Our Leadership

Annette became Chair of the Trust in January 2020. Annette brings extensive experience of senior leadership in education together with Board experience at Trustee and Chair level in Multi Academy Trusts, and director-level experience in the university sector.

Sarah was born in Yorkshire and started her career working in blue chip engineering and manufacturing organisations before transitioning to a career in Human Resources.

Tim is an experienced leader in both national and international regulated commercial organisations with in-depth technology knowledge, combined with extensive change management and customer relationship building skills. He has led multi-skilled teams through complex transformations including start-up, scale-up and restructuring programmes.

Jason is a Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) qualified accountant with over 20 years’ experience in finance and resources. Jason has 10 years’ experience in the academy sector including as a Chief Finance Officer for three Multi Academy Trusts.

Chris is a dual qualified senior insurance and litigation solicitor in England and Wales and New Zealand with experience acting for leading insurers, reinsurers, brokers and loss adjusters. He has experience of cases involving Directors and Officers Liability and other forms of insurance.

Kay is an experienced educational leader with over 20 years in primary education leadership, including governance roles across Primary and Secondary settings.

Sheila is an expert in IT Service Management formation, recovery, and transformation. With excellent leadership and motivation skills she has experience in governance, risk, control and financial management of IT, within both private and public sector across the UK, Europe and USA.

Rob is the Company Secretary and Director of Operations and Legal with the Rugby Football League (RFL) and a Trustee with the RFL Facilities Trust. He is a Solicitor and brings experience of Safeguarding, Law and Governance to the Trust Board.

David Hirst has been a Trustee of Resilience Multi Academy Trust since October 2022. He is a Chartered Engineer and founder of Ainsty Risk Consulting, with extensive experience in the energy sector.

Mick’s background is in Military Engineering as a decorated Army Veteran with 24 years’ service. As a Chartered Health and Safety practitioner with over 20+ years of experience, Mick operated as an Executive Board Director for five years in multi-disciplined businesses providing Estates & Asset Management, Safety, Health & Environmental Management, Cost Management, Project Management, Technical & Commercial Services, operating across a diverse range of infrastructure sectors.

Ian is an independent economic consultant, specialising in issues facing island economies. He is currently advising the Government of St Helena, the British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic, on their capital programme and project governance.

Emily is a lecturer at the University of Leeds specialising in academic literacies and transition to HE study. She has a PhD in History and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She joins the board after serving on Rodillian’s LRB for a number of years and contributing to the improvement and development of KS5 provision within the Trust.

Dan is a senior leader in the technology sector. He has over 25 years of commercial experience, with a background in software engineering and research.