Claremont Fan Court School careers fair guide 2022

CAREERS FAIR GUIDE Thursday 28 April 2022

INTRODUCTION Welcome to the 2022 careers evening and a very welcome return to an on-site and in person event. We would like to thank all of our guests for attending this evening to impart their knowledge and wisdom to the next generation.

Planning for your next steps, whether it is choosing A levels or destinations post A levels, can be a daunting as well as exciting prospect. By preparing early you will be better prepared to make the choices and decisions that are best for you. The structure of the evening is as shown below and we encourage you to speak to as many of our stall holders as possible, as well as attend those talks that you might find useful. This is a great opportunity to quiz our alumni, parents and guests about their specific jobs, career paths and top tips for working in their field.

For year 12 students and parents we are delighted to welcome Jayne Marshall. Jayne is a university application process and personal statement specialist. Jayne regularly works with students, teachers, universities and UCAS. If you would like to discuss your A level choices, degree options, university or apprenticeship pathways, you can also speak to Mrs Wells, head of sixth form, Mrs Knight, head of careers or Mr Jones, deputy head academic this evening, or following this event if you should need further guidance.

We hope you enjoy the evening.

Mrs S Knight Head of careers

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Mrs E Wells Head of sixth form

TIMETABLE

6.00pm

Introduction and brief welcome - Mr William Brierly, headmaster

6.05pm - 6.25pm

A guide to UCAS and Unifrog with Jane Marshall (Year 12 only)

6.30pm - 7.10pm

A guide to writing a good personal statement with Jayne Marshall includes Q&A session (Year 12 only)

7.00pm

Careers stalls begin (All year groups)

7.15pm - 7.40pm

Careers in medicine panel Q&A (All year groups)

7.15pm - 7.40pm

Introduction to Oxbridge (All year groups)

7.15pm - 7.40pm

Careers in law panel Q&A (All year groups)

7.40pm - 8.30pm

Networking opportunities continue (All year groups)

The rest of this careers fair guide introduces you to our various speakers and guests, these have been arranged, alphabetically, into careers categories as follows: Jayne Marshall (speaker) Apprenticeships Accountancy and finance Architecture Armed Forces Business

Creative industries Engineering and STEM Environmental HR Journalism Law

Marketing and advertising Medicine Sport Teaching Undergraduates Veterinary practice

We are delighted to present over 30 speakers for Claremont Fan Court School’s 2022 careers fair. Not only do the speakers have experience in a diverse range of industries, from medicine and teaching to the arts and business, all of them are either former pupils or current parents.

Every career path is different and we hope that our speakers inspire our pupils to think openly about the options and opportunities available to them after leaving school.

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Jayne Marshall

University applications specialist Director of her own thriving business, Optimising Futures, Jayne works with more than a hundred schools in the UK and Europe, as well as private clients worldwide, advising students on successful applications and interviews.

Optimising Futures has an excellent track record, with students achieving offers from universities all around the UK and overseas.

Jayne specialises in informing students, teachers and parents about different aspects of the application process, helping sixth form students with their applications and interviews, and teachers with references. She also works regularly with UCAS as a personal statement and university interviews expert for their conferences, live broadcasts on the UCAS Hub and virtual exhibitions.

APPRENTICESHIPS

Archie Nowell

Engineering apprentice Archie studied maths, physics and product design at A level. Archie decided not to go to university and instead drew on his knowledge from engineering work experience (BAE Systems, Heathrow Airport, Virgin Atlantic) and chose an apprenticeship.

Archie started an engineering apprenticeship at MartinBaker Aircraft Co. in September 2019, and is now in his third year, having completed a Mechanical Engineering HNC. Archie begins a sponsored Aerospace Engineering degree in September 2021.

Archie has worked in the testing department for two years and is now rotating through different departments of the company to gain more understanding of the business and product.

ALUMNI 2019

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ACCOUNTANCY AND FINANCE

ALUMNI 1991 Jackie Beesley

Treasury finance business partner Jackie is a qualified accountant who has worked in the banking industry for 20 years through a wide variety of roles. Jackie currently works for NatWest Bank as a treasury finance business partner.

