Dr Cathryn Hickey Start of Service: October 2021 Cathryn is a member of the Alpha Academies Trust. Cathryn is the Chief Executive of AMRICC, a wholely owned subsidiary of Lucideon, the materials development and commercialisation company based in the City. She works with companies to help them develop new materials for their products to meet…
Peter Willans Start of Service – 1 September 2018 Peter is a Trustee of the Alpha Academies Trust and a member of the Standards Committee. He has been a Chartered Surveyor since 1995 and is currently Property Director for Buzz Group Limited. Peter’s key strengths across many sectors of the property market include management and…
Stephen Packham Start of Service – 1 September 2018 Stephen is a Trustee of the Alpha Academies Trust and member of the Standards Committee and the Audit, Finance and Risk Committee. Following a BSc in mathematics at Imperial College London, Stephen trained as a chartered accountant with KPMG before undertaking financial management roles with Mercedes-Benz,…
Jamie Smith Start of Service – 1 September 2020 Jamie is a Trustee of the Alpha Academies Trust and also a member of the Audit, Risk and Finance Committee. He is Co-Owner of C-Learning Ltd, a Google Premier Education Partner and growing cloud specialist. C-Learning Ltd was a DEA finalist for most outstanding contribution to…
Diane Thompson Start of Service – 3 April 2020 Diane is a Trustee of the Alpha Academies Trust and Chair of the board. She is a member of the inclusion and Community Engagement Committee. Diane is an authentic leader with an interest in the development and growth of people and businesses. She has spent her…
Kate Townsend Kate originally joined the Alpha Academies Trust over 10 years ago as a Trustee and completed her term of office as Chair at the end of August 2024, before joining the Board of Holden Lane Academy on 1 September 2024. She is also a Governor and Chair of the Excel Academy local governing…
Simon French Start of Service: September 2019 Simon is the Chief Executive Officer/Executive Principal of the Alpha Academies Trust. He is a Trustee of the Board, member of the Standards Committee, the Audit, Finance and Risk Committee and Trust Inclusion and Community Engagement Committee. Since taking on the role in 2019 Simon has implemented a…
Mark White CBE DL Start of Service: March 2017 Mark is a member of the Alpha Academies Trust. Originally from Stoke-on-Trent, and with close links to the area Mark is chair of the Association of Colleges Charitable Trust. He retired in 2022 as chair of a large college group in Teesside and he retired in…
Paul Richards Start of Service: 7 October 2016 Paul is a member of the Alpha Academies Trust and was previously a member of the Stoke on Trent College Corporation and its Finance and Resources Committee. Before his retirement Paul held the position of Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Staffordshire University and was heavily involved in the partnership…
John Patino Start of Service: 14 December 2016 John is a member of the Alpha Academies Trust. Prior to his move to Spain, where he held the position of Deputy Headteacher at Laude Newton College for several years, he was Executive Principal at the Discovery Academy, as well as Headteacher at Holden Lane High School…
Carol Jones Start of Service: July 2013 Carol is the Chair of Members of the Alpha Academies Trust (AAT), having previously been Chair of Trustees from July 2013 to October 2018. She ran her own business consultancy company for over 12 years, working with education and training providers and charities, to raise quality standards and…
Simon French Start of Service – September 2019 Simon is the Chief Executive Officer/Executive Principal of the Alpha Academies Trust. He is a Trustee of the Board, member of the Standards Committee, the Audit, Finance and Risk Committee and Trust Inclusion and Community Engagement Committee. Since taking on the role in 2019 Simon has implemented…