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Incerts Education is a non-profit organization owned and controlled by its members.
The Incerts Membership
The board of directors, responsible for running the organization and legally accountable for its actions, is drawn from a wider group: the members of Incerts.
Members of an organization like ours are in some ways analogous to the shareholders of a PLC. They come together periodically to scrutinize the work of the directors, and can nominate and elect new directors from among themselves. Unlike shareholders, though, members perform these duties voluntarily without making a profit or a loss.
Our members are exceptional individuals who share our vision and our principles and are passionate about education. Other than that, they all have quite different backgrounds and specialisms and form a highly diverse group. They bring a great breadth of experience to the organization and can give strategic advice and support to the directors.
Who Are We?

Marcus Orlovsky, Chairman of the Board

Marcus Orlovsky is the founder of Bryanston Square, a company that works at a strategic level with schools, Becta, TDA and NCSL. Since 2002 Marcus has worked with around 500 schools and created £2.5 billion of new buildings through the ‘Building Schools for the Future’ programme.

Among his previous roles, Marcus has been Director of Recruitment at one of the world’s largest accountants, Ernst & Young; and Project Finance Director at Stanhope Properties. Here he borrowed £5 billion to create major developments in the heart of London, including Broadgate, Ludgate, Stockley Park and Chiswick Park.

Marcus enjoys renovating historic buildings and collects Russian art.



Dr Ian Billups, Technical Director

Ian is responsible for running Incerts Labs.

After reading Mathematics at St John’s College, Oxford, Ian completed an MSc and a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Birmingham, where he has also been a visiting lecturer. In 15 years as a software designer he worked on some highly-technical projects, from nuclear submarine configuration to medical image analysis, before turning more recently to creating larger, web-based systems to support businesses and schools.

Chris Padden, Managing Director

Chris was the driving force behind the creation of Incerts Education, and as Managing Director is responsible for running the organization day-to-day. In the past 12 months he has worked on everything from supporting users of the Incerts software to completing a substantial research project on the technical and financial viability of the Incerts vision in 11 different countries.

Chris has a background in youth leadership development with the education charity AIESEC, working with promising university students across the UK to enhance their ability to work as socially-responsible, culturally-aware business leaders. As a student he took a secondment with AIESEC to Brisbane, Australia to direct various education and charitable projects there.



Dan Matthews, Finance Director

Dan works for an award-winning investment management company, part of a small team that manages funds of around £1 billion. At the same time he is studying to become a Chartered Financial Analyst.

As students, Chris and Dan worked together at AIESEC at the University of Manchester: Dan was the president of AIESEC there at the time. Dan has also served on the North-West regional board of Young Enterprise, the UK’s largest business and enterprise education charity.