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Directors

Ray Winn (BA, M.Ed, JP) (Chair)

Ray Winn was head teacher of a special residential school (EBD) for 23 years, with qualifications in education and psychology.

He is now retired from education but works for the Care Standards Tribunal and is actively involved as a magistrate in West Sussex (Deputy Chairman of Northern Division). He is trained as an appraiser of CST members and magistrates.

He is now Chairman of GGSET Directors, Vice Chairman of Grafham Grange School Governors and Governor of Brantridge.

Colin Young (MBE) (Deputy Chair)

Colin Young is chairman of Cranleigh Freight Services and has over 30 years experience of the international transport industry. He has a lifelong commitment to the local community and the development of young people for which he was awarded the MBE in 2003. A Governor of Grafham Grange since 1997 and a Director of the GGSET since that time.

Colin has, for the past 11 years, been mentoring in main stream schools for Surrey Education Business Partnership to year 10 and 11 students. Colin is also actively involved in St. John Ambulance and the Motor Neurone Disease Association.

Paul Kenny

Paul Kenny is currently a director of the IT management group at British Telecom where he has worked for 27 years. During his career Paul has been responsible for the development and implementation of some of the major computer systems that underpin BT service and products. He is currently working on BT's 21st Century Network project, which will bring about the replacement of the UK telephone Network.

Paul is married with four grown-up children. He came to the trust via his role as a Governor at Brantridge School, where he was deeply involved with the transfer of the school from Greenwich LEA to the Trust.

Lloyd Richards

Lloyd Richards is a Chartered Banker of over 30 years experience within the NatWest/RBS Group. His career focus has been on people and change management, having spent 20 years in HR management and the balance of his career in leading national change programmes covering systems, performance and behavioural issues.

Lloyd is highly community service oriented and has been actively involved in charitable activities for a quarter of a century, culminating in joining Brantridge School as a Governor in 2000 and becoming a Director of Grafham Grange Special Education Trust in 2002.

He holds two other Directorships.

Susan Mellor

Sue Mellor, currently working alongside the Social Services in Child Protection, has a basic degree in health and her qualifications are nursing, paediatrics, intensive care, nurse tutoring, health visitor and child protection. Sue?s nursing background at St Thomas? Hospital in London is in adult and paediatric nursing, and she was also a senior sister on a large intensive care unit. She then changed to being a health visitor and also worked at a university teaching this. Previously on the Governing Board, as Chair, in a state school, Sue is now Chair of Governors at Grafham Grange School and a Director of the Board.

Keith Noble MSc (econ) FRICS

Keith originally qualified as a Chartered Surveyor, becoming a partner of a successful London estate agency through the 70's and 80's. After completing a Masters degree, Keith set up and ran a successful software company specialising in supplying software and IT consultancy services to the property industry.

After retiring from that business, he became involved in a variety of commercial and other ventures including learning to play the piano, fund raising for a local hospital, and managing his time to be able to walk, maintain a degree of fitness and sail. Keith is 60, a widower with two married children and two grandchildren. He lives in London and Surrey with his partner and her dog.

Susan Tresman

Formerly Director of the Retention Programme at the Open University and Education Director, then Chief Executive Officer at the British Dyslexia Association, Susan Tresman is the Chief Executive of Grafham Grange Special Educational Trust.

A Fellow of the HESDA Top Management Programme specialising in Leadership for Effective Change, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Susan holds the position of Visiting Professor in Inclusive Learning at the University of Sunderland 2005 - 2010. Previously she held Visiting Chairs in South Africa and Romania promoting access to learning for disadvantaged learners.

Passionate about empowering those with additional needs to realise their full potential, Susan is qualified in the teaching of Learners with Special Needs and holds a PGCE from the University of Cambridge. Her first degree was from Sheffield and her PhD from University of London; Kings College. Susan is a Trustee of the Council for the National Association for Special Schools 2008.

Helen Ralston

Helen Ralston has had a varied background in electronics/telecoms and charities, with over 20 years experience in finance, communications, mergers and acquisitions and strategy. After qualifying as an accountant in Glasgow she became a corporate treasurer and gained an MBA from Cranfield. Formerly a senior manager in an international quoted company and chair of its pension fund, she then transferred into the voluntary sector as Chief Executive of a major national fundraising charity. She is now involved as a trustee of charities involved in health, mental health and social care. She joined Brantridge School as a Governor in 2008 and became a Director of Grafham Grange Special Educational Trust in 2009.

Jerry Saville

Jerry Saville has worked for international companies in the UK and overseas in human resources, strategy and marketing. He is currently a non-executive director of an AIM listed company and a member of Pilotlight, a charity which provides strategic consultancy to small charities. He is also a professional yacht skipper and managing partner of a small yacht charter company. He carries out charity work for Adventures Offshore which provides offshore sailing experiences for young people. He is married with two sons.

Tony Bailey

After teaching in the north of England, Tony spent most of his career in teacher education at the University of Sussex. In the early 1990's he was director of the South East Educational Management Consortium and a member of the national School Management Task Force whilst maintaining his academic links with a fellowship at the University of Bristol. Subsequently he worked with schools and local education authorities on management and staff development. Tony is now actively involved in local community organisations in Brighton.