Trust Board

Rosemary joined Folio Education Trust as a Trustee in September 2019.  Her areas of focus on the Board are MAT Strategy and HR.

Rosemary is a Partner at Perrett Laver, a leading international executive search firm working with mission-driven sectors worldwide. A specialist in Head and senior leadership appointments for schools, MATs and school groups in the academy, state, independent and special education sectors.  Rosemary also acts as an adviser across a diverse range of educational charities in Executive and Non-Executive roles.

Rosemary is passionate about the transformative power of education and the ways in which schools can collaborate to improve life chances for young people. 

Paul is a retired Metropolitan Police Inspector who worked the majority of his career in uniform, much of it based in Lambeth. He represented the Metropolitan Police Inspectors on the National Committee of the Police Federation from 2009-2014.

Paul was invited onto the Board of Governors at WCGS in 1992, chairing various committees over the years including staffing and curriculum, admissions and remuneration and became Chair in 2010. Paul was also one of the founding Trustees of Folio Education Trust.

Paul's role as trustee of Folio sees him support and challenge the schools and Folio staff, to ensure transparency, openness and value for money, which will hopefully assist other schools who join our trust.  Wallington's 'Outstanding' judgement by Ofsted in January 2017, recognised  all the years of hard work put in by staff and pupils, this experience will also assist the other schools in the Trust.

Paul has recently stepped down as Governor at WCGS to concentrate on supporting the Trust and leads on Health and Safety on the Trust Board.

Helen joined Folio Education Trust as an Appointed Trustee in September 2019.  She has had 25 years experience in large multi-nationals and smaller organisations in the education, media and property sectors. 

is currently CFO/COO for Girls’ Learning Trust, a local multi-academy trust with 3 large secondary schools, and has been instrumental in the growth of the MAT and the development of shared business services. 

Prior to this, Helen worked for the BBC, Jones Lang LaSalle and PricewaterhouseCoopers in the UK, USA and Hong Kong.  She qualified as a Chartered Surveyor and has a Land Economy degree from Cambridge University.

David Herrick is the Trust Lead for Financial Management and Audit.  He joined the Trust in September 2019.

David joined Price Waterhouse’s audit department in London after University in 1990 and qualified as a chartered accountant in 1993.  After gaining another four years audit experience he moved to an international investment bank where he has spent the past 22 years in a variety of financial and regulatory reporting roles. 

David is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England Wales.

Vinoo joined Folio in September 2017 and has been a trustee and a member of the Resource Committee since.

Vinoo brings a varied experience garnered from more than a decade of being on the Boards of a variety of primary and secondary schools.

A qualified accountant by education, Vinoo is a believer of  “Education is the great social leveller in any society!” and trusts Folio to contribute effectively to that cause.

Vinoo currently working as a Data Analytics professional in the General Insurance Industry in London. Her passion is the nurture and development of young people in financial literacy.

Jane joined the Folio Trust Board in 2017.  Previously, Jane has been the SEN Governor and Chair of Governors at St Peter’s Primary School, as well as a Trustee of Croydon Mencap and Chair of Trustees for the Opportunity Group, a pre-school group for children with special needs. 

Much of Jane's career has been spent working in the field of branding and communications, during which time she was appointed HR Director of a global branding agency.  In recent years Jane has worked locally in Croydon in the field of SEND and currently works for a Croydon charity who support parents and carers of children and young people with additional needs and disabilities. 

Jane has a passion for inclusion, for putting children and young people at the heart of decision making regarding their education and is committed to developing strategies to promote the wellbeing of staff and students in schools.

Rachel joined the Board in September 2020, with a particular focus on digital technology for teaching and learning.

Rachel began her career as a librarian, working in special collections libraries, archives and publishing early in her career. She leads on digital innovation at Wimbledon High School and works with teachers to evaluate the use of technology for teaching and learning, implementing evidence-based practices. She is passionate about using technology in an authentic way, keeping human relationships at the heart of learning, with a particular interest in the use of technology to allow students to develop skills of effective collaboration and creative problem-solving. Since the necessity emerged for remote and hybrid education she has been developing strategies for schools and teachers which ensure the continuity of learning for students. 

She works on digital strategy with colleagues across the Girls’ Day School Trust, most recently contributing to the Futurelearn MOOC, Digital Skills for Teachers. Wimbledon High School is a Microsoft Showcase School, and she is active in the global Showcase School network. She is a member of the Independent Schools Council Digital Strategy Group and the wider Edtech50 group which encompasses schools across the state and independent sector. Wimbledon High School recently won the 2020 TES Independent Schools Award for Best Use of Technology. 

Daljit Rehal FBCS,MInstP,MIET,BSC

Daljit Rehal is a proven leader who has several years of experience in creating business value through Culture, People, Process, and Technology in the utility and telecommunications sectors, covering multiple markets, including the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, and the United States.

He has excellent stakeholder management skills and is used to working at Board Level with CxO stakeholders. He has over 20 years of experience in exploiting a variety of enterprise technologies and managing vendor relationships and outsource partners to achieve business objectives.

In his most recent role, as the Snr. VP of Digital and Data and Chief Data Officer at Centrica, Daljit has led the modernisation of Digital and Data capabilities, earning himself internal and external recognition as one of the top 100 Global IT leaders. He has pioneered the adoption of Big Data, AI/ML technologies, Agile methods alongside other commercialised innovations.

Daljit has a particular passion for leading change, focused on customer outcomes. His depth of experience enables him to provide cross-industry leadership to decision-makers looking at the opportunities created by ‘OpenSource’ frameworks. In the past ten years, he has led several large-scale successful transformational programmes in these domains.

Before his work at Centrica, Daljit worked at several telecoms companies, including TalkTalk plc, Hutchison 3G Ltd, Virgin Mobile in both technology and commercial roles. This mix of experience, combining IT and non-IT roles means he can look at problems using, both a technology and a business lens, allowing him to bring both parties together to collaborate.