Paul Welch

Role

Paul is a projects director at Kineo with ten years' experience in the industry. In this time he has designed and delivered projects of varying size and complexity from short, five minute product knowledge modules to 40 hour blended solutions with a value in excess of £500k. Paul has a wealth of experience to draw on, having delivered innovative solutions for a diverse range of organisations from both the public and private sector.

Career

Before working in the e-learning industry Paul worked for a large multinational computer company before leaving to study for his psychology degree. This background has furnished Paul with solid understanding of both IT and learning theory - handy skills for a designer working in this industry!

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"I really enjoy offering our clients solutions that meet their training needs in a creative way, whether that's designing a treatment that breathes new life into existing content or working up an entire design from a blank sheet of paper. It's gratifying to know that you've delivered something that has met the needs of the target audience whilst remaining engaging, and dare I say it, even fun wherever possible."

Matt Fox

Role

Matt is a Kineo Partner and one of Kineo's founders. Matt leads on some of our key accounts and our product development. He has over 15 years' experience in learning roles. He provides blended design consultancy, training and programme management skills, working closely with our clients' teams.

Career

Matt began his career in Higher Education, working on technology-based learning projects and running an applied research centre. He completed a PhD in technology based learning in 2000, pioneering the UK's first online distance language course. He worked as a Head of Learning Design for a major e-learning consultancy before jointly setting up Kineo in 2005.

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"I really enjoy working with our clients and getting a deep understanding of their challenges, and then working together on how best to address them. I'm passionate about learning and seeing it make a positive impact in our clients' organisations."

Cammy Bean

Role

Cammy is Kineo's VP of Learning Design. Working closely with client teams, Cammy takes the lead on learning design for our US clients.

Career

An e-learning veteran since the mid-90s, Cammy has worked in a wide range of industries, from financial services to retail and manufacturing. She has played the role of instructional designer, writer, project manager, and multimedia producer for clients such as BP, Barclays, Fidelity Investments, Putnam and Shaw's Supermarkets. See what Cammy's thinking about lately on her popular e-learning blog: Learning Visions (www.learningvisions.blogspot.com).

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"I like stirring things up a bit - trying new approaches, playing with technology tools, and connecting with the e-learning community. Above all, I love collaborating with clients to create learning programs that don't bore learners to death and actually teach something. After all, e-learning always boils down to the people and not the technology."

Sam Cook

Role

Sam is the Head of Testing at Kineo, and he and his team are responsible for ensuring consistent quality in all our products. He has overseen the testing process for every Kineo client - from BP, to the Ministry of Justice, to McDonald's. His team undertake a broad range of testing tasks, from proofreading to accessibility testing.

Career

Sam has worked in e-learning testing for nearly seven years, originally starting at Epic as a tester and then progressing to Lead tester. Sam joined Kineo in 2007, when the company comprised just 11 full time staff, and over the last two years Sam has established and expanded Kineo's testing processes to match the company's growth and growing client list.

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"My team are one of the busiest at Kineo, as we see every project the company works on. I enjoy the continuing challenge of maintaining quality in a fast-paced environment, and am determined to ensure that the great work Kineo produces is delivered to the highest standards of quality."

Stephen Walsh

Role

Stephen is one of Kineo's co-founders and partners. Stephen co-leads the design team in Kineo. He works with a wide variety of Kineo clients, ensuring we're developing practical and engaging ways to address their learning challenges. He also edits the Kineo website and newsletter, setting Kineo's tone of voice in learning and communications.

Career

Stephen worked in finance and journalism in Dublin before moving to the US. He taught English and Economics in Chicago high schools before joining Learning Sciences Corporation in Chicago in 1996. There he worked with Roger Schank, scripting and designing the early models for goal-based scenarios, going on to run the Chicago team. Moving to the UK , he held design, sales and consulting roles with Cognitive Arts, NIIT and Epic, before co-founding Kineo.

