On this page you will find the following information on our current governors:

• The type of governor that they are (e.g. Nominated Director, Co-opted, Local Parent)

• What committee(s) they sit on

• The date they were appointed

• Who they were appointed by

• The position that they hold within the committee (e.g. Chairman)

All governors, except the CEO, serve a four year term of office (unless stated otherwise) and have voting rights within their committees as set out in the Haberdashers’ Aske’s Federation Articles of Association.

Trust Board Director Biographies 

 

• Nicholas Scarles
  Member and Nominated Director
  Nicholas Scarles

  Type of Governor	Member and Nominated Director
  Committee Membership	Chairman of the Trust Board, Strategy Committee and Finance Committee. Invited to Crayford Academy, Hatcham College, Borough Academy and Knights Academy LGB
  Appointment Start Date	24/03/2016
  Term of office	4 years
  Appointed by	Appointed as a Member by the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers and appointed as a Nominated Director on the Trust Board by the Members in accordance with the Articles of Association

  Nick was previously a Governor of the Haberdashers' Aske's Boys School and Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls, at Elstree, where he was a member of the Boys' School Committee and chaired the Finance Committee. He is a Member of the Court of Assistants of the Haberdashers Livery Company.

  Nick is Chief Financial Officer of the Grosvenor Estate, having spent 13 years as Group Finance Director of Grosvenor Group Limited ( a private international real estate development investment and fund management group). He was previously at Centrica plc and PWC, living in London, New York and Toronto. Nick was Chairman of the Real Estate Finance Group, which produced 'A Vision for Real Estate Finance in the UK', and is on the Advisory Board of the Centre for Economic Policy Research Financial Regulation Initiative.

  Nick originally qualified as a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Tax Advisor in the UK and Certified Public Accountant and Attorney at Law in the USA, having been educated at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys School, Elstree, obtaining law degrees from Trinity College, Cambridge, and the University of Virginia.

• Simon Lough
  Temple Grove Trust Director
  Simon Lough

  Type of Governor	Temple Grove Schools Trust Director
  Committee Membership	Chairman of the Knights Academy LGBC and member of the Trust Board, Strategy Committee and the Finance Committee
  Appointment Start Date	26/06/2018
  Term of office	4 years
  Appointed by	Appointed by the Directors of the Trust Board in accordance with the Articles of Association

  Simon was educated at Oxford University and then worked for 7 years in Tokyo with the UK merchant bank Kleinwort Benson and a boutique Swiss bank.

  He acquired an enduring love of Japan, its food, culture language and people (including most importantly his wife Zahira). He moved back to the UK in the mid-1990s, and worked with his brother who had established a UK wealth management business Heartwood. Simon started the London office, became Chief Executive of Heartwood in 2008, and led its successful acquisition by Handelsbanken, the highly regarded Swedish bank, in 2013. Simon left Heartwood after 20 years in 2016. He is a Non Executive Director of WH Ireland Group PLC.

  Simon's community activities are focused on creating a more level playing field for young people. Simon previously served for 10 years as Trustee (and ultimately Deputy Chairman) of Fairbridge, a medium sized charity tackling social exclusion in inner city areas. Fairbridge became part of The Prince's Trust in 2011. Simon is Chair of the youth social action and education charity Envision.

• Nick Jenkins
  Nominated Director
  Nick Jenkins

  Type of Governor	Nominated Director
  Committee Membership	Chairman of the Standards Committee and member of the Trust Board, Strategy Committee and the Hatcham College LGBC
  Appointment Start Date	29/06/2017
  Term of office	4 years
  Appointed by	Appointed by the Directors of the Trust Board in accordance with the Articles of Association

  Mr Jenkins is a business man and entrepreneur, having founded the greetings card website www.moonpig.com.

  He manages a portfolio of investments which led to him joining the panel of BBC's Dragon Den between 2015 and 2017 and he has a number of charitable interests including educational organisations.

  Mr Jenkins has experience of data management and analysis and extensive business and charity governance experience.

• Christopher Hardie
  Nominated Director
  Christopher Hardie

  Type of Governor	Nominated Director
  Committee Membership	Chairman of the Crayford Academy LGBC, member of the Trust Board and Strategy Committee
  Appointment Start Date	03/10/2017
  Term of office	4 years
  Appointed by	Appointed by the Members in accordance with the Articles of Association

  A Corporate Financier with over thirty years' experience in the Corporate Finance Departments of two major UK integrated securities firms.

  Due to start shortly at a small corporate finance/securities business focused on the UK after 13 years at Arden partners. Mr Hardie has relevant experience as a governor at Monmouth Schools where he chaired Finance and Estates and Audit committees. A Chartered Accountant he has experience in all matters of Corporate Finance across a broad range of sectors and is able to contribute to financial self-evaluation and efficiency drives

• John Fernau
  Nominated Director
  John Fernau

  Type of Governor	Nominated Director
  Committee Membership	Trust Board, Finance Committee, Crayford Academy LGBC
  Appointment Start Date	23/03/2016
  Term of office	4 years
  Appointed by	Appointed by the Members in accordance with the Articles of Association

  John is a senior leader with extensive experience of public procurement and major sporting events.

  John started his career in international development procurement before becoming a management consultant advising on procurement in local and central government. Whilst a consultant, John began working at the Olympic Delivery Authority and in 2009 he became the Head of Procurement. John led the delivery of a huge range of procurements including on and off park construction, park wide logistics and security, transport, security and other corporate professional services.

