The following biographies are of governors who served within the last 12 months.
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William MacPhersonFormer Chair of Hatcham College LGB and Member of the Trust Board
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.
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Shaun TippleFormer Parent Governor
Shaun Tipple
Type of Governor
Elected Parent Governor
Committee Membership
Crayford Primary LGB
Appointment Start Date
01/09/2021
Term of office
4 years
Appointed by
Elected by Parents and appointed by the Trust Board in accordance with the Articles of Association
Shaun was educated at the University of Wales before working throughout Europe as a Financial Manager. With over 15 years experience as a business leader and having gained qualifications in project management and an MBA, he launched his own company specialising in financial strategy, budgets and streamlining processes.
He has served on several boards of trust, including Social Care, Mental Well-being and facility development.
Shaun has 3 children in the school system, each with differing developmental needs - as such he has a broad interest in school governance, including safeguarding, anti-bullying strategies, SEN, sensory development, sports, wellbeing and technology.
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Rizwaan HanidFormer Co-Opted Governor
Rizwaan Hanid
Type of Governor
Co-opted Local Governor
Committee Membership
Crayford Academy LGB
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
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Joanne AbeyieFormer Co-Opted Governor at Hatcham Primary
Joanne Abeyie
Type of Governor
Co-opted Governor
Committee Membership
Hatcham Primary LGB, Hatcham College LGB
Appointment Start Date
08/03/2021
Term of office
4 years
Appointed by
Appointed by the Directors 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.
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Richard NorthcottFormer Co-opted Governor at Crayford Academy
Richard Northcott
Type of Governor
Co-opted governor
Committee Membership
Crayford Academy LGB
Appointment Start Date
30/06/2015
Term of office
4 years, appointed to serve second term on 05/04/2019
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.
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Anthony CannFormer Chair of Borough Academy
Anthony Cann
Type of Governor
Nominated Director
Committee Membership
Former Chair of the Borough Academy Local Board and Member of the Trust Board
Appointment Start Date
18/12/2018
Term of office
4 years
Appointed by
Appointed as a Member by resolution of the Members and the Haberdashers' Company, and appointed to the Trust Board by Directors of the Trust Board in accordance with the Articles of Association
Anthony is a member of the Trust Board and Chair of the Borough Academy Local Governing Board. He was also a Governor of the Trust from 2007 to 2011 but left to be a Governor and Director of Haberdashers' Adams Federation Trust, from 2011 and Chair from March 2013 to Summer 2019.
Anthony is a solicitor (no longer practising), he was articled 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 had 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.
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Sophia EgbagbeCo-opted Governor
Sophia Egbagbe
Type of Governor
Co-opted
Committee Membership
Hatcham Free School LGB
Appointment Start Date
08/03/2021
Term of office
4 years
Appointed by
Appointed by the Directors of the Trust Board in accordance with the Articles of Association
Sophia was educated in south London, before going on to study at Kings College London, where she obtained a BSc in Computer Science.
She began her career as an Auditor at Ernst & Young, and has since worked in Financial Services where she has held a number of roles across Cyber, Technology and Finance.
Sophia is currently a Director within Group Finance at Barclays Bank.
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Sir Robin BosherChair
Sir Robin Bosher
Type of Governor
Chair
Committee Membership
Hatcham College LGB
Appointment Start Date
17/05/2021
Term of office
4 years
Appointed by
Appointed by the Trust Board in accordance with the Articles of Association
Sir Robin Bosher is now an independent school advisor and Ofsted inspector. He was the Ofsted Regional Director for the South East and National Director for Inspection Quality and Training as well as HMI.
Prior to this he was the Director of Education for the Harris Federation. During this time, he opened nine sponsored academies and several free schools.
He was a Headteacher for twenty-two years and during that time he led five very different schools. Lately, he was the Executive Headteacher of the Federation between Fairlawn, Hasletine and Kilmorie Schools in Lewisham. Fairlawn was deemed by Ofsted as 'outstanding' in every category.
Sir Robin was a National Leader of Education and Fairlawn was a National Support School and designated as one of the first Teaching Schools in the country. Sir Robin was awarded the National College School System Leader of the Year award, in 2010. He is an NPQH coach and he worked on the NPQH programme for over ten years.
Sir Robin has worked as a DfE Adviser and he led the London Challenge Partners Primary Programme as Operational Director. He was Headteacher on the DfE 'Achievement for All' steering committee and was a member of the DfE Reference Group.
He is Chair of Governors at Langley Park Girls School.
Sir Robin Bosher was knighted for services to education in the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Birthday honours, in June 2012.
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Iain HollingsheadCo-opted Governor
Iain Hollingshead
Type of Governor
Co-opted Governor
Committee Membership
Hatcham College LGB
Appointment Start Date
08/03/2021
Term of office
4 years
Appointed by
Appointed by the Directors of 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..
