Company

The people behind the mentors

A rare convergence of academics, AI researchers, learning designers and operators — all pointed at the same question: does the child actually learn more?

Team

Leadership & advisory

Founder & CEO

Prof. Martin Spraggon

Clinical psychologist, professional actor, author, former Dean and serial entrepreneur, with 30 years spent disrupting education as a professor, founder and advisor.

COO

Prof. Marc Poulin

Operations leadership across academic and commercial programmes, turning pilots into repeatable deployments.

CTO

Mohammed Abdullatteff, MBA

Technology leader responsible for the mentor system, the quest generation engine and the learning platform architecture.

CBO

Prof. Kamal Bouzinab

Full Professor of Strategy, directing global EMBA programmes and international academic partnerships.

CMO

Prof. Boris Lezhava

Brand, communications and go-to-market for family, school and ministry audiences.

CAO

Prof. Amadeus Kubicek

Academic leadership across learning design, curriculum alignment and programme quality.

CAIO

Prof. Davide La Torre

Mathematician and Full Professor of Applied Mathematics and AI, with 260+ publications applying AI across economics, medicine and sustainability.

Senior Advisor

Dr. Markos Tibbo

Advisory across institutional partnerships and regional development throughout the UAE and wider GCC.

How we work

What this team optimises for

  • Evidence over claims — if time-to-mastery, retention and transfer are not measured, nothing has been proven
  • Mastery over completion — finishing a module is not the same as being able to do something
  • Safety as architecture — a product for children is designed for children from the first line of code
  • Academic rigour paired with shipping speed — research-grade methods, product-grade cadence
  • The learner owns the record — a Skills Passport follows the person, not the platform

Want to build this with us?

We hire people who care whether a child actually learned something — and who can prove it.