Sarah Atkins-Boal Head of FE Appointments, Peridot Partners Start date: April 2024 Previous Job: Principal Consultant FE, Peridot Partners Interesting fact: Sarah has had a varied career. She has found herself ordering diggers, recruiting call handlers, advising on mortgages, spotting shoplifters, and most recently appointing over a 100 chairs, governors and senior leaders across the FE sector Martin Rigley Chair, East Midlands Institute of Technology Start date: April 2024 Concurrent Job: Business Development Associate, Devtank Ltd Interesting fact: Martin’s OBE for ‘services to the community’ during the first Covid lockdown was for organising fellow manufacturing businesses to donate PPE to frontline medical staff Philip Le Feuvre Governor, London South East Colleges Start date: May 2024 Concurrent Job: Chief Operating Officer, NCFE Interesting fact: Philip worked as a hospital porter, in a muesli factory, on an airport check-in desk before getting into teaching and then the FE sector