  After the Games in 2012, John became the Commercial Director of the Home Office. Whilst there, John was also a Non-Executive Director of the Government Procurement Service where he focused on driving the organisation to strengthen its customer service. In 2014 John left the Home Office to found Fernau Solutions, a consultancy which helps small and medium sized companies to understand government and successfully navigate public sector procurement.

  John is a Liveryman of the Haberdashers Company and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply.

• Nicola Trott
  Co-opted Director
  Nicola Trott

  Type of Governor	Co-opted Governor
  Committee Membership	Trust Board, Standards Committee
  Appointment Start Date	26/06/2018
  Term of office	4 years
  Appointed by	Appointed by the Directors of the Trust Board in accordance with the Articles of Association

  Dr Nicola Trott is a Senior Tutor / Academic Registrar at Balliol College, Oxford. As Senior Tutor, Dr Trott has responsibility for academic planning and is in overall charge of academic administration. She is also the Disability Lead. Prior to joining Balliol College, Dr Trott was a Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of English Literature at the University of Glasgow. She read English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford (St Catherine's College) and went on to specialise in 18th and 19th century literature and to teach and research in Oxford, London, and Glasgow.

• Sheridan Swallow
  Nominated Director
  Sheridan Swallow

  Type of Governor	Nominated Director
  Committee Membership	Chairman of the Audit and Risk Committee, member of the Finance Committee, Trust Board and Strategy Committee
  Appointment Start Date	03/10/2016 as a co-opted governor and then appointed as a Nominated Director on 18/12/2018
  Term of office;	4 years
  Appointed by	Appointed by the Members in accordance with the Articles of Association

  Sheridan is the Chair of the Audit Committee and a Chartered Accountant who has made his career in the commercial sector.

  He has served as Finance Director or Group Finance Director on a number of boards, including those of public companies, across a wide range of industry sectors.

  Previously a Governor of the Haberdashers' Aske's Schools at Elstree and the Haberdashers' Monmouth Schools, where he was Chairman, he has more than twenty five years' experience as a school governor. He has been a member of the Court of Assistants of the Haberdashers Company since 1992 where has served on all the major committees and has been the Master of the Company. A graduate of Magdalene College, Cambridge he is married with two grown up children.

• Anthony Cann
  Nominated Director
  Anthony Cann

  Type of Governor	Nominated Director
  Committee Membership	Chairman of the Borough Academy Local Board, member of the Trust Board and Strategy Committee
  Appointment Start Date	18/12/2018
  Term of office	4 years
  Appointed by	Appointed by the Members in accordance with the Articles of Association

  Anthony has been a Governor and Director at Haberdashers' Aske's Adams Federation Trust since 2011 and chair since March 2013 but will retire in summer 2019. Prior to that he was a governor of Haberdashers' Aske's Federation from 2007 to 2011. He has returned as a governor to Haberdashers' Aske's Federation as chair of the Borough Academy local board.

  Anthony is a solicitor (no longer practising), he was articulated at Linklaters in 1969, qualified there, specialising in Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions law. He retired in 2006 after having been the Worldwide Senior Partner for five years and prior to that Head of the Corporate Department. Since his retirement from Linklaters, Anthony has a portfolio of roles. He was a non-executive director of Connect from 2006 to 2016 and of Panmure Gordon from 2007 to 2016. He was Chair of Changing Faces between 2008 and 2010 and a Trustee and Director of The Social Investment Business from 2006 to 2016. Since 2008, Anthony has been a strategic consultant to Kinstellar, an emerging markets law firm. Since May 2018 he has been Chair of the Group Supervisory Committee of Aapogee which owns Kinstellar and a similar law firm in Asia, DFDL.

• William Macpherson
  Co-opted Director
  William Macpherson

  Type of Governor	Co-opted Director
  Committee Membership	Member of the Trust Board and Chairman of the Hatcham Local Board
  Appointment Start Date	26/06/2019
  Term of office	4 years
  Appointed by	Appointed by the Directors of the Trust Board in accordance with the Articles of Association

  William has been CEO of QA, the leading technology and management training firm, for 11 years. With nearly 300m in annual revenues in higher education, apprenticeships, training and consulting and more than 120,000 learners per year, QA is one of the largest educators in the UK. Prior to this, he was CEO of The Financial Training Company and of Kaplan International. He started his career at Bain & Co, and has an MA in Law from Cambridge, and an MBA from INSEAD. He served for 9 years as a trustee (and latterly as Chair of the F&A Committee) for Care International. He is married with three (adult) children and lives in Kent and London.

• Jan Shadick
  CEO of the Trust
  Jan Shadick

  Type of Governor	Chief Executive Officer
  Committee Membership	Member of the Trust Board
  Appointment Start Date	1st September 2020
  Term of office	Under one year
  Appointed by	Appointed by the Director of the Trust Board in accordance with the Articles of Association

  Jan Shadick, NPQH BA MA

  Jan joins Haberdashers Aske Federation Trust from United Learning where she has worked as Regional Director for Academies (South Secondary), overseeing 11 secondary academies within the Group. Previous to this role she has been a head teacher for 14 years leading three schools, including one in central London. She has also been an Executive Head teacher of two London Academies.

