People
Mahad Ali
Executive Director
Mahad is Executive Director of the Commercial Education Trust. Prior to this he was Director of Programmes for national social mobility charity Career Ready overseeing their programme development, impact and delivery.... Read more
Robin became Chairman of CET in October 2020. He became a CET Trustee in 2012 following his retirement as Financial Controller and Company Secretary of the Trust, which position he had held since 1990. He is also a member of the CET Grants and Development Committee and of the CET Finance and Administration Committee.... Read more
Edward is Chairman of the Finance and Administration Committee. He is a Chartered Accountant and is now semi-retired, having stood down in 2015 from his role as Global Director of Finance and IT at the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investments (CISI) in the City of London, where he had been for five years. ... Read more
David is Chairman of the Grants and Administration Committee. He became a Trustee in 2012. David is Founder and Chairman of Reeve Hepburn, a corporate advisory boutique based in the UK.... Read more
Kate joined CET in September 2021. She completed her Chartered Accountancy training with Ernst & Young and remained with the firm as a corporate tax specialist until 2001.... Read more
Anne is Chairman of a CET Steering Group which oversees a research project into the feasibility of a commercial education competency framework. She was born and educated in Scotland. She graduated with a BSc from Glasgow University and has postgraduate qualifications in education, teaching, and library science.... Read more
Verity is a chartered accountant working as a manager for one of the Top 20 firms. She specialises in auditing and advising not for profit clients, and has worked in this role for 9 years.... Read more
Alun Evans became a CET Trustee in February 2016. He is a member of the Finance and Administration Committee. Having qualified as a chartered accountant in 1981, Alun held a number of senior finance positions with Chrysalis Group plc, Cope Allman International plc and Coloroll Group plc.... Read more
John Hillier
Senior Adviser and Honorary Fellow
John Hillier is a former trustee of the CET and serves as Senior Advisor and Member of the CET Trust's Grants and Development Committee. As Chief Executive of the National Council for Vocational Qualifications from 1990 to 1997, he was responsible for the development and introduction of NVQs and GNVQs.... Read more
David is Director and a co-founder of Arolite Ltd. Arolite provides comprehensive, end to end support and management of commercial catering equipment for multi-site organisations across the UK. David first encountered the Commercial Education Trust through his works with Junior Chamber International London in 2014, an organisation he went on to lead in 2017. ... Read more
Nick Martel
Trustee
Nick leads his own consulting practice specialising in retail and consumer businesses and the real estate sector. He is also a Non-Executive of specialist real estate law firm, Davitt Jones Bould.... Read more
Anne O’Hagan was born and educated in Scotland. She graduated with an MA in Modern Languages from the University of Glasgow and completed her PGCE (Secondary) at Jordanhill College of Education. ... Read more
Darren Scurville
Adviser
Darren is a Director and founder of Nice Chaps Ltd. Nice Chaps is a brand and communications agency that has specialised in providing strategic marketing, creative, branding, advertising and communications services to clients across the B2C and B2B sectors since 2015. Darren has previously held brand and marketing director roles for a number of technology […]... Read more
Darragh O'Sullivan
BA (Hons) Law; Pg. Dip. Legal Practice (Bar Vocational and Legal Practice courses) MBA
Trustee
Darragh is the founder of DOS & Co, a virtual family office service company. He specialises in supporting family offices, entrepreneurs and the young wealthy in their legal, operational and reputation-management affairs. He became an Advisor to CET in April 2018.... Read more
Grace Cole
Grants Administrator
Grace graduated from Nottingham University in 2005 with a degree in Ancient History, in which she still holds a keen interest. ... Read more
