A founding Director of The REED NCFE Partnership, which started in January 2012, Alasdair has a career spanning 22 years of strategic business development and service delivery within FE.

He has worked as Director of Business Development for NCFE, Managing Director of Blue Square Trading, a wholly owned subsidiary of City of Sunderland College and as Business Manager at Newcastle College. Prior to that he was engaged in various management and consultancy roles in the hotel and catering industry.

Originally from Glasgow, Alasdair now lives in the north east of England.