Toby is an experienced Non-Executive Director (NED) and former CEO. He is Chair of CATS Global Schools and Lift Ryde Academy Council, Visiting Professor of Education Leadership at the University of Wolverhampton, and has been Chair of the Teaching Awards Trust for 6 years. He advises a number of Ed Tech companies and is on the advisory boards of Evidence Based Education and a Non-Executive for Pearson Education Ltd. Toby is also a Non-Executive Director of the Portsmouth Hospitals and Isle of Wight NHS Trusts. He is Chair of the Isle Of Wight Education Forum a cross sector partnership board.
Toby was Chief Executive of AQA, the largest exam board in the UK. He was also CEO of Ormiston Academies Trust, overseeing 42 academies in some of the most challenging areas of the country and leading 3,500 staff and 26,000 students. Prior to this, he served as Deputy Chief Executive of the National College for School Leadership, advising ministers and shaping national leadership development policy. He was director of the Department for Education’s Innovation unit and before this head of several schools, in the specialist sector.
