FOUNDER'S OFFICE · LONDON
David Doan
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Architect of the Britwise platform from first commit. Sets product direction, leads enterprise partnerships, and oversees the engineering of every learner-facing surface — from B2C games to enterprise dashboards.
Sophie Whitmore
Chief Operating Officer
Runs the day-to-day across product, sales, and customer success. Previously scaled UK edtech operations from 5 to 80 staff over four years.
Omer Cakice
Chief Technology Officer
Leads the Britwise engineering architecture — backend services, AI pipelines, and the multi-tenant data layer that powers every cohort. Owns the deploy automation and the production SLO.
Santosh Mahat
Director of Nepalese Partnerships & Himalayan Diaspora Affairs
Leads Britwise's expansion across Nepal and the Himalayan diaspora — connecting Nepali learners in Kathmandu, the Gulf, and the UK with world-class English coaching. Holds a double Master's degree, with a decade at the intersection of education, mobility, and diaspora policy.
Nepal & Himalayan partnerships
Sudiksha Shrestha
Director of Nepalese Community Relations & Learner Advocacy
Britwise's voice in the Nepalese community — building lasting relationships with learners, families, agencies, and women's networks across Kathmandu, Pokhara, and the diaspora. Sudiksha turns first-time enquiries into lifelong learners, and her relationship-driven outreach has made Nepal one of our most engaged communities.
Ashley Nguyễn
Chief Academic Officer
Owns the entire learning experience — curriculum design, pedagogy, and teaching standards across IELTS, Career English, and Junior. Authors the Cambridge-aligned band descriptors that calibrate every Britwise rubric, and chairs the faculty council of native-British examiners.
Eleanor Hartfield
Director of Schools (B2S)
Lands and scales school deployments. Former head of an international school MFL department. Owns the headteacher dashboard roadmap.
Mehmet Demir
Director of Enterprise (B2B)
Leads our enterprise pipeline across EMEA + APAC. Negotiates global rollouts and owns the HR ROI dashboard product roadmap.
Trinh Nguyen
Head of Quality Assurance & Frontend UX Reliability
Britwise's quality bar before any release ships. Trinh owns frontend reliability across our B2C marketplace, caseworker console, and Superadmin tooling — every paywall and cohort flow passes her gate first. A Bachelor's in International Business (Supply Chain Management) from Finland gives her a relentless eye for process and the failure modes that compound between releases.
Oliver Pemberton
Head of AI Coaching
Owns Angie, the AI examiner. Calibrates band scoring across speaking and writing against blind Cambridge benchmark sets.
Zeynep Aydın
Director of Strategic Partnerships
Builds the partnership network — language institutes, examiners, universities. Closed the inbound from Bosphorus Institute partnership talks.
Bùi Quốc Việt
VP Engineering
Runs the engineering team. Oversees the rollout cadence — weekly production deploys to Hetzner, zero-downtime migrations, and the platform SLO.
Charlotte Wainwright
Director of Trust & Safety
Owns GDPR compliance, parental-consent flows for Junior, and the public Trust Centre. Ex-edtech safeguarding lead.
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ENGLISH FACULTY · ALL BRITISH-NATIVE
11 examiners and tutors behind every band score
Britwise doesn't just run AI in a black box. Every band-rubric calibration, every model answer, every grammar note in the daily curriculum is written and stress-tested by a senior native-British examiner with a Cambridge or UCL pedigree.
James Holloway
Senior IELTS Examiner
Cambridge CELTA + DELTA. 12 years prep for top-band candidates. Authors our Speaking Part 3 corpus.
Eleanor Pritchard
Head of Writing Calibration
Former Cambridge Assessment Task 2 examiner. Sets the Band 7/8/9 boundary for our AI Writing Grader.
Henry Wadsworth
Senior Speaking Tutor
RP-accent specialist with 8 years 1:1 prep. Tunes Angie's prosody and stress-pattern feedback rules.
Beatrice Sinclair
Junior English Lead
Primary specialist (KS1-KS2). Designs the Junior daily pack — stories, songs, phonics — for 7-12 year olds.
Oliver Fairfax
Pronunciation & Phonetics Coach
MA Phonetics, UCL. Builds the IPA-mapping engine that powers Britwise pronunciation scoring across 4 native accents.
Imogen Carrington
Reading Comprehension Lead
Authors the IELTS Reading Simulator passages and grades the True/False/Not Given calibration set.
Theodore Ashworth
Listening & Accent Coach
Voice director on 30+ audiobook productions. Curates the 4-accent UK/US/AU/CA listening drills.
Penelope Stratton
Career English Specialist
Corporate communications consultant — 15 years coaching senior executives. Authors our Office English Daily Pack.
Edmund Wycombe
Grammar & Lexis Editor
Author of two CUP grammar reference titles. Owns every grammar focus note across the daily curriculum.
Cordelia Penrose
Live Tutor — Top Band
Books out three weeks ahead. Specialist in pushing Band 7.5 → 8.5 candidates over the line.
Reginald Thackeray
Examiner Training Lead
Trains every other Britwise tutor on Cambridge band rubric calibration. The standard-setter for our standard-setters.
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