Karen Vitalis
CFO

Karen was appointed to the position of Chief Finance Officer of Weaver Trust in 2022. This is a highly influential position within Weaver Trust. Karen is a confident, diligent financial professional with over 19 years’ experience of working in finance, with extensive senior leadership experience at executive level across commercial, charity and education sectors. She provides strategic leadership to Finance and Projects, Human Resources, Estates and Information and Communication Technology, Procurement, and operational teams, promoting a commercially astute culture across the Trust.

It is an exciting time for the Trust as it pursues its ambitious strategy to innovate, invest and expand its footprint with more schools. Karen has a wealth of experience in this area having guided a range of schools though the academy conversion process.

Karen is focussed on delivering a firm foundation in order to create a sustainable environment where all stakeholders flourish. Karen delivers this with a proven track record of creating and enhancing accounting systems and implementing financial and operational controls to improve and streamline processes and procedures.

With excellent interpersonal skills at all levels, Karen has developed positive stakeholder relationships to promote the organisation and assist it to meet its objectives. She is an outstanding communicator, who is clear and informative and able to convey complex finance-related information in a simple and clear manner.