Meet the Governors

Mr Nick MacHugh – Chair of Governors

Nick is an experienced senior Corporate Banker. He moved to Yorkshire in 1993 whilst working for Bank of Scotland where he latterly worked in structured and acquisition finance. In 2009 he joined Santander Corporate Bank to focus on growing their operation in Yorkshire & North East where he has worked on a large number of high profile regional corporate transactions.  Nick is a former Gateways parent.  Nick may be contacted via the following email address chairoffice@gatewaysschool.co.uk

Sir Roger Marsh, OBE DL 

Sir Roger Marsh is a graduate metallurgist, Chartered Accountant and Chartered Companion of the Chartered Management Institute. He has been Chair of the Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership (LEP) since 2013 securing the country’s largest ever Local Growth Deal with Government. He was also a Member of the Williams Rail Review Expert Challenge Panel and Chair of both the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund Strategic Oversight Board and European Structural & Investment Fund Local Sub Committee. Before joining the LEP Roger was a Senior Partner at PwC. 

In 2015, he was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours and in 2019 became a Deputy Lieutenant of West Yorkshire. In the 2021 Queen’s Birthday Honours he was made a Knights Batchelor for services to Business, to the Economy, and the community in Northern England.

Mr Richard Webster, BSc(Hons), MRICS

Richard is a Chartered Quantity Surveyor and Managing Director of DKP Consulting, a Yorkshire based company providing construction cost and property consultancy, project management and health & safety services. He has extensive experience of the construction industry in the Health, Education, Leisure, Commercial and Heritage sectors. He is a former Gateways parent.

Ms Michelle Calvert

Michelle Calvert is the Director of Development at the University of Leeds, where she is responsible for the University’s engagement with a global community of some 270,00 alumni, and for the University’s philanthropic fundraising activities. Michelle has worked in higher education alumni relations and fundraising for 25 years, and has been in her current role at Leeds since 2006.

Miss Nicola Stephens, BAHons (PGCE)  

Nicola Stephens is a Deputy Headteacher and Safeguarding Lead in an independent school in the North East of England where she is responsible for all pastoral aspects of student life (aged 3-18). This role is broad and has offered opportunities to lead on well-being & mental health, careers, outdoor learning and Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme, A,G&T, SEND and co-curricular enrichment. Nicola has been at her current school for 21 years and in this post for 12 years. Prior to this she was Director of Sport and a PE teacher.  

Mrs Tori Lorence  

Tori is an experienced marketer and Managing Partner of CreativeRace, a Leeds based communications agency providing expertise in strategy, performance and creativity. She moved to Yorkshire in 2022 following 15 years in London working in global advertising networks such as Ogilvy, part of WPP and Omnicom. She has extensive marketing experience in the financial, travel, health, energy, FMCG, grocery, education and automotive industries.