Leadership

Jacqueline is one of the founders of both InterHigh School and Academy21. She was previously the Chief Executive of InterHigh School where she led the operations and strategic direction with full responsibility for all the online school service delivery.

Jacqueline studied Architecture at Nottingham University, and later gained Masters degrees both in Management and in Town and Country Planning. She spent much of her career working in Project Management, creating and implementing sustainable regeneration programmes both in the Midlands and in South Wales. In 2005 she became involved in the design of an online secondary School – InterHigh, then gaining international and domestic Quality accreditations for this provision.

Barrie was appointed Chairman of Wey in 2019, having been a Non-Executive Director for nearly three years. Barrie has a particular interest in education; he has an Honours degree in History from the Open University and served as a Governor of Frant Church of England Primary School for 8 years, latterly as Chair of Governors.  Barrie is also Executive Chairman of Crimson Tide Plc (AIM:TIDE), the provider of the mpro5 mobile app service which he founded in 1996.

Previously, Barrie founded the financial services arm of Tiphook plc and was Group Managing Director of IAF Group Plc. He served as a non-executive director of Wills Group plc as well as a number of private companies.

Barry is a Chartered Accountant who qualified with PwC in 2012. Prior to joining Wey, he was Finance Director at Dezrez Services Limited, a SaaS provider to the UK estate agency industry.

Barry studied Economics at Royal Holloway, University of London and spent two years working at the Financial Services Authority before returning to Wales to commence his accountancy training and has a wide range of experience working with businesses ranging from start-ups to plcs.

Tony has over 25 years’ experience in Human Resource Management and has worked at Executive and Board level across a range of industry sectors.

Tony is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD, FCIPD. He is also a graduate and has a post graduate in personnel management. He has worked and led HR functions throughout the UK and EU as well as North America and Asia. Previously, he worked in Financial Services and more recently for a number of technology businesses successfully supporting acquisition and divestiture programmes.

Sara is an eminent educator with twenty-five years working in research and higher education. Reaching Deputy Vice Chancellor level, she has worked in six universities in the United Kingdom and Australia, promoting the interests of students and leading on online education, curriculum design and educational infrastructure projects.

Sara has also co-founded a research institute and has contributed to research in student engagement, educational technology and learning innovation.

She currently holds a non-executive director role as Governor at the University of Sunderland and has been awarded fellowships at the University of London, Royal Society of Arts, the Business Excellence Institute and the Higher Education Academy.

Esther is an international executive with 15 years’ experience leading marketing, communications, external relations and partnerships with start-ups, scale ups, global firms, government organisations and, most recently, international schools. Esther holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of British Columbia and an International Master’s in Business Administration from the Schulich School of Business, York University (Canada).

Esther’s experience includes managing high performing marketing teams and working in trade and partnerships in the Americas and Europe. She has worked for global brands such as BMW and the Government of Canada (Trade). Esther is a contributor to Forbes Mexico and America Economia magazines as well as to the Global Peter Drucker Forum and World Economic Forum on themes related to Marketing, Strategy and Leadership.

John Bridges has worked in the City for over fifty years. The majority of his first twenty years was in institutional stockbroking and the remainder in public company corporate finance.

Annika has more than 30 years’ experience as founder, CEO and NED of private and public sector organisations using digital technology to drive positive social change. In leading, supporting and investing in a range of commercial and non-profit businesses, Annika has had extensive exposure to corporate strategy, financial and risk management, partnership development as well as coaching high performing teams.

Education is Annika’s primary focus and passion, deploying technology to open up learning to those who may otherwise have limited opportunities. In 2018, she received an OBE for services to social innovation and digital technology.

Annika is currently the Chair of the University of Chichester and a Trustee of the John Ellerman Foundation.