Paul Riley

Chichester College Group Chief Executive Andrew Green is passionate about changing lives through learning and about Further Education (FE) and has the pedigree to prove it.

Having begun his career in retail management, working for companies including House of Fraser and Boots, Andrew retrained as a teacher in 1996 and gained his Masters in Education in 2000.

His career in FE began at this time, and he held a range of senior positions at City College, Brighton and Hove, before taking up the post of Deputy Principal at Chichester College in 2010.

He was then appointed Executive Principal in 2017, following the college’s merger with Crawley College and the creation of the Chichester College Group. He was named Chief Executive in 2021.

During his career at Chichester College Group (formerly Chichester College), he has led the group through two Outstanding Ofsted inspections in 2014 and 2020.

Away from the ‘day job’, Andrew was the joint owner and chief executive of Brighton Film School from 2011 until 2018. He served as a director of a local retail boutique in Chichester for 5 years, currently runs a property company and a leadership coaching company "The Authentic Leadership Coach Limited".

Andrew is also a trustee of two charities – Culture Shift, which uses the arts to positively change the lives of young people and adults with learning difficulties and disabilities, and PACSO, which provides respite care for parents of children with learning difficulties or disabilities.

Previous Principals/CEOs

Paul Riley

Paul was previously the Principal of Worthing College, taking up the role in March 2017 after having worked at the college since 2007. He has leadership and management experience in local government, the private sector and in FE colleges.

Paul sits on the Waves Ahead Executive Board of the Local Strategic Partnership in Adur and Worthing and is a member of the Worthing and Coastal West Sussex Skills and Enterprise Group. He is passionate about staff and student wellbeing and collaborative working.