One of Australia’s high-achieving industry executives, with over 25 years’ experience in recruitment alone, Brian Styles has broad business and professional experience across a range of industries. These include business transformation and acquisitions, infrastructure, manufacturing, building and construction, transport, logistics, civil engineering, mining, and communications. He has held senior executive roles at three of Australia’s largest recruitment companies: Chairman, Executive Committee APAC and Executive General Manager at Drake International; Chief Executive Officer, Programmed Group; and Executive General Manager at Adecco.

Brian’s most recent role, as Chairman, Executive Committee APAC for Drake International, saw him drive growth and innovation for the company in Australia and New Zealand. Prior to this, as CEO of Programmed Group (Integrated Workforce) for ten years, Brian’s dynamic, results-driven leadership helped propel Programmed Group to its current ASX status, with annual revenue of 1.4b Australian dollars.

Graeme Coomber, EdTrIn’s CEO, commented, "Brian brings a wealth of experience to EdTrIn, along with contacts from around the world."

Brian joins other recently engaged senior staff at EdTrIn:

• Steve Maskell, Chief Operating Officer (COO). Steve has over twenty years’ international management, marketing and business development experience, working in New Zealand, Canada, South East Asia and Europe.
• Damian O'Sullivan, Chief Education Officer. A former language teacher and industry training consultant turned multimedia developer and production manager, Damian is the principal business analyst behind Australia's leading vocational learning management system.
• Richard Xu, Chief Technology Officer. A Bachelor of Engineering graduate from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) with first class honours, Richard is now a Master of Computer Science and holds such qualifications as Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE) and Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA).
• Jim Dickson, Director UK Acquisitions. A former Development Director at Aston Business School, Aston University, Jim has also worked in a European-centric, not-for-profit organization promoting the development of e-business throughout the IT industry.
• David Patterson, Chief Strategist. David combines this post with being a Director of Learning Light, a globally recognized eLearning consulting company.