English UK structure, rules and boards

Mark Rendell (Chair) is the CEO of International House London. Prior to joining IH London in 2019 he was principal of St Giles International London Central for seven years. Mark is a member of Accreditation UK's Executive Board and has a BA in English and History, Trinity Licentiate Diploma in TESOL and an MSc in ELT Management.

Shoko Doherty (Vice Chair) is CEO of Celtic English Academy in Cardiff. She has worked in the industry for over 15 years, having first come to the UK as an international student. She has been an active committee member of English UK Wales for the past five years.

Jago Brown is commercial director at UK Language Courses (UKLC) which has ten centres located across the UK. He has over 20 years expereince in senior leadership roles, often leading teams through significant change and uncertainty. He is based in the north and is a former chair of English UK Scotland.

Tim Cooke is CEO of Elac Study Vacations a language school which has been delivering year-round and multi-centre summer school courses for juniors for 30 years.  He worked in the industry for over 20 years and was previously treasurer of Young Learners English UK.

Jane Dancaster is managing director of Wimbledon School of English and has been in ELT first as a teacher, then a manager, since 1983. She has been a director of English UK since it was formed in 2004, and was a member of the Arels General Council before that.

Catrin Diamantino is the CEO of Bell English. She helped build EC into a global brand. Catrin says she wanted to join the Board to bring her expertise in global markets and sales at an important time for the industry "when we need to join together and speak with one voice to be heard and taken seriously."

Sarah Etchells taught in Greece for five years before setting up her own summer language school for children and teenagers, English Country Schools. She has been running British Council accredited junior summer courses for over 30 years. She is the joint chair of Young Learners English UK and has special responsibility for welfare.

Farhan Quraishi is CEO and co-owner of Speak Up London, which he founded with his partner almost ten years ago.

Stephan Roussounis is managing director at Bayswater Education, which he founded in 2018. He was managing director of Stafford House International for over six years where he oversaw the opening of three new schools in London, Brighton and Cambridge, and led on major acquisitions in the US and Canada. He has over 20 years expereince in the sector. 

Leon Zhang is CEO at KKCL English, an English language school based in Harrow, North West London. He became the owner and director of KKCL at the age of 24 and has experience of running English language schools, summer camps (in the UK and China), Early Years nursery schools, educational travel, and online TEFL training.

Andrew Fisher (Chair) founded EAC in 1992, and the company grew to become one of the largest accredited ELT providers in the UK. After leading EAC through to sale to TUI Travel PLC in 2009 Andrew founded OSCARS International in 2012, devloping it and leading it to sale in December 2015. Since 2016 Andrew has been involved in sports activity/ childcare business projects.

Peter Hayes is managing director of International House Manchester and a member of the board of directors at International House World Organisation. Peter joined the Enterprises Board in December 2021.

Michael Quinn has been working in the ELT business now for over 19 years with Centre of English Studies. He is an owner and director of CES and has worked in nearly every role involved in the running of a school.

Tregarran Percival is sales and marketing director at UK Language Courses (UKLC). He has worked in the sector for over 10 years. Tregarran joined the Enterprises Board in February 2021.

Judith Haste (Chair) is finance director at Bell Educational Services Ltd. She is a senior ACMA qualified accountant, with strong international commercial experience. She has worked in a range of sectors and organisation sizes, including as director of finance in both a FTSE 250 international group and a conservation charity before joining Bell in 2014.

Vimala Jayaraman is director of finance at International House London. She is a qualified finance professional with over 20 years of experience in finance, transformation and commercial functions across various sectors. She holds an MBA and is a Fellow of CIMA. In addition to the Finance Panel at English UK, Vimala holds a Director of Finance role.

Gareth Mainwaring is director of operations and development for the Birmingham International Academy (BIA) at the University of Birmingham. Following 12 years in government, including the Department for Education, he joined the HE sector. He has operational responsibility for the growth and delivery of Foundation Pathway, Presessional English and Insessional programmes at the university. He also worked with the university to open its first international branch campus in Dubai and continues to work on other TNE initiatives.

Huan Japes (Chair)

English UK

Timothy Blake (Chair)

London School of English