Chair of NHS Birmingham, Black Country and Solihull in October 2025, she was Chair of Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care Board for over three years and previously to that she was Chair of Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust between 2020 and 2022.
Danielle is currently Chair of Tuntum Housing Association – a community-based housing association working to empower multi-cultural neighbourhoods.
She currently also holds several board member positions, including at Coventry University; Fusion21 - a social enterprise specialising in efficient and impactful public sector procurement which spearheads social value; and Waythrough - an organisation providing support for individuals and their families living with the effects of mental ill-health, drug and alcohol misuse, gambling issues and domestic violence.
She began her career in publishing and went on to work in skills development roles at the Department for Work and Pensions and Regional Action West Midlands, before working as a Regeneration Zone Manager at the Learning and Skills Council.
Danielle joined Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust in 2004, where she worked for over three years in business development and regeneration roles.
Between 2007 and 2010, Danielle was Head of Employment and Skills for Black Country Consortium Ltd - a Local Enterprise Partnership working to increase economic prosperity in the Black Country.
In 2010, she joined Groundwork UK – a national body of a federation of independent regeneration charities – as Head of Federation Support, before her departure in 2014.
Amongst her other former roles has been as Chair of Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership Trust; non-executive board member ay Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust; and non-executive director of Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust.