John Dunstan

Non-Executive Director

John is an experienced Chief Financial Officer and Finance Director, and a qualified chartered accountant. With FTSE 100 and major accounting firm experience, he has held executive roles in SME companies and non-executive roles in charitable trusts in the education sector. John’s experience spans 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 at The Boots Company plc. Following four years with a retail start-up, John completed 15 years as Finance Director with Interflora.

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

John chairs the ICB’s Audit Committee in Common and Auditor Panel in Common and is the ICB’s Conflict of Interest Guardian.