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

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

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

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

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

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 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

Nigel spent 22 years at a Fortune 500 International B2B organisation successfully working across Sales, Sales Management and Project Management roles before specialising in Corporate Learning in leadership roles for their European Learning & Development function. Building on his experience, in 2014 he joined City & Guilds Group, a Royal Chartered charitable skills development organisation […]... Read more

Nick is passionate about commercial education and supporting people in their careers and the workplace. He became a Trustee and Member of the Grants & Development Committee of CET in September 2019.... Read more

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

Grace graduated from Nottingham University in 2005 with a degree in Ancient History, in which she still holds a keen interest. ... Read more