Mr H Strutt
Chair of Governors, Nominations Sub-committee and Remuneration Sub-committee.

Henry has a BA from the University of Edinburgh. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Ernst and Young and has subsequently had a career in investment banking and asset management, which included 20 years in the Far East (Hong Kong and Tokyo). He currently holds a number of directorships and is chairman of a listed investment trust. He lives and farms in Suffolk, of which he is a Deputy Lieutenant.

Mr J Gamp
Member of the Finance and Resources Sub-committee.
Clerk in Charge and Deputy Director of Greenwich Hospital.

John Gamp was born in 1953 in Kent and educated at The King’s School Rochester, Sussex University and the Sorbonne. Following early careers in international banking and college lecturing, he joined the Ministry of Defence in 1979. His career has covered a variety of policy and operational posts including arms control, international defence procurement, and running the UK Sovereign Base Areas dependant territory on the island of Cyprus. Following a tour as the Private Secretary to the Chief of the Air Staff, he was seconded to the School’s parent charity, Greenwich Hospital, as the Deputy Director and Clerk-in-Charge. He is responsible to the Director for the day-to-day operation and charitable output of the Hospital, with particular responsibility for the Royal Hospital School.

Mr H Player
Member of the Nominations Sub-committee and Remuneration Sub-committee.

Director of Greenwich Hospital, the Royal Navy’s Crown Charity, and the parent charity of the Royal Hospital School, since 2012. Background in commercial and charity organisations; formerly a Royal Marine. Married, with daughter at university.

Mr J Agar
Chairman of the Finance and Resources Sub-committee.

Jonathan is CEO of Birketts Law Firm in Ipswich. Jonathan joined Birketts from a world leading financial services provider where he was Chief Operating Officer for the corporate and investment banking finance division. He has also held positions at Fidelity International and Schroders Investment Management and served in the British Army for six years with the Royal Green Jackets.

Mrs V Bidwell BA PGCE FRSA
Member of the Education Sub-committee and member of the Finance and Resources Sub-committee and Nominations Sub-committee.

Valerie is a modern linguist, who has 45 years’ experience in education, including Senior Mistress and Head of Modern Languages at a HMC boarding school and 25 years as Head of an independent day school. She was a former team member of the Independent Schools’ Inspectorate for many years and for a time, Chairman of the Girls’ School Association Eastern Region and for three years, on the GSA Council. Chairman of the Education sub-committee from 2011 to 2018.

Mr T Hill QC
Member of the Finance and Resources Sub-committee.

Thomas Hill QC has more than 25 years’ experience in the fields of planning, environmental, compulsory purchase and related administrative law. He is regularly instructed at public inquiries and in the High Court, acting for a wide variety of developers, local authorities and third party clients. His practice has for many years encompassed advocacy and advisory work in relation to major infrastructure – with particular emphasis on the airport (runway and terminal expansion ), port (container port proposals, HROs and harbour dues litigation) and energy sectors (biofuels, EfW, wind and solar energy). He is also very familiar with the full range of issues relating to residential development (including both bringing forward strategic greenfield sites and complex brownfield redevelopment opportunities).

Work of note includes appeal and advisory work for several UK airports, for Birmingham City Council on its Development Plan, numerous section 78 appeals for residential developers and housing associations, as well as appeal and advisory work for many private individuals, with particular emphasis on projects with complex design issues in London. Tom has, for many years, been recognised as a Leading Silk for Planning work by Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500.

Mr A Kerr
Member of the Finance and Resources Sub-committee.

Adam is Head of Annuity Transactions at Legal & General Property. Having held Director level positions at Kilmartin Property Group, Merrill Lynch Investment Managers, and Stonehage Property Partners. He has a broad range of experience both within financial institutions and private property companies. He gained a Masters in Land Economy at Magdalene College, Cambridge.

Mr J Lynas
Member of the Education Sub-committee and Risk and Audit Sub-committee, nominated Safeguarding Governor.

James was educated at Bablake School, Coventry, graduated in law from the University of Nottingham in 1992 and completed his Law Society Finals the following year at the Nottingham Law School (NTU). Currently a Partner and Consultant at Winckworth Sherwood and has specialised in employment law since 1995 and is a recommended lawyer in the latest Legal 500 directory. His particular professional specialisms are: helping employers resolve crisis situations; managing large scale redundancy exercises; advising on complexity of TUPE consultation and indemnities and defending complex tribunal litigation

James’ professional experience is augmented by his experience in public life. He was a City Councillor, director of a Co-operative Development Agency, governor of a Catholic Secondary School and community Junior School in his hometown of Coventry. In London he has been a Trustee of the Mildmay Community Partnership and served as Chair of Governors at Highbury Fields Secondary School from 2008-2013 in which time he appointed a Headteacher and survived two Ofsted Inspections. He sits as a member of London First’s Employment and Skills Advisory Group and the Skills London/Capital Talent Sub-Group.