Ed Vainker is the CEO of the Reach Foundation. He is the co-founder and former principal of Reach Academy Feltham and the co-founder of the Reach Children's Hub, part of Reach's Cradle to Career model in Feltham. He works with school trusts around the country to help them develop their own "Cradle to Career" models.

Ed chairs the Hounslow Education Partnership and is on the advisory board of the Children's Commissioner and the Royal Foundation's Centre for Early Life. He is an ambassador of Teach First and spent three years with Teach for All based in Washington DC prior to founding Reach Academy Feltham.