Jackie graduated with an LLB Business Law (Hons) from Bournemouth University.

After graduation, she worked at Barclays Bank in the Financial Reporting Service Centre. Barclays also funded her ACCA qualification. Jackie moved to JP Morgan, working in a variety of roles including, financial control, operations and as a manager in the emerging markets business. After 12 years at JP Morgan, Jackie moved to NatWest Bank.

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Moorad Choudhry

Independent non-executive director at Recognise Bank Limited in London Moorad Choudhry is an independent non-executive director at Recognise Bank Limited in London, the Loughborough Building Society and at Wandle Housing Association. He is Honorary Professor at University of Kent Business School. He was latterly Treasurer, Corporate Banking Division at The Royal Bank of Scotland. He began his career at the London Stock Exchange in 1989.

Moorad is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment, a Fellow of the London Institute of Banking and Finance, a Fellow of the Global Association of Risk Professionals, a Fellow of the Institute of Directors and a Freeman of The Worshipful Company of International Bankers. He is author of The Principles of Banking (John Wiley & Sons 2012).

Moored attended the University of Westminster and University of Reading. He obtained his MBA from Henley Business School and his PhD from Birkbeck, University of London.

ALUMNI 1985

Vicky Carter

Chairman of Global Capital Solutions, International for Guy Carpenter & Company Ltd. Vicky Carter is chairman of Global Capital Solutions, International for Guy Carpenter & Company Ltd. Vicky is a member of the firm’s executive committee, is deputy chair of Lloyd’s and is a member of the council and a member of the risk committee and the nominations and governance committee. In addition, she is chairman of the Lloyd’s Charities Trust, community programme and a trustee of the Sick Children’s Trust.

Vicky is a Freeman of the City of London and a Liveryman of The Worshipful Company of Insurers. Vicky has 40 years of experience in the reinsurance industry. She was the first female founder of a Lloyd’s intermediary and has operated in a number of senior executive positions within the broking sector. In 2019, Vicky was honoured at Incisive Media’s Women in Insurance Awards, winning the award for ‘Insurance Woman of the Year (large firms)’ and the judges’ choice ‘Outstanding Achievement’ award.

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Jon Leefe

Investment analyst Jon studied BSc Geography at the University of Southampton before transitioning into the finance industry as an analyst. His first role was as an equity research analyst at an investment research firm whereby he evaluated the financial performance of publicly traded companies to understand if they would be worthwhile investments. Currently Jon is working as an investment analyst for an investment consultancy firm who offer advice to pension funds, insurers, local authorities, and charities.

Rob Collie

Chartered accountant Rob is a chartered accountant who has spent his career in finance in business. Following a degree in Accounting and Economics, he spent his first 10 years in the accountancy profession as an auditor then as a management consultant. He subsequently enjoyed various roles over 20 years in finance and strategy at Cadbury and Sky. He currently looks after procurement for Sky. For a number of years Rob led the award-winning Sky finance graduate scheme. You can ask him about accountancy qualifications, the accounting profession, management consulting, and/or finance, strategy & procurement in business.

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ALUMNI 2015

Oliver Williams

Chartered accountant Oliver has worked at EY for three years, initially joining as an intern in his second year of university . EY is one of the big four professional services companies, as an audit senior in their banking and capital markets division.

Oliver studied Maths and Economics at Durham University and graduated in 2018. Oliver’s role as an audit senior involves working with banking and capital market clients in assessing their internal business structure and their financial operations, specialising in revenue for financial broker dealers. Last November, Oliver completed his ICAS exams to become a chartered accountant.

Jade Mills

Resourcing advisor Jade Mills is a resourcing advisor at BDO, primarily recruiting graduate, school leavers and industrial place candidates into tax and audit roles in the Midlands and also the South East. She has experience working in experienced hire recruitment as well as spending the last three years specialising in early careers.

Jade enjoys coaching candidates through the application process as well as assessment centres and giving advice on the best way to approach each element of the assessment process. Her overall aim is to ensure all candidates have the best possible recruitment experience.

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Sophie Histon Architect

Sophie is the director at Histon Allvey Architects who specialise in high quality residential architecture, such as new-build housing, large extensions, refurbishments, loft conversions and interior design projects.

