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Coventry, England, United Kingdom

At MTC Training, we are passionate about developing, maintaining and building upon the vital skills required by manufacturing apprentices, graduates, technicians, engineers and managers to deliver the technologies that keep the Great British manufacturing industry globally competitive.The industry is ever-evolving and at MTC Training, we work closely with the latest developments to deliver up-to-date, practical training to ensure that you and your staff can stay on track with the skills that they need now and in the future.

Durham, England, United Kingdom

Finchale Group is an independent charity and leading training provider of one to one learning and development programmes that support people with complex barriers to employment that want to make a life change to realise their full potential.We are local people supporting our communities and our values are underpinned by a legacy of more than 75 years of providing client focused support for the Armed Forces community, those who seek to overcome challenges to find work and a sustainable future in the community, and those who are hard to help but seek a structured lifestyle.Our MissionFinchale Group aims to be the provider of choice for holistic services which support individuals and their families in specialist and disadvantaged groups to achieve their full potential. We support people to make positive and lasting life changes to form a brighter future for themselves, their families and their communities.Our ValuesFinchale Group’s values are at the heart of everything we do.We are Community Focused – Communities matter to us. We believe that by having a strong delivery model we are able to provide the best possible support to local people by reaching out and encouraging engagement in an inclusive way to build stronger communities. We reach out to anyone who needs us.We are Customer Driven – Responsive and innovative we put customers first, engaging and connecting them with a range of quality services. We work with those who need extra support enabling our diverse range of clients to reach their full potential.We are Trusted – Great collaborators we act with honesty and integrity.We are Determined – Pushing ourselves to do more and be better. We are ambitious and work to raise performance ensuring that people get the right services and support at the right time.We are Respectful – We show consideration for one another and recognise each other’s differences. We understand our client’s needs and expectations and go out of our way to meet these.

Durham, England, United Kingdom

NCFE acquired Peer Tutor (previously called Peerz Academy) which is an edtech start-up designed to democratise one to one tutoring by making it low cost, accessible anytime anywhere, uses peer tutors who understand what students are going through and provides highest levels of safeguarding. The verified tutors are young people who have recently achieved a grade 6 (B for previous GCSE grading) in the same qualification that the student is working towards and have progressed to the next level qualification, eg, GCSE to A level. Empirical evidence shows that student are willing to learn from peers more readily and one to one tutoring advances a student learning by up to six months.The business model is it helps young people with learning support if they find a topic difficult, confusing or want to have full mastery of the subject. Students sign-in to and purchase low cost services. The services include:1. Instant feedback from a tutor on a question the student is stuck on.2. Essay review and improvement suggestions.3. 30 minute one to one live session on a topic with follow up exercises.All safeguarding issues are incorporated into the platform and personal data or photos are not shared. In addition, the platform has sophisticated algorithms that identifies any anomalies in relation to safeguarding.While CEO at NCFE, we made an initial investment into Peer Tutor to prove the concept by testing a live version of the platform. At this point, I was a Board member of Peer Tutor. After proof of concept was successful, NCFE purchased Peer Tutor and made further investment into scaling the business. I remained a non-executive director of Peers Tutor until I left NCFE in April 2018.

Mansfield, England, United Kingdom

NCFE acquired Skills Forward (previously For Skills) in 2016 to add diagnostic assessments of students' prior knowledge of Functional Skills (vocational English, Maths & IT) and English & maths vocational and GCSE qualifications. Skills Forward was a strategic acquisition to strengthened NCFE extensive English & maths portfolio to our customers in colleges, independent training providers and schools.Skills Forward is one of the UK’s leading eLearning software and e-assessment solutions and was the first company to introduce an online Functional Skills package in the UK. Last year they provided over 2.9 million assessments to the post-16 employability and skills sector.Its unique assessments, resources and summative assessments can transform how education providers approach Functional Skills, GCSE and the employability skills development of learners.The Skills Forward eLearning, assessment and skills development platform software is used by colleges, training providers and employers who want accurate assessments of learner ongoing progress. The platform enables providers to digitally capture evidence of a learner’s skills, knowledge and occupational competency and supports their further skills development with high-quality resources.After acquisition I became the non-executive chair of Skills Forward and under NCFE's tenure it developed a single e-assessments for the simultaneous diagnosis of a students English & maths capability against Functional Skills and GCSE qualification specifications. Other achievements included a re-brand of the business, recruiting a leader from an independent training provider to be Managing Director, investment into the people and culture, investment through infrastructure integration through group support for IT, sales, finance, HR, Compliance and Audit, Marketing, Facilities Management and Innovation Management.I stepped as Chair when I left NCFE in April 2019.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

