John Phillips

Senior Marketing and Communications Manager, China

Based out of their new office in Shanghai, John is charged with overseeing all offline and online communications within China, he will work closely with the UK Marketing division as well as with the recruitment team in market. A nine year veteran of Asia, John joins Kings from Study Group where he performed a similar function with their portfolio of International Study Centres. Prior to joining Kings Colleges, he spent almost three years in an editorial capacity at the Taipei Times, overseeing the paper’s bilingual section. John is a graduate of Loughborough University and a proficient Mandarin speaker.

Kaylee Hong

Regional Director, North/South East Asia

Kaylee is responsible for recruiting students from North/South East Asia. She works closely with agents to ensure proper information about Kings programmes is delivered to potential students. She is responsible for overall logistics and management of her region’s marketing strategy which can include hosting overseas fairs, seminars and supporting agents in their marketing efforts.

“I have been working in the international education industry for the past 7 years. Prior to that, I worked with disadvantaged children and was a public relations account executive. In between those jobs I found the time to get a postgraduate degree in International Affairs and Management. I love to travel, meet people from different culture and eat strange food from the far sides of the world… which is exactly what I get to do at Kings Colleges!”

Jose Corrie

Regional Director

Jose is responsible for recruiting students from Latin America, Turkey and Saudi Arabia. He works closely with agents to ensure proper information about Kings programmes are delivered to potential students. He is responsible for the overall logistics and management of his region’s marketing strategy, which can include hosting overseas exhibitions, seminars and supporting agents in their marketing efforts.

“After graduating at the Metropolitana University as a Civil Engineer in Caracas, I moved to London to improve my English for six months. Little did I know that I would end up living in the UK indefinitely, working in the Education industry and even becoming a British citizen!

I have been working in the international education industry for the past nine years and I've been lucky enough to have worked with three of the leading chains of international language schools. Throughout my career in this field I have had the privilege of being responsible for Western European markets, Turkey, the Middle East and most recently Latin America - which has enriched my life immensely.

I enjoy meeting new people, traveling and getting to know new cultures as well as trying different cuisines. In my spare time, one of my main passions is cooking, particularly Thai and Indian food.”

Wayne Matthews-Stroud

Head of Marketing Content & Photography

Wayne creates the content which appears in all Kings Colleges printed and online marketing materials. He is responsible for producing all photography and video material as well as stories, articles and general editorial content.

"I've produced images and stories for the international education sector for nearly seven years now and have conducted many photo shoots in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and the USA. I am always fascinated by the wide range of different people and life stories that I find at Kings and every shoot or interview is always new and different. Meeting and photographing our students is fun, exciting and I've made a lot of new friends along the way."

James Allwright

Head of Design

James joined the team in March 2009 and is responsible for creating all of the designed materials for Kings. This includes everything from producing business cards and letterheads, right the way through to the conception and design of this website and the main Kings brochures.

“It’s been a busy year! We’ve rebranded, produced a new website and totally re-imagined our 2010 marketing brochures. There’s always a constant (read:heavy!) flow of work coming into the studio, but fortunately I love what I do! When not working on projects for Kings I spend a lot of my time perusing design blogs and visiting design and art exhibitions, which keep me up to speed with current design trends. I also love the great outdoors and you can find me most sunny weekends either climbing hills with my wife on our mountain bikes, or bobbing around the sea in a kayak.”

Danielle Watts

Business Development Manager

Danielle is currently involved with most areas of marketing and sales, as well as summer camps and other projects such as residential accommodation, agent relations and ensuring that Kings achieves excellent customer service standards in all areas.

"As my father (Bob Watts) used to own Kings, the colleges have been part of my life since I was a little girl. I started working here when I was about 15 and have had various jobs including teaching, summer camps organisation and management of the marketing department. I have also worked as an agent in Italy and have been a host family! I met my husband Marco Travaglia on my teacher training course and we now have two little boys who like nothing better than sword-fighting and pretending to be dinosaurs so home-life is pretty noisy. We don't really have time for hobbies although Marco is a good cook and we are trying to get fit! I studied French and Spanish at Oxford University and also speak very bad Italian. I have to admit that I'm not a natural linguist! I have travelled quite a bit with trips to Thailand, UAE, China, Hong Kong, Canada and Europe. In the next couple of years I'd like to explore more of Spain and also see more of Eastern Europe and Turkey."

