Care provider The Holmes Care Group has appointed Matthew Hansard as finance director.

The Holmes Care Group provides residential and nursing care for the elderly, people with dementia, as well as support services for adults with disabilities. It also offers day services for older people with disabilities and mental health challenges.

Hansard will work closely with managing director, Sharifa Lakhani, to help define and strengthen The Holmes Care Group’s growth strategy. He was previously finance director with HCRG, a healthcare business backed by private equity firm Twenty20 Capital. He has a number of years of technical finance experience working in the UK and Australia in domiciliary, fertility and clinical care environments.

Hansard said: “I’m excited to have joined The Holmes Care Group as finance director at a pivotal time for the group and to partner the board on various buy and build and organic growth strategies.”

Carter Schwartz advised on this appointment.