NCFE is a values based trading charity and educational group (3 companies & 2 business units) that sells qualifications and services to private training companies, employers, colleges and schools. NCFE’s customers receive certification and world class customer service. NCFE competes with global brands, eg, Pearson (BTEC), City & Guilds and OCR (Cambridge University) and beats them by delivering excellent service and products and high performing colleagues.NCFE colleagues and I achieved the following key results:Income: £7m in 2007 to £35m in August 2019 - 4x growth (400% ⬆).Surplus: 2007 breakeven, c.£9m in August 2019 - averaged £3.4m/year.Reserves: £2m in 2007 to £34m in August 2019 - 17x growth (1,600% ⬆).Salary expenditure: 40% of revenue to 22%, 2007-2012 (⬇ 55%).Acquisitions: CACHE in 2015, Skills Forward in 2017 & Peer Tutor in 2019.Joint Ventures: REED NCFE 2011 with Reed recruitment group.Times Top 100 Best Companies to work for, 8 listing in 12 years.Customer Experience: NPS (Net Promoter Score) 61% (excellent).Top 50 Companies for Customer Service for three years - 2014-2017.Group structure: delivered accountability, efficiency and risk diversification for the parent company from the commercial operating businesses and units.Multiple location leadership: Newcastle, St. Albans, Mansfield & Durham.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

I was a Non-executive Director of REED NCFE LLP on behalf of NCFE. REED NCFE delivered mindset learning using the 3G model, employment skills and techniques, found part-time and full-time jobs, Apprenticeships, Traineeships and work placements for Further Education (FE) college student in their locality and coached students in preparation for interviews. This concept originated from NCFE and I pitched it to James Reed (Chair, Reed Recruitment Group). James agreed to a joint venture and we built the business targeting FE colleges and Universities. During its 8 yers of incorporation James was either Chair or a NED of the REED NCFE Board.REED NCFE's outcomes included:➤ 100k plus jobs for FE colleges’ learners.➤ Revenue to £4.5m by 2015.➤ Profit generating.The partners agreed to wind up the business and dissolve the partnership as the model had served its purpose. The wind up objectives were to deliver a smooth transition for each customer to an alternative solution, or an orderly closure of the customer's REED NCFE operations at their location, ensure that customers remained advocates of the achievements and enhance brand reputation.

Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom

MTC is a trading charity and educational group (3 companies) that sold qualifications and services to private training companies, employers and government funded institutions, who MTC quality audited and, in return, customers received high customer service (business strategy differentiator) delivered by motivated colleagues. The qualification’s awarding organisation was re-structured and re-branded into a wholly owned subsidiary (Food & Drink Qualifications, FDQ) to take advantage of opportunities in the Food & Drink manufacturing sectors. In addition, a wholly owned training subsidiary was incorporated, (Food Training International, FTI). FDQ grew rapidly and within two years had acquired 40% market share of the UK food and drink manufacturing qualifications market from City & Guilds. MTC is now the Food & Drink Training & Education Council.Key responsibilities and achievements:Strategic responsibility to the Board for all business functions including government recognition of National Training Organisation, (NTO), status, representing meat & poultry sector employers.Developed, executed and reported progress on the annual business plan including budgets to ensure that commercial opportunities from funding across the UK’s nations was optimised.Income: August 1999 to August 2006 increase by 55% ⬆ to £775K.Reserves: August 1999 to August increase by 86% ⬆ to £426K.Customer service excellence: registration and certification requests processed within 2 days of receipt, at the time this was sector leading.People turnover: 84% of permanent staff have been employed for 3 or more years.

London, England, United Kingdom

Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom

Salford, England, United Kingdom

Syston, Leicestershire, United Kingdom

Chorley, England, United Kingdom

Derby, England, United Kingdom

Yate, England, United Kingdom

Duffield, England, United Kingdom

M. Sc., Marketing & Product Management

Graduate Diploma

Diploma In Food Hygiene - Royal Institute Of Public Health & Hygiene, Food Safety & Hygiene

Graduate Membership Of The Institute Of Meat, Meat Technology & Science

Meat Inspection Certificate - The Royal Society Of Health, Meat Inspection, Hygiene And Enforcement

Intermediate Certificate In Wines, Spirits And Other Alcoholic Beverages, B

Associateship - The Institute Of Meat, Meat Technology & Science

Affiliateship - The Institutue Of Meat, Meat Technology & Science

Basic Food Hygiene Certificate - Chartered Institute Of Environmental Health, Food Hygiene

'0' Levels - Five Sat, Including English Language, 'Cses' Five Sat Including Mathematics