Our People
Our Trustees
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The Rt Hon the Lord Lingfield
KT DLITT DL
The Lord Lingfield is the former Pro-Chancellor of Brunel University…
Chairman and Trustee -
Olga Bottomley
MIVA MIOD SFEDI
Olga Bottomley was educated at St Thomas More RC Secondary School and Mackworth College…
Trustee -
Keith Baldwin
BSc(Eng) ACGI MSc DIC C Eng MIET FIBC MIOD
Keith Baldwin is an experienced manager and business advisor with strong financial skills, excellent technological awareness and strategic thinking capability…
Trustee -
Martin Doel
CBE
Martin Doel was appointed as the first Further Education Trust for Leadership Professor of Leadership in Further Education and Skills at University College London (Institute of Education) in April 2016…
Trustee -
John Dowty
MA ACA
John has recently retired after 24 years as a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers. During this time he was the global leader of their M&A Integration and Separation business…
Trustee
Our Executive Team
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Guy Horridge
BSc MSc MBA FCMI FInstLM
CVQO Chief Executive Guy Horridge was born in 1957 to a service family. After a relatively traditional…
Chief Executive -
Michèle Parry
BA(Hons) PGDIP MA
Michèle Parry graduated from Newcastle upon Tyne University with a BA with Honours in Modern Languages…
Deputy Chief Executive -
Rob Harvey
MA ACA
Rob graduated from the University of Cambridge with a degree in Natural Sciences and then joined Price Waterhouse working in London and Barcelona…
Finance Director
Our Senior Managers
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Clinton Riley
Clinton spent 27 years working for a number of Government Departments. He resigned from the Civil Service to join CVQO in 2005…
Head of Development -
Martin Passmore
MA MCGI FRSA
Martin Passmore joined CVQO in 2005 having spent twenty-one years as a secondary school History teacher…
Head of Curriculum -
Ian Holmes
After 20 years in the manufacturing and engineering sectors, Ian retrained as a teacher…
Head of Operations -
Mark Rye
MCGI PGCERT MCMI MINSTLM
Mark is a skilled design and project management professional with a Post Graduate Certificate in Charity Management from St Mary’s University…
Head of Quality and Compliance -
Simon Reeves
MPRCA
Simon was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, and studied Media Writing and Journalism at Southampton Solent University, graduating with a BA (hons)…
Head of Corporate Communications
Our Curriculum Managers
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Paul Atkinson
B ED (HONS) NPQH
After graduating as a teacher in 1979, Paul spent thirty-four years working in maintained schools as music teacher…
Professional Development Manager -
Dave Poke
BA MInstLM
Dave is an extremely experienced deliverer of Human Resource Training and Development having been involved in this field for nearly forty years…
BTEC Level 1 and Level 2 Curriculum Manager
Our Managers
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Jade Collins
Jade joined CVQO in 2017 as a management accountant and has since broadened her responsibilities as Finance Manager…
Finance Manager -
Melanie Osborne
Melanie was born in Liverpool and after 5 years at university graduated with an MA in Criminal Justice…
Teaching and Learning Development Manager -
Christina Freeman
Christina joined CVQO in 2008 and gained experience in a variety of roles within the charity; firstly in the Adult Awards Department…
Quality Manager -
Sylvia Brunner
Sylvia Brunner graduated from the University of Strathclyde and following a career in the hotel industry in Germany and the UK, she moved into education and training…
Curriculum Standardisation Manager
Our Area Managers
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Andy Webster
At 13 Andy joined Cheshire Army Cadet Force, and after 5 years as a cadet he became an adult volunteer…
Area Manager North and West -
Steve Mills
MINSTLM
Steve’s career background is in staff training, sales and quality assurance management…
Area Manager East -
Richard Allen
MCGI ATCI
Richard lives in Kent. He joined the Army in 1984 as a musician in The Band of The Life Guards…
Area Manager South
Our Regional Managers
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Jim Black
MLNSTLM
Jim Black was born in Motherwell, North Lanarkshire in 1962. He was educated at Buckie High School. At 15 Jim joined the Army (Gordon Highlanders then Highlanders)…
Regional Manager (Scotland) -
Ranveer Bahra
BA (Hons)
Ranveer graduated from Buckinghamshire New University with a BA (Hons) Degree after studying Airline and Airport Management…
Regional Manager (South Region) -
Debbie Barry
Born and based in Southampton. In 1998 Debbie joined a local Army Cadet Unit and in 2010 got roped in to becoming an Adult Instructor…
Regional Manager (South Region) -
Lou Bebbington
Lou joined Cheshire ACF in January 2006 as an instructor. She currently holds the rank of Major and is Officer Commanding Messines Company…
Regional Manager (West Region) -
Lynne Newell
BA(HONS) PGCE
Originating from South Wales, Lynne joined the Air Training Corps in August 1992, taking her commission in 2000…
Regional Manager (West Region) -
Kerry Barker
Kerry joined the Army Cadet Force as a cadet at the age of 14, then became an adult instructor in 1997. She currently runs a successful Detachment within Dorset ACF…
Regional Manager (West Region) -
Mitch McGuire
Mitch lived life until 1989 in Germany moving to Retford in Nottinghamshire where she has stayed since joining the Army Cadet Force as an adult instructor in the summer of 1989…
Regional Manager (East Region) -
Juliane Gregg
Juliane was born in Aberdeen, although she grew up in East Anglia and joined the Air Training Corps in 1998. She gained her commission in 2004 and spent time in both Wales & West and London & South East Regions…
Regional Manager (East Region) -
Miranda Mills
Miranda owns her own flooring company as well as working on the CVQO Schools Project. She is a Captain and Company Staff Officer in the Army Cadet Force…
Regional Manager (East Manager) -
David Barr
David Barr was born in Scotland and now lives in Hull after a career of 40 years in the Army and the MOD…
Regional Manager (East Region) -
Karen Barr
MCGI LCGI
Karen Barr was born and raised in Hull, Yorkshire, where at 17 she joined the WRAC a driver. After serving at Bicester and in Belfast, Karen married a soldier and moved to Germany…
Regional Manager (East Region)