About Language Trainers Australia and New Zealand

We offer foreign language courses (or English courses for those from overseas) all over Australia and New Zealand. Our usual clients are businessmen and women, as well as people who have to extend, enhance or hone their language skills to perfection, whether for business, travel or academic purposes.

Head Office

From our HQ, we are able to direct all language courses across Australia and New Zealand, arranging lesson location, billing, as well as administration and teacher staffing thanks to our constantly-updated database of native-speaking qualified language teachers.

Teachers

Our teachers are all hired locally, so if you want to take, say, a German course in Melbourne, your teacher will live in Melbourne or close by. All teachers have criminal background checks run on them and their references and qualifications are always verified. We only hire teachers who are knowledgeable and have a passion for teaching. Occasionally, if we are unable to find a local native-speaking teacher of your chosen language, we can offer sessions from a non-native teacher, but only if they have native speaker level in the language they will teach.

Directors

The directors of Language Trainers have experience in all facets of the language learning industry, from several thousand hours of teaching to running entire schools. They are also linguaphiles themselves, and between them they speak a wide variety of languages.

Company Information

Language Trainers is a trading name of Brighton Early Ltd (registered in England and Wales as Company No. 4900290 and VAT No. 866780964).

Directors

Alexis Sheldon, MA, Cert. TEFL
CEO

A Cambridge University graduate (BA Hons Social & Political Science), Alexis speaks English, fluent Russian and Portuguese, good French, Italian, and Spanish, and elementary Mandarin Chinese and Hebrew. A qualified TEFL teacher, Alexis also holds an MA in Tourism Management from Brighton University.

Alexis has over 20 years teaching experience in schools from Israel to Ukraine and was previously responsible for the corporate training division of a leading UK language school. His other projects include Translation Central, a translation services agency and Fast Lane SEO, a multilingual SEO agency.

Jon Pokroy, BA, Dip. TEFL
Academic Director

A Cambridge University graduate (BA Hons Philosophy), Jon is also an experienced English teacher, having worked in Spain, Germany and London for over 16 years. Jon speaks English, and fluent German and Spanish. Jon holds a Diploma in Teaching English as a Foreign Language from the world renowned International House training center in London.

Jon has run training for executives in English for Specific Purposes and producing courses for Specific Purposes for corporations, universities and the British Council. Jon has also worked as an examiner for the British Council.

Richard Sheldon, MA, MBA
CFO

Richard brings more than 25 years of experience in finance, capital raising and strategy to Language Trainers. He has held management and CFO positions in both private and public companies including ECONnergy Energy Company, Concrete Inc., Weatherford Global Compression Services and ContextWeb. He is currently also the CFO at Complex Media. In addition, Richard was a business development executive at GE Capital and a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Company. Richard started his career at Arthur Andersen in London where he became a Chartered Accountant. Richard holds an MA from Oxford University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Our Team

Alexis Sheldon CEO

Jon Pokroy Academic Director

Richard Sheldon CFO

Sales

Natalia Taylor Sales Supervisor

Barbara Fuhr Sales Executive

Irina Nofenko Sales Executive

Julia Derbule Sales Executive

Luciana Alberico Sales Executive

Rachel Abad Sales Executive

Dino Manassero Sales Assistant Brazil

Angelo Marimla Sales Executive

Jill Arlitt Sales Executive Germany

Relationship Managment

Ariadna Escobedo Course Coordinators Supervisor

Mariana Sosa Course Coordinator

Paula Pinal Course Coordinator

Agostina Dimaio Course Coordinator

Daniela Todinca Course Coordinator

Florencia Casero Course Coordinator

Maria Jesus Vega Course Coordinator

Julieta Dimaio Course Coordinator

Kristine Rose Vitor Alcarion Course coordinator

Flora Hanks Course coordinator

Sofia Cubido Course coordinator

Ian Quiroga Course coordinator

Teacher Recruitment

Carla Filippini Teacher Recruitment Supervisor

Valeria Almeida Teacher Recruitment Assistant

M. Emilia Pérez I. Teacher Recruitment Assistant

Romina Orell TR coordinator

Victoria Traverso TR coordinator

Academic Department

Mariana Serb Academic Adviser

Jenny McAleer Academic Advisor Assistant

Financial and HR

Ellis David Rosen Financial Controller

Gabriela Pascuali HR Coordinator

Karissa Timpug Accounts Assistant

IT and Web Development

Nicolas Ferretti IT Manager

Maximiliano German Garbate Programmer

Ramiro Avalos Designer

Communications

Nicolás Solé Marketing Project Coordinator

Patrick McShane Editor Manager

Nahuel Sotelo Graphic Designer

Mariano Rebattini Capurro Language Agency Project Manager

Onerio Neto Editor Manager Brazil

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