Sophie has previously worked within different sectors of architecture from commercial projects such as Bluewater Shopping Centre for Benoy Architects, to education projects such as the Jubilee Campus, Nottingham University for Michael Hopkins Architects.

Sophie has also worked abroad in the Cayman Islands and the Bahamas on residential new build houses and on commercial schemes for Design International within Spain and Italy.

ARMED FORCES

Annabel Niven

Counter terrorism security advisor Annabel left Claremont in 2018, after completing A levels in biology, psychology and philosophy. She studied Sociology and Criminology at Bournemouth University. Annabel graduated with a first-class degree in July 2021. Her dissertation surrounded the myths and misconceptions of terrorist perpetrators. Annabel was awarded a women in STEM scholarship by Santander to study an MSc in counter terrorism at Cranfield University.

Annabel is in the final stages of her Masters, she has been offered a role as a counter terrorism security advisor for Thames Valley Police starting in September.

ALUMNI 2018

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BUSINESS

Helen Alderson

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) head of regional delegation to the UK and Ireland Helen Alderson is International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) head of regional delegation to the UK and Ireland, where she is responsible for the ICRC’s operational responsibilities as well as diplomatic relations with key government departments, the armed forces and other senior influencers.

Helen has had a varied international career in humanitarian affairs. She has worked for UNICEF in Africa, the ICRC in Asia, the Middle East and at headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Helen is the former CEO of the World Heart Federation. Helen is on the advisory board of the Global Thinkers Forum, the advisory board of the University of Geneva’s Executive Programme in Strategic Philanthropy, and the Advisory Council of Capital as a Force for Good Initiative.

ALUMNI 1978

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Catherine Schroeder

Assurance partner at PwC Catherine is an assurance partner at PwC in London.

As a qualified chartered accountant and auditor, dayto-day Catherine works with large UK companies in the retail, consumer and industrial products sectors on the audit of their financial statements, or assuring their published sustainability information over areas such as carbon emissions, diversity metrics or health and safety data. Catherine is a sponsor of the Women in Business Programme, and led London Parent’s network, participating in mutual mentoring with colleagues from diverse backgrounds.

Sarah Saigol

Managing director, head of Treasury Services, Lloyds Banking Group Sarah leads the Treasury Services business who are responsible for supporting commercial banking clients with their liquidity, FX, interest rate and commodities risk management needs. The team comprises traditional product management functions, it manages the RFB trading book market risk and includes a sales team responsible for distributing traded products to RFB clients.

The team manufactures products for other areas of LBG, such as retail and business banking, whilst also providing product risk expertise to LBCM via the shared services agreement.

Sarah joined LBG on a graduate scheme in 2000 after completing a degree in History from Cambridge. She has spent her career in a variety of sales, trading and COO roles. In 2020 Sarah took the opportunity to diversify her career away from a markets specialism and take on management responsibilities.

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Caz Coronel

Interntiona DJ, music producer, composer, sound designer, improv piano player, singer and music video maker Caz attended Claremont between the years of 1985 1993. Although Caz did not find school easy and was expelled it did not stop her from pursuing her career. Caz attended Esher College to study design tech, philosophy and sociology. She went to Sussex University to study Philosophy and Cognitive and Computing Science. Later she completed a sound engineering course at the Islington Music Workshop.

Caz is a successful international DJ, playing for many high profile parties including for Coldplay. Caz currently has residencies at Secret Cinema. Caz is also a music producer, composer, sound designer, improv piano player, singer and music video maker.

ALUMNI 1995

Amber Price

Visualisation 3D asset artist Amber is a visualisation / 3D asset artist for The Third Floor; which is the worlds leading visualisation studio for film and tv. The Third Floor works on a variety of projects, including those from the Marvel franchise, Netflix, and Disney.

ALUMNI 2017 Janek Schaefer

International award winning artist Janek has a first class Architecture degree and an MA from the Royal College of Art (RCA portfolio prize), he is now an international award winning artist (Paul Hamlyn Award), inventor (Guinness Book of Records), musician (British Composer of the Year in Sonic Art, with over 30 albums), visiting professor, and popular all ages entertainer (UK Best Mobile DJ Award).

