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Nick Baldwin (Chair of Trustees)

Nick Baldwin became Chairman of TreeHouse Trust in December 2008. He is a Chartered Engineer, a Chartered

Director and has a portfolio of Non-Executive Director and Advisory roles in the Utility, Government and Housing sectors.

Prior to this he worked in electricity, gas and water utilities, culminating as Chief Executive of Powergen plc until its sale

to EON in 2002. He is m arried with two children and lives in Worcester.

Tristia Clarke (Chair of Remuneration Committee)

Tristia is Group Marketing Director for The Carphone Warehouse and has overall responsibility for all marketing across

the companys 11 markets for both The Carphone Warehouse and TalkTalk brands. This includes 10 markets in Europe

(including the UK) as well as the recent expansion of the business into the US, as part of a joint venture with Best Buy. In

April 2006, Tristia led the companys l argest ever through the line m arketing campaign when the busines s revolutionised

the UK broadband market with free broadband from TalkTalk. Tristia has two children, Stanley 4 and Woody 2.

John Constantine

John is a retired Partner of Ernst & Young UK and was the Global Director of Professional Indemnity Insurance for Ernst

& Young Global be fore he retired in June 2009. John is also involved with another charity, the Incorporated Froebel

Educational Institute, as the Chairman of their Strategic Management Group.

Clare Coombe-Tennant

Clare's parents were both in the Foreign Office and she was born in Brunei and spent her early years in Asia and the

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Congo. She went to school in London, got a degree in English Literature, and then went into hardback publishing for two

years. She moved to Hong Kong and became a journalist writing about the Far East, largely from an economic viewpoint.

After two years, she became a junior investment manager at Baring Asset Management and loved her job as a fund

manager and director there for 12 years, managing a large regional unit trust and institutional pension fund money. She

has continued to work as a non-executive director, but motherhood has become her first priority.

Her first son was born in 1996, and she carried on working until the twin pregnancy, when she and her family moved back

to the UK. By 2000 they had a family of four boys. Two are at mainstream, one is at Swiss Cottage, and one is at

TreeHouse.

Judith Barnard (Chair of Education, Development and Public Affairs Committee)

Judith is director of external relations at the University of Dundee, responsible for communications, marketing,

fundrais ing and events. She has over ten years experience as an executive director in the voluntary sector, running

communications, marketing, policy, information, campaigning and volunteer services for two national disability charities:

Leonard Cheshire Disability and the National Autistic Society.

Her achievements i nclude the renaming and re-branding of Leonard Cheshire Dis ability and the award-winning Creature

Discomforts campaign www.CreatureDiscomforts.org to change the way people

respond to disability. At the National Autistic Society Judith also established the charitys policy and campaigns function

and its Advocacy for Education service. She has published several reports on autism, special needs and social care.

In her spare time Judith is a governor of a secondary special needs school Garratt Park in Wandsworth, and a director

and founder member of CharityComms , the members hip body for charity communicators.

Prior to joining the voluntary sector Judith worked in local government communications in London, Cam bridgeshire and

Surrey, and in publishing, fundraising and marketing roles in the charity and higher and further education sectors.

Kamran Nazeer

Kamran was born of itinerant Pakistani parents and has lived in New York, Jeddah, Islamabad and Glasgow. He s tudied

law but decided not to become a lawyer. By the time he completed his Ph.D. thesis, he had decided not to become an

academic. On leaving Cambridge, he was recruited into her Majestys Service and now works as a policy adviser in

Whitehall. He has publis hed work in newspapers and m agazines.

Bruce Fraser (Chair of Scrutiny and Audit Committee)

Bruce is Bursar of Mill Hill School Foundation, a large co-educational independent school in North London with over 1200

pupils. Bruces di verse professional career includes s enior investment banking roles (corporate finance and capital

markets) with major firms in both London and New York, as well as substantial experience in the comm ercial/industrial

sector where he previously was Chief Financial Officer of a number of start-up and early-stage, venture capital-backed

entrepreneurial technology companies, as well as Group Treasurer of a major publicly-listed multinational energy

services group. Bruce was also previously Finance Director/Bursar of Stowe School in Buckinghamshire. Bruce achieved

both a BSc (economics and accountin ) de ree and an MBA (finance) de ree from Northwestern Universit in Chica o,

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Illinois. Bruce is married to a schoolteacher, has three children and lives in North London.

