Group Executive Director of Governance, Company Secretary and Clerk to the Boards

Jenny is the Group Executive Director of Governance, Company Secretary, and Clerk to the Boards of London South East Colleges and London South East Academies Trust, a role she commenced in April 2019. Prior to this, she was the Group Executive Director of Corporate Services, with strategic and operational management of key Group Corporate Services areas of IT, HR, MIS, Funding, Planning and Performance, Exams, and administration services.

She has strong and proven governance, legal, project strategic planning, and change management skills. She has led and delivered on governance, educational, curriculum, customer, and information systems projects, including college mergers, business acquisitions, and business process re-engineering.

She has significant management experience in both the public and private sectors with a career portfolio providing insight and knowledge of operational and strategic business and resource planning in most business services areas. Her career began in legal and company secretarial, transferring to the investment banking and financial services sectors where she worked for c20 years.

Jenny retrained as a Business and IT Teacher in 2001 and started her career in the FE Sector, progressing into a senior management role in Further Education. She has developed significant experience in charity, company and education governance and regulatory matters, including more recently working on charities and funding raising initiatives.

Since her move into the Governance Professional role for the Group, Jenny has achieved qualification status in the ICSA Diploma in Academies Governance, the NGA Clerking Certificate and the IoD Governance Professional Leadership Programme. She is a member of the Governance Institute, IoD and NGA. She is currently undertaking an ILM Coaching qualification.

She is the Group Data Protection Officer for London South East Education Group.