Governors

After studying medicine in his homeland, Sri Lanka, Dr. Ambe as he likes to be known, came to the UK in 1982. He has been living and working in West Essex since 1985. He has been a NHS Consultant Physician working in West Essex since 1992 and is currently the Clinical Director of West Essex Community Hospitals.

During his professional career in West Essex, in addition to his clinical / managerial duties,  Dr. Ambe has been the Chairman of the Drugs and Therapeutics Committee, a long standing member of the Ethics Committee and a Tutor for the Royal College of Physicians.

He is the father of two successful adult children who both attended Howe Green House School.

As an Educational Committee member, he hopes to help the school with his experience and wisdom. He believes in helping/guiding our pupils to become lifelong learners from an early stage of life which helps to provide them with a skill set for the future challenges they will face in the 21st century.

After reading Law at Clare College, Cambridge University, Sam qualified as a European and Competition Lawyer at the city law firm of Herbert Smith.  Sam advised large multi-national companies on antitrust and merger control laws.  She worked in this role for 5 years, during which time she spent time on secondment to the Brussels office and at the London Stock Exchange as an in-house adviser.

Sam is now a full time mother to her three children, all of whom attended Little Oaks Nursery and Howe Green House School.  She is also the Chair of a Cancer Research UK fundraising committee, Bishop’s Stortford Friends of Cancer Research UK.

After reading Modern History at Oxford, Marie worked for 12 years as a Management Consultant, principally advising government on major change programmes. Seeking a bit less travel, she joined the financial services regulator in 1999 and led its work on financial capability, financial inclusion and on the fair treatment of customers.

In 2012, she made a career change and started to work in schools, first as a volunteer at a MLD Primary school in Ware, then as a Learning Support Assistant in Harlow. She worked at Howe Green House as a Teaching Assistant from 2013-16 and loved every minute of it, leaving to undertake a Primary PGCE at the University of Cambridge.

Marie returned to regulation in 2019 and is, once again, leading the regulator’s work on financial inclusion.  She’s previously been a governor at Little Hallingbury School and is a former Joint Chair of Governors at Hockerill Anglo-European College.

Marie has twins. Her son attended Howe Green House and Hockerill, and is now at the University of Exeter; and her daughter attended Little Hallingbury School and Stephen Perse, Cambridge and is now at the University of St Andrews. The whole family has developed strong roots in the local community of Broad Oak and the Hallingburys.

Having started his teaching career in the maintained sector Ralph moved to the independent sector in 2008. In 2018 he became the Headteacher at a co-educational ISA prep school. Prior to this, he was Senior Deputy Head at an IAPS co-ed day school where he held numerous roles including compliance lead, DSL, academic lead and pastoral lead.

Since 2019 he has been both a compliance and team inspector for inspections of pre-prep, junior, senior and boarding schools.

After reading Politics and Philosophy at Durham University, brief teaching stints at an English prep school and in South America, Ed completed a Masters in Real Estate Management and then qualified as a chartered surveyor. Ed heads up the Strategic Asset Management Department at real estate firm Savills advising both institutional and private clients on the asset management and value enhancement of their mixed use, Prime Central London portfolios.

Ed is a father to two girls both of whom attend Howe Green House School.

Liz, as she likes to be known, has been involved with Howe Green House School since its inception in 1987 and both her son and daughter attended the school.

She has been a Parent Governor at an independent school in Suffolk and has held a number of positions within the independent and state sectors of Education ranging from Early Years through Further Education to being an Ofsted inspector.

She was Head of Early Years at Howe Green House for seven years and has subsequently taken a Master in Education degree at Cambridge with additional qualifications in Supporting Children with Specific Learning Difficulties.

Gemma studied law at the University of Cambridge before qualifying as a solicitor specialising in employment law at Allen & Overy LLP. She went on to work within the Human Resources departments at Credit Suisse and Citi as an Employee Relations Specialist. She has two children currently at Howe Green House School and is actively involved in all aspects of school life.

William attended St Faiths School in Cambridge followed by Greshams in North Norfolk before attending Oxford Polytechnic.

He has run a successful business employing more than fifty people for over thirty years. He set up in the property business with Tony Mullucks as Mullucks Wells in 1990, and the company now trades as Mullucks, part of Hunters – a larger organisation with a head office in York. He has a positive disposition, and believes in life there are people who give and those who take. Givers by nature tend to be more generous, understanding and accommodating.

William has previously been a governor for a preparatory school in Hertfordshire for 5 years. He lives in a small village in North Herts with his wife and three children, two in their early 20s and one currently taking A levels at Saffron Walden County High School. His hobbies include gardening and fly fishing.

Alison qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1993 and has worked as an accountant for nearly 30 years, working for a local accountancy firm for 20 years and then since 2006 working from home as a sole practitioner. Experience includes 5 years working as an audit manager on a small portfolio of Local Grant Maintained Primary Schools. Alison has a long history with HGH, her oldest child Abby started in Kindergarten in 1999, followed by Angus in 2001, and Annabel in Acorns Nursery in 2003. All 3 children spent their entire primary education at Howe Green House with Annabel finishing Year 6 in 2013. During that time Alison was also Chairman of Parents and Friends of Howe Green House for 3 years, hard work but worth it.