Mr Bill Crothers was a former Government Commercial Officer and was a director for both Greensill Capital and its subsidiary Earnd (UK) Limited. We asked whether Mr Crothers was using his contacts within the NHS to promote the work of Greensill Capital. CCS told us that though Mr Crothers was copied in on an email which Mr Greensill wrote to the then CCS chief executive, there was no contact between CCS and Mr Crothers. However, there was awareness amongst CCS senior leadership that Mr Crothers was speaking to different NHS organisations across the country, promoting the work of Greensill Capital across both supply chain finance and the Earnd salary advance scheme.16