SILICA ASSOCIATES - Key Persons

Dafydd has a varied employment history as a result of 31 years in the Civil Service ranging from process management and change in the Employment Service, high level performance improvement through intervening in failing local authority children's services and education to setting up successful new free schools (university technical colleges). Since undertaking consultancy work, Dafydd has additional experience of academy conversions and FE colleges' merger. He also has direct experience of schools through being a governor for 10 years and is currently an adviser to a multi academy trust board.

Rama, our founding director, is a specialist in project management with expertise in IT Service Management and Business Transformation encompassing areas such as Service Improvement and Business Process Change. Since 2005, he has worked with schools and Trusts to facilitate the set-up of Academies, University Technical Colleges, Studio Schools and Free Schools. He is a Trustee on two Academy Trust boards and a Member of two others. He has assisted in the set-up of several Multi Academy Trusts and is the in-house Project Director leading on Academy conversions and Free Schools for five Academy Trusts. Rama brings a wealth of knowledge from over twenty years in the retail, hospitality and banking sectors and over ten years working in the Academies sector. Rama sits on Advisory Boards for the Department for Education and the National Governance Association. Rama was awarded an MBE in the 2023 New Year Honours for ‘Services to Education'.