Chair
Dame Christine Gilbert CBE
Dame Christine Gilbert DBE was the Head of Ofsted, also known as Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills between October 2006 and 30 June 2011.
Graham Elton MBE
Meet our in-house team.
Graham is a Partner at Bain & Company where he ran the Private Equity practice in EMEA from 2005 to mid-2018 and is now Chair. He has 17 years of experience on the firm’s Investment Committee and was also a leader in the Media practice.
In addition to his work with Bain, Graham serves as Chair of With Intelligence, JMAN Group and Sportscape. He is a former Chair of Lane Clark and Peacock, a former Chair of Capital Economics, a former Chair of Law Business Research, and a former Chair of SLR Consulting. He is a Founding Member of bd-capital’s Investment Advisory Committee and Operators Club.
Graham has been involved with Now Teach from its early days and is now Chair. He is one of the founders of Greater Share, an innovative philanthropic fund of funds, and chairs its Investment Committee He is also a board member of the National Youth Theatre.
Prior to joining Bain, Graham was chief executive officer at Miller Freeman UK (now part of Informa); managing director at FT Business and strategy director at Pearson.
Graham holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an MA from The University of Oxford.
Lucy Heller
Lucy is Chief Executive of Ark, an education charity.
Professor Sir Kevan Collins
Kevan is a non-executive board member at the Department of Education and adviser on school standards to the Secretary of State.
Sonia Thompson
Sonia Thompson is the Headteacher at St Matthew’s C.E. Primary School and the Director of St Matthew’s Research School in Nechells Birmingham.
Sarah Breeden
Sarah Breeden is Deputy Governor for Financial Stability at the Bank of England. She is a member of the Monetary Policy Committee, Financial Policy Committee, Prudential Regulation Committee and the Bank’s Court of Directors.
Graham Elton MBE
Graham is a Partner at Bain & Company where he ran the Private Equity practice in EMEA from 2005 to mid-2018 and is now Chair. He has 17 years of experience on the firm’s Investment Committee and was also a leader in the Media practice.
Zoe Lewis CBE
Zoe became Middlesbrough College’s first female Principal in 2013 and has since developed the college substantially in skills priority areas such as engineering, green energy, construction, health and digital sectors.
Richard Donner
Richard is a member of our Finance, Fundraising and Audit Committee.
Edward Melhuish
Edward is Emeritus Professor of Human Development at the University of Oxford and Birkbeck, University of London.
Lee Wilson
Lee is Chief Executive Officer of Outwood Grange Academies Trust (OGAT), leading a network of 42 schools spanning 13 Local Authorities across the North of England.