  Jan is also an Ofsted Inspector and a qualified Executive Coach.

  Jan originally trained as a teacher of PE with History, at the University of Warwick and gained a Masters in Education Leadership from the University of London and NPQH from UCL Institute of Education..

• Dame Sue John
  Nominated Director
  Dame Sue John

  Type of Governor	Nominated Director
  Committee Membership	Member of the Trust Board
  Appointment Start Date	01/09/2020
  Term of office	4 years
  Appointed by	Appointed by the Trust Board in accordance with the Articles of Association

  Dame Sue John

  Executive Director Challenge Partners

  Sue was the headteacher of Lampton School in Hounslow from 1997 to 2015.The school was included in the 2010 Ofsted publication Twelve outstanding secondary schools: excelling against the odds. Sue worked as a National Leader of Education and as project manager for some of London's most challenging and complex schools. She was the Director of the London Leadership Strategy for secondary schools during the London Challenge.

  She was previously awarded an honorary fellowship from Brunel University and recently awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws by Roehampton University. Sue has held directorships at the DFE, Future and Teaching Leaders and is currently the Chair of the South London TSA and Charles Dickens Research School. Sue is a member of the Sutton Trust EAG, the advisory group for the Fair Education Alliance and the Royal Society's curriculum group. She is also the Chair of Trustees for the Teacher Development Trust.

• Rupert McNeil
  Nominated Director
  Rupert McNeil

  Type of Governor	Nominated Director
  Committee Membership	Member of the Trust Board, Chair of the People Committee
  Appointment Start Date	01/01/2021
  Term of office	4 years
  Appointed by	Appointed by the Trust Board in accordance with the Articles of Association

  Rupert is the UK Government Chief People Officer (GCPO) based in the Cabinet Office. He is responsible for Human Resources and workforce issues for the UK Civil Service. He started this role in January 2016, and prior to that held senior roles at Lloyds Banking Group, Aviva and Barclays, and was Partner at Arthur Andersen and Deloitte. Before joining Arthur Andersen in 1995, he worked at the Confederation of British Industry (CBI).

  He studied Politics & Philosophy at university, and went to secondary school in Aberdeen. He and his wife Nicole have two children: Sam, a lawyer, and Courtney, who is at university.

  Rupert is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) and of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (CIPD), and a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute (CMi). He is also a Non-Executive Director of the Government Property Agency (GPA).

• Ade Adetosoye OBE
  Co-opted Governor
  Ade Adetosoye OBE

  Type of Governor	Nominated Director
  Committee Membership	Member of the Trust Board, Chair of the People Committee
  Appointment Start Date	01/01/2021
  Term of office	4 years
  Appointed by	Appointed by the Trust Board in accordance with the Articles of Association

  Ade is the Chief Executive Officer of Bromley Council. Prior to joining Bromley Council in January 2017, Ade worked in several senior positions and transformed services in both the City of London and Lambeth Council.

  Ade was awarded an OBE in 2013, by Her Majesty the Queen, for his contribution to public services. In 2019, Ade was part of the team charged by the Charity Commission to review the safeguarding arrangements of Oxfam.

  Ade is a Trustee of Coram, the United Kingdom's first ever charity dedicated to supporting adoption of children. He is also a Freeman of the City of London, a unique and historical title that dates back to 1237, as well as being a Freeman of the Haberdashers' Company, an ancient merchant guild.

  As a recognised leader in his field, Ade was identified as one of the 100 most influential business leaders in the United Kingdom in 2019.

  Ade is an Alumni of University of Cambridge, Brunel University, University of Hull and University of Llorin.

 

 

Independent Co-opted Finance Committee and Audit & Risk Committee Governors

 

• Ludo Hashemi
  Co-opted Governor (independent member for the Finance Committee)
  Ludo Hashemi

  Type of Governor	Co-opted Governor
  Committee Membership	Finance Committee
  Appointment Start Date	Appointed 26/06/2019
  Term of office	4 years
  Appointed by	Appointed by the Trust Board in accordance with the Articles of Association

  Ludo was educated at the University of Warwick before working for 4 years at The Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBS) and latterly Shawbrook Bank. Since 2018, Ludo has worked at the U.S. alternative asset manager Ares Management, where he originates and structures cross-border alternative credit investments.

  Over the past 10 years Ludo has been involved in various initiatives aimed at improving the well-being and education of young people. At university, he held senior roles within a charity which provided mental health support services; at RBS, he led the coordination of all graduate-level corporate social responsibility (cumulatively over 5,000 hours of skills-based volunteering per annum); and, more recently, Ludo was a tutor to a pupil through The Access Project.

• John Shuffrey
  Co-opted Governor (Independent member of the Audit & Risk Committee)
  John Shuffrey

  Type of Governor	Co-opted Governor
  Committee Membership	Audit & Risk Committee
  Appointment Start Date	Appointed 07/10/2019
  Term of office	4 years
  Appointed by	Appointed by the Trust Board in accordance with the Articles of Association

  John is a chartered accountant who was an audit partner at Saffery Champness until 2019 where he headed the Not for Profit practice. Prior to that he was a partner at Arthur Andersen until its demise in 2002. He specialised in advising schools, livery companies (including the Haberdashers Company) and other charities as well as commercial clients.

