THE SCHOOL BOARD

Fei-Fei Hu is a British-Chinese entrepreneur living and working between Tokyo, Hokkaido, London and Shanghai. Alongside his wife Ayahi, he is co-founder of CEA.

An assistant to His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales for 8 years from 2007-2015, Fei-Fei served as Secretary of The Prince’s Foundation (China) based in Clarence House and St. James’s Palace, UK. He studied Philosophy at Waseda University and University of Oxford.

Ayahi Suda is a graduate of Tokyo University and was raised in an environment surrounded by a family of educators. At the age of 26, she started her own international early years education centre in the heart of Tokyo.

After moving to England in 2009 with her husband Fei-Fei she continued her education at University of the Arts London and The Royal Drawing School. Ayahi then worked at Sotheby’s headquarters. After returning to Japan in 2015, she co-founded Clarence Education Asia.

Ziver Ölmez has distinguished himself in the premium school investment sector across Asia over the past two decades. He excelled in developing and implementing comprehensive compliance and K-13 school turnkey solutions in China, Japan, and South East Asia, some of which included large scale residential and commercial real estate projects. Ziver has been with CEA since 2019, and was a key member of the core team that spearheaded the establishment and operation of Rugby School Japan and Phoenix House International School. Ziver holds an MA in Development Economics from University of Sussex and an MSc in Energy Economics and Policy from University of Surrey.

Kentaro Nanri is a Certified Public Accountant in Japan. He has 14 years experience in professional firms as an auditor at PwC and as a director of cross-border M&A services at SCS Global Group, a Singapore based mid-size accounting firm.

He led IT consulting and service company as the founder from April 2020, after a few years of experience in tech start-up companies where he has taken the role of CFO. He has been appointed as Executive VP of Finance and Operation in CEAMS from January 2023.

After graduating with a degree in Politics and Economics from the University of Durham in 1992, Tony completed a hugely enjoyable year teaching English in the Czech Republic.

A period as an accountant with PWC in the West Midlands was followed by him completing his PGCE teaching qualification in Business and IT at Staffordshire University, and then on to heading up the Politics and Economics Departments at Queen’s College, Taunton in 1996.

This was subsequently followed by a move to Rugby School in 2003, where he became the Head of Economics & Business and helped to set up the EPQ qualification, alongside his role as Assistant Housemaster in Stanley, the 6th Form girls’ boarding house.

​​In 2011 he became the Housemaster of Town House, the boys’ day House, and in 2014 he also became a member of the Senior Management Team at Rugby in his role as Senior Housemaster. Since 2017, Tony has been the Sub-Warden of St Edward’s School in Oxford, which, like Rugby School Japan, is a city-based, co-educational day and boarding school where he and colleagues have brought about significant growth in recent years. Throughout his career he has been an enthusiastic sportsman, having coached many school teams including rugby, football, cricket, hockey and Rugby Fives.

In his younger days he was a keen footballer, and still enjoys a range of outdoor pursuits. He also has a keen interest in developing and promoting entrepreneurship in schools, having set up an Entrepreneurs’ Club at Rugby, and more recently at St. Edward’s successfully taking groups through the Chartered Institute For Securities and Investment examination, to develop their understanding of financial services, and prepare them for a career in the City.