When he is not travelling to meet new partner institutions or visit INTO’s operations around the world, John lives in Eastbourne, East Sussex, with his wife Denise and three children Michael, George and Olivia.įluent in Chinese, Steven is one of the world’s leading practitioners in the management of large, distributed student recruitment networks. He attributes INTO’s extraordinary growth trajectory and reputation for academic excellence to robust management, ongoing and substantial investment in learning centres, and a superior global sales and marketing infrastructure. John focuses on driving business development and supporting operational leadership in order to guide the strategic direction of the company. This investment completed the first stage of INTO’s funding plans, which are aimed at providing universities with access to significant external capital to fund innovation and capacity building in the higher education sector.
In 2012, John led a private placement process culminating in an equity investment from Leeds Equity Partners of £66 million in the group for a 25 per cent stake in the business. John has been a Director and Board Member of the company since inception. In 2006 John and Andrew established INTO University Partnerships. John then joined a corporate finance practice in Sussex where he led many small- and medium-sized investments in London and the South East, eventually becoming a partner.įrom 1995 to 2003, John was Finance Director of Study Group, where he formed a strong working relationship with founder Andrew Colin and played an instrumental role in growing the business, overseeing its acquisition by The Daily Mail Group in 1999, and helping to expand operations into Australia, the USA and Canada. When she is not heading up strategic innovations at INTO, Olivia enjoys playing tennis and spending time with her husband, whom she met through international education, and their three children in West London, UK.Īs one of INTO’s founding directors, John has been a lynch-pin in the development of every Joint Venture.Īfter graduating from Brighton University, John joined leading accounting firm KPMG, where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant and gained significant experience in the corporate finance arena. She holds a BA in Political Science from Princeton University and an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Olivia spent the start of her career at Lehman Brothers and then at McKinsey & Company, where she advised multiple international organisations on brand marketing and mergers and acquisition strategy.
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Prior to that, she was Commercial Director at Talk Talk, the telecommunications and internet TV company, where she oversaw product and digital transformation across TV, mobile, fibre and broadband. Previously, Olivia spent two years as a partner at Freston Ventures, advising and investing across a range of digital and technology businesses. She left Flamingo in March 2021, having significantly transformed the product and proposition.Īlongside her role at Flamingo, Olivia has been and continues to act as Non-Executive Director of Reach plc, the UK’s largest commercial news publisher, supporting them in their transformation from print to digital. Most recently, she served as Chief Executive Officer of Flamingo Horticulture, a £500M agribusiness with 10,000 employees that sustainably grows and imports produce from Africa to the UK and Europe. Olivia brings to INTO more than two decades of experience in commercial leadership and transformational roles across a wide array of sectors. The result was the world’s first public-private partnership in higher education predicated on a joint venture model of shared mission, shared investment, shared risk, shared governance and shared reward. Ultimately, Sir David and Andrew Colin set about designing a partnership in which the university could access private sector investment while retaining critical control over the university’s brand and its academic programs. By the same token, he was unwilling to outsource such a critical university goal, so deeply rooted in academic programs, to a commercial entity over which the university had no direct control.
Sir David’s ambitious plans for internationalization depended on first developing a globally diverse student body, but he recognized that a significant increase in international students was beyond the University’s ability to accomplish alone. A pioneer in the field of international student preparation for study in English-speaking universities, INTO University Partnerships’ innovative joint venture model emerged from a collaboration in 2005 between then-Vice Chancellor Sir David Eastwood of the University of East Anglia and INTO’s co-founder Andrew Colin.
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