With offices in London, Milan, Johannesburg, Dubai, Bogota and Auckland, Inspired has regional teams to support our growing family of schools in Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa. To manage this diversity, we draw upon our wide-ranging educational and operational management expertise to share best practice across our Group.
Nadim M Nsouli
Inspired Founder, Chairman & CEO
Nadim M Nsouli founded Inspired in 2013 with the goal of creating a leading global group of premium schools. Starting with Inspired’s first acquisition of Reddam House, a leading group of schools in South Africa, Nadim rapidly expanded the group globally via a series of acquisitions and building greenfield schools while maintaining the focus on only having the best schools around the world as part of the group...
Nadim M Nsouli founded Inspired in 2013 with the goal of creating a leading global group of premium schools. Starting with Inspired’s first acquisition of Reddam House, a leading group of schools in South Africa, Nadim rapidly expanded the group globally via a series of acquisitions and building greenfield schools while maintaining the focus on only having the best schools around the world as part of the group.
Prior to founding Inspired, Nadim was a partner at Providence Equity Partners, a private equity firm with $40 billion under management. Nadim was also a member of Providence's Global Investment Committee and led Providence's Education investment efforts in Europe and the Middle East. Prior to joining Providence in 2006, Nadim was the European head of The Gores Group, a special situations private equity fund based in Los Angeles. Previously, Nadim was a member of the media and telecommunications investment banking teams of Morgan Stanley and J.P. Morgan in London. Nadim started his career in New York as a corporate lawyer at Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue.
Nadim received a Master of Business Administration from INSEAD with distinction, a Juris Doctor from New York University School of Law and a Bachelor of Science (magna cum laude) from Georgetown University.
Graeme Crawford
Reddam House Founder & Inspired Group President
Graeme Crawford is a renowned educator who began his career as a science teacher and believed that much more could be done to improve educational standards.
Driven by his own negative schooling experiences, he began conceiving a school that could provide a rounded education through a dynamic new approach. This was aimed at maximising not just the academic standard, but also the confidence, potentia...
Graeme Crawford is a renowned educator who began his career as a science teacher and believed that much more could be done to improve educational standards.
Driven by his own negative schooling experiences, he began conceiving a school that could provide a rounded education through a dynamic new approach. This was aimed at maximising not just the academic standard, but also the confidence, potential and individuality of each child. Graeme opened his first school in 1993. In the following five years the Crawford Schools grew to 6 in total. In 2000, he founded Reddam House. His impressive track record spans more than two decades and since 1993 Graeme Crawford’s schools have educated more than 32,000 students.
Dr. Marc Ledermann
Chief Executive Officer – Europe
Before joining Inspired in 2017, Marc spent 15 years in a number of senior leadership positions within Laureate International Universities. Marc started at Laureate as Vice President Enrollment where he built the student enrollment organization for the Laureate Hotel Management Schools (with branches in Switzerland, Spain, China and Australia). In 2008, Marc became CEO of Les Roches Jin Jiang International Hotel Manageme...
Before joining Inspired in 2017, Marc spent 15 years in a number of senior leadership positions within Laureate International Universities. Marc started at Laureate as Vice President Enrollment where he built the student enrollment organization for the Laureate Hotel Management Schools (with branches in Switzerland, Spain, China and Australia). In 2008, Marc became CEO of Les Roches Jin Jiang International Hotel Management College, a joint venture in Shanghai, China. He then relocated to Milan, Italy to take over as CEO of Laureate Italian Art and Design Universities, which is comprised of Domus Academy (DA) and NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, two prestigious Italian design institutions, with over 4000 students in Italy and 6000 students internationally. In addition, to his CEO role in Italy, he also led the global business development as Senior Vice President of Laureate Design Universities and he served as member of the board of directors in various international universities. Marc is Swiss and completed his university studies up to an MBA in Switzerland. He completed a doctoral degree in international business in 2018.
Rabih Saab
Chief Executive Officer – NORTH Africa & The Middle East
Ravi Nadasen
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER - SOUTH AFRICA
Clarence van der Wel
Chief Executive Officer – APAC
Matt Harbison
Chief Executive Officer - Americas
Prior to joining Inspired as CEO Americas Matt spent 14 years with Laureate International Universities in various senior management roles, including leading Laureate’s expansion into the working adult market, launching first a successful program in Mexico and later in Brazil, Chile, Peru, Costa Rica, and Panama.
Matt next spent three years structuring the Brazil region and simultaneously le...
Prior to joining Inspired as CEO Americas Matt spent 14 years with Laureate International Universities in various senior management roles, including leading Laureate’s expansion into the working adult market, launching first a successful program in Mexico and later in Brazil, Chile, Peru, Costa Rica, and Panama.
