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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

Chief Operating Officer

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Senior Education Leaders

Jo Djora

Senior Education Leader: West Hub

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Claire O’Donoghue

Senior Education Leader: East Hub

Katharine Hurd

Senior Education Leader (part time)

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Justin Smith

External Consultant – School Improvement (part time)

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Trust Leads

(part-time with Centre Team)

Tom Glenn

Trust Assessment Leader

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Susi Singh

Trust Leader of Maths

Vicky Stevens

Trust Associate Partner

Heads of Area

Jo Saunders

Head of Operations and Governance

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Dominique Lewis

Head of HR

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Hayley Edmondson

Head of Finance

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Andy Meighen

Head of IT and Digital Innovation (interim)

Finance Team

Rachel Bryan

Academies Finance Manager

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Laura Stevens

Academies Business Officer

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Loraine Oarton

Finance Officer

Facilities team

Tom O’Connor

Trust Estates Lead

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Keith Eddy

Regional Estates
Co-ordinator (West)
(Part time)

Dylan Williams

Regional Estates
Co-ordinator (East)
(Part time)

Administrative Team

Danni Gregory

Governance Professional & Senior Administrator

Joanne Hood

Compliance Officer & Senior Administrator

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Leanne Connolly

PA to the CEO 
(Part time)

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Georgia Hunt

Apprentice Business 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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Trevor Cristin

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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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Associate Members

Mrs Jan Meyer

Education Strategy and Standards Committee

Mr Keith Pailthorpe

Associate member of the Education Strategy and Standards Committee

Mr John Proctor

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

Mr Bernard Adkins

Additional member by consent of Diocesan Board of Education

Mr Philip Bowden

Diocese of Chichester Education Trust Authorised Representative

Archdeacon Luke Irvine-Capel

Chair of Trustees

Miss Gabrielle Higgins

Appointed by Diocese of Chichester Education Trust

Rt Rev Will Hazlewood

Representative of Bishop of Chichester

Register of interests: Members

Our Performance

Children
Staff
Centre Team
Governors
Trustees
Schools

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 over 20 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
  • 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.

Jo Djora
Senior Education Leader: West Hub

Jo joined the Trust in September 2021 from her previous position as Headteacher at an Outstanding school in London. Prior to this, Jo has had extensive experience in leading schools. Jo is a passionate educationalist who is highly ambitious for the children and communities that she works with.

Katharine Hurd
Senior Education Leader (part time)

Katharine is one of the Trust’s Headteachers at All Saints CE Junior Academy in Hastings. Katharine is working 1 day per week as a Senior Education Leader

Justin Smith
External Consultant - School Improvement

Benedict Joy Leadership Services will be supporting the Trust by providing external evaluation and support to the school improvement capacity of DCAT. Their consultant, Justin Smith, has experience of MAT leadership and developing systemic school improvement processes. He has led two outstanding schools. He will also be undertaking specific projects in consultation with the Trust leadership team in areas of school improvement, financial modelling and delivering growth as required.

Mr Tom Glenn
Trust Assessment Leader (1 day a week)

Tom Glenn is DCAT’s Trust Assessment Leader based in Eastbourne. Tom is currently Head of School at St Paul’s CE Academy and has been part of the leadership team who have transformed St Paul’s KS2 outcomes in the last 2 years.

Key roles:

  • Trust assessment systems
  • Quality assurance
  • Staff development
Jo Saunders
Head of Operations and Governance

Jo Saunders is DCAT’s Head of Operations. Jo has extensive experience in governance and operations. Prior to this Jo worked in banking at a regional level.

Key roles:

  • Compliance, Health & Safety
  • Human Resources
  • Governance and clerking
  • Induction of new academies
  • Internal communication
Dominique Lewis
Head of HR (full-time)

Dominique is DCAT’s Head of HR. She is responsible for supporting the Trust with the strategy and delivery of the HR function across the DCAT academies. She has worked in education for the past 10 years and prior to this worked within the recruitment sector.

Hayley Edmondson
Head of Finance

Hayley Edmondson is DCAT’s Head of Finance.  Hayley is responsible for providing day-to-day financial management for DCAT and strategic management support to all schools within the Trust.  She has over 13 years’ experience as a school business leader working across nursery, primary, secondary, post 16, mainstream and special education settings.   Previously, she gained broad business experience as a senior manager for a travel sector PLC working overseas and in the UK. 

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Rachel Bryan
Academies Finance Manager

Rachel Bryan is DCAT’s Academies Finance Manager. Rachel supports the Head of Finance with day-to-day financial management for DCAT and acts as a key point of contact to the DCAT schools, offering support and guidance to new and existing SBMs. Rachel has worked as an SBM for 7 years, most recently in a DCAT school. Prior to that she worked for a number of large registered social landlords leading on financial inclusion projects.

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Mrs Laura Stevens
Academies Business Officer (Part time)

Laura is an Academies Business Officer. Laura has previously worked in banking and provides support to St. Paul’s, Christchurch and St. Leonards academies.

Tom O'Connor
Trust Estates Lead (full-time)

Tom O’Connor has an extensive background in facilities management and health and safety, which included being involved in major change management, in restructuring the Estate requirements and reviewing the Site Support team’s performance and the transition for schools from a Local Authority to becoming an Academy. Tom joined the Trust Centre team from St. Columba CE Primary School.

Joanne Hood
Compliance Office & Senior Administrator

Joanne is the Senior Administrator for DCAT. Prior to this role she worked as a Management Information Assistant for a company that provided an insurance replacement service for multiple insurance companies’ home contents claims.

Leanne Connolly
PA to the CEO (Part time)

Leanne is PA to the CEO. Prior to this role she was PA to a managing director for 6 years, and has 10 years administration experience within the manufacturing and financial services industries.

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, and is the Trust’s nominated link Safeguarding Trustee.

Tim Manly

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

Trevor Cristin

A former primary Headteacher, Trevor is now the Director of Education for the Diocese of Chichester.

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.