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Executive Leadership Team

Mark Talbot

Chief Executive Officer

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Beruk Berhane

Deputy CEO
School Improvement

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Stephen Barrett-Kinsley

Chief Operating Officer

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Claire Martin O’Donoghue

Director of Education

Karen Stant

Director of People

Senior Education Leaders

Claire Martin O’Donoghue

Director of Education

Lisa Hardy

Senior Education Leader

Vicky Stevens

Senior Education Leader

Other Trust Leaders

Natalie Alty

Trust Associate Lead

Phil Matthews

DCAT Headteacher (roaming)

Heads of Area

Karen Stant

Director of People

Jo Saunders

Head of Operations and Governance

Hayley Edmondson

Head of Finance

Marc Mulhern

Head of IT and Digital Innovation

Dominique Lewis

HR/People Operations Manager & Safeguarding Lead

Finance Team

Hayley Edmondson

Head of Finance

Rachel Bryan

Academies Finance Manager

Laura Stevens

Academies Business Officer

Amanda Smart

Senior Finance Assistant

Judy Brook

Finance Assistant

VACANT

Finance Assistant

HR Team

Karen Stant

Director of People

Dominique Lewis

HR/People Operations Manager & Safeguarding Lead

Kelly Marks

HR Advisor

Leanne Connolly

PA to the CEO & HR Coordinator

Facilities, Governance and Administrative Team

Jo Saunders

Head of Operations and Governance

Tom O’Connor

Trust Estates Lead

Keith Eddy

Regional Estates
Co-ordinator (West)

Dylan Williams

Regional Estates
Co-ordinator (East)

Danni Gregory

Governance Professional & Senior Administrator

Joanne Whitmore

Compliance Officer & Senior Administrator

Georgia Hunt

Administrator

Trustees

Archdeacon Luke Irvine-Capel

Chair of Trustees

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Sharon Phillips

Vice Chair

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Nick Taunt

Chair of Education Strategy and Standards Committee

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Tim Manly

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Lesley Hurst

Angela Hamill

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William Payne

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Philip Hepburn

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James Stanbridge

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Reg Webb

Chair of Audit and Risk Committee

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Nick Wilkinson

Safeguarding Link Trustee

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Associate Members

Keith Pailthorpe

Associate member of the Education Strategy and Standards Committee

Jenny Barnard-Langston

Chair of LGB Chairs’ Hub as an associate member of the Trust Board

Accounting Officer

Mark Talbot

Accounting Officer/CEO

Register of interests: Trustees

Members

Philip Bowden

Diocese of Chichester Education Trust Authorised Representative

Archdeacon Luke Irvine-Capel

Chair of Trustees

John Preston

Appointed by Diocese of Chichester Education Trust

Rt Rev Will Hazlewood

Representative of Bishop of Chichester

Fr Mathew Phipps

Register of interests: Members

Terms of Office: Members

Our Performance

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Progress

  • Average
  • Above Average
  • Reading
  • Writing
  • Maths

DCAT’s KS2 progress scores are above average in all areas. They put DCAT in the top 20% of all Trusts nationally and 2nd out of all Church of England Trusts.

Reading Writing and Maths at expected standard
National Average = 65%

Reading Writing and Maths at higher standard
National Average = 10.5%

Mark Talbot
Chief Executive Officer

Mark Talbot is DCAT’s Chief Executive Officer. He has been in senior roles in Eastbourne, Hastings and Berkshire for over 15 years.

He took up the full-time CEO role in June 2018 having been in interim charge from September 2017. He has a passion for Church School education with a belief that every child should achieve their God-given potential.

Key roles:

  • Vision, values and ethos
  • Trust Strategy
  • Trust development and governance
Beruk Berhane
Deputy CEO – School Improvement

Beruk Berhane is DCAT’s Deputy CEO – School Improvement. He is responsible for the educational performance of DCAT academies. He has worked in schools for 25 years. Beruk has a proven track record of working in collaboration with leaders to secure significant school improvement.

