Ed Vainker is the CEO of the Reach Foundation. He was the
Principal and Co-founder of Reach Academy Feltham and co-founded the Reach
Children’s Hub. He was in the first cohort that did Teach First in 2003 and
worked in Peckham and White City before spending four years in North America,
working with Teach For All, the global network of organisations like Teach
First. He has sat on a number of commissions and panels and was awarded an OBE
in 2019.