  He was chair of governors at Arts Education Schools until 2017 and before that he was chair of the Finance Committee. During that time he oversaw a turn round in the schools fortunes and the building of a new theatre. He was a governor and chair of the audit committee at Rose Bruford College in Sidcup.

  He has a degree in Modern History from Oxford University.

  He is married with three children and is a Freeman of the Haberdashers Company.

• Adam Glossop
  Co-Opted Governor (Independent member for the Finance Committee)
  Adam Glossop

  Type of Governor	Co-opted Governor
  Committee Membership	Finance Committee
  Appointment Start Date	Appointed 08/03/2021
  Term of office	4 years
  Appointed by	Appointed by the Strategic Committee in accordance with the Articles of Association

  Adam is a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager for Barclays International within the Treasury Funding and Investment Team, with responsibility for investments in Fixed Income markets. He was previously a Portfolio Manager at the Asset Management company BlackRock, where he managed fixed income portfolios for both hedge funds and insurance clients over a twelve year period. Adam started his career as an interest rates trader at CitiGroup, in London.

  Adam graduated from the University of Warwick in 1998, with a degree in Economics and Politics and currently lives in South east London with his wife and three school age children.

 

 

  Crayford Cluster Local Board Governors

Governors who also sit on the Trust Board (their biographies can be found in the Trust Board Director section of this page):

• Christopher Hardie
• John Fernau

Further members of the Crayford Academy Local Board:

 

• Richard Northcott
  Co-opted Local Governor
  Richard Northcott

  Type of Governor	Co-opted governor
  Committee Membership	Crayford Academy LGBC
  Appointment Start Date	30/06/2015
  Term of office	4 years
  Appointed by	Appointed by the Trust Board in accordance with the Articles of Association

  Richard Northcott is an underwriter at Lloyds of London, working for the Pembroke 4000 Syndicate which is owned by Ironshore. He specialises in Fine art and Specie Insurance and has been lucky enough to travel the world extensively working with some of the largest Museums and collections across the Globe. Richard has been involved with the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers for over 25 years, serving on the Court of Assistants. He is currently Third Warden and Chairman of the Hall Committee.

• Evelyn Guest
  Co-opted Local Governor
  Evelyn Guest

  Type of Governor	Co-opted Governor
  Committee Membership	Crayford LGBC
  Appointment Start Date	14/12/2017
  Term of office	4 years
  Appointed by	Appointed by the Trust Board in accordance with the Articles of Association

  Evelyn attended secondary school in Lancashire and subsequently studied English Literature at University of Wales, Swansea and was awarded a BA with honours.

  Her teaching certificate was also awarded by Swansea University. Her many years as a teacher in various roles were spent in both the maintained and private sector. The last 18 years were enjoyed at City of London Freemen's School in Surrey, latterly as Deputy Head.

  Her aim throughout her teaching career has been to enable all pupils to fulfil their potential in a happy and safe environment. As DSL the writing of school policies focused on 'Keeping Children Safe in Education' and monitoring implementation was a key role. Evelyn has always acknowledged the important role of parents. She has as one of her other priorities the welfare of staff.

• Sarah Watkins
  Elected Parent Governor
  Sarah Watkins

  Type of Governor	Elected parent governor
  Committee Membership	Crayford Academy
  Appointment Start Date	10/6/2017
  Term of office	4 years
  Appointed by	Elected by parents appointed by the Trust Board in accordance with the Articles of Association

  Sarah is married with two children.

  She has lived in Barnehurst / Crayford her whole life.

  She started her working life in the travel industry where she spent over 17 years working her way up the ladder from trainee to a store manager. She has since moved to working in banking.

• Alex Edinboro
  Elected Staff Governor
  Alex Edinboro

  Type of Governor	Elected staff governor
  Committee Membership	Crayford Academy
  Appointment Start Date	16/12/2019
  Term of office	4 years
  Appointed by	Elected by parents appointed by the Trust Board in accordance with the Articles of Association

  Alexandra has just entered her second year working at Haberdashers' Aske's Crayford Academy. She is currently Subject Lead of Drama and is enjoying building the Department and forging strong relationships between home, pupil and school. Before coming to Crayford Academy, she worked as a Drama teacher and then Head of Department in another Bexley secondary school for six years. Alexandra has a degree in Combined Dance and Theatre Professional Practice and completed her PGCE in Drama at Goldsmiths University. She sits on the board as a trustee for London Drama, the Association of London Drama teachers and is a PGCE placement mentor. Following graduation, Alexandra has worked in the Performing Arts industry as a Performer and as a Stage Manager. She has a wide array of interests; animal welfare, health and fitness, nutritional education for young people and of course Culture and the Arts. Alexandra has lived for most of her life in the local area and has also lived in Toulouse and Coventry. Her hobbies include reading, MMA, dancing and swimming.

• Linda Wake
  Elected Parent Governor
  Linda Wake

  Type of Governor	Elected parent governor
  Committee Membership	Crayford Academy
  Appointment Start Date	08/03/2021
  Term of office	4 years
  Appointed by	Elected by parents appointed by the Trust Board in accordance with the Articles of Association

  A qualified Accountant and currently Chief Financial Officer and Board Director of a global research business, Linda has lived in the Crayford area for over 40 years. She is passionate that local children have access to excellent education and opportunities to achieve the best they can, and has experience in leading and supporting leadership teams to achieve their strategic objectives, including improving performance of employees, effectively managing budgets, improving communications as well as being responsible for Risk and Compliance globally.