Karen Bradley

Manager, Central Marketing Unit

Karen heads up the Central Marketing Unit which provides support for the overseas marketing team and agents.  This includes coordinating new agent registrations, maintaining and updating the agent database, assisting with enquiries and quotations, organising agent visits and distribution of brochures, marketing materials and promotional communications. Karen also produces statistical information for the marketing team and assists with the arrangements for industry events and exhibitions.

“I have been working in international education for nearly 20 years. Before Kings, I held various positions at Study Group including Admissions Manager, Systems & Training Manager and finally Director of Admissions. I have also hosted international students for several summers.

"Outside of Kings, my one-year old daughter keeps me very busy!  I enjoy sports, including swimming, skiing and I captain a netball team in a local league.  I love travelling and in the early part of my career I took a year out to travel round the world visiting various countries in Asia, Australia/New Zealand, USA and Canada.”

Olga Goss

Regional Manager

"My international education experience began in 1995 in my hometown of Moscow working for two well known Russian agents recruiting students to study abroad.  
 
After meeting my future husband to be (who was the Regional Manager at Study Group) I inevitably, became part of Study Group. I worked there for nearly 6 years and had a chance to see the way the industry works from various angles: from Marketing perspective at the Regional office in Prague, Admissions at the IAC in Brighton, Counsellor - in the Direct Students department and even as a Host family (which was a great fun!).
 
I then had a 5-year break looking after my young children and have recently joined Kings Colleges.
 
Kings is great – I get to do the job I love and with people I like in the sphere of international education which I have always enjoyed so much, within a growing educational organisation which has a great variety of locations and courses, brilliant academic results and a strong history and tradition. And, as a bonus, most of my former work friends are now my work colleagues at Kings! One of them I liked so much I even married him!"

Theresa Patton

Marketing Administrator

Theresa provides general office support within the marketing unit to both agent partners and internal colleagues. She deals with agent enquiries, Agent Questionnaires and Agent Agreements as well as assisting with managing, maintaining and updating the Kings agent database.  Theresa also deals with direct student enquiries along with processing brochure and material requests.

“After finishing college to work as a Medical Secretary for two years I then joined a School Tour Operator company as Receptionist and then School Tour Co-ordinator. I then spent 9 months travelling around the world in the early 1990’s.

I have spent 12 years of my career in the international education sector. I've held various positions including Admissions Co-ordinator, Admissions Supervisor and Year Round Admissions Manager. This has given me a wealth of all-round knowledge for both student and agent requirements.

I have a young energetic family and I enjoy travel, swimming, eating out, socialising, reading and activities with my children. I also enjoy helping on school trips with my children and assisting with reading in their classrooms when possible."

Alya Stetsyuk

Regional Manager, China

"I graduated from the Russian State University (Moscow) in Humanities in 1993 but being married to professional Sinologue moved to live in China in 1995, so the Chinese language became my second professional line.

I started working for Kings in China in 1999 and I am proud to say that during these 15 years together with our Chinese partners we have helped hundreds of Chinese students to find success through Kings Colleges and also the top UK universities. I think it is important in my job to convince people how serious we are about their children’s education and that Kings provides high standards of teaching. Obviously, best proof of this is my own experience as a Kings Parent – my son successfully completed his A-levels at Kings Oxford and is continuing his studies in Accounting & Finance at Manchester University.

We used to travel around the world – China, Russia, Great Britain - and we very much enjoy living in a cross-culture environment and communicating to people from different countries."

Shelan Rodger

Market Development Manager, Europe

A modern languages graduate from Oxford University, Shelan trained initially as an EFL teacher and travelled to Argentina, where she lived for 10 years and set up an English language school. On her return to the UK, she developed her career in international education first as Principal of the London school for Embassy CES, then as Director of Study Group’s UK schools, before moving into recruitment and marketing as Sales Director for Europe, Middle East and Africa. Shelan joins us now in a market development role with a focus on boosting adult student recruitment from Europe and assisting with development of our new International High School Programme.

‘I have recently returned from a six-year adventure in Kenya, where I set up a learning and development consultancy and achieved a lifelong ambition of writing a novel. I am now happy to be back in the world of international education, having relocated to Spain and joined the Kings team. My life has been enriched by travel and languages and cultural diversity, so it means a lot to me to work in a field that is all about helping people learn and experience other cultures.

'Another thing that is important to me is fun, and I have a lot of that – at work and outside it! I also love nature – and when I get home from my travels, it is a joy to simply go walking, with my husband and dogs, in Andalucía’s beautiful rocky hills.’ 

Marco Travaglia

Regional Manager, Europe

With a background in Finance and Insurance both in Italy and the UK Marco has marketed Kings Colleges for the last 10 years! He is now responsible for sales in Europe but has been heavily involved in other markets such as Korea and Japan in the past.