Matt next spent three years structuring the Brazil region and simultaneously leading one of the top-ranked business graduate schools in Brazil. Later, as CEO of Laureate Panama, Matt led a successful transformation turnaround, including the merger of two universities, the construction of a 40,000m² campus in Panama City, and a return to academic excellence & profitability. Matt started his career in sales & marketing at MTV Networks and Time Inc. in LA and New York. He holds two bachelors degrees in Plan II Honors & Latin American Studies from the University of Texas and an MBA from both Columbia Business School and London Business School. He is fluent in Spanish & Portuguese.
Elena Benito
Europe Chief Operating Officer & Managing Director Spain
Prior to joining Inspired, Elena Benito was the CEO of the King’s Group, which she joined in 2011. Before King’s, she worked as CFO for Zed Latam and Finance Director for Monsanto in Spain and Portugal. Ms Benito trained as a Chartered Accountant at Deloitte in both Spain and the UK, and is a member of the Spanish Institute of Chartered Accountants. She holds a degree in Economics and Busines...
Prior to joining Inspired, Elena Benito was the CEO of the King’s Group, which she joined in 2011. Before King’s, she worked as CFO for Zed Latam and Finance Director for Monsanto in Spain and Portugal. Ms Benito trained as a Chartered Accountant at Deloitte in both Spain and the UK, and is a member of the Spanish Institute of Chartered Accountants. She holds a degree in Economics and Business Administration from the San Pablo CEU University of Madrid, and a degree in Law from the UNED. She won her MBA from ESADE in 2009 and her AMP in 2019.
Robert Rostas
Group Chief Financial Officer
Robert is the Group Chief Financial Officer, based out of London, United Kingdom. He joined Inspired in October 2017.
Prior to Inspired, he was a Senior Operations Advisor at TPG Capital for over two years with a focus on upgrading the Finance and IT capabilities of TPG portfolio companies in Europe. He held two Interim CFO roles at Retail and Leisure companies and multiple transformational lead...
Robert is the Group Chief Financial Officer, based out of London, United Kingdom. He joined Inspired in October 2017.
Prior to Inspired, he was a Senior Operations Advisor at TPG Capital for over two years with a focus on upgrading the Finance and IT capabilities of TPG portfolio companies in Europe. He held two Interim CFO roles at Retail and Leisure companies and multiple transformational leadership roles.
Prior to TPG, he worked at General Electric for 11 years where he held a diverse set of Finance Leadership roles across different sectors and regions, such as Global Divisional CFO, Finance Director, Financial Planning & Analysis Manager and Finance Transformation Leader.
Robert is a graduate of the General Electric’s Financial Management Program and the Corporate Audit Staff. He obtained his Masters from the Budapest University of Economics, Hungary.
Mark O’Donoghue
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER - Inspired Schools Online
Mark joined Inspired to launch and develop our first totally online school, King’s College Online. Mark draws on significant experience in online education, international education and digital companies. Educated at Oxford University and INSEAD, Mark started his digital career with early pub websites, followed by a music news start-up...
Mark joined Inspired to launch and develop our first totally online school, King’s College Online. Mark draws on significant experience in online education, international education and digital companies. Educated at Oxford University and INSEAD, Mark started his digital career with early pub websites, followed by a music news start-up, dotmusic.com that was sold to a BT Yahoo! joint venture. He joined Hotcourses in 2004 driving the digitisation and internationalisation of its course discovery websites business prior to a sale to IDP Education, the world's largest education agency group. He then joined AVADO Learning first as COO then CEO. AVADO delivers online learning to individuals and companies across digital transformation, digital marketing, HR and accounting programmes, where Mark built out learning content partnerships with organisations like Google, Tableau and the CIPD. After a brief, unfortunately timed foray into travel (3 months pre-COVID) with the otherwise excellent Travel Counsellors, Mark joins Inspired with a passion for the potential of online schooling to transform the education prospects for generations of children.
Vincent Gillet
Chief Marketing Officer
Vincent Gillet is a Global Marketer with 25 years of multi-industry experience. A French national, Vincent began his career in London in Luxury Goods with Chanel and LVMH. He then joined the Hospitality sector with Six Senses and Starwood Hotels. As Global CMO for Six Senses, he worked closely with the Founder & CEO to develop the unique brand of...
Vincent Gillet is a Global Marketer with 25 years of multi-industry experience. A French national, Vincent began his career in London in Luxury Goods with Chanel and LVMH. He then joined the Hospitality sector with Six Senses and Starwood Hotels. As Global CMO for Six Senses, he worked closely with the Founder & CEO to develop the unique brand of high-end Sustainable Tourism & Wellness that the Six Senses brand is renowned for and then with Starwood Hotels leading the Premium portfolio of hotels where he focused on leveraging high-profile partnerships, digital experience and global hotel launches.
