Page | 54 Andrew Jeffrey Andrew is currently a manager in the ‘Not for Profit’ team at Cooper Parry which has a significant Not for Profit and Academy presence in the Midlands. Andrew joined Cooper Parry in August 2019 when the Education team at Whitley Stimpson Limited transferred their Academy and Not for profit portfolio to facilitate the team’s growth and knowledge base. He has over 12 years ’experience with audit and accounting. In 2014 he joined the Whitley Stimpson newly created Education team, having previously completed his training as a Chartered Accountant there. Andrew specialises in the education and charity sector and has worked with, and advised, a diverse range of educational organisations, including Academies, Free Schools, Independent Schools, Further Education colleges, Catholic Education offices and systemic schools as well as a wide range of local, regional, and national charities. Andrew’s role in particular within the education team has been to work closely with Academy Trusts, not only through the audit and production of year end accounts, but also providing financial advice and support to schools and assisting them in undertaking and completing the relevant reporting requirements of the ESFA. He has also been a church warden within his local community since 2012. Sulina Piesse, ex-officio, Chief Executive Officer Sulina is the Chief Executive Officer for the ODBST. Sulina has worked in education for 20 years and has been a senior leader for the last 16 years. She has held two successful headships where outcomes for children have been strong. Sulina is well versed in all areas of school improvement having had training as an Ofsted Inspector. She was an Ofsted Inspector for several years during her time as a Senior Leader. She has mainly spent her career in Secondary education, although the latter part of her work has been with Primary as well. She has a fervent passion for teaching languages and has taught French and Spanish in an array of different schools across all age ranges. She has led on whole school projects and has often been contracted to provide training on whole school curriculum and timetabling and has been instrumental in working on new school capital build projects. As a passionate educationalist, she holds two Master’s in degrees, the National Professional Qualification for Headteachers and is currently completely her Doctorate in Education. Kieran Soughton Kieran is an experienced, highly commercial HR organisational development and change management specialist, with a wealth of mergers and acquisitions experience. He has experience in the UK and overseas, at both operational and strategic levels and is able to add real commercial value to an organisation through an understanding of the business drivers. He has been a Board member of several organisations, specialising in HR and also including business risk and business strategy, as well as culture and change management.
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