Leadership Team
Julian Harley – Chairman
Julian is currently Chairman of Go Train, Chairman of Supply Desk/Just Teachers, a Non Exec Director of Skills Training UK and an Operating Partner at the Private Equity Fund, Limerston Capital. He has made his career in the education, training and recruitment sectors.Steven Wines – Chief Executive Officer
Steven has a successful track record of building businesses in the education and training sectors, both in private and in funded learning, delivering growth and quality. As Managing Director he grew Home Learning College to become the largest private provider of distance learning in the UK. As Vice President of Rosetta Stone, he launched the brand in the UK and continental Europe and contributed to Rosetta Stone’s status as one of the USA’s top 500 fastest growing companies. As CEO of NCS he managed a business ranked 25th in the Sunday Times Fast Track 100 list of fast growing companies. Steven is a graduate of Oxford University.Stephen Bell – Director of Business Development
Stephen is an experienced business and charity sector leader with an excellent record of leading growth, innovation and change management, enhancing performance and creating sustainability. He has led successful teams, delivering over £58 million in contract value in the employability and youth learning sectors over the last three years. He loves motivating and empowering people to achieve exceptional results and has a track record of developing strategic alliances, including bidding consortiums, acquisitions and mergers.Dominic Wade – Chief Operating Officer
Dominic has 15 years’ experience, managing and leading an independent training provider where he was instrumental in their growth, securing contracts over £40 million and delivering them with an exceptional service to meet commissioner, employer and learner requirements. Dominic is an award winning professional, utilising his skills, knowledge and experience as an operator on government funded contracts to successfully achieve outputs and results for learners to progress within work or move into employment, education and training.
Stephen Oliver – Chief Financial Officer
Stephen has been Chief Financial Officer with successful businesses in the in learning, education, and software sectors. A qualified chartered accountant, he has worked in Plc, private company and charity environments delivering finance and business services. An experienced board director, he has led start-up companies to significant growth and prior to joining Go Train was Finance Director for a significant part of the City & Guilds group.
David Amos – Non Executive Director
A background in multi-site retailing with a number of large PLC’s eventually led David into the world of training and then to set up his first Training Consultancy in 1998. This business was sold in 2008 and since 2009 David has worked with Go Train, helping to grow it into the largest training company in the South East, with a reputation for good quality and customer service.Andy Kemp – Non Executive Director
Andy began his career in the city, after leaving he owned and built a Recruitment Agency which was successfully sold in 2006. He started his association with the training industry with the opening of a Pitman Training franchise in 1992 and over the next fifteen years he was the driving force behind the creation of the largest franchisee in the Pitman Training Group in the UK. In 2002 he started delivering his first Government funded contracts and has been instrumental in the strategic direction and growth of Go Train.