Governors

Cdr Susie Moran

Commander Susie Moran joined the Royal Navy as a Logistician but transferred to the Warfare Branch after women were permitted to serve at sea. She has subsequently served in a wide variety of appointments including the personal staff of several senior officers and on several operational deployments including Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Croatia, Cyprus, Gibraltar, the Falkland Islands, the Middle East, and Iraq.

Latterly she has been employed in policy roles including in the Permanent Joint Headquarters at the height of operations in Afghanistan and during the Op TORAL period; on the staff of the Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (Policy) where she worked on the RN’s SDSR ‘offer’; as the Engagement lead in the Armed Forces Covenant team in the MOD; in NATO, and currently as the Royal Navy’s lead for parliamentary and ministerial engagement on the Naval Staff in London.

In a previous career, she was a Police Officer on the Home Office Accelerated Promotion Scheme where she specialised in Family & Child Protection and the investigation of domestic violence and non-stranger sexual offences, with a specific interest in the role of Adoption in Care proceedings, the work of Guardians ad Litem, and joint working with Local Authority Social, Child and other statutory services.

She is the current Chair of the SSAFA charity’s Adoption Service Management Committee. Susie is married to Julian, a Royal Marines officer, and has three children. Her son is a junior officer in the Royal Engineers, currently serving in Estonia on Op Cabrit, and her two daughters are considering joining the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force respectively.

Mr Michael Hodges

Chair of Governors

Michael Hodges is a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

Currently
Broadway Heritage Ltd.
Director

Avonreach Academy Trust (Company Number 07665364)
Member

Avon Navigation Trust (Charity No. 244951)
Trustee, Treasurer & Deputy Chairman

Friends of Pershore Abbey (Charity No. 500710)
Trustee & Chairman

Number 8 Community Arts Centre (Charity No. 1089301)
Trustee

Pershore Civic Society
Chairman

Formerly
1998 – 2002 Jones Lang LaSalle
International Director

1980 – 1998 Jones Lang Wootton
European Partner

Mrs Diana Walton

1991-2008 Chartered Surveyor (Rural) practising in the Midlands, Scotland and North of England. Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. Member of the Central Association of Agricultural Valuers.

2009-2021 Three Counties Agricultural Society- Head of Shows from 2018

2021-2022 Assistant Secretary of the Association of Shows and Agricultural Organisations

2021-2023 Hanbury Countryside Show Secretary

Past pupil of Malvern Girls College 1980-1985
Past parent of daughter who attended 2008-2017 (Years 5-13)

Mrs Gemma Bruce

2000–2011 Worked in corporate communications agencies in London

2008 to date Runs a property consultancy business specialising in marketing and sales of high end overseas properties

Miss Alison Warne

Vice-Chair of Governors

Teacher of English and Drama, King Edward VI Handsworth School (1984-1989)

Teacher of English and then Head of English, King Edward VI High School for Girls, Birmingham (1989-2005)

Vice Principal, King Edward VI High School for Girls, Birmingham (2005-2015)

Vice Principal (Acting), Elmhurst Ballet School (2015-2016)

Principal (Acting, to cover Maternity Leave), Elmhurst Ballet School (2016-2017)

Ms Wendy Ellis

1981-92 Head of History

1992-97 Housemistress, Wycombe Abbey

1997-99 Deputy Head, St Anne’s School

1999-2006 Headmistress, Windermere School

2007-2013 Principal, British International School Bratislava

2014-18 Principal, La Cote International School, Switzerland

2018-2019 Quality Assurance Nord Anglia Education

2019 – Education Consultant, Anthony Millard Consulting

Mrs Anne Coles BA LLM

1978 – Present – Solicitor

1975 – 1992 – various positions with Local Authorities including Borough Solicitor, District Secretary and Deputy Chief Executive

1992 – 2000 – General Counsel to the Law Society

2000 – end 2005 – Fox Williams

2006 – 2010 – AMC Law Limited – Principal

2010 – April 2014 – Teeslaw – Partner

April 2014 – March 2015 – Teeslaw – Consultant

2015 – present – Consultant Kemsley and Company Solicitors, Market Harborough

Miss Christine Kelly

1985-2000 Various HR positions with Eagle Star Insurance, then Zurich Insurance; latterly as HR Manager for Zurich Risk Services

2000-2002 Senior Recruitment Manager QinetiQ

2006-2014 HR Director for EMEA, Brady Corporation Ltd

2014-to date Group Director of Human Resources for Concentric AB

Mrs Susannah Palmer

1990 – 2012 – Director of Music, West House School for Boys, Edgbaston

2012 – 2015 – Director of Studies and Head of Maths, Mayfield Preparatory School

2015 – 2018 – Deputy Head, Mayfield Preparatory School

2018 – present – Headmistress, Norfolk House School

Written Maths textbooks for KS1 and KS2 pupils for HeadStart

Mr Robert Pearce

Chartered Surveyor working for major property consultancies in London (1986 – 1994) and Birmingham (1994 – 2011)

Specialised in lease advisory work and the valuation of commercial property

Retired in 2011; subsequently served on various charitable and advisory boards

Mrs Susan Doyle

Sue is an Old Girl (MGC 1971-78), and Sue’s mother Pamela Mullin was a member of MGC’s teaching staff (1956-91) and ultimately Head of Music.

1984-2023 Worked in investment management in London, Chicago, New York and Philadelphia, with responsibility for key endowment, foundation, corporate and public fund clients with multiple investment strategies. Retired from Managing Director position in 2023 and appointed as a governor of MSJ in 2024.

Mrs Alison Capper

Ali is a Partner at Stocks Farm, Suckley, Worcestershire UK with her husband Richard and his father Mark. The Cappers specialise in growing hops, dessert and cider apples.Ali’s former 18 year career was in Advertising & Marketing.Ali is a Nuffield Farming Scholar (2013), former Board member (2012-2024) of and Chairman (2016-2022) of the the National Farming Union’s national Horticulture & Potatoes Board and was a Trustee of Nuffield Farming Scholarship Trust (2014-2019). Ali was also a long-standing Board member of British Hop Association and Wye Hops until 2024.Today, in addition to numerous roles at the farm, she works as a Trustee of the Oxford Farming Conference, is Executive Chairman of British Apples & Pears Ltd, Chairman of Horticulture Crop Protection Ltd, and a non-executive Director of NFU Mutual. Ali is a Deputy Lieutenant for Worcestershire, a Governor at Malvern St James and former Chair of the Malvern St James Friends Board of Trustees.