Lisa Sproats

Lisa is an experienced chartered management accountant and throughout her career has always had a keen focus on the operational side of the organisations she has worked in, ensuring the finance function is an effective enabler providing great service to all stakeholders.

Lisa has worked in a variety of roles ranging from those with a focus on financial compliance and statutory reporting to planning, analysis and total cost productivity. Following a number of years working in finance teams internationally within the manufacturing sector Lisa returned to the UK and joined NCG as its management accountant in January 2008.

In the 14 years Lisa has been part of NCG it has grown from two colleges to the group of seven colleges it has become today. In this time Lisa has held a variety of roles in the finance team which have equipped her to now lead the finance function across the group in her role as CFO of NCG.

Yvonne Moult

Yvonne has worked for a Local Authority for more than 25 years, always working within payroll but primarily looking after pension obligations. Yvonne is now the Payroll and Pensions Manager where amongst other things she is responsible for meeting all employer obligations for Local Government, Teachers and NHS pension schemes for both the authority and their external customers. Yvonne has helped administer the TPS as an employer since 1998 and is in regular contact through her work with schools, academies and teachers around various aspects of the scheme.

Yvonne has worked closely with the Local Government Association on Teachers’ Pension (TP) issues chairing two of their groups. This involved working with the LGA, colleagues from other local authorities as well as representatives from TP on various administration or policy issues.

Between 2015 and 2023 Yvonne was a member representative on her Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) Pension Board. The Board ensures effective and efficient governance and administration of the LGPS within the region.

Peter Bryan

Peter has over 30 years’ experience of the education sector. During this time, he has been bursar of three schools, Marlborough College, Ampleforth College and St Peter’s School, York. He now runs his own consultancy providing services to the sector. He has extensive business development, project management and governance experience both in the UK and internationally.

Peter is a Chartered Accountant having trained with BDO and holds a degree in Accounting and Business Law from Stirling University. Prior to entering the world of education Peter was a divisional finance director in the Goodhead Group.

Peter was a member of the Independent Schools Teachers’ Pension Working Group and chairman of the employers’ group for the Independent Schools’ Pension Scheme, part of TPT Retirement Solutions. He has served as a trustee of an employer pension scheme. He was also a trustee of a multi-academy trust, the Arete Learning Trust. Peter has served as a governor/ trustee of several schools including Ardingly College, Pinewood School, Lady Lumley’s School and St Martin’s School. He has also acted as a financial advisor to the Douai Abbey Trust.

Warren Carrett

Warren Carratt is Chief Executive Officer of Nexus MAT, a trust providing education to children across the South Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire regions, with a majority of special schools. A “first generation” CEO, Warren was recruited to post following national advert in 2015. Between August 2022 – February 2025, Warren was also the CEO of the Evolve Trust, a failed MAT which he was appointed to lead with the specific brief of re-brokering its academies and closing the Trust down.

Warren has not come intro Trust leadership through the Headteacher route, instead having a background in local government and the NHS.

Warren is a sitting Magistrate, and is also an independent member of the Police & Crime Panel, a statutory body which holds the South Yorkshire Mayor to account. He is an advisory member to the Staff College, and was a member of the Department for Education’s Attendance Action Alliance. He was elected as a member of the Policy Advisory Group that the Confederation of School Trusts established in 2024, and writes regularly for Schools Week and TES.