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"Tone counts when you're creating learning. It's in the design, it's in every aspect of the project. I focus on the tone we take with learners through our designs, and with our clients when working together: friendly, focused and not afraid to be different. You might even call it sassy in places. I like those places. But I would say that."

Sharon Spencer

Role

Sharon is Creative Director at Kineo and oversees all creative output from concept to delivery across a range of disciplines. Her role also requires her to manage and mentor Kineo's graphics team as well being hands on in the creation of interactive learning material for clients including Vodafone, BBC, Canon and Nikon.

Career

Sharon has 15 years' experience in the design industry with the last 4 being in e-learning. She worked as Senior Design Manager for a leading e-commerce company in the late 90s where she was also resposible their design and brand strategy prior to its acquisition in 2002. She has also worked for a number of years for London design agencies on web and new media projects for clients such as BT, MSN, Nokia and Nintendo.

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"Working as Creative Director at Kineo gives me the chance to work with some great clients and brands and allows me to bring a design agency approach to e-learning and internal communications projects. I love keeping up to date with new technologies and techniques that lead to innovative and creative solutions for our clients."

Matthew Leathes

Assistant Technical Director

Role

Matt is responsible for all technical aspects of Kineo's e-learning content and production. He designed and developed Kineo's main flash-based e-learning content development framework and also is the technical expert for programming in all other tools used by Kineo such as Atlantic Link or Articulate. He also advises Kineo staff and clients on technical aspects of design and development. Matt has worked on hundreds of e-learning solutions over the 7 years he's been involved in the industry, and has a huge range of experience in tailoring such solutions for many different clients, whether private- or public-sector.

Career

Matt has been working in the technology sector for more than 12 years, moving into web development at almost exactly the same time that Google was first released. He was an intranet developer for Denplan and then ntl before moving to Brighton and joining Epic where he worked for 5 years as developer and then senior developer. Matt started creating e-learning in Flash just as the release of Flash Player 6 revolutionized Flash development and was instrumental in driving it forward as a technology platform for e-learning at Epic. He became Kineo's eighth permanent employee in January 2008 where he continued to drive forward flash-based e-learning development as well as creating innovative functionality for off-the-shelf e-learning tools. Matt has worked with a huge range of blue-chip corporate and public-sector clients in his career, including British Airways, Virgin Atlantic, M&S, the BBC, the FA, the RAF, Orange, Vodafone, Maersk, Prudential, Standard Life, Rank, Cable&Wireless, HP, Apple, Macmillan Cancer Care and Great Ormond Street Hospital.

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"I love explaining complex technical problems and solutions to non-technical people in a way they can understand - I consider part of my job to be a kind of 'technical translator'. I believe that the best technical solutions should be simple to understand and easy to explain. Technology should be an enabler and not a barrier!"

Steve Rayson

Role

Steve is Kineo's UK Managing Partner and one of Kineo's founders. Steve is responsible for the overall management of Kineo and is obsessed with client service. Steve has spent the last 9 years designing, developing and delivering e-learning solutions for large corporate clients from McDonald's to the Ministry of Justice.

Career

Steve was formerly a Board Director at Epic where he worked for 5 years and helped to grow the company prior to its sale to Huveaux in 2005. Prior to this Steve was Director of Resources of Brighton and Hove City Council where he was responsible amongst other things for the development of the City's 7,000 staff. Steve's earlier career was as a management consultant at KPMG and Ernst & Young.

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"I love change, technology and finding solutions to problems. There are so many opportunities to improve performance through learning and technology and I feel privileged to be working with some of the world's leading organizations to help them achieve their business objectives."

Kirstie Greany

Projects Director

Role

Kirstie is a Projects Director at Kineo, where she heads-up a creative team of learning designers and project managers, working closely with clients to ensure their needs are met. Kirstie is an experienced instructional designer, and worked as a senior designer with Kineo from its early beginnings, before moving into her new role. She has extensive experience in designing creative e-learning, blended and Moodle-based solutions for a range of clients, from BP to Ufi.

