Kevin Davis (Access Link Director)
Based in the Black Country, Kevin Davis is a serial social entrepreneur, in the fields of education, employment, and community empowerment. Kevin has been the Group CEO of the Vine Trust since 2010, a development trust, which occupies the space where the business, public, community and voluntary sectors meet.
With 10,000 students in the schools of the Mercian Multi Academy Trust he co-founded, social investment has been a material part of his capital/ revenue, place-based initiatives.
Outside of the Vine Trust, Kevin has responsibility for strategy, vision and advocacy in a number of non-exec / trustee roles in the arenas of housing, health, faith and community empowerment. He also provides the link between the public, private and civil society, in several organisations, including Business in the Community, and the NHS Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care Board.
Kevin also chairs the regional newspaper based, Ladder apprenticeships campaigns, which following its London launch in 2012, has generated nearly 10,000 apprenticeships.
Kevin is on the Quadrennial Review Team for The Oversight Trust.