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David Whitehead

CEO
Our Community Multi-Academy Trust (OCMAT)

David has been in school leadership since 2001. In 2007 he became the HeadTeacher of Bredgar CEP School, a small church of England School in Swale. From 2014 David formed the Unitas Collaboration as Executive Head Teacher with Bredgar CEP School along with three other local schools. From 2017 he became the CEO of Potential in Everyone Academy Trust (PIEAT) which was formed from the schools he led as part of the Unitas Collaboration. In 2019 David was approached to be the Interim CEO of the Village Academy Trust (VAT) and as a result, formed a Trust Partnership with PIEAT. Both PIEAT and VAT are church mixed MATS with their partnership work underpinned by a series of service level agreements.

During 2020, as well as leading both Trusts through the global pandemic, David also embarked on a merger project to join the two Trusts together under one single MAT. The Trusts successfully completed the merger on June 1 st 2021 and ‘Our Community Multi-Academy Trust’ (OCMAT) was formed. Most importantly he has lived to tell the tale.

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Thank you once again for allowing us to exhibit and present directly in the afternoon to the MATs attending. I know it was a lovely day but weather aside it felt wonderful to be back face to face and your conference was so friendly and inviting. I could see the hard work everyone was doing to make it so successful

Department For Education

“the whole event was really well organised and the choice of speakers and the range of topics were of excellent quality.
As a supplier, it was great to gain insight to understand the issues and concerns when considering growing or merging MATs, where the priorities are focused and the key learnings for those CEOs who have gone through the journey.
I would recommend attending a future Convenzis conference or event, as the quality was first class.”

Education Buying

The National MAT Conference was a great first show for us and produced a number of quality lead opportunities.

Quality of the attendees/delegates was great. The Convenzis team were professional and approachable throughout, and special thanks to Daniel for helping us swap stand positions to incorporate the SMART IFP.

Conversations with the MAT delegates who attended our stand on the day were positive and it was good to understand where they were currently in their Digital transformation journey post-pandemic.

A really positive great show. Our partner, Elementary Technology Ltd, also concurred that the quality of the delegates that attended were the right people and those key decision-makers.

Aver

“We were impressed by the excellent session line-up and quality of the audience. The team at Convenzis are friendly and were always on hand to help in the run-up. We’re looking forward to the MAT Growth & Merger Conference in October.”

The Key

“The MAT Growth & Merger Conference was a well organised, high-quality event that we thoroughly enjoyed being involved at. The team were professional and friendly, always available to help with our requests. The speakers and audience seniority was excellent, we look forward to continuing to be a part of Convenzis events in the future!”

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