Janek also assists individuals and businesses seeking creative solutions. Janek has lectured, exhibited, and performed at venues in 30 countries including Tate Modern, Sydney Opera House and Princeton Uni.

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ENGINEERING AND STEM

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Will Bannock Civil engineer

Will has been a civil engineer for 6 years and is an engineering consultant at Atkins in Epsom . He graduated with a Masters degree from the University of Bristol in 2014.

Will works on water and wastewater projects in both the UK and internationally, which includes treatment works, pipelines, drainage.

Andrew Hanson

Chartered physicist, National Physical Laboratory Andrew has a history of participation in and management of scientific development projects, plus cost effective, quality assured running of measurement services.

Lisa Brook

Chemical engineer Lisa has been working for Shell for more than 26 years, starting straight after graduating with a degree in Chemical Engineering in 1995. She initially spent 3 years carrying out fundamental research into combustion chemistry, which she later used as a basis to gain her PhD. Lisa has held a variety of technical roles including managing the fuels development laboratories and working on Shell’s alternative- and bio- fuels projects. Lisa spent 6 years as Shell’s technical manager for Ferrari.

In 2011, Lisa joined Shell’s marketing team, initially as the fuels development manager and later as a global brand manager. After 4 years, Lisa re-joined Shell’s fuels technology team.

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Filipe Pereira-Lopes

Associate, Intelligent Transport Services Filipe works as an associate at WSP in Intelligent Transport Services’ operations and safety group. He has 20 years’ experience in engineering, with the last 12 years working in consultancy for highway projects. He leads the planning, design, and construction of major multidiscipline infrastructure projects such as Regents Street, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park Legacy design and South Kensington & Exhibition Road and High Speed Rail 2.

Filipe’s current areas of work are predominantly in network operations, connectivity, safe systems and future technology.

Alan Poole Geologist

Alan is a geologist living in Claygate. He is looking forward to discussing how geologists are important in everything from making sure buildings don’t fall down, to finding the materials used in mobile phones and how geologists have an important role to play in the energy transition.

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Mouly Ravilla Hemachandran Data analyst

Mouly completed her Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and has been working as a data analyst for over 8 years. Mouly completed her Masters degree in Data Science. During her Masters course, she developed machine learning models that estimated the average salary a student could earn after 10 years, predicted the genre of a movie based on its description, and identified malignant brain tumors using MRI scans.

Currently, she works as an assistant data scientist at Malvern Panalytical developing machine learning models that support the marketing team to achieve better return on investment on the sales of their products.

Daniyal Sheikh

Process engineer Daniyal is a process engineer who joined the Petrofac graduate programme in Sharjah, UAE, after graduating from the University of Surrey in 2019. The 2 year graduate programme allowed him to gain engineering, procurement and construction experience working on live projects which included work from engineering design in Bahrain to visiting construction sites in the far east of Russia.

Currently Daniyal is working in Petrofac’s new energy services team helping develop renewable energy projects.

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Keith Winter

Chartered surveyor Keith is a retired chartered surveyor with knowledge of the construction industry. He also has a detailed and practical knowledge of ‘quality management’ (ISO 9001) which he describes as ‘a career within a career’.

Richard Smith

Chartered engineer Richard is a chartered engineer with a background in innovation and manufacturing. He worked for Shell in a variety of roles, including as an ‘angel investor’ in the USA, and building pipelines off the coast of Borneo.

Richard has ten patents in various subjects and has worked in several companies, but always with a foundation of engineering. In his current role he helps run a company that builds MRI and X-Ray machines for scanning animals.

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ENVIRONMENTAL

Christina Dixon

Environmental campaigner Christina graduated from Claremont in 2004 before going on to Leeds University and then to Goldsmiths for a masters degree in media and communications.

Christina’s work as a campaigner includes research, reports, policy and advocacy and corporate campaigning.

Based at the Environmental Investigation Agency since 2019 and now leading the ocean programme, she has extensive experience working with governments and communities to mobilise on topics from the environment, to animal welfare and urban development. Since 2013 she has been focused on plastics and pollution from fisheries.

