Keith Houghton

Emeritus Professor - Managing Director 

Keith is a long-term contributor to Australia’s higher education sector.

Previous positions include as Dean of the Australian National University (ANU) College of Business and Economics and as Fitzgerald Professor and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Commerce at the University of Melbourne.

He is a graduate of the University of Western Australia, the University of Melbourne and the London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London.

He currently holds or has held a range of positions including as Chief Academic Strategist of Australia’s Higher Education and Research Group and as visiting or adjunct professorial appointments in a number of universities around the world including Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, and the University of Texas at Austin, US.

Amongst his research grants include multiple ARC grants – both Discovery and Linkage. 

His publications include four research monographs with a fifth nearing completion together with more than fifty scholarly journal articles.

His recent thought leadership contributions on digitally delivered education include works entitled: “Student-centric shift means the cloud-based campus is here to stay” (February 2021 – with Kevin Ma, Edmund Lai and George Aveling), “Covid has pushed universities into an era of transformative change” (August 2020 – with George Aveling), “Digital delivery is inevitable; the virus simply speeds up the process” (April 2020) and “Digital delivery redefines the efficiency frontier” (May 2019 – with Mark Clisby).

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Edmund Lai

Director – Learning Technologies

Edmund’s achievements include work in corporate tactical development and innovative digital project design.

He is a certified TACK & TMI consultant (a major global professional services firm in leadership and organizational culture development). He plays a key role in learning solution design for people enhancement. With a strong organizational and people development background, he understands both the challenges in and learning needs of different mature (and time-poor) age learners.

Edmund is a graduate of the University of Salford in England, majoring in Computer Systems and Telecommunications. He is currently the Vice President of Project Operations in LearningGym Education Technology company.

In prior employment, Edmund has designed, developed, and implemented numerous client in-house trainers’ teams, providing continuous and sustainable solutions for learning environments. He has worked with many multi-international companies in a variety of industries.

During the past 5 years in LearningGym, Edmund and the team he leads, have successfully transformed the company into a both online & offline learning and training solution provider. The company has won many awards of national and international importance.

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Nancy Bagranoff

University Professor 

Director - Student Engagement

University Professor Nancy Bagranoff provided leadership as Dean of the Robins School at the University of Richmond over many years. She has a strong focus on both student engagement with rich learning journeys and the use of innovation in the curriculum including the use of technologies. 

Nancy has co-authored several books and numerous scholarly and professional journal articles in the area of information technology, business consulting, and audit and control. Professor Bagranoff recently completed a study on challenges in the higher education sector in Australia which was published in a research journal edited out of the University of Sydney. She has also contributed to the higher education debate in the Australian education of The Conversation. 

Professor Bagranoff is serving or has served on several company and not-for-profit boards. She has served as President of the American Accounting Association, and has been a board member of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) and the AICPA. 

She is passionate about the use of technology in university education where the human factors are an integral part of technology application. 

Dr Bagranoff is the Director of Student Engagement at Campus2Cloud and the company’s North American representative.

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Kevin Ma

Director – Digital Learning Design

Kevin has extensive experience in digital learning. This includes extensive corporate consulting in a major global professional services firms. This work has included both corporate learning and strategic staff development. He has a strong understanding of digital learning development and execution.

Kevin has professional qualifications in accounting (CPA) and holds a Master of Finance degree from the University of Rochester in New York State, USA.

Kevin is the CEO of LearningGym Education Technology headquartered in Shanghai, China. LearningGym is a learning consultancy with a heavy focus on digital. Prior to establishing LearningGym, he worked as the Operations Director of global learning consultancy, Achieve Global. Kevin also held senior finance and corporate leadership positions in a variety of leading businesses including corporations, joint ventures and the professional services firm, KPMG.

Kevin co-founded LearningGym in 2002 and pioneered the offline to online (O2O) learning model. This work led in 2015 to what is now known as the Learner Experience Platform (LXP) model and the learner centric approach to online learning.

Kevin has successfully implemented multiple national projects with high yield financial returns for corporate clients. This client solution focused corporate learning work has resulted in many awards of national and international significance. Recent awards include the 2020 CHINA top10 e-learning award and the 2020 CHINA top 10 training solution provider.

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George Aveling

Director – Learning Strategy & Client Solutions

George is a learning strategist and a learning experience e designer with over 25 years of experience. George’s has had diverse learning design experience, working for a wide range of clients in industries including Government, telecommunications, banking, insurance, hospitals, fast moving consumer goods, oil and gas and property.

An Australian by birth, George is the Malaysian CEO for a global learning and development consultancy, Tack TMI, as well as the CEO of Elementrix, a digital learning services provider.

George holds a Masters in Business (Marketing) from Curtin University, and a first class honours degree in Economics from the University of Western Australia.

He is a thought leader, having conducted major research into the digital learning space in Asia.

George has led the development of innovative learning programs that enable clients to implement digital learning more effectively. George is a multi-award winner of his global consultancy’s top award for contributions to the global network. The organisations that he leads have won awards for innovation and have been recognized as being among the best in their class, nationally, in Malaysia.

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