Our organisation

Chair

I am the Chair of the Reach Foundation and also a co-founder and trustee of Reach Schools (our multi-academy trust).

Outside of Reach, I founded and run Reach Cambridge Ltd., an organisation that specialises in running residential study courses. I’m also a Director of Reach Mercurial Pictures Ltd.

Trustee

I have been a trustee of the Foundation since July 2018. I’m also a trustee of Reach Schools.

I am currently the Chief Operation Officer of the Chartered College of Teaching. Prior to joining the Chartered College, I was the Head of Modern Foreign Languages at a secondary school in west London and supported the set-up of our first school, Reach Academy Feltham, as project manager.

Trustee

I am currently the Managing Director of Castleoak Development, a business specialising in later living and care residential offerings. As a Chartered Engineer and Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, I bring over 25 years of experience as a real estate professional to the Foundation, with a background spanning development, infrastructure, investment, construction and design consultancy.

I am also a non-executive director and the Chair of EdCity Development Ltd.—a not-for-profit joint venture between Ark and London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in White City, London.

Trustee

I work at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment at Imperial College London. In my role as Partnership Development Manager, I develop strategic partnerships with organisations outside of the university such as policy-makers, businesses and non-governmental organisations.

As well as being a Reach Foundation Trustee since its inception, I served as a committee member for St Mary’s Richmond Athletics Club for eight years.

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I am the Head of Children’s Social Care Innovation and Learning at the Department of Education, where I work with local authorities, charities and social enterprises to develop, test and build the evidence for new approaches to supporting vulnerable children and their families.

Prior to this, I headed up the Centre for Social Impact Bonds in the Cabinet Office, leading work across the government to develop new ways of funding charities and social enterprises to deliver public services. I have led work across the UK government to build the social investment market in the UK and worked for an international NGO managing programmes supporting refugees in post-conflict zones.

Trustee

I have been a trustee of the Foundation since July 2018. I am also the Chair of Reach Schools.

Professionally, I am an equity partner at Deloitte LLP, working with large multi-national listed businesses in the real estate, business services and media sectors.

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I am a Senior Manager at the global consulting firm Bain & Company. I have worked in a variety of industries—from mining to insurance—with a focus on performance improvement and organisational change.

Today, I lead the Global Workforce Planning function and the London Office Business & People Analytics team—ensuring the organisation has the right numbers of people, with the right capabilities, in the right place at the right time; providing data and insight to drive improvements in commercial performance and talent management.

I have been heavily involved in Bain’s pro-bono work in education for several years; running pro-bono projects with LEYF (London Early Years Foundation) and the Sutton Trust, and leading an initiative to link Bain people with governor roles in schools.

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I was the editor of Tes (Times Educational Supplement) for more than seven years. Before that, I ran Tes Resources—the teaching resources sharing platform—and was editor of Times Higher Education.

I also serve on the advisory groups of the Sutton Trust, the Education Endowment Foundation, the Education Policy Institute, and Princeton University Press.