Meet The Academy Committee Members

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Dean has been Chair of the LEO Academy Trust since September 2018 having been on the board since January 2017.

He has over 40 years investment banking experience at an executive level and has been the Director of a risk management consultancy for over twenty years  His clients have included some of the largest global names in financial services and he has managed many assignments in the UK and overseas locations including New York, Chicago, Frankfurt, Luxembourg, Prague and Singapore. Dean specialises in providing control and risk management solutions throughout the business processing cycle.

In addition Dean is currently interim Chair of Governors at West Ashtead Primary Academy and Hurst Park Primary Academy.

He serves on the board of the  LEO Foundation CIO, a charity established in 2023 to improve the lives of children and families by supporting their access to quality education and enriching extracurricular experiences.

Dean is Member for Olive Academes, a Trust comprising of five alternative provision academies in London and East England, providing education to children and young people aged between 7 and 16.

He is Trustee and Treasurer for the Chris Donovan Trust, a Restorative Justice education charity helping people understand the power of Restorative Justice.

Dean is also a governor for The Limes College, an alternative provision school. This school works with children and young people who have found themselves in some way unable to access mainstream education.  This may be through unmet needs, sometimes referred to as Special Educational Needs (SEN), or complex life circumstances.

I have worked in education for over 20 years with a keen interest in curriculum design and pedagogy. In my early career I held both subject leadership and teacher training roles before moving to secondary and through-school leadership roles. Most recently, I have worked in school improvement for a Trust. I am also a member of Mole Valley Runners as a both a run leader and all round enthusiast for ‘all things’ within the running community.

I am a proud father of three (two of whom have been through/ attend West Ashtead and a third who I hope will start there in September 2025). I have worked in education for 19 years and have a particular passion for inclusion and championing the most vulnerable children and families in our community.

I’ve been a Parent Governor at West Ashtead since my children started at the school in 2021. I want to help make West Ashtead the school of choice for local families. I joined the civil service over twenty years ago, focusing on reform, performance improvement,  governance and accountability across a range of public services.

Bas Jayaraman has a corporate background having worked in a variety of Industries in senior positions across various countries i.e India, Singapore, South Africa, Argentina and the UK. He retired early to devote time to his other interests which includes investing in public limited companies and start-ups. He also works as a cover teacher at ACS International School, Cobham.

I've been in education for the last 40 years as a teacher and a head of department of English in a comprehensive and a grammar school. I currently work for an examination board in GCSE and A level and am a consultant for my last school and a range of different educational companies.