• Rizwaan Hanid
  Co-Opted Local Governor
  Rizwaan Hanid

  Type of Governor	Elected parent governor
  Committee Membership	Crayford Academy
  Appointment Start Date	08/03/2021
  Term of office	4 years
  Appointed by	Elected by parents appointed by the Trust Board in accordance with the Articles of Association

• Laurence Thackwray
  Co-Opted Governor
  Laurence Thackwray

  Type of Governor	Co-Opted Governor
  Committee Membership	Crayford Academy
  Appointment Start Date	08/03/2021
  Term of office	4 years
  Appointed by	Elected by parents appointed by the Trust Board in accordance with the Articles of Association

 

 

 Hatcham Cluster Local Board Governors

Governors who also sit on the Trust Board (their biographies can be found in the Trust Board Director section of this page):

• William Macpherson
• Nick Jenkins

Further members of the Hatcham College Local Board:

 

• Rebekah Brown
  Elected Parent Governor
  Rebekah Brown

  Type of Governor	Elected parent governor
  Committee Membership	Hatcham College and Hatcham Temple Grove Free School LGBC
  Appointment Start Date	21/10/2013, re-elected and appointed 14/12/2017
  Term of office	4 years
  Appointed by	Elected by parentsappointed, by the Trust Board in accordance with the Articles of Association

  Rebekah was brought up in a suburb of Manchester and now lives in South London with her husband and four children who all attend or have attended Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College.

  She read Nursing and Human Sciences at The City of London University and St Bartholomew's Hospital.

  Rebekah has worked as a nurse in a number of hospitals across London and was promoted to Oncology Nurse Practitioner in 2002. Rebekah and her family moved to Durban in South Africa shortly afterwards where her husband had been asked to help start a Church on The University Campus of Kwa-Zulu-Natal (UKZN). Rebekah volunteered at a non-governmental organisation supporting and giving counselling to students and women affected by violence, crime, abuse, HIV/ Aids from all over Africa.

• Joanna Abeyie
  Co-opted Governor
  Joanna Abeyie

  Type of Governor	Co-opted Governor
  Committee Membership	Hatcham College
  Appointment Start Date	26/06/2019
  Term of office	4 years
  Appointed by	Appointed by the Director of the Trust Board in accordance with the Articles of Association

  Joanna Abeyie is an award winning entrepreneur, champion of diversity, inclusion and equality, public speaker and campaigner, journalist and broadcaster.

  Joanna's latest enterprise is founding Blue Moon, a flagship consultancy and recruitment business helping businesses to understand the importance of having inclusive and diverse workforces. Prior to this she founded Hyden, a recruitment business placing diverse senior leadership talent in the media and creative industries. Over the past decade Joanna has placed more than 3,000 people from diverse backgrounds in positions in the creative industries, significantly improving representation of BAME and working class talent in the sector.

  Joanna has also worked as a diversity and inclusion consultant for media giants including the BBC, ITV, ITN, Channel 4, Sky and The Guardian and has extensive experience of advising FTSE 100 companies in diversity, inclusion and corporate social responsibility. She also visited No. 10 to meet with Prime Minister Theresa May to discuss race and equality and was instrumental in the establishment of the Creative Diversity All Party Parliamentary Group, chaired by Ed Vaizey MP from 2010 to 2016. Joanna's formidable campaigning and lobbying has seen her faint a seat on the NUJ's Black Members Council and secure roles on the Board of Directors for The Lord Mayor's Appeal, The Media Council, Investor in People and the board of advisors for Ghana-based leadership and skills initiative Cedi Street.

  Joanna established TV and film production company LH productions and in addition to her own productions and interviews, she presents a news and events round up on Dotun Adebayo's weekly BBC Radio London Show every Sunday. Joanna's achievements as a businesswoman, including being a Managing Director of a FTSE 250 global business (SThree Plc) have been recognised in numerous awards and Joanna being the youngest woman to be given the keys to the City of London.

  Joanna grew up in South London in a working class family (Ghanaian father and English Mother) that stressed the important of education and hard work in achieving your goals. In October 2018 Joanna gave a TED Talk on Social Mobility for TEDXLIVEMUSCAT. Joanna spoke of her journey as a woman of colour from a working class background who studied English and Sociology as an undergraduate and then pursued a MA in Magazine Journalism before becoming a successful journalist, diversity campaigner and pioneering businesswoman. As an 18 year old undergraduate Joanna co-founded employment charity Elevation Networks and at 20 she launched social enterprise Shine Media and MagNet, a diversity mentoring scheme with the UK Professional Publishers Association.

• Zinat Fatama
  Elected Parent Governor
  Zinat Fatama

  Type of Governor	Elected Parent Governor
  Committee Membership	Hatcham College LGB
  Appointment Start Date	08/03/2021
  Term of office	4 years
  Appointed by	Elected by staff and appointed by the Trust Board in accordance with the Articles of Association

  Zinat has worked in Finance for 20 years, and is currently employed as a Finance Manager for a Facilities Management company, based in the City. She has previously been a Parent Governor for Edmund Waller and Comber Grove Primary schools.

  Zinat has lived locally for over 25 years and has two daughters.