Career

As an English graduate, Kirstie entered into the world of learning design through scriptwriting, and quickly moved into more fully fledged instructional design. Whilst most of Kirstie's career has been within e-learning organizations, including designing immersive learning for the National Police, she also has experience in producing websites, games and e-marketing for the arts, which helps bring a 'comms' angle into her e-learning solutions.

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"I love working with clients to get to the heart of their requirements, and designing solutions alongside Kineo's Creative and Technical Directors that are innovative, attention grabbing, and most of all, that work. I also like to be flexible in how we work with our clients - if you like collaborating and drawing up ideas together, that's great; if you want us to go away and come back with something more polished, that works for me too."

Sven Laux

Role

Sven is a Kineo Partner and Kineo's Technical Director. Sven is responsible for Kineo's technical and development teams including the Moodle and E-Learning divisions, the Testing & QA team and Kineo's IT infrastructure. Sven sets the technical vision and strategy at Kineo and works closely with a number of key clients to help define and implement their strategy around the technical aspects of learning delivery.

Career

Sven started his career in Finance (at Deutsche Bank and Fidelity Investments) before pursuing his passion in software engineering. Having stumbled across e-learning by chance during his placement year, his subsequent career focused entirely on the e-learning industry. In his pursuit of rolling out 'technical best practice' in the industry, Sven progressed through various technical roles at a number of major UK e-learning companies. His focus on various up and coming niche areas has enabled him to stay at the cutting edge of the industry and become a trusted advisor to Kineo's clients.

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I love working things out and helping people solve technical problems. I understand that people are very much at the heart of solving any problem and I pride myself in my ability to think on my clients' behalf and come up with intelligent and innovative solutions that hit the mark.

Steve Lowenthal

Role

Steve is Kineo's US CEO and is responsible for the overall management of Kineo US. Steve is passionate about learning design and understands that companies begin and end with the client's success. Steve has spent the last 20 years working with organizations to design, develop and deliver e-learning solutions.

Career

Steve spent the first 7 years of his career at Berlitz International where he worked with Fortune 1000 companies to prepare their managers for international relocation and business travel with language and cultural training programs; he got the e-learning bug, working 8 years with Roger Schank at Cognitive Arts, where he managed relationships with large corporations including Wal-Mart, Enron (yes that Enron) and State Farm to design and develop an e-learning simulation to address performance issues; he went on to challenge Chief Learning Officers at the nation's top teaching hospitals to expand the use of e-learning and the sharing of knowledge to raise the standard of care as Director of the University Healthsystem Consortium Learning Exchange; and helped organizations mitigate legal, compliance and ethics risk through structured education and communication as a senior leader at SAI Global.

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"I find it fascinating to learn about the unique culture and values of the organizations we work with, then helping those organizations extend those attributes to everything from solution design to look & feel to the words being used."

Mark Harrison

Role

Mark is a Kineo Partner and one of Kineo’s founders. Mark looks after a number of our key customers and, with 25 years of experience in the e-learning design and development world, he often provides strategic and design consultancy and support to our customers. Mark has personally produced well over 100 e-learning solutions for large corporate clients from BP to the European Commission.

Career

Mark initially started life in Employee Relations at Esso and moved into management training consultancy in 1983, running courses for the MaST Organisation in UK and Europe. In 1985 he started to design interactive learning programmes and won awards in the UK and US for his work. He was chair of the UK Interactive Designers Association in the early 90s. He worked as a Head of Consultancy for a major e-learning consultancy before jointly setting up Kineo in 2005.

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"I love to work with training and development teams on the best way to use new methods. I have built close relationships with all my clients and pride myself on adding that extra bit of help when needed to help them make the best of the technology out there."

Stuart Chadwick

Role

Stuart is a Solutions Consultant at Kineo. His role is to initially work with new clients to establish their business requirement and ensure that Kineo's solution meets their needs. He also acts as an account manager, looking after clients’ best interests and fostering ongoing business relationships. His clients include Nikon, Vodafone, Canon, British American Tobacco, Thomas Cook, UNESCO, the BBC, the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, the Homes & Communities Agency and the NSPCC.

