Gail Paten
Head of Delivery
About
Gail has worked in educational publishing for a decade and is responsible for the teams who get Save My Exam’s amazing revision content onto our website just when our students need it.
Gail is passionate about the role of education in changing lives and loves Save My Exams vision of empowering students to succeed. She has first-hand experience of the power of exams, having completed an MBA as an adult. Gail volunteers for Form the Future in her free time, a fantastic organisation that gives students the skills and knowledge to explore career possibilities. She also supports the work of Arts Emergency, a charity that helps link students from all backgrounds with mentors in Arts industries.
Gail spent eight years at Cambridge University Press and Assessment and played a role in the publication of dozens of student and teacher resources in that time. She particularly enjoyed the challenges of adapting content for different regions so that students in every corner of the globe could sit their IGCSE and International A Level exams.
In her spare time Gail is a dedicated reader, which isn’t surprising considering she started her career working on fiction like Gone Girl and Harlan Coben thrillers. She’s still a sucker for crime novels but reads in pretty much any genre.
Education
Gail graduated from the University of Nottingham with a BA in History. She later completed her MBA with the Open University and is a big advocate for digital education.
Expertise
Gail has worked in publishing for 20 years, working for companies like Readers Digest, Hachette and Cambridge University Press.
She has editorial skills and expertise in project and programme management. She also has an MBA.
Top revision quote for students
“Don’t ever write yourself off. I used to think that I didn’t have the right brain for Maths and hated revising for my GCSE Maths exam. But when I did my MBA I had to get to grips with equations and complex financial models. I found that by taking my time, breaking my revision into chunks, asking for help and reminding myself that I could do it I was able to handle the maths. And now I actually enjoy financial modelling!”
