John Dunstan

Non-Executive Director

John is an experienced CFO / Finance Director and a qualified chartered accountant. With FTSE100 and major accounting firm experience, John has held executive roles in SME companies and Non-executive roles in Charitable trusts in the education sector. John’s experience ranges across strategy development, financial management and decision making, audit and financial compliance, legal and taxation, data protection and compliance, operational planning and delivery, and process development.

John Qualified with Ernst and Young before holding a number of financial, operational and strategy roles in The Boots Company plc. Following four years with a retail start up, John completed 15 years as Finance Director with Interflora.

Concurrently, John spent over 15 years involved with the Greenwood Academies Trust, a Multi-Academy Trust and its predecessor entities, and was latterly the Chair of The Audit Committee. John also served as Non-Executive Director at Our Learning Cloud, a wholly owned IT services spin off from that organisation.

John’s lead Non-Executive responsibilities at NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB were as Chair the Audit and Risk Committee, and John will also chair the ICBs’ Audit Committee meeting in common.