• Sarah Mitchell
  Co-opted Governor
  Sarah Mitchell

  Type of Governor	Elected Parent Governor
  Committee Membership	Hatcham College LGB
  Appointment Start Date	08/03/2021
  Term of office	4 years
  Appointed by	Elected by staff and appointed by the Trust Board in accordance with the Articles of Association

  Sarah is a Headteacher of a Primary Academy in Bromley, having previously led a successful school in Croydon. She is also part of the senior STEP Academy Trust team, focusing on Inclusion across the organisation. Sarah has dedicated her career to providing the best quality education for all children, and is passionate about ensuring equity of opportunity for all.

  Sarah also works as a Development Partner at the Princes' Teaching Institute, an organisation devoted to supporting the professional development of teachers through high quality CPD and training. Before becoming a teacher, Sarah studied Archaeology at the University of Liverpool and has since worked in New York and London.

  Sarah is currently studying for a MBA in Educational Leadership. When not working or studying, you can usually find her in the yoga studio.

• Iain Hollingshead
  Co-opted Governor
  Iain Hollingshead

  Type of Governor	Co-Opted Governor
  Committee Membership	Hatcham College LGBC
  Appointment Start Date	08/03/2021
  Term of office	4 years
  Appointed by	Elected by parents, appointed by the Trust Board in accordance with the Articles of Association

  After studying History at Cambridge University, Iain Hollingshead spent ten years in journalism, mainly as a features writer at The Daily Telegraph. He has written two novels, two musicals and edited a bestselling series of previously unpublished letters to the editor. After leaving journalism, he helped to launch Nutmeg, the online investment management service, before moving into teaching. He has spent the last eight years at Dulwich College, where he is Head of Politics and a teacher of History..

• Clover Hibbert
  Co-opted Governor
  Clover Hibbert

• Taschan Anthrobus
  Co-opted Governor
  Taschan Anthrobus

 

 

 Knights Academy Local Board Governors

Governors who also sit on the Trust Board (their biographies can be found in the Trust Board Director section of this page):

• Simon Lough

Further members of the Knights Academy Local Board:

 

• Natalie Wilson
  Co-opted Local Governor
  Natalie Wilson

  Type of Governor	Co-opted governor
  Committee Membership	Knights Academy LGBC
  Appointment Start Date	19/11/2013, reappointed 03/10/2017
  Term of office	4 years
  Appointed by	Appointed by the Trust Board in accordance with the Articles of Association

  Natalie Wilson has been a qualified social worker for 20 years and has worked across most areas, from children and families up to management level and is currently self-employed working as an independent social worker. Natalie has always had a passion for providing children with the best opportunities to develop and reach their full potential particularly those who are more vulnerable. Natalie also has experience of school life through working closely with schools as a social worker, voluntarily at her children's school and in running a wildlife club at another school. She has also worked as a children's and youth worker at her church for over 20 years. Natalie has three children of her own and is delighted to be able to offer her support to Knights Academy as a Haberdashers governor. In her spare time Natalie also has a keen interest in fitness and outdoor activities.

• Simon Masterson
  Co-opted Local Governor
  Simon Masterson

  Type of Governor	Co-opted governor
  Committee Membership	Knights Academy LGBC
  Appointment Start Date	30/06/2015
  Term of office	4 years
  Appointed by	Appointed by the Trust Board in accordance with the Articles of Association

  Simon is a community governor who lives locally. He has been a civil servant for over 10 years, with the vast majority of that spent in the Department of Education where he has worked on a variety of policies related to schools. His current post is in the Ministry of Justice where he is the Head of Prison Education Policy. Simon has a long-held interest in education and young people, having chaired a charity at university aimed at improving outcomes for young people from the inner-city. He has previously been a governor of a maintained primary school in North London and has been a mentor to a young man through the 'Friendship works' charity for over 10 years.

• Louis Powell
  Co-opted Local Governor
  Louis Powell

  Type of Governor	Co-opted Governor
  Committee Membership	Knights Academy LGBC
  Appointment Start Date	26/06/2018
  Term of office	4 years
  Appointed by	Appointed by the Trust Board in accordance with the Articles of Association

  Since 2014 Louis has worked at Google, where he helps UK businesses make the most of emerging mobile technology. Prior to Google he worked at Unilever in both IT consulting and in marketing where he launched new products, apps, and websites. He has worked in China, the US, Spain and Germany and now resides in London.

• Hannah Witham
  Elected Staff Governor
  Hannah Witham

  Type of Governor	Elected staff governor
  Committee Membership	Knights Academy LGBC
  Appointment Start Date	09/12/2014, re elected 17/12/2018
  Term of office	4 years
  Appointed by	Elected by staff and appointed by the Trust Board in accordance with the Articles of Association

  Hannah has worked at Haberdashers' Aske's Knights Academy for over four years. She currently works in the administration team and enjoys the close contact and good relationship she has with staff, parents, pupils and the local community. Before coming to Knights she trained as a children's nurse and worked for NHS Direct as an advisor. She is educated to degree level (BSc of Combined Health Studies) and has a diploma in Paediatric Nursing. Following graduation, Hannah spent 11 months in South East Asia where she helped look for lost orangutans after a landslide in Indonesia, and taught English to Cambodian Monks. She has a wide array of interests; chief of which is a passion for the education and well-being of children and their families and the role education and health care play in a local community. She also supports a few charities including the NSPCC and Battersea dog's home. Hannah has lived most of her life in the local area and has also lived in Scotland and Birmingham. Her hobbies include reading, going to the theatre and caring for her cat Skibba.

