Mark Parry

Mark has gained over 30 years commercial experience in the UK financial services sector and within multinational strategic marketing consultancies. Starting in business and financial analysis, he has enjoyed a wide-ranging career encompassing:

  • operational management
  • programme and project management
  • development of decision support systems

In 2010, Mark founded a consulting company advising clients in the public and private sectors on such areas as cost saving initiatives, technology investments and improving the quality of information available to senior leadership teams.

When not glued to a spreadsheet, Mark enjoys catching up with his long list of unread books, listening to jazz and walking in the nearby countryside.

 

 

Louise Moore

Louise is an experienced Chartered Accountant with extensive expertise in audit, governance and risk management across the public and private sectors specialising in the educational sectors.

Over the past 12 years, Louise has been passionately supporting and advising academy trusts on financial matters, compliance and governance.

She is passionate about contributing to the strategic direction of the Trust, promoting transparency and accountability and helping to create a safe and nurturing environment for students to thrive.

 

 

Murray Christopher Clark

Murray Clark retired in 2017 from his role as a Principal Lecturer in Organization Theory and Research Methodology and Doctoral Programme Leader at Sheffield Business School, Sheffield Hallam University. Prior to his academic career, after completing an MBA & Ph.D. (Organizational Behaviour at Manchester Business School), he was an operations manager for British Coal and a Chartered Mining Engineer.

He is co-editor of Business and Management Research Methodologies (Sage Library in Business and Management, 2006), a co-contributor to Research Methods for Managers (Sage 2010) and co-author of The Dilemmas of Leadership (Routledge, 2006).

His research interests have centred mainly on research methodology, trust and leadership. Since 2019, he has worked with BSL: Business School Lausanne as a doctoral supervisor on their DBA programme.

 

 

William Huw Thomas

Huw is the Director of Education for the Diocese of Sheffield. He has 25 years of experience in primary education as a teacher and headteacher. He is a former lecturer in English and Education at Sheffield Hallam University and a Church of England curate He was a founder member, establishing the
Diocese of Sheffield Academies Trust Brings skills in school leadership, supporting schools, Diocesan leadership and working with the Church of England.