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Sarah-Jane Mintey MBE
Sarah-Jane Mintey (born September 1969) is a British business person, and former CEO of the OPEN Youth Trust. She is the founding Director and CEO of Developing Experts and has currently served in that role since October 2015. Sarah-Jane Mintey was awarded a MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list in 2020 for her services to tech and education during Covid.

In 2021 Developing Experts was featured in J.P. Morgan Private Bank’s report on the Top 200 Female-Powered businesses in the UK. Developing Experts, an award winning company works with a range of tier 1 brands from the rail, energy, and construction industries to grow, track and build diverse talent pipelines for industry.

In January 2022, Sarah was appointed the Education and Digital Trustee to the charity MyBnk.

Personal Life
Born in Great Yarmouth in 1969, she is the eldest child of four brothers. She earned a B.Ed (hon) in Design and Technology at Manchester Metropolitan University, before completing her MA in Education at the University of East Anglia.

Career
Sarah-Jane Mintey started her career as a Design and Technology teacher at Flegg High School in 1995 before joining the Future Leaders programme in 2006. She then appointed Deputy Headteacher at Robert Clack School of Science in Dagenham before going to work for Ark Schools as a Vice Principal at Burlington Danes Academy in Hammersmith and Fulham. In 2009 she was appointed the CEO of the OPEN Youth Trust[6] in Norwich. In 2014 she was appointed the Director of Projects at Inspiration Trust.