The GESS Senior Leadership Team consists of the Principal, the Academic Director and the General Manager. The Academic Director and the General
Manager report to the Principal. The Senior Leadership Team functions as the decision making body for the whole school to ensure the school’s mission, vision and strategic educational and organisational goals are achieved.
Senior Leadership Team
Andreas Schaller
Principal of GESS
Education:
1st and 2nd state examination for teaching at Secondary School level in the subjects of English and PE at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.
Work experience and professional focus:
Mr. Andreas Schaller attained his academic qualifications in English and Physical Education, launching his 30-year (and still counting) career in this sector as an English and PE teacher in Germany. His subsequent roles brought him to other parts of the world, including the US – where he attended university for a year – and the Crimean Peninsula in Eastern Europe, where he supervised a programme for the German Language Diploma. Since 2008, he has undertaken roles in school management. Before accepting his appointment at GESS, he served as a principal of a prestigious high school in Prien am Chiemsee, Germany.
Embracing this career path as his calling, Mr. Schaller counts literature, politics, languages and sports as his interests. Onboarding the GESS senior leadership team in August 2024, he steers the school’s five-year Limitless Learning Plan with Vice-Principal Joram Hutchins and General Manager Maclean Braganza. A strong advocate of the school’s strategic pillars, he is committed to making significant contributions to the areas of high quality teaching and learning, student wellbeing, languages, and leading GESS to become one of the best employers in Singapore. Mr. Schaller also strives to foster robust and collaborative relationships with GESS students, families and staff, as he leads the school into a new chapter.
Joram Hutchins
Vice Principal of GESS
Education:
- Master of Education (MEd), University of Tasmania
- Global education and leadership
Work experience and professional focus:
With almost twenty years of experience working as an educator in Singapore, Joram has been a member of the GESS faculty since 2009 and has held various positions before becoming the Academic Director in February 2022. He has overseen the school's successful reaccreditation with the International Baccalaureate Organisation (IB) and the Council of International Schools (CIS). Joram works closely with highly skilled colleagues to ensure effective staff recruitment, timetable, educational technology, professional development, child safeguarding, library, sports, and arts are developed across the school. His focus lies in improving teaching and learning at GESS to achieve the school’s strategic plan and become one of the leading educational institutions in Singapore.
Maclean Braganza
General Manager of GESS
Education:
Master of Business Administration, James Cook University, Australia
Work experience and professional focus:
Maclean has 16 years of experience in the international education sector. He joined GESS in 2016 and held various senior management functions at the School. Maclean has overseen the school’s transformation from a small to a large school and looks after all the business operations of the school. His focus lies on improving the student and parent experience through the implementation of the school’s strategic plan. He is passionate to drive change for GESS to emerge amongst the premier holistic international schools in Singapore
Maclean works collaboratively with the Senior Leadership Team and the Board of Governors at GESS and values the school’s not-for-profit orientation built with German and European foundations.
Education:
1st and 2nd state examination for teaching at Secondary School level in the subjects of English and PE at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.
Work experience and professional focus:
Mr. Andreas Schaller attained his academic qualifications in English and Physical Education, launching his 30-year (and still counting) career in this sector as an English and PE teacher in Germany. His subsequent roles brought him to other parts of the world, including the US – where he attended university for a year – and the Crimean Peninsula in Eastern Europe, where he supervised a programme for the German Language Diploma. Since 2008, he has undertaken roles in school management. Before accepting his appointment at GESS, he served as a principal of a prestigious high school in Prien am Chiemsee, Germany.
Embracing this career path as his calling, Mr. Schaller counts literature, politics, languages and sports as his interests. Onboarding the GESS senior leadership team in August 2024, he steers the school’s five-year Limitless Learning Plan with Vice-Principal Joram Hutchins and General Manager Maclean Braganza. A strong advocate of the school’s strategic pillars, he is committed to making significant contributions to the areas of high quality teaching and learning, student wellbeing, languages, and leading GESS to become one of the best employers in Singapore. Mr. Schaller also strives to foster robust and collaborative relationships with GESS students, families and staff, as he leads the school into a new chapter.
Education:
- Master of Education (MEd), University of Tasmania
- Global education and leadership
Work experience and professional focus:
With almost twenty years of experience working as an educator in Singapore, Joram has been a member of the GESS faculty since 2009 and has held various positions before becoming the Academic Director in February 2022. He has overseen the school's successful reaccreditation with the International Baccalaureate Organisation (IB) and the Council of International Schools (CIS). Joram works closely with highly skilled colleagues to ensure effective staff recruitment, timetable, educational technology, professional development, child safeguarding, library, sports, and arts are developed across the school. His focus lies in improving teaching and learning at GESS to achieve the school’s strategic plan and become one of the leading educational institutions in Singapore.
Education:
Master of Business Administration, James Cook University, Australia
Work experience and professional focus:
Maclean has 16 years of experience in the international education sector. He joined GESS in 2016 and held various senior management functions at the School. Maclean has overseen the school’s transformation from a small to a large school and looks after all the business operations of the school. His focus lies on improving the student and parent experience through the implementation of the school’s strategic plan. He is passionate to drive change for GESS to emerge amongst the premier holistic international schools in Singapore
Maclean works collaboratively with the Senior Leadership Team and the Board of Governors at GESS and values the school’s not-for-profit orientation built with German and European foundations.
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