John is Director of Business Development at AlphaPlus. AlphaPlus (www.alphaplus.co.uk) is an education service provider specialising in assessment, which is part of the AQA Education Group (https://www.aqa.org.uk/). AlphaPlus designs, develops and delivers qualifications and their underpinning assessments for clients in school, vocational and professional sectors, and evaluates their performance and impact on behalf of government and regulators. Its work includes providing the on-screen national assessment programmes for all schools in Wales and Scotland, as well as work on national assessments in England. John is an experienced learning and assessment entrepreneur with a track record of business growth. He has specialised in developing innovative systems for education and assessment, working with a range of public and private sector clients through the three companies he has helped to build: BTL Group Ltd (www.btl.com), Virtual College plc (www.virtual-college.com), and AlphaPlus.