About Skills U

Colin Mansell

CEO & Founder

Colin has a tech background, and has worked in tech education for over 15 years. He built and ran an award-winning digital agency which was sold to Major Tom in 2015, going on to run Canadian / UK tech school RED, managing three campuses.

Guy Maine

Managing Director, APAC

Guy most recently served as Head of Growth at OES (SEEK Investments), working with leading universities like Swinburne, QUT, Monash and Aston. A former publicly listed company CEO, he has held roles at Singtel, Virgin, and FOXTEL.

Joji Mendoza-Chan

Product Manager

Joji is a former teacher and then worked as an Educational Technologist at MOE, as a Research Associate at NTU's WKWSCl, and as a Product Strategist at an edtech startup before joining the team as Product Manager at Skills Union.

Janice Yap

Operations Director

Janice runs our Operations team, and built her career at ExxonMobil, with roles in Account Management, Engineering and Supply Chain Planning. She is highly organized, and plays a central coordinating role in our team.

CP Wong

Program Director

CP is our Program Director at Skills Union, and an experienced lecturer including with NTU. He has decades of experience in senior roles in software engineering and project management including in consumer electronics with Philips and NXP.

Delfrinando Pranata

Cloud Engineering Lead

Union and is experience as a senior Sota skils Engineer at SEEK, and a Tech Developer at EV Hive, and as a software engineer at Tiket.com

Terence Gaffud

Software Engineering Lead

Terence has extensive professional experience as a Senior Application Analyst at Accenture and as DevOps Analyst at Macquarie Group. He is spent 4 years with Zuitt Coding School, and is our program leader for Software Engineering,

Sanjela Garg

Lead Software Engineering Instructor

Sanjela has worked across engineering teams at SeaAtrium and PBA, contributing to key enterprise initiatives with a specialization in Spring Boot and modern backend development practices.

Yohana Paulina

Community Manager

Yohana is the Community Manager at Skills Union and has previously worked in digital marketing industry. She has extensive experience in managing projects from end-to-end with smooth operation.

Neil Hayward

Board Chair

Neil is former Group Head of People Strategy at Standard Chartered, Chief People Officer at HS2, Post Office, and BT Group. He has 25 years of experience at Board level and as a senior people leader in large organisations.

Tom Cregan

Board Member & Investor

Tom is the founder and CEO of Valorem Networks, an Australian Fintech, as well as former Executive Vice President of Netspend Corporation. He is also the former CEO and Managing Director of EML Payments Limited.

Jen Farthing, EdD

Board & Advisory Group Member

Jen is the former Chief Learning Officer at LRN, and SAI 360, both sold to Private Equity. She was previously at Kaplan as Director of Product Development, Executive Editor at Pearson, and has a Doctorate in Education from Vanderbilt.

Andy Stark

Board & Advisory Group Member

Andy has spent 6 years at EY leading the go to market for EY Skills Foundry, working with Fortune 1000 clients on skills intelligence, digital innovation, product development and CX and growth strategy.

Christa Patton

Board & Advisory Group Member

VP of L&D at Security Scorecard, former VP of L&D at Microstrategy at KeyBank, Christa brings twenty-seven years' experience in sales, sales training, sales enablement, corporate training and leadership.

Chris Saye

Board & Advisory Group Member

Former Chairman and CFO at Green School, partner at Arthur Andersen and Ernst & Young, Chris is a creative leader with a background in finance and accounting and a 25+ year global career in board and CFO functions.

Cory Eyler

Board & Advisory Group Member

Former GM at Ed2go, Cengage’s Workforce Skills business, providing online instructor-led courses and career training programs to over 4 million students in 100 countries, growing to a $70m revenue.

Jeff Boykin

Board & Advisory Group Member

Current Senior Director, Alternative Credentials at EdX, formerly Senior Director, Innovation & Enterprise at 2U and Trilogy. Jeff was also Lead Instructional Designer, Global Programs at General Assembly.

Suresh Madhuvarsu

Board & Advisory Group Member

Former Director of Product Management at Oracle, a serial entrepreneur, building several B2B SaaS and Mobile products that he helped to scale to >$100M revenue, a 4x co-founder with 2 exits and lots of lessons learnt.