Remit of Members and Trustees
The remit of the Trust’s Members and Trustees are as detailed in the Trust’s Articles of Association and Master Funding Agreement and the prevailing Academies Financial Handbook.
Attendance at Meetings
Members Attendance at Meetings 2021-22
Members
Rt. Revd. Simon Burton-Jones
Rt. Revd. Simon Burton-Jones
Bishop of Tonbridge
The Venerable Katrina Barnes
The Venerable Katrina Barnes
Archdeacon (Interim) – Bromley/Bexley
Revd. Canon Victoria Pask
Rev. Canon Victoria Pask
Area Dean for Bromley RDBE
Rochester Diocesan Board of Education
Rochester Diocesan Board of Education
Giles Lambert
Giles Lambert
Chair of the Trust Board
People, Performance & Development Committee
This committee is responsible for ensuring the Trust is leading on policy, reward and people development. Founded to help guide what it means to be an employee of the Aquinas Trust, the aim of the committee is to improve wellbeing, equality and workload throughout the organisation.
Remit of Members and Trustees
The remit of the Trust’s Members and Trustees are as detailed in the Trust’s Articles of Association and Master Funding Agreement and the prevailing Academies Financial Handbook.
Attendance at Meetings
Trustee Attendance at Meetings 2021-22
Trust Board Members
Giles Lambert, Chair of the Trust Board
Giles Lambert is the Chair of the Trust Board. Giles spent 24 years working for a major global bank, leading teams in both London and Hong Kong. During this time, Giles worked with private and listed companies across the world helping them to raise both debt and equity financing. He currently acts as a consultant, advising the boards of companies looking to list their shares on a stock exchange and/or raise equity capital.
Vicky Cliff, Vice Chair
Vicky Cliff is a member of the Trust Board and both the Education Scrutiny Committee and the People, Performance and Development Committee. She is an independent consultant with experience in coaching, career management and transition, organisational development and training gained within a wide range of corporate sectors, including financial services, energy, pharmaceutical and telecoms, as well as in local government and education. Her previous career encompassed 16 years as a senior manager in the telecoms industry, where she led a large training department, delivering management, engineering and IT training. She has extensive experience of working with executives on personal and leadership development and the delivery of organisational transformation. She has been involved in school governance for over 10 years and was previously Chair of Governors of Chislehurst C.E Primary School.
Sui-Te Wu
Sui-Te Wu is a member of the Trust Board and the Finance and Audit Committee. She is a professional leader in architecture, with reputable track records in world class design with long-term bespoke benefits for the built environment. Through influencing, she consistently engages, integrates and works collaboratively to guide the organisations and stakeholders she engages with in complex circumstances. She is a strategic thinker, steers each challenge with an inquisitive mind, emphasises on human interaction and active listening, while focusing on the “big picture” in the context of organisational progresses. Consequently, she broadens organisations’ visions, maximises values, with emphasis on sustainability, creativity and integrity. Sui-Te ‘s previous experiences include the major project for the Jubilee Extension project, the advisory role as a CABE Enabler, the strategic Client Advisor on a number of major BSF programmes, as well as strategic advisor for Academy Trust and Local Authorities in the UK.
Sue Mordecai, Chair of Education Scrutiny Committee
Sue Mordecai is a member of the Trust Board and Chair of the Education Scrutiny Committee. She was the Head of School Improvement with a Local Authority and worked with primary, special and secondary schools. Sue is currently a trustee and former chair of the National Association for Able Children in Education (NACE) and in this capacity she continues to deliver keynote speeches and training nationally and internationally. Through NACE Sue has been involved in the research writing and production of national materials commissioned by both Welsh and English governments and has represented NACE on a number of government advisory bodies. She was an Associate Tutor with Oxford Brookes University and an adviser to the International Charles Darwin Trust. Sue is the author of a number of articles and resources related to highly able students and was an educational adviser to the publishers ‘Rising Stars’ and is on the editorial board of the academic journal Gifted Education International. Sue is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Revd. Canon Jeremy Blunden
Revd. Canon Jeremy Blunden is a member of the Trust Board and the Education Scrutiny Committee. He is the Rector of the parish of St George and St Barnabas Beckenham. He is also Area Dean for Beckenham and the Bishop of Rochester’s Adviser for BAME Affairs. He has worked closely with Faith and non-Faith primary and secondary schools in all of the parishes where he has served in the Dioceses of Rochester and Southwark.
Seun Odeneye
Seun Odeneye is a member of the Trust Board and both the Finance and Audit Committee and the People, Performance and Development Committee. In his role, Seun focuses on enhancing Matterkind’s addressable data-driven marketing media offering and expanding the agency’s capabilities across new channels. With his team, he helps supercharge Matterkind’s strategic data and product offering on behalf of fellow IPG agencies – Initiative, UM, McCann, Mediahub and Reprise – as well as its clients. Seun came to IPG from Mindshare UK, where he was Digital Integration and Operations Director. There, he headed up both the programmatic and affiliate teams and was also in charge of driving digital integration across the wider digital department across all clients in the agency. Previous to his time at Mindshare, Seun started his career as an intern at AdLink Internet Media and then moved to Microsoft, where he worked for 8 years across various parts of their portfolio, eventually becoming the Head of Microsoft Performance Network & Mobile Strategy Lead in the UK.
Nigel Petrie
Nigel Petrie is a member of the Trust Board and both the Finance and Audit Committee and the People, Performance and Development Committee as well as other Board sub committees. He was formerly Chairman of AD Group, an entrepreneurial technology business, specialising in the development and sale of high-quality video management products. He has also held a number of non-executive positions in a range of different businesses, including timber and building materials and healthcare. His main career over thirty years was in the electricity industry. He has held a number of ‘not for profit’ positions including work with the Princes’ Trust - Business in the Community, National Trust in Wales and Theatr Clwyd. He continues to work as a Business Consultant, mentoring senior executives. He is also a Director and Trustee of the Diocese of Worcester Multi Academy Trust.
Education Scrutiny Committee
This committee is responsible for monitoring standards of achievement and progress at all Trust academies, advising on priorities for improving educational outcomes, preparing educational policies and agreeing on appropriate action where an academy’s outcomes are of concern.
Attendance at Meetings
Finance & Audit Committee
This committee is responsible for financial review and monitoring, budget setting, external audit in terms of the year end accounts, effective financial control, risk management, internal audit of Trust’s processes and procedures and approval of financial policies and procedures.