At CEO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Sydney based CEO’ operating in the Training space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected]
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.

Mark Hutchinson
CEO of Vocation
In 2011 Mark created AVANA – one of Vocation’s founding companies. Under Mark’s leadership AVANA quickly went from strength to strength, establishing a reputation for high-quality, effective learning solutions in service-based industries across Australia. An entrepreneur through and through, Mark previously founded Untamed in 2002 – a nature-based tourism and training company. Mark holds a Masters of Business Administration from INSEAD and a Bachelor of Economics from The University of Sydney.
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About Vocation: Vocation’s our name and changing the face of training and education is our game.
Darren Scott
Co-Founder and CEO of TEX
Darren Scott is the CEO and Co-Founder of TEX.
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About TEX: TEX is an open video-based marketplace that enables real-time learning and upskilling by connecting people one-to-one with the right expert.

Marc Washbourne
Chief Executive Officer of JobReady
Marc Washbourne is a tech entrepreneur and CEO of JobReady. Marc has been working with JobReady since 1999 and became a director in 2010. In that time, Marc has overseen a transition at JobReady to delivering a highly scalable, secure, Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery model using state of the art open source software, built on a service-oriented architecture. Under his tenure, JobReady has grown to over 300 clients and 45 full time staff with a head office in Sydney. Marc earned his degree at University of Leeds.
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About JobReady: JobReady is a technology providers developing cloud-based platforms specializing in Australian VET and employment services.
Trent Rosenthal
CEO of Bespoke Training Services
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About Bespoke Training Services: Bespoke Training Services is the only Amazon Web Services authorised training partner for Australia, New Zealand and Singapore.
Genevieve Davidson
Co-Founder and CEO of SuperFastDiet
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About SuperFastDiet: SuperFastDiet is a healthcare and fitness platform.
Kain Tietzel
Founder/CEO of Start Beyond
Founder & CEO of immersive learning solutions company Start Beyond, reformed Growth Hacker and co-founder of Fotomerchant
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About Start Beyond: Immersive learning solutions that move people to see the world differently, increases knowledge, productivity & drives business growth.

Elizabeth Wu
Co-Founder / CEO of Presentation AI
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About Presentation AI: Presentation.ai uses machine learning to analyse your presentation and provide feedback to help you to understand how you can improve.