Our Trustees
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Wendy Fisher Wendy has owned a consumer research consultancy company since 2015, after spending 28 years working for Mars UK in European R&D. She was appointed to the EMAT board at its recent formation, following 7 years as Governor and Chair of Governors at KLA. Both of her children attended KLA, and one attended KES Academy Sixth Form. She is also the membership secretary of the King’s Lynn Players, and volunteers regularly at charity sporting events, being a keen runner herself. Wendy was formerly the Chair of the Institute of Consumer Sciences, and the Sensory and Consumer Panel at Campden Food research. |
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Graham Pearson Graham is Account General Manager of the DXC Technology’s Post Office account which every year ensures the disbursement of £26Bn of benefits payments to 1.5m of the Post Office’s most vulnerable customers. Following a 27 year career in the RAF, he spent time at Raytheon Systems Ltd and HP’s Defence Business holding a range of account management and executive roles responsible for all HP’s business supporting Joint Forces, Air, and Navy Commands, Defence Intelligence and Special Forces. Graham graduated from the Joint Services Command and Staff College in 2000 as top RAF student, returning in 2004 on selection to the Higher Command and Staff Course. Graham has a degree in Business Studies from Sheffield University, a Masters with Distinction in Defence Studies from KCL and is a graduate of the Manchester Business School. |
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James Rowney James was born and lived most of his life in the town of March in Cambridgeshire, he also spent some time living in London then later on 3 years in Switzerland. He has been in Information Technology for over 30 years. He is an Enterprise, Application, and Infrastructure solution Architect and has worked in almost all areas of IT from engineering through administration, deployment and implementation to system, application and architecture design. He has been a technology consultant with his own company for over 20 years. At present his primary area of work is in Security around Identity and Access Management in Banking. James has worked with a wide range of customers from including Government, Commercial, Banking, Retail and many other areas both within the UK and Europe. His present core focus is on Security, Identity and Access management, these are the things that are going to affect everyone especially in the modern highly connected world. |
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Ian Clayton Ian is an Education Consultant, including contracts with the Association of School and College Leaders and the National Governance Association. He spent 41 years working in schools, 21 years of which were in the role of Principal in three settings. As the Principal of, at the time, the largest secondary school in Norfolk, he guided the school to achieve an Ofsted outstanding grading. He has also worked with schools both in Norfolk and nationally as a Local Leader of Education and as an Advisory Headteacher for the Department for Education. Ian was awarded an M.B.E. for Services to Education. Additionally, he is a Governor at his local hospital and a Governor Improvement Advisor for a Norfolk Multi-Academy Trust. His interests include his music and exploring the coast near to where he lives. |
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