Anne Colgrove

Anne started her career in the field of Medical Diagnostics, initially in Research & Development and subsequently within Quality Management, holding positions at both operational and strategic level. Latterly she combined this with the post of Community Involvement Manager, with responsibility for the development and promotion of Community Affairs strategy including managing links with education and driving the local Community Involvement programme. In this role she represented local business on various education business link strategy groups and for several years was a non-executive director of Connexions Partnership Bedfordshire & Luton.

More recently, working as a consultant within the East of England Enterprise Adviser Service, Anne brought her business knowledge to the education sector providing secondary schools with advice and guidance in the development of a sustainable enterprise culture. She is now a member of the steering committee for The Bedfordshire & Luton Enterprise Hub within the Schools’ Enterprise Education Network.

Anne gained her first degree as a Bachelor of Science from the University of Warwick and her MBA from The Open University.