Christina just returned from Nairobi where she was part of the team working to secure a negotiating mandate for a new global treaty on plastics.

Twitter: @_C_Dixon

ALUMNI 2004

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Jo Bramley and Sarah Entwistle CIPD qualified HR generalists

Jo Bramley and Sarah Entwistle are CIPD qualified human resources generalists working at Claremont Fan Court school. The HR department is responsible for providing professional expertise to oversee all aspects of Human Resources (HR) throughout the employee lifecycle.

Key components of the role of HR are to embed the school’s values and support its success through effective job design, recruitment, performance management, learning and development whilst ensuring that all policies and procedures are effective, compliant with current legislation and best practice whilst being accessible.

Sarah Hewitt

People director functions & people transformation at Bupa Global & UK Sarah is the people director functions & people transformation at Bupa Global & UK. Sarah is a highly accomplished commercial leader with over 20 years professional and international experience in all parts of the human resources function and across various industries including healthcare, manufacturing, and banking.

Originally from Australia, Sarah has spent her entire career in human resources and has a BA (Industrial Relations, Social Economics and Psychology) from the University of Sydney as well as an MBus (Human Resource Management).

When not at work, Sarah is a non-executive director for a charity and volunteers at a local netball club as a qualified coach.

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Nicole Shakhnazarova

UK editor at The New York Post Nicole Shakhnazarova attended Claremont Fan Court school from Year 9 until the end of Year 11 in 2014.

After leaving Claremont, Nicole secured a full sports scholarship at Towson University in Maryland, US, where she played tennis on an NCAA Division 1 level. There, she was named an All-American after beating top US players from competing universities. Nicole studied mass communications, majoring in journalism and advertising.

After graduating with honours in 2018, she worked at The Sun in London, as a digital journalist until December 2019.

She then accepted a position as senior entertainment journalist at The Mirror, before becoming an editor at VT. This year, Nicole became the UK editor at The New York Post, overseeing all editorial content abroad. She was the first employee at the publication’s UK office.

ALUMNI 2014

ALUMNI 2016 Joanna Ezzat Assistant producer at Scoop, MBC TV Joanna and her family fled Lebanon and joined Claremont in 2007. Although she later returned to Beirut, Claremont held many happy memories. In Beirut Joanna graduated high school & university, receiving a BA in Media Studies and Communications & a minor in Political Science.

Joanna is now a producer & journalist for the largest broadcasting center in the Middle East, MBC TV, and based in London. Her focus is predominantly the television show, “Scoop with Raya”, a weekly program and the flagship Hollywood entertainment show promoting upcoming films to the MENA region across over 35 million viewers. This job involves managing the team, the edit, the talents & the script as well as field event work and junkets. She works directly with the film industry on a global level and often travels around the world.

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LAW

Sophie August

Real estate paralegal Sophie attended Claremont Fan Court School, 2015 - 2017, studying geography, government & politics and English language A levels. Sophie attended the University of Reading to study LLB law.

Sophie was an active member of The Law Society. After graduating in 2020, Sophie works as a real estate paralegal at a national UK law firm. Her role involves the legal work behind the purchase of new build properties as investments for Hong Kong based clients.

ALUMNI 2017

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Eleanor McChesney Trainee solicitor

Eleanor left Claremont in 2017 after doing A levels in English literature, history and philosophy, as well as an EPQ. In 2020, she graduated from King’s College London with a law degree (LLB) and in 2021 she graduated from the University of Law (Guildford) with a diploma in legal practice (LPC). She is now a trainee solicitor at Owen White Solicitors, having completed her first seat in commercial property and currently working in the company commercial department.

ALUMNI 1940s Dr Mary Malecka Barrister

ALUMNI 2017

Dr Mary Malecka has had a varied career, initially as a dancer and model for Vogue and Elle before pursuing higher education. Mary is a qualified Russian interpreter and trained as a teacher at the University of Leicester.

Mary has also been a mediator and activist for trade unions and has a PHD in the Psychology of Learning. She is a member of the Institute of Directors. Mary later trained as a barrister. She has been a Bencher of her Inn since 2007.

Part of Mary’s role is training expert witnesses for Wilmington (Bond Solon) and preparing factual witnesses.

