Brian is the Chief Executive of the London Grid for Learning Trust which was incorporated in 2001 to foster pupil attainment through the use of ICT by the development of a pan-London broadband learning grid purpose designed to connect and serve all London schools. LGfL is a not-for-profit company and charitable trust of which all London Councils are members.
In November 2003 Brian was appointed CEO of Adit London, a partnership body created by the Department of Trade and Industry, the Greater London Authority and the London Development Agency to aggregate broadband requirements for the wider public sector, which role he holds concurrently with his responsibilities for LGfL.
The LGfL network extends across the region and connects all of London’s 2600 maintained schools at rates of up to 100Mbps. The network also serves most of London’s 600 public libraries. To ensure ample headroom and future proofing, the LGfL network is entirely constructed using fibre optic cable, and is understood to be the largest metropolitan education Ethernet network in the world. As CEO of Adit, Brian has steered the development of the network through its evolution into the London Public Services Network serving the wider needs of local government across the region, and facilitating secure resilient links between education, social services and health.
The LGfL Portal provides every London pupil and teacher with a range of digital facilities including their own 100Mb online ePortfolio area to develop, review, publish and retrieve digital resources.
LGfL and Adit achieve substantial savings through collaborative regional procurement and provide a wide range of high quality on-line resources, making these freely and universally available to London’s learners, at no charge. Savings of £100m have been achieved in 4 years.
Brian was formerly Inspector for ICT and Head of ICT Services in the Royal Borough of Kingston-Upon-Thames. Here he was responsible for the conception and realisation of KingsNet, a broadband intranet connecting all the Borough's schools in 1998, the inaugural year of the National Grid for Learning programme. Prior to serving in Kingston, he was a teacher of mathematics and economics following a career in City banking.