Trustees
Eugene Billeter
Chair of Trustees
- SEN & Neurodiversity Link
- Teaching and Learning Link
Trustee (Member Appointed)
Term of office 01/04/2021 - 01/04/2025
2023-2024 Attendance at Full Board Meetings: 5 out of 5
2023 - 2024 Attendance at Finance (Audit) Business Committee Meetings: 1 out of 4
Register of interests: Family member used to work in Finance for Herts For Learning.
Eugene has extensive management skills, gained in commercial business and a long term interest in special needs and disabilities. He was the treasurer for Herts Inclusive Theatre for 8 years until 2017.
Eugene's business background is a result of 30 years working in commercial IT services, retiring in August, 2019 as a programme manager, overseeing up to 20 million pounds of project works per annum, within a variety of industries and clients; utilising strategic partners and third party agents to deliver solutions and services within time, quality and cost constraints. He was responsible for developing the five-year business plan for Network Rail’s core IT systems, developing the business case for projects to be commissioned with a 100% approval rate from the Group investment panel.
Nik Pringle
Vice Chair
- Safeguarding Link
- Health & Safety Link
Trustee (Member Appointed)
Term of office 01/04/2021 - 01/04/2025
2023-2024 Attendance at Full Board Meetings: 4 out of 5
2023-2024 Attendance at Finance (Audit) Business Committee Meetings: 4 out of 4
2023-2024 Attendance at the Standards and GDPR Committee Meeting: 2 out of 2
Register of interests: None
Nik is a Retired Police Officer who now works as a Special Inspector and Staff Manager for Herts Constabulary.
His neighbourhood responsibilities include, delivering Policing/Prevention messages to Primary/Secondary Schools and Local Colleges with Hertfordshire Constabulary. 1980-2010.
Nik has a particular interest in Safer Recruitment, Safeguarding and Health and Safety.
Trevor Orchard
Trustee
- Executive Head (Accounting Officer)
Trustee (Member Appointed)
2023-2024 Attendance at Full Board Meetings: 5 out of 5
2023-2024 Attendance at Finance (Audit) Business Committee Meetings: 4 out of 4
2023-2024 Attendance at the Standards and GDPR Committee Meeting: 2 out of 2
Register of interests: None
Trevor is the Executive Head for James Marks Academy Trust, including the Roman Fields Academy, Forest House and from Sept 2023 the James Marks Academy. He has over 25 years in Education in a variety of roles, including almost 10 years at Roman Fields, as Headteacher. He has led Roman Fields to being rated Outstanding by Ofsted and winning the NAS 2018 Excellence award.
Prior to working in education, he was a Project Manager in the construction industry. He has experience in leadership, finance, SEND, strategic planning and delivery.
Trevor took on a significant amount of responsibility fairly early on in his teaching career as a Head of Year from his second year of teaching, which has provided the opportunity to learn from and work closely with 5 Head Teachers over his early career. In his last post, Trevor was a mainstream Deputy for 8 years and built strong teams of entirely committed individuals, leading the SEND and behaviour teams and all staff in the Autistic Resource Provision alongside the Heads of Year.
He believes that great schools are built on relationships, creativity, positivity, and trust. He learned that the leader of an organisation can really impact on the culture, results and inclusivity of an organisation; and that accountability directly affects outcomes
Mark Braley
Chair of Finance, Audit & Business Committee
- Finance and Compliance Link
- Maths Link
Trustee (Member Appointed)
Term of office 01/04/2021 - 01/04/2025
2023-2024 Attendance at Full Board Meetings: 3 out of 5
2023-2024 Attendance at Finance (Audit) Business Committee Meetings: 2 out of 4
2023-2024 Attendance at Standards and GDPR Committee Meetings: 1 out of 2
Register of interests: None
Mark is the Head of Product Management, European Equity Research for Jefferies International.
He is a Chartered Accountant with 20 years of experience in Financial Services and has been regularly involved in Change Projects (IT, Compliance and Business facing) and personnel matters.
Mark's role as Head of Product Management involves challenging and mentoring highly experienced individuals.
Alan Clarke
Chair of Standards and GDPR Committee
- HR & Wellbeing Link
- Careers & Transition Link
Trustee (Member Appointed)
Term of office 01/04/2021 - 01/04/2025
2023-2024 Attendance at Full Board Meetings: 4 out of 5
2023-2024 Attendance at Finance (Audit) Business Committee Meetings: 3 out of 4
2023-2024 Attendance at Standards and GDPR Committee Meetings: 1 out of 2
Register of interests: None
Alan joined Roman Fields' Management Committee as a Local community governor and is a neighbour of the school. Jubilee House Care Trust is a charity that provides residential and short break services for both children and adults with learning difficulties.
Alan has Governance and management experience, in running organisations that care for vulnerable people using KPI’s and uncomplicated management information to help understand how the organisation was performing; continually monitoring and looking to improve outcomes and processes helped to control finances and budgets, setting achievable targets and ensuring the right people where in the right roles.
Simon Newland
Trustee
- Data Analysis & Website Link
- English Link
Trustee (Member Appointed)
Term of office 19/07/2024 - 19/07/2028
2023-2024 Attendance at Full Board Meetings:
2023-2024 Attendance at Standards and GDPR Committee Meetings:
Register of Interests:
Chair of Cleapps
Parent of a child attending Roman Fields
Mark Watkin
Trustee
- Behaviour & Attendance Link
- Science Link
Trustee (Member Appointed)
Term of office 20/01/2025 - 20/01/2029
2023-2024 Attendance at Full Board Meetings:
2023-2024 Attendance at Standards and GDPR Committee Meetings:
Register of Interests:
Watford Borough Councillor
Hertfordshire County Council Councillor
Watford Sheltered Community Trust - Trustee
Vacancy
Trustee
Trustee (Member Appointed)
Term of office:
2023-2024 Attendance at Full Board Meetings:
2023-2024 Attendance at Standards and GDPR Committee Meetings:
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Eliane
Trustee
Trustee (Member Appointed)
Term of office 06/12/2021 - 06/12/2024
2023-2024 Attendance at Full Board Meetings: 0 out of 5
2023-2024 Attendance at Standards and GDPR Committee Meetings: 0 out of 2
Register of interests: CEO of Eliane Champagne
- CEO at Eliane Champagne
- Over 28 years of experience in general management
- High knowledge of food and beverage control management, operational management and analysis, management accountancy strong sales techniques