Key roles:

  • Quality of education
  • Collaborative school improvement
  • Leadership
  • Trust wide professional development of staff
Stephen Barrett
Chief Operating Officer

Stephen is the Trust’s Chief Operating Officer. He has extensive school experience, having previously worked as Director of Finance & Operations, COO and School Business Manager at various different settings. He has overall responsibility for overseeing the strategic development of the Trust’s operations; including Finance, HR, Operations & Governance and IT.

He is passionate about ensuring DCAT is providing a first-class service to its schools and ensuring that this has a positive impact on the outcomes for children.

Archdeacon Luke Irvine-Capel
Chair of Trustees

Luke is the Archdeacon of Chichester, and also Chair of the Diocesan Board of Education.

Sharon Phillips
Vice Chair

Sharon is an HR specialist with 35 years experience at Board level, in facilitating organisations to support innovation, development, growth and change. This is within the context of a variety of sectors, having held leadership roles in Commercial, Higher Education, Further Education and Charity environments. Sharon has previously been a Trustee of the Sussex Community Foundation for 9 years, was a Director of the Sussex Chamber of Commerce for 6 years and is a Trustee on the Enterprise Board at Salisbury Cathedral, a Trustee of Family Support Work (established in 1890) and a lay member of the Chichester Diocesan Synod.

Nick Taunt
Chair of Education Strategy and Standards Committee

Nick is the former CEO and Headteacher of an ‘Outstanding’ secondary school (including sixth form) in Chichester.

Tim Manly

Tim is the CEO of Hurstpierpoint College, an ISI ‘Excellent’ independent all-through school in West Sussex.

Angela Hamill

Angela is the Headteacher of an Ofsted ‘Outstanding’ two-form entry primary school in Bexhill.

William Payne

William is a retired civil servant who worked in prisons and on criminal justice policy. He is a trustee of two other charities.

Philip Hepburn

Phil is a retired Senior Manager with 30+ years experience in Operations and Facilities management of business and properties services for an international blue chip fmcg company and then latterly in a private health care. He has led and developed teams of in-house and contract staff to deliver a wide range of support services. He has been responsible for project managing building refurbishments and delivering new plant and infrastructure services.

James Stanbridge
Fortune 100 Technical Leader, Consultant & Coach

With 20+ years of experience in hiring some of the most successful diverse and inclusive teams in multiple countries, developing and hiring back returnees to the workplace. The ‘Go To IT Guy’ having led engineering, technical and operational teams across Asia & Europe, for 14 yrs as General Manager with Microsoft’s cloud business and a further 2 years as Vice President of Cloud Infrastructure with Oracle, James runs his consulting and coaching business from his office in Tangmere James has served on the Tangmere Parish Council since 2016, is the Election Agent for the Chichester and Bognor Green Party and coordinates the Tangmere Community Speedwatch team.

Reg Webb
Chair of Audit and Risk Committee

Reg, a chartered accountant, retired as a partner of PwC having served on the management board and as chairman of the supervisory board in Central and Eastern Europe since when he has served as a non-executive director of a listed company and is a trustee of another charity.

Nick Wilkinson

Nick Wilkinson is the Kent County Council (KCC) Assistant Director Contest and Serious Organised Crime. He has extensive experience in criminal justice, counter terrorism and partnership working. He was the chair of the Kent Criminal Justice Board (KCJB) from 2013 to 2016 and has chaired Kent and Medway Channel Panel since 2015. He also chairs Kent and Medway Safeguarding Childrens  and Adults Joint Exploitation group. He is the chair of the Kent Resilience Forum Delivery Board. He is a member of the National Counter Terrorism Advisory Group, Special Interest Group on Countering Extremism and National Far Right Working Group. He also chairs the national Local Government Association Forum on anti-asylum hatred. He retired as an Assistant Chief Constable with Sussex Police in 2012.

He was a nationally accredited gold commander for firearms, major incidents and CBRNE incidents.  In July 2000 he was in charge of the search for Sarah Payne and has delivered national training on responding to missing children. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute and chair of governors at a large outstanding East Sussex primary school.

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