Vincent then moved to Hong Kong with Nissan’s premium brand Infiniti as Global CMO, overseeing the launch in China and enhancing the Digital & Dealership experiences in the core US, Russian and Middle-Eastern markets. He then moved back to London as CMO International for Hertz where he focused on revitalising the brand, growing digital-first revenues and overhauling and modernising customer experience. Having lived across Europe, the US & Asia with his two boys who have attended several bilingual international schools as a consequence, he is passionate about and committed to first class, forward-thinking education.
Nicholas Wergan
Global Education Director
Nick is the Global Education Director for Inspired, based out of London, United Kingdom. Nick joined Inspired after six years as Headteacher at Steyning Grammar School, and was elected Chair of the Boarding Schools’ Association in 2019. He was appointed a National Leader of Education by the UK Department for Education, and founded the Pavilion and Downs Teaching School Alliance...
Nick is the Global Education Director for Inspired, based out of London, United Kingdom. Nick joined Inspired after six years as Headteacher at Steyning Grammar School, and was elected Chair of the Boarding Schools’ Association in 2019. He was appointed a National Leader of Education by the UK Department for Education, and founded the Pavilion and Downs Teaching School Alliance. Following a successful international career in Investment Banking (leading Emerging European Equity teams at US, UK and European investment banks, including Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch and HSBC), Nick trained as a teacher at Pembroke College, Oxford in 2004. Nick is an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, UK National Teaching Awards Winner in 2007 and received an MA in Education Studies from the University of Sussex. Nick is a Board member of the Safeguarding and Child Protection Association.
John O’Connor
MANAGING DIRECTOR EAST AFRICA & AFRICA EDUCATION DIRECTOR
John O'Connor graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor's Degree in Literature and a Diploma in Education. His 30-year career in Education began in Australia, and for the last 25 years he has worked in Kenya. Born in Perth, Western Australia, John chose to take Kenyan citizenship a decade ago. He was at Hillcrest School in Nairobi in various roles for 14 years, before beco...
John O'Connor graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor's Degree in Literature and a Diploma in Education. His 30-year career in Education began in Australia, and for the last 25 years he has worked in Kenya. Born in Perth, Western Australia, John chose to take Kenyan citizenship a decade ago. He was at Hillcrest School in Nairobi in various roles for 14 years, before becoming Director at Brookhouse School in 2004. John currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Round Square, a global association of 150 schools devoted to holistic education and servant leadership training. He is a visiting team member, reader and co-chair for the Council of International schools (CIS) and a member of the Association of International Schools of Africa. In 2012, John was invited to join the Heads of the G-20 group of eminent schools. He also serves on the Board of Trustees of the Human Needs Project, a community sustainability initiative for the people of Kibera, the largest informal settlement in Kenya.
Sir Roger Fry
Senior Education Advisor
Sir Roger Fry graduated from King’s College London and qualified as a teacher at London University’s Institute of Education. After a brief teaching career in the UK, he moved abroad and built up the group of King’s College British International Schools (now members of Inspired), later founding an Academy Trust in England. He holds an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Portsmouth (city...
Sir Roger Fry graduated from King’s College London and qualified as a teacher at London University’s Institute of Education. After a brief teaching career in the UK, he moved abroad and built up the group of King’s College British International Schools (now members of Inspired), later founding an Academy Trust in England. He holds an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Portsmouth (city of his birth), is an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College Oxford, is Honorary President of the Council of British International Schools (COBIS) and Chairman of the Association of British Schools Overseas (AoBSO).
Sonsoles Castellano Zapatero
SPANISH/BILINGUAL EDUCATION DIRECTOR
Sonsoles has been the Policy Educational Director of Colegio San Patricio since 1999. Sonsoles was a History and Humanities teacher for over 23 years at all gradel levels. In 1984, she received her Degree in Geography and History, specializing in Prehistory & Archaeology. In 2001, she completed the Master Program Course DICIE in Management of Educational Centers at Villanueva University in Madri...
Sonsoles has been the Policy Educational Director of Colegio San Patricio since 1999. Sonsoles was a History and Humanities teacher for over 23 years at all gradel levels. In 1984, she received her Degree in Geography and History, specializing in Prehistory & Archaeology. In 2001, she completed the Master Program Course DICIE in Management of Educational Centers at Villanueva University in Madrid. She has led educational innovation processes in the 4 Colegio San Patricio schools focusing on Emotional Intelligence in School Environments and application of learning by tasks in multilingual contexts. Since 2001, she has worked in Management of educational quality in EFQM environments and in 2018 she was appointed as a leader for Innovation Technology and Circular Economy. For 20 years she has led the Spanish section of the Model European Parliament. In 2019, she has become an Award leader of the Duke of Edinburgh to inspire and involve schools and young students in this challenge.
Nigel Fossey
LATIN AMERICA EDUCATION DIRECTOR
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