Mike was a senior member of staff at the Trust for 30 years having joined the Greenwood Dale School as Head of the English department.

Mike has extensive experience in education management. He is an author of a number of education related publications and is well-read in all matters relating to educational developments world-wide.

After graduating from the University of Leeds, Andy qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PwC. Since qualification, he worked in finance and commercial roles for a number of companies including Experian and Rolls-Royce, where he spent ten years of his career. He is currently Finance Director of an engineering company based near Birmingham.

Andy is from Derby and, having graduated and qualified in Leeds, he returned to Derby where he now lives with his two young sons.

Simon has been a Nottinghamshire Magistrate since 2005 and Chair in Adult (criminal law) and also Family Division.  On 1^st April 2018 he was elected as the Bench Chairman for Nottinghamshire.  Simon is also Alumni Mentor at the Nottingham Trent University Law School.

Simon has previously been a Director of the Trent Academies Group, from January 2014 to April 2018, and was also chair of the Finance and Audit Committee, the Pay and Policy Committees, and the Risk Management Group.  Simon was also Chair of the Local Governing Body at Farnborough Academy.

Before retiring, earlier in his career Simon was a Chief Flying Instructor for HM Service and more recently has had roles as an IT Programme Manager and Board-level Director.

Nada has gained extensive leadership experience in a range of schools from ex-mining communities to inner city and county settings. She spent ten years as headteacher of an 11-18 Nottinghamshire secondary school. Prior to this Nada worked with young people with special educational needs. 

In 2006 Nada was recruited by Ofsted as an HMI. For eight years she lead inspection teams, and supported schools in challenging circumstances. As a member of Ofsted’s survey team she visited numerous schools to gather evidence on national priorities. Nada was appointed as national advisor for Equalities and Human Rights to provide guidance and support to inspectors. 

Since 2014, Nada has used her valuable experience and expertise working as an Education Consultant. She has provided tailored input working with middle and senior leaders, and governors, to secure measurable improvement. 
 

Nick Ebbs is a Chartered Surveyor and Vice Chairman of igloo Regeneration Ltd, specialists in the development of sustainable places and buildings. Nick is part of the strategic management team and provides leadership in relation to a number of key research areas.

Nick is Chair of the Nottingham Growth Board; a governor of Nottingham Trent University; a member of the Bank of England Regional Consultative Group (East Midlands); a panel member of Opun’s Regional (East Midlands) Design Review Panel a member of Nottingham City Council’s Heritage Panel; an Ambassador of Framework (a charity that supports the homeless) and a member of the Greenwood Academies Trust.  

Nick is also an Honorary Professor of Sustainable Development at the School of Architecture and Built Environment at the University of Nottingham.

For the year 2018/19 Nick served as High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire.

Prior to joining igloo, Nick was a founder member of Innes England Consultant Surveyors, a property consultancy based in the Midlands.

Rob joined the University of Nottingham in 2001 having previously primarily worked in the financial services sector. He has held project and operational roles, including three years until 2020 as Chief Financial Officer at the University’s Ningbo campus in China. Rob is a CIMA qualified accountant and currently has responsibility for the University’s UK property portfolio as Property and Space Management Director.

Claire is a registered and professionally qualified career development practitioner and has worked within the careers education and guidance sector for twenty years since graduating with a 1st Class honours degree in Sociology in 2000.

She has operated under national initiatives including the Connexions careers service, managing services for schools and businesses across Derby and Derbyshire, the National Careers Service, being quality lead for Careers Inspiration, the Careers and Enterprise Company, leading a careers and business network across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire, and Health Education England, leading the NHS Health Ambassador programme across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire.

Claire has expertise within the disability and employment field, having managed employment rehabilitation programmes across Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and the charity sector across Nottingham.  She established and managed an employment service in Beeston for the ex-armed forces community.

She is a volunteer Ambassador for National Careers Week, a Time to Change mental health champion in her workplace, an International Centre for Guidance Studies Associate and a professional member of the Career Development Institute.  Claire works for the Futures Group.

Raj has extensive experience of governance (within education and other sectors) in a range of settings and structures including maintained schools, single academies and multi academy trusts. The settings range from leafy suburb schools in good catchment areas to those in areas of deprivation with long-standing challenging issues. Being asked to sit on an Interim Executive Board of a large secondary school in Bradford in special measures was a particularly rewarding challenge. 

Her professional background and expertise in HR, leadership, change management and business is much appreciated by boards and LAs. Her most recent trusteeship was in the health sector as she feels education can learn from existing charities. 

She is a governance specialist advisor to the Heads’ Roundtable, a grassroots organisation of Headteachers and CEOs seeking to influence national education policy. She currently Chairs a large primary school in Bradford. 

Originally an actor and drama practitioner, Jacqui has been Director of Learning at the RSC since 2008.  She is responsible for the strategic development of the company’s work with, for and by children, young people, teachers, adult learners and partner theatres across the UK and around the world. She has an interest in research, particularly finding accessible ways to share and disseminate it to inform real world decision-making.  Jacqui is Chair of the Cultural Learning Alliance. She is also a primary school governor. In 2018, she was appointed as a Commissioner for the Durham Commission in Creativity in Education.

Sir David Greenaway was appointed the sixth Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham in 2008. This is one of the UK’s largest comprehensive, research intensive Universities, with four Campuses in the East Midlands, and Campuses in China and Malaysia.  Sir David completed his term of office as Vice-Chancellor in September 2017.

Sir David’s public service commitments are extensive. He has been Chairman of the Armed Forces Pay Review Body (2004-10) and a Member of the Senior Salaries Review Body (2004-2010). He has held non-executive positions in the NHS, including Board Member roles with the Nottingham Health Authority and Nottingham University Hospitals Trust. He has served on many Government Task Forces and advised a range of Government Departments.

Sir David’s service to the professional community includes appointments to three Higher Education Funding Councils Research Assessment Panels including twice as Chair; the Council of ESRC; membership of the Council and Executive of the Royal Economic Society; and Chair of the Russell Group of Universities.

He was Knighted in The Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2014 for services to higher education and public policy.

Kelly is an Internal Audit Director at Experian, covering the UKI, EMEA and APAC regions.  Having made the career move to Internal Audit in 2020, Kelly’s background is predominantly in project, programme and portfolio management, having delivered successfully and established PMO functions to enable multi-million pound business strategy and transformation in the financial services, aerospace and FMCG industries.

Sandra has been involved in governance for many years, with experience in primary schools, stand-alone and MAT academies, Special school and Pupil Referral Units. In the majority of these she has been, or is currently Chair of Governors.  In addition, she has sat on several Interim Executive Boards following the removal of the previous board tasked with securing strong governance.

Sandra worked at a national level as a National Leader of Governance for over ten years.

She is currently self-employed as an educational consultant and works extensively in governance and school leadership; her background is in secondary education but she also supports the leadership development of a group of primary heads.

Sandra is committed to provide the best educational experience for all pupils, securing the best life chances possible, hence her work with school leaders and governors who have an overwhelming remit to secure this for them. 

An award-winning campaigner and educator, Jess is a keynote speaker and facilitator for a collection of social enterprises and charities.

Her work focuses on centring young people. She works with many different sectors from mental health to the participation of young people in services to Public Sexual Harassment. As a result of her expertise, she is a Trainer Consultant at Young Minds, facilitates for charities across the UK as well as a lead trainer for Our Streets Now, a campaign aiming to end Public Sexual Harassment through both cultural and legislative change. Jess uses her own experiences as an LGBTQ+ woman to be able to shape policy, lead workshops and has spoken on the likes of BBC News, Sky News, Houses of Parliament and TEDx.