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What Our Clients Say
Discover how Skills U has empowered professional teams to grow and succeed.
We’ve seen a marked improvement in employee engagement in L&D efforts since using Skills U. I recommend it to any organization serious about delivering real value to their employees.
Prema S.
Program Manager, Workforce Development, Hospitality Management
Skills U has completely transformed the way we manage coaching and training for our employees. The onboarding and intuitive scheduling tools have saved our team countless hours, allowing us to focus on supporting our employees’ growth rather than administrative tasks.
Ameena A.
Head of Learning & Development, Healthcare
Our employees rave about the coaching sessions. The platform’s user-friendly makes it easy to find the best coaches that can support them in their career journey.
Adrian T.
Chief Human Resources Officer, Education
We’ve seen a marked improvement in employee engagement in L&D efforts since using Skills U. I recommend it to any organization serious about delivering real value to their employees.
Prema S.
Program Manager, Workforce Development, Hospitality Management
Skills U has completely transformed the way we manage coaching and training for our employees. The onboarding and intuitive scheduling tools have saved our team countless hours, allowing us to focus on supporting our employees’ growth rather than administrative tasks.
Ameena A.
Head of Learning & Development, Healthcare
Our employees rave about the coaching sessions. The platform’s user-friendly makes it easy to find the best coaches that can support them in their career journey.
Adrian T.
Chief Human Resources Officer, Education
Skills U’s insights have helped us identify skill gaps and provide tailored training programs for maximum impact. We’re now confident in our ability to meet both employee and organizational needs.
Arlene M.
Head of Human Resources, Sales & Marketing
The integrated goal tracking and reporting features have made it easy to measure our employees’ progress. For the first time, we have clear, actionable insights into the effectiveness of our training.
Gladys K.
Training Coordinator, Public Services
Skills U is more than a platform—it’s a strategic partner in our mission to empower adult learners with the skills and support they need to succeed.
Sarah N.
Director of Talent Management, Finance & Banking
Skills U’s insights have helped us identify skill gaps and provide tailored training programs for maximum impact. We’re now confident in our ability to meet both employee and organizational needs.
Arlene M.
Head of Human Resources, Sales & Marketing
The integrated goal tracking and reporting features have made it easy to measure our employees’ progress. For the first time, we have clear, actionable insights into the effectiveness of our training.
Gladys K.
Training Coordinator, Public Services
Skills U is more than a platform—it’s a strategic partner in our mission to empower adult learners with the skills and support they need to succeed.
Sarah N.
Director of Talent Management, Finance & Banking
Meet Our Team
Meet the passionate people behind Skills U — dedicated professionals combining industry experience and innovation to empower your workforce and drive measurable growth.
Our Faculty and Program Team
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
Delfrinando is the Cloud Engineering Lead at Skills Union and has experience as a Senior Software 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.
Our Board and Advisory Group
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.
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