The people behind the products
A world-class team of pioneers
Our 12-year journey has been supported by around fifty individuals all passionate about our mission to help teachers make a difference to each and every student. Throughout this time we've punched above our weight through a strong vision, teamwork and shared grit and determination.
Our best days are when teachers tell us about the difference we are making in their classrooms.
12
Years building edtech
Deep domain expertise50+
Team members over our journey
Passionate pioneers6
Countries represented
Truly global perspective5-10×
Faster with AI tools
Engineering velocityCurrent team
Meet the pioneers
We have a world-class product and global traction supported by an international team of innovators.
Charles Wiles
Founder & CEO
🇬🇧 British- PhD Robotics & AI, Oxford
- MBA, London Business School
- 12+ years building edtech
Charles started Zzish because his son was struggling at school and his amazing teachers just didn't have the time to give his son the personal support he needed. He realised that, through the use of technology, he could turn boring tests into fun classroom quiz games and give teachers the real-time data and tools to effortlessly personalise teaching to every student.
Charles has a PhD in Robotics and AI from Oxford University as well as an MBA from London Business School. He is the company's visionary, but to this day he still spends half his time coding and loves to get stuck in to tasks across the company at all levels.
Suat Koçar
CTO
🇹🇷 Turkish- MSc Computer Science
- AI & ML specialist
- Full-stack excellence
Suat started his professional career as a lawyer, but his passion was coding and AI and he spent every minute of his spare time coding his own projects. Suat decided it was time to make a change and went to study for a MSc in Computer Science and was hired by Zzish on completion.
Suat combines the four attributes of a top engineer: incredibly smart and logical, pragmatic and practical, collaborative and consistent and, last but not least, an "I will work all night to get this done" attitude. He can turn his hand to anything from pixel perfect UI to complex NoSQL database optimisations.
Suat has a passion for AI and is constantly testing the latest tools. He is a master of getting the most out of AI coding agents and tools and has been responsible for significantly accelerating the productivity of the whole engineering team.
"I worked with some brilliant engineers in my time at Google, but Suat is as good as the best of them."
— Charles Wiles
Aled Evans
Designer
🏴 Welsh- Architecture, Cambridge
- 20 years UX design
- SvelteKit pioneer
After receiving a degree in Architecture from Cambridge, Aled has spent 20 years developing user experiences for web and mobile applications. He is the creative genius behind our product UX.
Aled is never satisfied with the status quo and is the kind of designer that truly understands how to take complex product ideas and turn them into simple and beautiful user interfaces. Whilst a designer at his core, Aled is a competent software engineer and personally implemented much of our new Marvely.ai application.
He was the force behind us moving from standard Node + React to SvelteKit, which combined with our AI agent coding skills means we can build new applications around 5 to 10x faster than ever before.
"Aled is a creative genius behind many of our innovative user experiences. Without him our products would be as boring and dry as the rest."
— Charles Wiles
Rose Sison
Global VP of School Sales
🇵🇭 Filipino- Ex-teacher
- Government deal closer
- Global sales leader
Rose is an ex school teacher who joined Zzish back in 2016 to support with sales to schools in the US. However, she couldn't help herself taking Quizalize to schools in her home province of Bataan.
After four years building the relationship she landed a $100k deal for Zzish with the provincial government. When we decided to close down our South East Asian operations to focus on the US and UK, Rose was promoted to Global VP of School Sales and now spends her time working on deals in our key global markets.
"Rose leads by example. She never gives up and you can always rely on her to get the job done."
— Charles Wiles
Criscille Aguilar
Customer Support & Success Manager
🇵🇭 Filipino- 8+ years at Zzish
- Community champion
- Curriculum specialist
Criscille joined the team back in 2016 to support with US school sales, but has since taken the lead with all our customer support and content creation. Our teacher community often mention how helpful Criscille is and how quick she is to respond to support requests.
As well as customer support, Criscille has managed the digitisation of all our hundreds of curricula from around the world and the digitisation of approximately 500 released tests from New York State and Texas education departments.
"Criscille is the heart of the company and the center of our teacher community."
— Charles Wiles
Cindy Meiliana
Marketing Manager
🇮🇩 Indonesian- 500k+ followers
- Social media expert
- Community growth driver
Cindy started supporting Zzish whilst she was studying for her Marketing Degree and continues to support us part-time. She's an expert at producing engaging social media and creating content for effective social media ads.
In Indonesia in particular she has grown our teacher community such that it now accounts for 25% of our daily registrations. An ex-TV child actor with more than 500k personal followers in Indonesia, she's a real asset to our team.
"Cindy has a contagious enthusiasm that lifts the whole team and shines through in the content she produces."
— Charles Wiles
Ready to work with this team?
We're looking for strategic partners who share our passion for improving student outcomes and want to leverage our world-class products and technology.