Our Team
The Quadathlon Cup is built and run by a small core team, guided by an independent board of councils and panels, and delivered on the ground by coordinators in each host territory. This page sets out who does what, and how the structure fits together.
- Founding LeadershipVision, academic standards and strategy
- Board, Councils & PanelsRigour, inclusion and fairness
- Academic LeadershipThe standard across all six events
- OperationsOutreach, host schools and round delivery
- Event LeadsOne named owner for every event
- Event CoordinatorsDelivery on the ground, round by round
Founding Leadership
Samuel Mott is a talent development specialist focused on gifted education, academic enrichment and international academic competition design. He is also the Founder and CEO of Lighthouse Academy, supporting schools and parents around the world with talent development and Gifted & Talented programmes. He leads the academic standards and design of the competition, and is its lead programmer and lead scoring specialist, building the systems behind the competition's papers, marking, results and awards.
Iram Myford, NPQH, M.Ed, CMgr, MCMI, FCMI, is a strategic education leader and CEO of ILM Education Consultants, with extensive experience in leadership development, school improvement and educational strategy across the Middle East and the UK. Her work shapes the credibility, direction and long-term vision of the competition.
Board, Councils & Panels
Three independent bodies protect the academic credibility of the competition. They advise on standards, review the integrity of results, and hold the competition to the commitments it publishes.
GAQ Founders Panel
Founding vision, strategic direction, and long-term development of the competition.
Academic Advisory Council
Academic rigour, curriculum credibility and international perspective across the events.
Integrity, Inclusion & Appeals Panel
Fairness, inclusion, safeguarding, and the review of any appeal raised by a school.
Academic Leadership
The academic standard of the competition is set by the Chief Academic Officer and supported by a curriculum lead who advises on how the events are designed and how the framework holds together across age groups.
Harry White is a curriculum specialist with two master's degrees in education and extensive experience across both the British Curriculum and the International Baccalaureate. He is currently pursuing a PhD in curriculum, bringing strong expertise in academically rigorous programme design, coherence and long-term curriculum development. He advises on the academic architecture of the six events and the coherence of the framework across age groups.
Director of Curriculum is a voluntary advisory position. Harry is also the event lead for The Linguistics Challenge and the Team Orienteering Challenge, and sits on the Academic Advisory Council.
Operations
Martin Jarvis brings fourteen years in international education, eleven of them overseas, including three years as Head of Year at Dulwich College Shanghai and six years as Head of Year at Doha College. He leads the operational side of the competition: school outreach and the round pipeline, host school partnerships, and the delivery of each round from run sheet and staffing through to materials, awards and safeguarding on the day. He is also the coordination point for regional and school outreach across the three hubs, with a particular focus on Asia.
Event Leads
Every event has one named lead who owns it outright. The lead is responsible for the quality of the material used in each round and each session, and for rebuilding that material against the curriculum framework at the start of every season, so an event does not drift as the competition grows. Leads report to the Chief Examiner.
No event is signed off by its own author alone. Where an event lead also holds a wider academic role, that event's materials are reviewed independently before release.
Event Coordinators
No round is run from a distance. Every regional and global round is delivered by a local team working alongside the host school. Coordinators are recruited and deployed by the International Programme Director, and take direction on the day from the lead of the event they are running. It is the route into an event lead role: coordinators who know an event well are the people best placed to own it.
Regional Coordinators
Appointed in each host territory to organise participating teams, recruit volunteers and teaching staff, and act as the local point of contact for schools in the run-up to a round.
On-the-Day Coordinators
Run the schedule on competition day: room and session timings, staffing ratios, materials and awards, and the handover between events alongside the host school team.
The core team works the rounds
Everyone on this page is also an event coordinator. On competition day the core team is on site running sessions alongside the local coordinators appointed in each host territory, which is how a small team delivers a round properly.
Additional coordinators for the 2026/27 season are being appointed now. Named local coordinators for each round will be listed here as host schools and territories are confirmed.
Work With Us
We are always interested in hearing from experienced educators, host schools and prospective coordinators who want to help bring the competition to their region.