Bryony is Chief Operating Officer of Aldridge Education and oversees the trust's operational activities.  She is also a co-ordinator for The Trust Network, the DfE supported network for estates professionals. She has extensive experience in the education sector having been project manager and then director of corporate services for the Cabot Learning Federation, and as a consultant project manager, managing a number of academy conversion projects on behalf of the Department for Education. Bryony spent 10 years working and training as an engineer and project manager with the Ministry of Defence before moving into the education sector.