Nick Stuart CBE, President

NIACE Company Board

Nick Stuart was educated at Oxford before going to the Department for Education and Science in 1964. He had spells as private secretary to the Minister for Arts (Jenny Lee) In 1968-1969, as private secretary to the head of the civil service (Sir William Armstrong) and as a private secretary to successive prime ministers from 1973-1976. He also spent two years in Brussels as an adviser in the cabinet of the President of the European Commission (Roy Jenkins) in 1978-1980.

The rest of his career has been spent mainly in education. He became Principal Finance Officer in the DES in 1985 and was promoted to Deputy Secretary (schools) in 1987. He transferred to the employment department as Director General of Resources and Strategy in 1992. He became Director- General for Employment and Lifelong Learning at the Department Of Education and Employment in 1995 and Director-General for Lifelong Learning at DfES in April 2000 until his retirement in September 2001.

Maggie Galliers CBE, Chair of the Company Board

Maggie Galliers was Principal of Leicester College from 2002 to 2012. Before that, she was Principal of Henley College Coventry for five years, having previously held a wide variety of management positions in further education fields. She has taught in all sectors of education: primary, secondary, further and higher.

1 Maggie also has extensive experience at Board level nationally and is currently Chair of the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE) Board, a member of the Ofqual Board and the further education member of the Higher Education Funding Council for England’s (HEFCE) Teaching Quality and Student Experience Committee.

In the past, she has also been a member of the Apprenticeship Task Force, the Further Education Funding Council (FEFC) Quality Assessment Committee, the Quality Improvement Agency (QIA) Board, the National Learning and Skills Council (LSC), and the LSC’s Young People’s Learning Committee.

Maggie was elected President of the Association of Colleges for 2012/13 in July 2012.

Maggie was appointed CBE for services to local and national further education in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2009. In 2013 she was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Education by the University of Bedfordshire for her outstanding contribution to further education and support for access and progression to higher education.

Patrick McAllister, Chair of the Resoruces Committee

Patrick McAllister is a graduate accountant (FCMA), has an MBA in Financial Management and has over 25 years experince in both the public and private sectors. He specialises in public sector consultancy and has advised senior clients arcoss a range of government departments and other public organisaitons particularly with regard to programme and project management, financial management, performance improvement, and change. Patrick has

2 excellent interpersonal and communication skills and he has particular expertise in facilitation, coaching and mentoring.

He has managed a number of business crucial projects, turned around failing programmes or advied on organisations’ project management arrangements. For example, he recently successfully project managed the WoroldSkills London 2011 (Skills Olympics) and has provided PPM support to a number of the government’s Academy projects.

Patrick has undertaken a wide range of cost benefit analyses and development of business cases includiong options appraisal and business cases for the Qualificaitons and Curriculum Authority, Kingston University and the Highways Agency. He also successfully completed an assignment in Northern Ireland for the Department of Finance and Personnel assessing the financial management practices across all eleven departments, providing feedback to Permanent Secretaries and Finance Directors.

Patrick has undertaken a wide range of performance improvement, and financial management assignments in the public sector. He has served on a HM Treasury advisory panel on departmental structures, financial management and performance efficiency with the aim of assisting HMT to drive performance improvement in central government. He has also carried out a hgih profile review of budgetary mechansims in the Police Service of Northern Ireland.

He has carried out a number of strategic reviews and evaluations of public sector bodies including Quinquennial Reviews / Financial Management Survey sof the Teachers Training Agency, Higher Education Funding Council of England (HEFCE), Further Education Funding Council (FEFC), Student Loans Company, the Contruction Industry Training Board (CIBT) and the Coal Authority.

Patrick has held numerous accouting, management informaiton, business planning and change management roles in the Telecommunications, Leisure, Directory Advertising and Financial Services industries, where he has advised senior management.

3 Mike Langhorn, Chair of the Audit Committee

Mike Langhorn is currently Internal Audit Director of ICE Futures Europe.