Stuart provides consultative advice covering all things e-learning, from design through to development and implementation. These include use of learning strategies, content development, effective interactive approaches, e-learning tools, learning management systems and internal marketing. He has worked on a wide range of projects from online qualifications to award winning educational games, LMS design to the development of online communities.

Career

Stuart studied as a product designer and went on to lecture in the same at the University of Wolverhampton, where he first started developing e-learning. After a spell working as a Producer during the dot com boom and a Ski Resort Manager in France, he then went on to be a Lead Designer and Project Leader for web and e-learning projects at Epic, before moving to Kineo in 2008.

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"I love to design learning experiences which really engage people and make them enjoy learning. I like to get under the skin of a client's objectives and work out how to bring these to life for their learners. I really enjoy working with new technologies and finding ways for them to expand what we can provide in e-learning. Working as Solutions Consultant for Kineo gives me the chance to lend my experience to a fantastic range of clients and I have developed some great relationships."

Wendy Weller-Davies

Projects Director Kineo Sheffield

Role

Wendy set up the Sheffield office for Kineo in 2008. She has been in the e-learning industry for over 20 years, as instructional designer, project manager, consultant and projects director.

The Sheffield office looks after clients who are based in the North as well as a number of major clients such as HSBC and Capita. Wendy personally manages many projects and also oversees all projects run from the Sheffield office.

Wendy manages the Sheffield team to deliver high quality e-learning solutions that delight our clients and lead to repeat business.

Career

A career in secondary science teaching provided the springboard for Wendy to make the jump to designing CBT (as it was popularly known in those days). Since then she has gained experience with organisations including a performance management consultancy, an Indian e-learning provider and two UK based e-learning companies, covering all aspects of the e-learning business from initial business development through to implementation, from straightforward systems training through to complex business simulations.

This breadth of experience has equipped her for her current role of Projects Director where she is able to guide the team to win and deliver excellent projects that bring our customers back for more.

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"I enjoy the challenge of finding ever better ways to create excellent e-learning efficiently and effectively. I also love to explore how technology can be used in novel and interesting ways to help organisations achieve their business ambitions."

Theo Cardiff

Role

Theo is the Head of E-learning Development. She and her team develop e-learning courses using authoring tools and Kineo’s HTML and Flash-based templates. They also provide expertise and training in rapid tools such as Articulate and Captivate. Theo has worked closely with clients to enable a collaborative approach based around the use of rapid tools.

Career

Before working in e-learning, Theo worked in Logistics and Supply Chain Management. It was during this time that she developed a keen interest in finding ways of using technology to improve efficiency. This led to her training other people in the use of various applications.

Her interest in learning was further increased after she spent a year and half teaching English as a foreign language in Spain and the UK.

Theo joined Kineo in November 2007 and was the first and only e-learning developer. Since then she has helped to grow the e-learning development team and define its role within the company.

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"I love it when our team becomes an extension of the client's internal team. It's enormously satisfying finding the right model for collaborating in the development of e-learning. I enjoy helping clients to select and work with e-learning tools sharing the knowledge that we’ve gained."

Hertzel Kuriel

Role

Hertzel is Kineo Israel's founder and managing partner. Hertzel is responsible for the overall management of Kineo Israel and is fanatic with quality service and client experience. Hertzel has more than 12 years of experience as an executive in e-learning, product management and project management.

Career

Hertzel was formerly a Vice President of Client Service and Operations at Tegrity, a Silicon Valley, CA based e-learning solution provider where he worked for over 8 years and helped to grow company's client base. During his tenure at Tegrity, Hertzel has managed the implementation and delivery of Tegrity's e-learning solutions to leading US universities, colleges and business organizations. Prior to this, Hertzel worked at Ness Technologies, one of Israel's leading IT solution provider in various managerial roles, serving leading Israeli organizations.

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"I love innovations, technology and learning and am fascinated in using all this to deliver the best learning experience which improves individual and organizational performance."