Jonathan Meth

Jonathan is Executive Director of Theatre Is... making i nnovative new theatre by, with and for young peop le acros s the

East of England. Previously he was Director of writernet, a UK based organisation which gave dramatic writers the tools

they need to build better careers and change the culture in which they work. He trained as a theatre director at the Bristol

Old Vic Theatre School and has worked as dramaturg, script editor, director and lecturer. He has been Chair of

CreativePeople and Vice Chair of the Playwrights Studio , Scotland. He is also: Visiting Tutor in Res idence on the MA in

Arts Administration and Cultural Policy at Goldsmiths College, University of London; External Assessor for the MA inScriptwriting at the University of East Anglia and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts. Jonathan s s on has been a

pupil at Treehouse s chool since 2003.

Matthew Punshon

Matthew is currently a Partner at EC Harris. He was formally Chief Operating Officer of The Ass et Factor, a subs idiary of

Helical Bar plc. He was formally Product Development Director for Land Securities Group PLC, Europes largest quoted

property company, having been one of the founders of LandSecuritiesTrillium. Having started his surveying career at

Richard Ellis, Matthew was seconded to Goldman Sachs to oversee the bid for the Department of Social Security (now

Work and Pensions ) property portfolio. He became Com munications Director developing the Trillium brand and

establishing the Total Property Outsourcing industry. Subsequently he was appointed Operations Director overseeing a

large change managem ent programme focusing on customer satisfaction a concept new in the property industry.

Rowie Shaw (Chair ofSchool Governing Body)

Rowie Shaw worked in 5 inner city, multiracial secondary schools over a 24 year period including as a secondary

headteacher in two large schools in Tower Hamlets and Bradford. She then went on to be David Harts deputy at NAHT for

4 years, being in charge of all professional services. For the last 6 years of her career, prior to retirement in June 2005,

she was the first Chief Executive of NASS, the national association for all non-maintained and independent special

schools, s uccessfully building the association from scratch to be the main national voice for special schools .

Rowie has also carried out extensive freelance work as an accredited consultant and lead facilitator for the National

College for School Leadership, mentor to Headteachers, external adviser to governing bodies, performance

management consultant, personal leadership tutor to Fast Track teachers and trainer and asses sor of SchoolImprovement Partners (SIPs) for the NCSL. She is also an experienced coach.

Rowie completed her doctoral thesis on leadership development for special schools, at the Institute of Education at the

University of London. She has written numerous publications on teacher training and leadership iss ues.

Richard Townley (Chair of Building Steering Group Committee)

Richard obtained a BSc in Estate Management from the University of London and has practised as a Chartered Surveyor

since 1967 specialising in comm ercial property investment. Whilst a partner of Michael Laurie and Partners in London in

the early 70s, he opened their Paris office and was a vending shareholder during the successful s ale of the busines s to

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Morgan Grenfell, creating the new business of Morgan Grenfell Laurie. Richard ran the investment department and

became Joint Managing Director and a member of the Holding Company Board. He currently acts as a property

consultant and jointly runs North Square Properties, a group of family property companies.

Sid Wells

Sid was educated at Southampton and qualified as a Marine Engineer spending s everal years travelling the globe in the

worlds largest oil tankers. Having a keen interest in mus ic and playing in several bands Sid decided to dedicate time to

learning the engineering aspects of recording music. One of Sids first commiss ions was to design and build the

recording studios for MCA Music in Piccadilly. Sid has now designed and built studios for many companies his latestbeing the Sound and Video Studios for HomeChoice. As a freelance engineer Sid went on to record music all over

Europe and for Sony Music in Australia . Currently working for The Sound Agency, a company dedicated to improving the

audio experience of the world we live in.

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