FutureLife, a pan-European provider of IVF and related genetics services, has appointed Ray Guirguis as general manager for the UK and Ireland.

Guirguis has more than 20 years’ experience of healthcare and has a clinical background as a pharmacist. He has worked for the NHS and in the private sector with a focus on complex healthcare service delivery.

He was previously chief executive at OSD Healthcare, a private hospital in Hemel Hempstead. Before that he was chief operating officer at the Princess Grace Hospital and was responsible for delivering HCA’s London Digestive Centre and spearheading various healthcare transformations.

Guirguis is a non-executive director for the Midland Air Ambulance and a trustee for the RedTribe charity and has helped improve Maasai health data analysis and brought basic healthcare services, vaccination campaigns and clean water initiatives to remote African villages in need.

Luke Osborne, director at Compass Executives, led on the appointment.