Simon is the
Managing Director (MD) for Education and is responsible for driving
forward IRIS’ evolution, leading the education offering and focusing on meeting
the needs of senior leadership teams in Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs) and
independent schools.
Prior to IRIS, Simon began his
career as an engineer, quickly taking on strategic roles across BT, moving
around its leadership programme, including living in India whilst focusing on
delivering service for customers worldwide. He later moved to services
specialist Serco where he was COO of the Ministry of Defence’s Business
Services division.
Most recently he was the MD of
Capita’s local government business, where his role was to reshape the strategy
and transform the business to enable local government clients to deliver
effectively for the many hundreds of thousands of residents they served.