She prepared Roman Abramovich for RAvBB. Mary is also very passionate about volunteering and does pro bono legal work.

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Dominika Sobolewska

Trainee solicitor

Dominika Sobolewska attended Claremont Fan Court Sixth Form from 2016 to 2018. She studied history, English literature and biology at A level. Upon leaving, Dominika obtained a first class honours for her Bachelor of Laws degree at King’s College, London in 2021. Dominika took a position at Linklaters LLP in legal operations to experience both business and legal practice roles in the sector.

Nonetheless, she is still looking to qualify as a solicitor in the near future.

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MARKETING AND ADVERTISING

ALUMNI 2018

Vicky Banham

Co-Founder at Antler Social Vicky Banham attended Claremont from 2009-2016. She studied art, Spanish and business studies for her A levels and, outside of school, she began to create videos of her makeup and art to post on Facebook.

After finishing at Claremont, she continued to create videos on various social media platforms until she hit one million followers one year later on TikTok. She worked for a social media publisher for two years as a TikTok Manager before starting her own business. She now runs Antler Social - a TikTok first agency running campaigns and accounts for brands such as Flannels, Bicester Village, VRAI Diamonds and more.

Alisa Copeman

ALUMNI 2016

Chief marketing officer, Barclays UK Alisa is a senior marketing leader who has spent over 25 years in the financial services and payments industry.

Alisa has recently been appointed chief marketing officer for Barclays UK and leads a team of over 250 people responsible for all marketing strategy and activity. Before Barclays, Alisa spent 17 years at American Express in a number of marketing and product roles.

During her career Alisa has worked for large multi-national organizations in the UK and Internationally and has been responsible for leading teams to develop marketing, communication and creative strategies , customer communications. Alisa is a keen supporter of helping women develop their professional careers and encouraging dynamic working and diversity at work.

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Malcolm Duffy

Freelance copywriter and author Malcolm initially studied Law at Warwick University before he became a copywriter. Malcolm has been creative director at some of London’s top advertising agencies, including Colman RSCG, CDP and AMV, producing work for brands such as Apple, BT and Sainsbury’s, among others.

Malcolm was a partner of Miles Calcraft Briginshaw Duffy, one of the UK’s most innovative start-ups, producing award-winning work such as the Hovis ‘Go on, lad’ commercial which was voted ad of the decade.

Malcolm became creative director of Comic Relief, working on Red Nose Day and Sport Relief, helping the charity break through the £1 billion barrier for money raised. He is now a freelance copywriter and published author, his short film on dyslexia, Mical, has had 1.7 million views on YouTube.

Jeremy Scoones

Founder at Front Row Marketing Ltd. Over the past 20 years, Jeremy has held a variety of commercial roles at the highest levels of international motorsport. Between 2000 and 2010, Jeremy’s career focussed on servicing and activating brand partnerships for several Formula 1 teams including Toyota, McLaren and Virgin Racing. Since 2010, Jeremy has focussed on new partner acquisition.

In 2017, Jeremy joined Aston Martin Lagonda, leading a team responsible for growing and servicing the marque’s global brand partnerships across both racing and automotive. In September 2020, Jeremy founded Front Row Marketing, a sports marketing consultancy, specialising in the introduction of global brands to rightsholders competing on the world stage.

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MEDICINE ALUMNI 2021 Noah Beetje

Medical student Noah is a first year medical student at King’s College London. Noah attended Claremont from Year 8 all the way to sixth form.

Noah studied biology, chemistry and maths at A level. He is very happy to discuss any questions about getting into medical school.

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Diba Behzad-Noori Junior doctor

Diba came to Claremont in reception, and stayed right up till sixth form. After completing a degree in Biology at the University of Bristol, Diba went on to study postgraduate Medicine at King’s College London.

Having graduated last summer, Diba is now working as a junior doctor in London. Diba is very excited to come back to the only school she ever knew to hopefully help the next generation of doctors.

ALUMNI 2012

ALUMNI 2019 Lucy Norman

Medical student Lucy joined Claremont Fan Court School in the sixth form in 2017, she studied biology, chemistry and maths A levels.

