 Leading the strategic direction of group-level school operations, from the response to COVID to the implementation of our digitisation roadmap  Seeking groupwide operational efficiencies to support continued excellence in our delivery of premium teaching and learning environments  Developing structures and opportunities to share best-practice across all EiM’s family of schools, to strengthen our schools’ position as best-in-class in their local markets Contributing to the Group’s strategic commitments of Sustainability, Professional Learning, and Safeguarding

 Line managing the two existing Dulwich International High Schools – Suzhou (750+ students) and Zhuhai (300+ students) Devising a strategic positioning for the International High Schools to leverage their potential for growth, as a brand model, across China Seeking and negotiating new business opportunities and local partners for growth of new schools

 Leading the development of strategy and operational delivery for an aggressive growth target of X new schools in China Founding member of the Dehong Council, the executive leadership group for Dehong Education Managing local partner relations for our asset light model of school development, overseeing the design and delivery of two brand new (greenfield) campuses in Beijing and Xi’an respectively Implementing a ‘Dehong’ governance structure within EiM to align with external Chinese Govt. requirements and our internal quality assurance standards

 Leading the design, budgeting, and construction delivery of two world class international school campuses in Yangon, Myanmar, capital projects worth US$50m Representing Dulwich and the UK education community in Myanmar, as part of UK Govt. sponsored business delegations  Project managing the completion of new campuses in partnership with a local developer, ensuring that cash flows are sufficient to deliver the campuses on time, in budget, and to the specification required by the academic and administration teams Recruiting, training, and line managing all expatriate and local academic & administrative staff for the pre-opening period, until the opening day of the new campuses

Managing the post-acquisition transformation of the China office (Shanghai) to be stronger in Brand Strategy and more aligned with UK office’s business sectorsProviding account management to business critical clients for contracts >£1m in revenueDriving the diversification of CB’s client base across business sectors within China and identifying international opportunities for CB offices worldwide to collaborate on global projects

MBA Corporate Internship - Providing strategic support to BI’s Global HR Business Partners, with focus on the Enabling Functions and the GBS (Global Business Services) division - Identifying measurable improvements to the existing operational structure between Corp. HR Management and Corp. Talent Management (TM) functions - Evaluating the effectiveness of current HR and TM KPIs

Jun 2008 – Oct 2010 Business Development Director, China - Spearheading the licencing & development of new Chinese-student focused education projects (previously, company focused on foreign nationals student market) - Leading business concepts from drawing board, through financial modelling, local partner selection and negotiations, board approval, contractual agreements, to turnkey delivery of buildings - Managing an investor-approved budget of £3m for development of Chinese-student programmesAug 2006 – May 2008 Project Manager, China - Leading the development (construction & renovation, resourcing, local staffing, marketing and operations) of a new international school campus in Suzhou, China, a turnkey project developing mixed green-field & brown-field sites into international standard school facilities in 9 months - Acting as due diligence officer in executive 4-man investment-raising team, to structure a minority shareholder buyout using funds from PE financingJul 2004 – Aug 2006 Company Secretary - Managing the school-franchise stakeholder relationships between UK-based Franchisor, Asia-based investors and the China-based Franchisee (the mgmt Co.) - Strengthening the franchise governance structure to exceed independent accreditation requirements

InTouch Magazine is a Chinese government sponsored bi-lingual general interest magazine and website, providing foreign nationals living and working in Zhejiang Province with information on economic, trade, cultural and tourism events across the province as well as full entertainment listings for the major cities. http://en.zjol.com.cn/ - Leading the editorial team, contributing majority of English language content - Developing successful visual image for the magazine - Identifying strategic partners for long-term development of the magazine and website