Ark Home Healthcare appoints 'rising star' CFO

Sheffield based Ark Home Healthcare has appointed an award winning Chief Financial Officer to join their business.

A Chartered Accountant with a Law Degree, Umar Khan joins Ark Home Healthcare to support the team in driving forward their new model of care at home services. With over 12 years experience working in finance, Umar brings a great deal of skills and expertise to the growing Ark team.

Umar said: "I am delighted to be joining the Ark team. Ark is a growing company with ideas that are transforming an industry.? I am really looking forward to working with the team and moving the business forward. I have a strong empathy with the ethos of Ark’s business and the individuals we support so it is a great step for me to take in my career."

In 2013 Umar was voted Overall Rising Star at the prestigious Yorkshire Rising Star Awards up against some great Yorkshire talent and joins Ark from the Leeds-based success story ghd. Umar said: "I am delighted to be joining the Ark team. Ark is a growing company with ideas that are transforming an industry.? I am really looking forward to working with the team and moving the business forward. I have a strong empathy with the ethos of Ark’s business and the individuals we support so it is a great step for me to take in my career."

Umar has also been selected to join Yorkshire’s ‘42 under 42’ business leaders list.

Ark Home Healthcare is a nationwide homecare and healthcare company looking after thousands of people across the UK in the safety and comfort of their own homes and Ark recently opened a new Customer Response Centre located at The Square, Broad Street West, right in the heart of the thriving city centre.

Ark plans to introduce new ways of working in a sector that needs to respond to the challenges associated with the UK’s rapidly ageing population. Ark intends to transform the way in which home care is delivered in the UK, through leading edge mobile technology controlled by the Sheffield centre.? This provides online care worker tracking and visibility and immediate response to customer needs. Ark’s new venture in Sheffield is designed to make ‘staying put’ a cost effective alternative to a care home, helping customers retain the personal independence they so cherish.?

Visit www.arkhealth.co.uk or call 0114 321 0748 for further information.