She went on to study Medicine at Cardiff. She is currently in her third year.

Lucy is happy to share her knowledge on the application process and life as a medical student.

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Dr Kate Brocklesby

Consultant paediatrician Dr Kate Brocklesby trained at Imperial College medical school. She has been a consultant pediatrician at Ashford and St Peter’s Hospital since 2008.

ALUMNI 2015 Karim Saleh

Business development associate and registered pharmacist Karim graduated from Claremont in 2015 and undertook a Masters degree in Pharmacy (MPharm) from King’s College London. After graduating, he worked as a trainee pharmacist at Boots-Walgreens Alliance as a key-worker during the initial pandemic wave.

Karim is now a registered pharmacist. He was the first graduate from a Global School of Pharmacy to work at NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre, developing two microbiology experiments that were launched to the International Space Station. He is currently a business development associate at Vaccitech who are renowned for co-inventing the “Vaxzrevia” vaccine for COVID-19.

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Honorary senior lecturer and clinical pharmacist Dr Jennifer Stevenson is an honorary senior lecturer and clinical pharmacist specialising in the optimisation of medicines in older adults. She is also an integrated care pharmacist at Guy’s and St. Thomas’. Her research, more specifically, focuses on advancing our understanding of medication-related harm in older adults living with frailty, and explores how to identify those at greatest risk of harm especially at the transition of care.

Jennifer’s work has received national and international recognition; winning the 2020 HSJ Patient Safety Award.

She also supports teaching across undergraduate and postgraduate pharmacy programmes.

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SPORT AND WELLNESS

Dr Jennifer Stevenson

Joe Gallen

Professional football coach Joe is an experienced football coach who has played a critical role in both team success and player development as the former assistant manager at Wolverhampton Wanderers FC and Millwall FC, and head of youth at Queens Park Rangers FC. His coaching career has included winning promotion to the Championship and securing the league status of both Wolverhampton and Millwall. Providing leadership on the training ground and contributing to tactical team preparation, player recruitment and the progression of young talent from the clubs’ academy systems.

Reena Joshi Osteopath

Reena heads up the RJ Osteopathic Clinic team, qualifying as a registered osteopath in 2001 from the British College of Osteopathic Medicine in London. Reena is also trained to use Interferential therapy, ultrasound and recently completed a Kinesio-taping course to help postural adjustments. Reena has experience in a sports injury clinic, gymnasium, cranial osteopathy clinic and multi-disciplinary practice.

Reena is a qualified teacher and has lectured on the osteopathy degree course since 2004. She has lectured at the Italian School of Osteopathy (ISO) and teaches at the Surrey Institute of Osteopathic Medicine (SIOM).

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Jamie Sellers

Player insights specialist Having spent 11 years at Claremont, Jamie went on to study Sports Coaching Science at St Mary’s University.

During his time at St Mary’s, Jamie specialised in performance analysis and completed a season as an analysis intern with championship rugby side London Scottish. Following a successful season, in March 2018, Jamie was head hunted by Chelsea Football Club to join the Academy analysis department where he worked with coaches & players throughout the academy. After graduating with a first class honours degree, Jamie was offered a full time role with Chelsea and has since gone on to lead the U9-U16 analysis programme and this season has begun working with the Chelsea 1st Team as a player insights specialist providing detailed and bespoke data & video analysis to the 1st team coaches and players.

Pip Kidd

ALUMNI 2016

Sports teacher Pip has had a passion for all sports since childhood.

She played netball in and outside of school, as well as competing in gymnastics to a national level. Pip was a pupil at Claremont and took PE, biology and photography at A level, before studying Sports Science with Nutrition BSc at St. Mary’s University in Twickenham. Pip graduated with a 2:1 in 2019. During this time, she also gained many coaching qualifications in a variety of sports.

Pip initially returned to Claremont part time as a coach while in her second year of university. She quickly discovered a love and passion for teaching. After graduation, Pip joined full-time as a graduate sports assistant which confirmed that teaching was the career path for her. Following on from her graduate year, Pip applied for a PGCE with QTS at Buckingham University which allowed her to pursue teacher training while continuing to teach at Claremont.

