James is the Headteacher of the Forest School in Snaresbrook. His qualifications include: BMusPerf (Hons), Elder Conservatorium, BMus, University of Adelaide, FRSA.

Gary is now retired, his previous roles included Assistant Director Children’s Services, and Assistant Director Schools, Planning and Resources and SEND, Ealing.  Gary also worked various roles throughout his career working for Senior Councillors and Directors on Planning and Service Strategies at Ealing Council. Gary is committed to his voluntary roles with MIND, a local Primary School and Athletics Club.

Mike is a School Business Leader at a secondary school in East London and has a passion of ensuring children have the best learning environment to be taught in, enabling them to achieve their best possible outcomes.  His role includes having a strategic lead on Human Resources, Finance, Health & Safety and Premises. Mike has completed a degree in School Business Management and is currently completing a Level 7 CIPFA qualification in School financial and operational leadership. Mike currently volunteers as trustee for a local scout group in the role of treasurer.

Ali is the co-founder of Gesher, an ambitious all-through school designed especially for children who are differently able and who learn differently. She is also the founder of the Gesher Assessment Centre, which offers a bespoke multi-disciplinary assessment, diagnosis and report service for children and young people who may have ADHD, Autism, or a range of varying learning differences.

Ali currently co-chairs the SEND council for the Foundation of Education Development and sits on the Education Council for the Autism Centre of Excellence

Christopher is the Chair of the Lime Trust Board, as well as the Diversity and Health & Safety Lead for the Board. He worked as a headteacher for ten years and is a winner of many awards, including Education Champion of the Year, Windrush 2003 and UBS Teacher of the Year 2007.

Christopher has taught on the Institute of Education’s course ‘Investing in Diversity’, training and supporting headteachers. He has worked with over 300 schools with all stakeholders (Governors, staff and other agencies), developing learning strategies, raising attainment and preparing for inspections.

He has led and facilitated the raising of attainment to high levels in KS1 and KS2. He has helped to raise finance for schools and has managed capital works in various institutions.

Sam is the Chair of the Finance, Risk and Audit Committee of the Board and the Safeguarding Lead for the Board. Sam is a cloud software expert, specialising in Customer Relationship Management, Finance, Budgeting and HR solutions. She is currently CEO & Founder of SECloud Solutions.

She was previously Business Development and Operations Director at School Business Services Ltd (SBS) and a Member of its Board, guiding the company through two accreditations of ISO14001 and ISO27001, and the subsequent re-accreditation to both standards.

She directly line managed the Senior Leadership Team, providing valued coaching, mentoring and development support, with primary responsibility for the day-to-day running of the UK business and its seventy five staff members. Sam holds the CIPFA Level 7 Advanced Professional Certificate in School Financial and Operational Leadership in Education.

Jo has held senior roles in the health sector for over 20 years including leading commissioning, corporate affairs, strategy and partnerships.  She now works at the London Ambulance Service as Director of Corporate Affairs.

Before her NHS career, she spent 10 years at the Royal College of Surgeons, working to develop policy and standards for surgical care.

Jo was Chair of Governors at Lime Ravensbourne, and joined the Trust Board in December 2025 as Trustee.

After graduating from university I started my career in the finance industry but quickly made the move to tech and Google and have been there ever since.

Throughout my time there I have done a variety of positions within People Operations specifically the talent area.

Roles include Recruiter for the European Finance team; leading teams working on Recruitment Operations for EMEA (running all the interview coordination, interviewer training, analytics etc); Student Development and Engagement (specific focus on female underrepresentation in software engineering) and most recently, leading a team of recruiters growing the software engineering teams for UK, Ireland, France and Africa.

I have also done some projects with the HR business partner team and completed my HR Management Diploma in 2011.

Amanda is Chief Executive Officer of Strive4 Academy Trust and has a breadth of strategic leadership experience and skills across the education sector.

Amanda has particular expertise in teaching and learning, safeguarding and developing leaders and this has led to school improvement work both locally and nationally.

Amanda has 30 years’ experience in education, with over 18 years’ experience of being a headteacher; she has held many positions of responsibility and leadership within schools.

Amanda holds both the National Professional Qualification for Executive Leadership and the National Professional Qualification for Headship.

She currently provides support to other schools and trusts through the DfE TSIO.

Ahmed Kamal is a Senior Manager at PwC, working in audit and data analytics, with a professional background centred on governance, accountability and organisational oversight across complex organisations. Alongside his professional role, he volunteers with youth centres and local community initiatives, reflecting a long standing interest in education, social mobility and the role strong governance plays in supporting positive outcomes for young people and wider communities.

Holly works at the Department for Education as a Project Director.

She has extensive experience across the public sector, working for both local and central government to successfully manage large capital programmes, as well as leading the implementation of complex policy initiatives.

In 2017-18, Holly worked for Ark Schools, one of the highest achieving academy groups in the country, as Head of Projects.