Joel joined SUMS in 2019. As Group Managing Director, he led the growth of SUMS Consulting. During this five-year period, SUMS’ membership doubled in size, while the turnover of the consultancy business more than trebled. Much of this growth has been down to SUMS’ ability to support university transformation at scale. SUMS has managed multi-stranded, multi-year transformation and efficiencies programmes at several institutions in this period: delivering high impact at exceptional value-for-money.
Joel Arber
President and Chief Executive Officer
j.m.arber@sums.ac.uk
Joel is a passionate believer in the power of higher education to transform lives. An experienced executive leader, Joel has held leadership roles in commercial consultancies in the advertising industry; in higher education as a Pro Vice-Chancellor; and in the charity sector as Chair of FCAT, a ten-school Multi Academy Trust with a turnover of 45 million GBP.