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ALUMNI 2016

Dominic Tripp

RFU growth partnerships manager Dom studied Sport and Exercise Science at the University of Bath. Dom has previously worked at the New South Wales Institute of Sport in Sydney.

Dom now works for England Rugby, where he has had a number of roles and experiences, from being in the logistics team with the senior Men’s XV, to being in the event team running London 7s. He is currently working in partnerships, managing relationships with other organisations.

Daniel Rowland

Nutriti0nal and fitness expert Daniel has a BSc in Sport and Exercise Science from the University of Bath. He also completed a placement year with the Welsh Rugby Union, providing sports science support. Daniel also has an MSc from the University of Surrey in Human Nutrition. Daniel has previously worked for BUPA providing corporate health assessments and as cardiology support in London as a health advisor.

Daniel currently works as part of a small team providing subject matter expertise on physiology and nutrition within defence. This involves delivering nutrition education to service personnel to support health and fitness, along with research projects developing strategies to optimise operational performance. Daniel also assists in fitness and environmental testing clinics for personnel, establishing their fitness for duty.

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TEACHING

Maddie Bell

Early years teacher Maddie Bell completed her A levels at Claremont Fan Court School in 2016 and continued her education at the University of Winchester, where she studied Primary Education with recommendation for QTS. After graduating in 2019, Maddie decided to gain further experience in a variety of different education settings prior to becoming a class teacher. During this time Maddie worked as a maths and English tutor for children aged 4 – 15.

In January 2020, Maddie began working at Claremont Fan Court Prep School as a Year 5 teaching assistant. This role involved supply teaching and supporting both children and teachers in variety of ways. In September 2020, Maddie continued working at Claremont, but as a Year 4 class teacher and completed her NQT year. Maddie is currently in her second year of teaching and is enjoying having a whole year of in-person teaching!

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Henry Walker Teacher

Henry studied biology, chemistry and maths at A level.

Henry went on to pursue his interest in biology by studying Physiological Science at the University of Bristol. During his time here, he carried out some private tutoring in his spare time, during which he discovered a passion for teaching. After graduating from university and taking a gap year, Henry studied for a PGCE at St Mary’s University, and has recently begun his first full time teaching role at Claremont.

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ALUMNI 2020 Ben Dibley

University of Nottingham Ben joined Claremont in Year 7. He studied geography, PE, religion and philosophy throughout his time at sixth form.

Ben now studies Geography BSc at the University of Nottingham.

Alongside his studies and sport Ben is also apart of the East Midlands University Air Squadron, with the plan to join the Royal Airforce and start initial officer training at RAF Cranwell following graduation at Nottingham.

Max Madden

Loughborough University Max graduated from Claremont in 2020 having been there since year 8. Max studied computer science , maths and further maths at A level. He is currently in his second year of university studying Computer Science at Loughborough University and is about to embark on a placement year working at Couchbase in Manchester.

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ALUMNI 2020 Sophie Wallis

Oxford Brookes University Sophie joined Claremont in Year 9, after moving from Canada. During her A Level’s she studied business studies, geography, and textiles, all of which Sophie enjoyed and were applicable to her degree, Property Development and Planning at Oxford Brookes University. Once Sophie graduates she plans to complete her APC to become qualified as a chartered surveyor, with the aim of heading into the flexible office sector.

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Darren Partridge

Veterinary surgeon Darren qualified from Bristol as a veterinary surgeon and anatomist. He has a passion for caring for all animals and strongly believes vets should by definition be independent professionals, not corporate employees subjected to profit as their prime motive.

Darren owns four veterinary practices. Darren has worked in research in marine biology (sharks), arachnology (spiders) in Mongolia and on several palaeontological expeditions.

He is a aerobatic pilot, motor racer, mountaineer, diver, fellrunner, writer and fitness instructor as well a 1st Dan blackbelt with the local Abel Karate club.

STAYED CONNECTED..

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If you would like to stay up to date or help us with alumni and community events, please join Claremont Connect: www.claremontconnect.co.uk We are open to parents, alumni, staff and friends of the school.

If you would like further information please contact: Rosalind Seabrook, alumni officer: rseabrook@claremont.surrey.sch.uk

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