Kate is a health tech award-winning entrepreneurial senior leader. She is COO and board director of Kooth, the world’s largest youth digital mental healthcare provider. Kooth provides a welcoming space for effective personalised digital mental health care, available to all. She is an advisor and investor in health tech start-ups and also a supervisory board […]
Chris studied Geophysics at Durham University and Imperial College London. Chris joined the upstream business of a major energy company where he held a number of roles involving global project origination and operations management. Chris then moved to the trading and shipping business within that company where he now works as a Trading Analyst, specialising […]
Cristina Bota is a Wealth Planning Director at Canaccord Genuity Wealth Management. She was previously a Managing Director at Cantab Asset Management. Cristina trained at Santander Bank and has been advising private clients for many years. She is a Chartered Financial Planner and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Law from Babeș-Bolyai University.
Angela is Finance Director at Saffron Music Trust, an arts and music education charity. She is also a Non-executive Director of Cambridge Spark, an edtech company that equips the workforce in critical data and AI skills, where she was previously CFO. Prior to that, Angela specialised in scaling up technology start-ups, having supported the growth […]
Jonathan W Scott (Chair) served as Senior Partner and Executive Chair of Herbert Smith Freehills, a leading international law firm and was one of the country’s leading competition lawyers. He has been a non-executive director of the Gambling Commission and a Trustee of the Family Holiday Association, is a non-executive director of The Press and […]
Alison Shakespeare joined the Perse in 2018. She read geography at Fitzwilliam College Cambridge and subsequently joined PricewaterhouseCoopers, qualifying as a Chartered Accountant. She worked in a series of senior finance roles before becoming Business Director and Clerk to the Governors of Leicester Grammar School Trust in 2006. During her 12 years as Business Director […]
Francesca Heftman was educated at Benenden School in Kent and the University of Manchester (BA Hons in Psychology), before completing a Primary PGCE at Homerton College, The University of Cambridge. Having initially taught Key Stage 2 at Colville Primary School in Cambridge, Francesca joined the Pelican in 2012 where she worked across both the Early […]
James Piper was educated at Repton School, Derbyshire, and Durham University (BA: Classics), before completing a PGCE (Classics) at Pembroke College, Cambridge. After dipping his toes into accountancy with Deloitte, he built up teaching experience in Kenya and N Yorkshire before joining the Dragon School, Oxford, as an NQT in 2000. There he became Head […]
Ed Elliott was educated at the Royal Grammar School in Worcester. He gained a College scholarship, a University Prize and a First Class degree reading Geography at St Anne’s College, Oxford. On graduation, he joined banknote printers De La Rue plc as a management trainee and held posts in marketing, purchasing, and production in the […]
