The Team
Our team has a wide range of experience…
Sir Christopher Bland
is Chairman of Leiths School of Food and Wine Ltd and bought the company with Caroline Waldegrave in 1994. He is a former Chairman of the BBC and BT plc, and is Chairman of the Royal Shakespeare Company and Canongate Books.
Caroline Waldegrave
is a Director of Leiths School of Food and Wine Ltd and was Principal of the School from 1975 to 2002. She is a former member of the Health Education Authority and past Chairman of the Guild of Food Writers. She was awarded an OBE in 1999.
Camilla Schneideman
was appointed Managing Director of Leiths in June 2008. A graduate of Leiths School of Food and Wine, Camilla went on to work in restaurants here and abroad before establishing the successful Café Divertimenti and Divertimenti Cookery School and the Lemon Tree Cookery School. Camilla has also published ‘The Divertimenti Cook Book’. She is responsible for the overall management of the School.
Claire MacDonald
is a graduate of Leiths School of Food and Wine. Claire worked at various restaurants before returning to Leiths to teach. She taught at the School for eight years before becoming Principal in 2007. Claire is responsible for the day to day administration in the kitchen and for the welfare of the students.
Alison Cavaliero
is Vice Principal and is responsible for the students’ future careers. She runs our employment agency Leiths List and runs the schools franchise scheme.
Charlotte Rouse
is the Financial Controller at leiths and is responsible for the day-to-day finances of the company.
Phil Eliott
is a Senior Teacher at Leiths, he completed the Leiths Diploma in 2001 and worked in a variety of restaurants before returning to Leiths to become a teacher in 2006. He was made a Senior Teacher in 2009.
Hélène Robinson-Moltke
is a Senior Teacher at Leiths, she completed the Leiths Diploma in 2001. Hélène has assisted with the food photography on 3 Leiths cookery books as well as photographing food for newspapers. Hélène went on to work for 6 years for a private company in North London whist continuing to teach at Leiths, she became a full time Senior Teacher at Leiths in the summer of 2010.
Max Clark
completed the Diploma at Leiths School of Food and Wine and joined Leiths as a teacher in 1989, where she taught for 10 years, before becoming the Buyer for Leiths. She has contributed to a number of Leiths Cookery books. Max has co-written Leiths latest cookery book, Leiths Meat Bible with Susan Spaull.
Teachers
Leiths have a dedicated teaching staff of trained professionals with a wealth of expertise gained in the world of restaurants and commercial catering. Many are former pupils of Leiths. In addition, renowned chefs, cookery writers and Masters of Wine regularly demonstrate or lecture at the School