Ben Brown Is currently Head of Market Development and Strategic Relationships for Promethean having previously headed the education businesses for Hewlett-Packard, Samsung and XMA in the UK. He has worked in the education technology sector for over 15 years and has developed a real passion for advancing the use of technology to support teaching and learning.
He had previously sat on the Board of Trustees at the David Ross Education Trust and still sits as Chair of Governors at one of the schools there. His real focus was to support the development of technology and innovation strategy at the trust, he was also heavily involved with the Risk and Audit committee throughout his time as a trustee. More recently he has been a trustee at the Tackley Education Trust.
Ben has, throughout his career, looked at the challenges in education and how technology is best placed to resolve them. This has led to him working closely with the DfE as well as Academy Trusts such as ARK, Reach2 and United Learning on driving forward the use of the right technology for them and their schools.