Ian Foster

Ian Foster worked in the motor industry for thirty-seven years attaining senior positions in Manufacturing, Supply and Logistics in the UK, Europe and the USA.

For thirty years he has been a committed volunteer and fundraiser in the local community, and this has included serving as Chair of Hawkwell Parish Council, fundraising for the Royal British Legion and the Hockley and Hawkwell Day Centre for the elderly. He has played a lead role as chair of the PTA, Governor and Chair of the Westerings Primary School in Hawkwell.

Ian led the Greensward College as Governor and subsequently Chair for several years through a period of continuous and sustained improvement. When the DCSF invited Greensward, through its charitable trust, to become an academy sponsor he resigned from Greensward to take up the position as Director and Chair of the sponsor’s operating arm the Academies Enterprise Trust (AET).