"I have been involved with Kings for many years both in Italy and the UK. I do not really have much free time but when I do decide is time for a break I like skiing, swimming and running and spend as much time as possible with my two boys Luca and Bruno."

Emma Charleston

Junior Designer

Emma joined the team in January 2011 as a Junior Designer. Her work spans everything from creating letterheads and business cards, to signage at the colleges, video editing, and visiting the colleges to assist on photoshoots.

"I graduated from Brighton university with a degree in graphic design in the summer of 2010. I'm delighted to have joined the design team at Kings - the job is certainly varied, and there's never a lack of exciting new projects to work on. I'm always learning new things, and the International Education sector is a fascinating industry to produce design for."

Nick Addy

Marketing Coordinator

Nick’s job is all about relationships. Relationships with agents, with students and with group leaders. Nick communicates regularly with these people, mainly by email, as well as planning and organising agent group trips to Kings.

"Previously I worked as a website designer, living in Vancouver and Brighton, before doing my CELTA and becoming an EFL teacher. It’s fascinating to work in an environment where you can meet and learn about people from all over the world. I was lucky to meet my now wife Ilona, from Poland, when working at a different college. I am trying to learn Polish, but it’s a very difficult language. I am busy renovating our flat at the moment, but when I have some free time, I enjoy world cinema and attempting to cook food from different countries – Indian is a personal favourite!"

Dave Few

Regional Manager

Dave is responsible for managing Moscow, St. Petersburg and Ukraine as well as supporting regional activity in Hong Kong.

“I started my education in Spain and have studied under UK and USA education systems. I was surrounded by education from an early age as my father was a principal and also taught English classes. I have worked at many UK and USA summer camps from the age of 15 giving me an understanding of how they should ultimately function. I studied Sustainable Product Design at university and continued on to study a Post Graduate Certificate in Education. I love to travel and experience new foods and cultures. Helping people achieve their goals is a dream job for me."

Helen Wu

Regional Manager, China

Helen is responsible for recruiting students from China. She works closely with agents to ensure proper information about Kings programmes is delivered to potential students.

"I have always had a keen interest in international education, which was what originally inspired me to come to the UK to follow a postgraduate course at Leeds University in 2004. After graduating, I held a variety of positions both as an agent, consultant and now on the institution side with Kings Colleges as Regional Manager for China. What I love about Kings is the commitment to providing a highly personalised, individual education combined with the choice and professionalism of an international education group. I am very passionate about my work and get great pleasure at providing an excellent service both to our partners and of course their students at our schools in the US and UK."

Inga Chazova

Regional Manager, Former Soviet Union countries

Inga is responsible for recruiting students from Former Soviet Union countries.

"Before working at Kings I acquired excellent experience at different colleges and schools in London, which provided me with a deep insight into international student recruitment and helped me to get an idea of how important academic processes and environments are for students who learn in a foreign language. Last year I graduated from the University of London with a Masters degree in Intercultural Communications which shows my passion for various cultures and languages, considering the fact that I come from a mix of four nationalities in my family and that I have been learning different languages all my life!

It is a real honor for me to work at Kings Colleges with students from different countries as I can visit all of those beautiful places and meet different people!
I am very passionate about my job and the changing educational system."

Tomoyuki Yamamoto

Regional/Admissions Manager

Tomo is responsible for marketing for Japan and he also handles admissions duties at Kings Los Angeles.

‘Since graduating from university in Japan, I have always been involved in the foreign language training industry. I used to be a school teacher in Australia – teaching Japanese, and taught English at a Japanese high school. I moved to America in 2004 and since then I have been worked in the study-abroad industry. In my spare time, I love to watch movies, edit videos clips and enjoy walks with my dog.’

Sam Huang

Regional Manager – China Market

Sam is responsible for recruiting students from China. He works closely with agents to ensure proper information about Kings programmes are delivered to potential students. His role can include hosting overseas exhibitions, seminars and supporting agents in their marketing efforts.

‘I have been working for Kings Colleges since 2009 and focusing on the marketing and student recruitment in the Chinese market. Before that, I was working in China, Malaysia and the UK since 1997 and accumulated my experience in marketing, sales, international business and logistic & Supply Chain Management. In 2004, I decided to do my MBA in the UK and start my career in education until 2007 and now I am very happy to be the member of Kings Colleges. For me, the best part is that I can deliver top quality academic programmes to Chinese students and provide great pathways for them into the world-famous universities in UK and USA.’