• Sally Reeve Edwards
  Elected Parent Governor
  Sally Reeve Edwards

  Type of Governor	Elected parent governor
  Committee Membership	Knights Academy LGBC
  Appointment Start Date	17/12/2018
  Term of office	4 years
  Appointed by	Elected by staff and appointed by the Trust Board in accordance with the Articles of Association

  Sally Reeve Edwards has a son at HAKA who joined Year 7 in September 2018. She has been a governor twice before, at Harris Academy in Greenwich and for 6 years at Torridon Infants School in Catford. She was Chair of Governors for 2 years at Torridon and successfully helped the school reach outstanding status in 2015. Her particular strengths are communication and parent engagement.

  Sally has been an actor since childhood and still works occasionally in film and TV. She also runs a successful preschool music class 'Singalong Sally' in Lewisham, Ladywell and Charlton.

  Both Sally's children have Autism and ADHD and therefore she has a particular interest in SEN and inclusion. She is a parent volunteer for SENDIASS, the Lewisham independent advocacy service for SEN families.

• Ugo Ikokwu
  Co-opted Local Governor
  Ugo Ikokwu

  Ugo Ikokwu is currently employed as a Grants Manager at Trust for London (TFL) Previously, he was Programme Director at The Fore Trust, which enables UK-based small charities and social enterprises to unlock sustainability, efficiency, scale, and impact  by providing unrestricted funds. Before this, he spent six years working at The Social Investment Business (SIB) where he worked across several teams - Investment, Grants and Business Development.

  He has extensive knowledge and experience of designing programmes and funds that address a range of social issues.

  Ugo is currently Chair of the Alpha Grove Centre and a non-executive director of Do IT NOW NOW (DINN). He also sits on the advisory board of WEKA and is an Investment Committee member for Remitt Fund. He also sits on several other advisory boards and was previously Co-Chair for London+Acumen a volunteer-led chapter of Acumen, a non-profit global venture fund.

 

 

Borough Academy Local Board Governors

Governors who also sit on the Trust Board (their biographies can be found in the Trust Board Director section of this page):

• Anthony Cann

Further members of the Borough Academy Local Board:

 

• Anuja Dhir QC
  Co-opted Local Governor
  Anuja Dhir QC

  Type of Governor	Co-opted Local Governor
  Committee Membership	Borough Academy Local Board
  Appointment Start Date	01/01/2019
  Term of office	4 years
  Appointed by	Appointed by the Trust Board in accordance with the Articles of Association

  Anuja was born in Scotland in 1968, she attended at state school and in 1984 she started studying Law at Dundee University. Having graduated in 1988, with an honours degree in English and Scottish Law she sat the Bar exams. Anuja was called to the Bar in 1989. She practised at the Bar for 23 years, mainly in crime and from 2007 onwards as a special advocate in national security cases. Anuja has been involved in advocacy training in the UK and abroad for over 20 years. in 2010, Anuja was appointed as a Queen's Counsel.

  Anuja was appointed as an Old Bailey Judge in 2017 and a Circuit Judge in 2012. She was made a Recorder in 2010. She is the first non- white judge at The Old Bailey.

  In 2015 Anuja was appointed as a Tutor Judge for the Judicial College.

  In 2017 she was made a governor of the City Academy Hackney.

  2018 Anuja was authorised to sit in the CACD (Court of Appeal, Criminal Division) and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Law by Dundee University.

  Anuja is married with 3 children.

• Cassandra Buchanan
  Co-opted Local Governor
  Cassandra Buchanan

  Type of Governor	Co-opted Local Governor
  Committee Membership	Borough Academy Local Board
  Appointment Start Date	01/01/2019
  Term of office	4 years
  Appointed by	Appointed by the Trust Board in accordance with the Articles of Association

  Cassie has been teaching for over 18 years and is the headteacher of Charles Dickens Primary School and Nursery, an outstanding school and nursery in Central London. Cassie also leads the London South Teaching School Alliance, a large and very successful alliance working with over 85 schools across South London and beyond. The LSTSA specialises in leadership development , school peer review and research linked to teaching and learning including inclusion, teacher workload, effective use of pupil premium and mental health.

  Cassie was an Ofsted inspector for many years, inspecting nurseries and primary schools with specialism in leadership and management, English, maths, Early Years and curriculum.

  She now focuses her time on supporting system-wide evidence-based improvements including accountability frameworks. Cassie continues to work as a pupil premium reviewer and school improvement partner, supporting schools both nationally and abroad. She sits on several of the DFE advisory groups including teacher workload and she is a member of the Southwark Health and Wellbeing Board.

  Before she entered the teaching profession, Cassie worked for Deloitte and Touche as an auditor following a degree in PPE from Christ Church, Oxford University.

• Fiona Hurst
  Co-opted Local Governor
  Fiona Hurst

  Type of Governor	Co-opted Local Governor
  Committee Membership	Borough Academy Local Board
  Appointment Start Date	01/01/2019
  Term of office	4 years
  Appointed by	Appointed by the Trust Board in accordance with the Articles of Association.

