Graeme Crawford is a renowned educator who began his career as a science teacher and believed that much more could be done to improve educational standards.
Driven by his own negative schooling experiences, he began conceiving a school that could provide a rounded education through a dynamic new approach. This was aimed at maximising not just the academic standard, but also the confidence, potential and individuality of each child. Graeme opened his first school in 1993. In the following five years the Crawford Schools grew to 6 in total. In 2000, he founded Reddam House. His impressive track record spans more than two decades and since 1993 Graeme Crawford’s schools have educated more than 32,000 students.

Prior to joining Inspired, Elena Benito was the CEO of the King’s Group, which she joined in 2011. Before King’s, she worked as CFO for Zed Latam and Finance Director for Monsanto in Spain and Portugal. Ms Benito trained as a Chartered Accountant at Deloitte in both Spain and the UK, and is a member of the Spanish Institute of Chartered Accountants. She holds a degree in Economics and Business Administration from the San Pablo CEU University of Madrid, and a degree in Law from the UNED. She won her MBA from ESADE in 2009 and her AMP in 2019.

Mark joined Inspired to launch and develop our first totally online school, King’s College Online. Mark draws on significant experience in online education, international education and digital companies. Educated at Oxford University and INSEAD, Mark started his digital career with early pub websites, followed by a music news start-up, dotmusic.com that was sold to a BT Yahoo! joint venture. He joined Hotcourses in 2004 driving the digitisation and internationalisation of its course discovery websites business prior to a sale to IDP Education, the world's largest education agency group. He then joined AVADO Learning first as COO then CEO. AVADO delivers online learning to individuals and companies across digital transformation, digital marketing, HR and accounting programmes, where Mark built out learning content partnerships with organisations like Google, Tableau and the CIPD. After a brief, unfortunately timed foray into travel (3 months pre-COVID) with the otherwise excellent Travel Counsellors, Mark joins Inspired with a passion for the potential of online schooling to transform the education prospects for generations of children.

Vincent Gillet is a Global Marketer with 25 years of multi-industry experience.  A French national, Vincent began his career in London in Luxury Goods with Chanel and LVMH.  He then joined the Hospitality sector with Six Senses and Starwood Hotels.  As Global CMO for Six Senses, he worked closely with the Founder & CEO to develop the unique brand of high-end Sustainable Tourism & Wellness that the Six Senses brand is renowned for and then with Starwood Hotels leading the Premium portfolio of hotels where he focused on leveraging high-profile partnerships, digital experience and global hotel launches. 

Vincent then moved to Hong Kong with Nissan’s premium brand Infiniti as Global CMO, overseeing the launch in China and enhancing the Digital & Dealership experiences in the core US, Russian and Middle-Eastern markets.  He then moved back to London as CMO International for Hertz where he focused on revitalising the brand, growing digital-first revenues and overhauling and modernising customer experience. Having lived across Europe, the US & Asia with his two boys who have attended several bilingual international schools as a consequence, he is passionate about and committed to first class, forward-thinking education.

Nick is the Global Education Director for Inspired, based out of London, United Kingdom. Nick joined Inspired after six years as Headteacher at Steyning Grammar School, and was elected Chair of the Boarding Schools’ Association in 2019. He was appointed a National Leader of Education by the UK Department for Education, and founded the Pavilion and Downs Teaching School Alliance. Following a successful international career in Investment Banking (leading Emerging European Equity teams at US, UK and European investment banks, including Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch and HSBC), Nick trained as a teacher at Pembroke College, Oxford in 2004. Nick is an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, UK National Teaching Awards Winner in 2007 and received an MA in Education Studies from the University of Sussex. Nick is a Board member of the Safeguarding and Child Protection Association.

Sir Roger Fry graduated from King’s College London and qualified as a teacher at London University’s Institute of Education. After a brief teaching career in the UK, he moved abroad and built up the group of King’s College British International Schools (now members of Inspired), later founding an Academy Trust in England. He holds an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Portsmouth (city of his birth), is an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College Oxford, is Honorary President of the Council of British International Schools (COBIS) and Chairman of the Association of British Schools Overseas (AoBSO).