
Sam Double
Chief Executive Officer, VetSkill
Start date: January 2025
Previous Job: Director of Operations, VetSkill
Interesting fact: Sam has a research interest in positive psychology and recently undertook an emotive study on Ofsted inspections and their effects on wellbeing of senior leaders. Sam is also a Plymouth Argyle season ticket holder.

Richard Turner
Head of Apprenticeships, Graduates and Industry Development, Network Rail
Start date: January 2025
Previous Job: Head of Apprenticeships, BT
Interesting fact: In his spare time, Richard creates history-based animations for over 400,000 subscribers to his YouTube channel

David Laws Chair, AQA
Start date: December 2024
Previous Job: Chair, Energy UK
Interesting fact: David is the only current or former UK politician who has helped negotiate two national coalition governments (the Lib Dem-Labour government in Scotland from 1999-2003 and the Lib Dem-Conservative coalition government of 2010-2015
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