Members of the Trust

Louise Nadal - Member

Louise has worked in the higher education sector for 25 years in both research-intensive and modern universities in various roles, including student services, HR and academic planning. She is currently the School Secretary at the London School of Economics and Political Science, responsible for corporate governance, legal, regulatory and compliance functions, and serving as a member of the School’s Executive.

She has a strong awareness of the changing expectations of the education sector and how institutions may position themselves to adapt to these changes. An experienced governance professional, she has previously served as a charity trustee for a local branch of Homestart.

Angela Hands - Member

Angela was a director at the National Audit Office where she had responsibility for preparing reports to parliament on a range of issues including local government and education. During her career she has also worked as a director and chief executive in the NHS. Angela joined the governing body of Orpington College in 2005 and was the chair for three years until 2011 when the College merged with Bromley College. Angela was the first chair of the merged Bromley College of Further and Higher Education from 1 August 2011 to July 2013.

Jacky Tiotto - Member

Jacky is Chief Executive of Cafcass (Children and Families Court Advisory and Support Service). Cafcass represents children’s voices in the family courts in England and is also the largest employer of social workers in this country. Prior to holding this position, she was employed by the London Borough of Bexley as statutory Director of Children’s Services from 2015- 2019.

Jacky has worked for Ofsted and the Department of Education where she was deputy director for social care inspection and Senior Deputy Director for safeguarding respectively. She led the advisory team for Professor Eileen Munro’s Review of Child Protection and was the professional adviser to Lord Laming’s 2009 review of ‘The Protection of Children in England’. Starting her career as a social worker, Jacky worked in a number of senior positions for local authority children’s services before becoming national adviser for children and adult services for the local government group, and senior specialist for social care, education and health at the Audit Commission. Jacky was the Director for Children and Learners at Government Office, London, before its abolition.

London South East Colleges

Rama Venchard MBE - Chair

Following 20 years undertaking IT Service Management and Business Change Management roles in the retail, hospitality and banking sectors, Rama has been a management consultant in the education sector since 2005. 

He currently supports various multi academy trusts in their growth strategies, but also offers his time in governance roles across the mainstream, special and independent school sectors, i.e. as a Chair of Trustees of a special and mainstream primary school trust of 9 schools; a Trustee of a primary school trust of 20 primary schools; a Trustee on the family board of a special school trust of 15 schools and 7 college centres; a Member of a secondary school trust of 6 schools; a Member of a single academy trust; and a Chair of Governors of an independent special school. 

He sits on various DfE and NGA Advisory Boards. Rama was awarded an MBE for services to education in the 2023 New Years Honours list.