  Fiona is the Senior Design Director for Forpeople Ltd, an International Design Consultants based in London. She is Head of Vision and Strategy and responsible for bringing creative vision to a wide range of projects including design philosophy, brand experience, spatial, experiential, product and furniture design.Key clients include Intercontinental Hotel Group, Cunard, British Airways & The Body Shop. Fiona has previously worked for Ford Motor Company, Land Rover and Studio Monogram and has been a visiting design lecturer at numerous colleges at BA and MA level including Royal College of Art, Central St Martins, London. Fiona's voluntary work includes establishing and running weekly craft workshops at Cathedral Primary School, being a Sunday school teacher at Southwark Cathedral and local fund raising, London SE1. She is a mother of two and lives in London.

• Hugh Gammell
  Co-opted Local Governor
  Hugh Gammell

  Type of Governor	Co-opted Local Governor
  Committee Membership	Borough Academy Local Board
  Appointment Start Date	01/01/2019
  Term of office	3 years
  Appointed by	Appointed by the Trust Board in accordance with the Articles of Association

  Hugh Gammell spent most of his career at Charterhouse, an independent school in Godalming, Surrey. There he taught History, and was Head of Department, Housemaster and Admissions Registrar. He had responsibility at various times for teaching and learning, the welfare and performance of students under his pastoral care and school administration.

  Since retirement in 2016, he has engaged in extensive voluntary work, with Citizens Advice, the Mark Evison Foundation and as a Governor of St Peter's Catholic Comprehensive School in Guildford, where he has special responsibility for safeguarding.

• Joshua Rosen
  Co-opted Local Governor
  Joshua Rosen

  Type of Governor	Co-opted Local Governor
  Committee Membership	Borough Academy Local Board
  Appointment Start Date	01/01/2019
  Term of office	4 years
  Appointed by	Appointed by the Trust Board in accordance with the Articles of Association

  Joshua Rosen is a member of the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers' and became a governor at Haberdashers' Aske's Borough Academy in January 2019.

  Joshua is currently a Director at specialist insurance investment manager Twelve Capital, having joined the firm in January 2015. Prior to this, Joshua worked at Nomura International and Lehman Brothers in London, where he was responsible for sales to major long-only managers and hedge fund accounts across Europe.

  Joshua is a CFA charterholder and member of the CFA institute. He holds a BSc (Hons) in Politics & Sociology from the University of Bristol and was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School in Elstree. Joshua lives in London and is married with two young children.

• Paola Wilson
  Co-opted Local Governor
  Paola Wilson

  Type of Governor	Co-opted Local Governor
  Committee Membership	Borough Academy Local Board
  Appointment Start Date	01/01/2019
  Term of office	4 years
  Appointed by	Appointed by the Trust Board in accordance with the Articles of Association

  Paola Wilson campaigned for the successful opening of Haberdashers' Aske's Borough Academy. From 1995 to 2010 she worked as a barrister, specialising principally in criminal and human rights public law. She liaises on a voluntary basis with parents and carers on local issues pertaining to community and youth projects.

• Sally Dyson
  Co-opted Local Governor
  Sally Dyson

  Type of Governor	Co-opted Local Governor
  Committee Membership	Borough Academy Local Board
  Appointment Start Date	01/01/2019
  Term of office	4 years
  Appointed by	Appointed by the Trust Board in accordance with the Articles of Association

  Sally is the founder and director of Firm Sense Limited, a specialist consultancy enhancing the personal and organisational effectiveness of lawyers and other professionals. Sally's expertise in the professional services arena derives from over a decade working as a lawyer. Sally holds an MA in law from Cambridge University and qualified as a solicitor and practised at Slaughter and May before joining the in-house legal team at Reuters Group PLC (now Thomson Reuters) and then moving to Travelex Group Limited where she was first Senior Counsel and then Head of Group Compliance and Regulation. Sally is also a qualified business coach and a commercially published author.

  Sally has been a member of the Haberdashers' Company for over 20 years and now sits on their Court of Assistants. Sally is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a charitable network dedicated to shaping the future through ideas and action.

  Sally lives in London and is married with two school-age children

• Antonia Quentin-Lewis
  Elected Parent Governor
  Antonia Quentin-Lewis

  Type of Governor	Elected Parent Governor
  Committee Membership	Borough Academy Local Board
  Appointment Start Date	16/12/2019
  Term of office	4 years
  Appointed by	Appointed by the Trust Board in accordance with the Articles of Association

  After graduating with a combined honours degree in sculptural millinery, Antonia then spent a number of years working as a press officer for Local Government. Relocating to Southwark 23 years ago, she then moved into the fashion industry. She now works on a project-led basis whilst raising her four children.

• Mike Stevenson
  Elected Parent Governor
  Mike Stevenson

  Mike holds a senior management role in financial technology consulting, having worked in the industry for two decades. He holds four academic degrees, including undergraduate degrees in Computer Science and History, and an MBA.

  �He has lived in Southwark for nearly twenty years, and is married with two school-age children.

 

 

 Members

Our Members are as follows.  Their relevant business and pecuniary interests are listed within the Register of Interests document.  Members who served in the last 12 months but have resigned are included in the table at the bottom. 

Name	Date of appointment	Date stepped down  (If applicable)
The Worshipful Company of Haberdashers	08.10.19
Nicholas Scarles	02.07.18
Richard Glover	02.07.18
Andy Chambers	12.07.19	17.02.21
Simon Lough	16.12.19
Bruce Powell	01.09.12	31.08.19
Andy Ellison (resigned)	02.07.18	31.03.19