• Experienced Director/Non-Executive Director/Advisory Board member working in the publishing, education and training, and skills and apprenticeships sectors, with a track record of achieving results and exceeding targets. • Extensive consultancy experience in the areas of open content solutions and academic publishing, and in apprenticeship programme development including Trailblazer group membership.• Skilled and successful publisher, both as a director of publishing businesses and as a publisher and developer of publishing programmes.• Extensive experience of securing and managing strategic partnerships with blue chip organisations in industry and education, including employer-education partnerships for higher/degree apprenticeships and graduate work readiness and employability skills programmes. • Excellent communications skills and ability to develop business relationships at C-suite level with blue chip organisations. • Entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial skills and achievements, notably as a founding Director of Pearson College London. • Demonstrable record of edtech achievements through business leadership, product development and business development roles, for both online training programmes and online learning resources. • Successful track record of writing bids and winning tenders for public sector contracts.• Strong people management and leadership skills, as well as influencing skills within matrixed organisations. • Successful record of acquiring and integrating businesses, and of implementing change. • Published author and writer of research reports.
Listed skills include Publishing, Strategic Partnerships, Management, Business Development, and 16 others.