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Clover HibbertCo-opted Governor
Clover Hibbert
Type of Governor
Co-opted Governor
Committee Membership
Hatcham College LGB
Appointment Start Date
08/03/2021
Term of office
4 years
Appointed by
Appointed by the Directors of the Trust Board in accordance with the Articles of Association
Clover is a trainee child and adolescent Psycotherapist, currently practicing at the West London Free School and The Brent Centre for Young People. She has studied at SOAS, Birkbeck and the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, building up a broad understanding of therapeutic and pastoral work with young people.
Since leaving SOAS, Clover has worked and volunteered in a range of positions supporting children and adolescents in both educational and charitable settings. These roles have had an emphasis on helping young people overcome adversity to fulfil their potential and improve their quality of life.
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Sabrina WarrenElected Parent Governor
Sabrina Warren
Type of Governor
Elected Parent Governor
Committee Membership
Knights Primary LGB
Appointment Start Date
01/09/2021
Term of office
4 years
Appointed by
Elected by Parents and appointed by the Trust Board in accordance with the Articles of Association
Sabrina has two children, one of whom currently attends Knights Primary. As a parent governor, Sabrina is hoping to support Knights Primary with achieving better outcomes for its children, and understands the importance of ensuring children success with varied learning opportunities.
Sabrina currently works for Nuffield Health as a Quality Improvement Manager, and oversees the learning and development of 15 nurseries to ensure that are compliant with Ofsted and statutory regulations. Sabrina delivers various training sessions in this regard and is also a DSL for Children's Services.
Sabrina has a passion for ensuring children thrive in early life and has vast experience with Ofsted, including turning around grading (for example RI to Outstanding. Sabrina is looking forward to being an integral part of the KTG journey of progression.
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Ugo IkokwuCo-opted Governor
Ugo Ikokwu
Type of Governor
Co-opted Local Governor
Committee Membership
Knights Primary LGB, Knights Academy LGB
Appointment Start Date
01/09/2021
Term of office
4 years
Appointed by
Appointed by the Trust Board in accordance with the Articles of Association
Ugo Ikokwu is currently employed as 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.
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Antoinette CollisonCo-opted Governor
Antoinette Collison
Type of Governor
Co-opted Governor
Committee Membership
Slade Green Primary LGB
Appointment Start Date
23/03/2022
Term of office
4 years
Appointed by
Appointed by the People Committee in accordance with the Scheme of Delegation and Articles of Association
Antoinette is a legal PA with over 30 years experience. She has worked in various English and American law firms based in London.
In her spare time, Antoinette enjoys walks with her dog, gardening, swimming and also plays netball for the Wimbledon League.
Antoinette recently took a year's sabbatical to perfect her floristry skills and during this time, worked at a local flower stall.
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Louise ShieldsCo-opted Governor
Louise Shields
Type of Governor
Co-opted Governor
Committee Membership
Slade Green Primary LGB
Appointment Start Date
Term of office
4 years
Appointed by
Appointed by the People Committee in accordance with the Scheme of Delegation and Articles of Association
My first involvement with CTG was being part of the School Improvement Board during the last academic year. I am pleased to have been appointed in the newly formed Governing Body now. I have worked in education for over twenty years and am now a headteacher of another Bexley primary school. I have a particular interest in early years education and inclusion. I hope to be able to use my skills and knowledge to support the school in its continued rapid improvement journey.
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Zinat FatamaFormer elected parent governor
Zinat Fatama
Zinat Fatama
Type of GovernorElected Parent Governor
Committee Membership
Hatcham College LGB
Appointment Start Date
08/03/2021
Term of office
4 years
Appointed by
Elected by Parents 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.
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Ludo HashemiFormer Independent finance member
Ludo Hashemi
Ludo Hashemi
Type of GovernorCo-opted Governor
Committee Membership
Finance Committee
Appointment Start Date
Appointed 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
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 tutored a young person through The Access Project.
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Ben GoodwinFormer co-opted governor
Ben Goodwin
Type of GovernorCo-opted Governor
Committee Membership
Slade Green Primary LGB
Appointment Start Date
12th June 2023
Term of office
4 years
Appointed by
Appointed by the Trust Board in accordance with the Articles of Association
Ben Goodwin currently works in finance for an American bank, in its trading arm for Currencies, Commodities, and Bonds. His primary role is to negotiate strategic trading partnerships with other banks that respond to the changing technology and regulatory environment in global banking. Prior to that he served 17 years in the Royal Air Force, and retired as a Wing Commander. His role was primarily as a fighter pilot and commander flying the Tornado GR4. He also taught flying for several years on the Hawk aircraft. Ben also served in the UK Ministry of Defence directly supporting the UK’s most senior officer, the Chief of the Defence Staff. He also worked in NATO Headquarters in Brussels, in the Chairman of the Military Committee’s office. He is a fluent French speaker, lives in East London, and is interested education and training, sailing, and gardening.