Prior to this, from 2009-2011 he was General Manager of Internal Audit at ITOCHU Europe Plc.

From 2006-2009 he was European Audit Manager at Teather & Greenwood dealing with investment banking and venture.

4 Mike Kapur, Chair of the Investment Committee

Mike Kapur is founder and Chief Operating Officer of Signum Corporate Communications Ltd.

In 2002, Mike, communications expert, founded Signum Corporate Communications Ltd and is the Chief Operating Officer, ensuring that all aspects of company strategy are implemented and performance managed. He has also been the Chairman of the National Space Centre since 2009 and more recently is a trustee of Leicester Sports Partnership Trust. Mike started his career in 1985 at KPMG as the senior manager responsible for audit and business advisory services to Owner Managed Businesses. Between 1992 and 1994 he was Computer Audit Manager, advising clients on improvements to their IT environment, including selection and implementation of new systems, as well as enhancing security procedures over sensitive data.

In May 1993, Mike was awarded the title “East Midlands Young Project Manager of the Year” by the Institute of Management and National Westminster Bank. A year later he was selected by the DTI as one of ten local business people to share views on the local economy with the Prime Minister, John Major, during his visit to Leicester.

Mike became the Director of Entrepreneurial Service, at Ernst & Young, with responsibilities for budget setting, performance measurement and analysing the “success” of projects to decide on future strategy. During this time he was also elected Chairman of the Institute of Management (Leics) and a member of the East Midlands Regional Board. In July 1997, he was seconded to Ernst & Young International in Cleveland (USA) to help modify new audit methodology for owner managed business. Two years later, he moved to Parker Plant Limited, as Group Finance Director, was appointed a director of Leicester Business Voice in 2003 and was also Non-Executive Director, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS trust between 1994 and 2009.

In May 2009 Mike joined the Board of Governors at De Montfort University. He is Chair of the university’s Audit Committee, was appointed as Deputy Chair of the Board of Governors in February 2012 and is a Pro Chancellor of the University, participating in key ceremonial events throughout the academic year.

In February 2014 Mike was appointed as Chairman of the CBI’s Small Business Forum.

5 Pam Coare, Chair of the Policy Committee

Pam Coare has been an Education Consultatant with Core Consulting since 2012.

From July 2005 to October 2012 she was Director of the Centre for Continuing Education at the University of Sussex.

Prior to this Pam was Senior Lecturer in Continuing Education at the University of Sussex.

Jeff Greenidge, Chair of the NIACE Cymru Management Group

6 Jeff Greenidge started his career as a teacher of French, Latin and PE at Oakdale School and then as Head of Department in Llanrumney High school in Cardiff.

This was followed by three years at ACCAC working on the design and implementation of the National Curriculum for modern foreign languages and two years as a Post Graduate Teacher Trainer at University College Swansea.

Jeff has also worked as a consultant to Cardiff Local Education Authority on curriculum development.

During three years at the WJEC Jeff was responsible for the development and implementation of a portfolio of European vocational training projects to support organisational development; including team working, learning organisation and partnership development processes across Europe.

Jeff Greenidge has over 25 years of senior level strategic leadership and management in large complex organisations within the public, commercial and not for profit sectors in UK and wider Europe. He has a strong commitment to improving business performance and organisational development in small businesses; including team working, learning organisation and partnership development processes.

He says “All those things that people do together for a common goal: community education, sport, dance, theatre, transform individuals, change lives and builds society so I am really happy to do my small bit to make the those things happen”

At learndirect Jeff has responsibility for delivery of learndirect in Wales and the Skills Funding Agency Adults Skills contract in England to high quality standards, with strong partner relationships and timely responses to local and national priorities.

Jeff Greenidge is also a:

 Board Member on National Institute for Adult and Continuing Education (NIACE)  Chair of NIACE Dysgu Cymru  Member of Agored Cymru Strategic Group, and  proud to have been a player at Blackwood RFC.