Our team
We share a passion for great science education
Stile was founded by Alan Finkel, Byron Scaf, and Danny Pikler, who together own and operate the company.
Every aspect of Stile is crafted in-house by our passionate team of teachers, scientists, artists and engineers — a multidisciplinary group of the best and brightest. You’ll find Stilists scattered all around Australia, New Zealand and the United States with our global Headquarters based in Melbourne, Australia and US Headquarters in Portland, Oregon.
Meet the Stile team
We asked the team how they would describe a Stile person. Here is what they had to say.
Leadership
Alan Finkel
Chair & Co-founder
Alan Finkel is a neuroscientist, engineer and entrepreneur. He was Australia’s chief scientist from 2016 to 2020, during which time he led the National Electricity Market Review, the development of the National Hydrogen Strategy, and the panel that advised the Australian Government on the 2020 Low Emissions Technology Roadmap. Amongst Alan’s other roles within the government, Alan has returned as our Chair.
Daniel Pikler
CEO & Co-founder
After working as a musician, then as a geneticist at the CSIRO in Canberra, Danny studied secondary teaching in Melbourne and saw first-hand the need for better science teaching resources. Danny joined Byron and Alan to found Stile in 2012.
Byron Scaf
CEO & Co-founder
Byron got a few months into a PhD in Neuroscience at Melbourne University before building Australia’s first electric vehicle charging network with Better Place. Finally understanding what STEM meant in the real world, he co-founded Stile in 2012 and set about working with schools.
Clare Feeney
Head of Education
Clare started as a medical scientist before she was introduced to the joy of teaching when tutoring refugee families. As a science and maths teacher, she became aware of the positive impact of technology. In 2015, she joined Education Perfect and built their Science, Mathematics, Geography, History and Numeracy resources. In 2019, she joined Stile and is responsible for developing all teaching and learning resources.
Daniel Rodgers-Pryor
Chief Technology & Security Officer
Daniel’s academic background in Condensed Matter Physics and Computer Science gave him a passion for promoting scientific literacy and the skills to manage complex computing systems. Daniel joined Stile in 2014 and stepped into the role of CTO in 2017.
Jaclyn Rooney
Head of Teaching and Learning
Jaclyn is a dedicated educator, bringing a wealth of experience in teaching, curriculum design, and teacher professional learning in both science and physical education. She joined Stile in 2016 and is responsible for Professional Learning. She is passionate about supporting, celebrating and enhancing the amazing work that science teachers do to help make science learning not only impactful, but relevant and engaging for students.
Jayde Taylor
Chief Financial Officer
Jayde was traveling in South America when she started to think differently about purpose. She had been working in New York and London for award-winning creative agencies, integrating new digital ventures for a rapidly changing market. In Stile she saw a unique opportunity to unlock the potential of young people with innovative content and technology.
Joshua Ravek
Head of Sales
Josh was one of the earliest adopters of Stile in the classroom. Convinced of its potential, he joined the team to help other teachers benefit from Stile the way he and his students had. Today, Josh heads up our AU sales team.
Kat Gentry
Head of Stile USA
Kat was a science teacher before researching pest management in aquaculture across Norway, Australia, and New Zealand. Striving to cultivate student curiosity, enhance teacher job satisfaction, and bring more science classrooms to life, Kat leads Stile’s US team.
Simone Gregurke
Director of People and Culture
Following General Management roles in fast growth companies, Simone was drawn to Stile's vision, social purpose and goal to help students globally. With a Masters of Entrepreneurship & Innovation, and a passion for developing future leaders, she now supports Stile's people capability and the company's growth.
The dream team
Alex Finkel
Head of Platform Engineering
Alexandra Russell
Head of Curriculum and Pedagogy
Ally Macdonald
Software Engineer
Andrew Nicholls
Head of Schools, VIC
Andy Smith
Science Team Leader
Bassant Ibrahim
Stile School Manager
Ben Taylor
Staff Software Engineer
Caitlyn Jones
Executive Assistant
Campbell Edgar
Science Curriculum Editor
Chamathi Gamage
Business Systems Engineer
Charlotte Newall
Executive Assistant
Chelsea Page-Saxton
Product Administrative Assistant
Chris Hoang
Business Analyst
Daniel Pekevski
Senior Software Engineer
Daniela White
Employee Experience Coordinator
Dave Canavan
Head of Schools, QLD
Devon McKenzie
Junior Software Engineer (Product)
Elise Kovacs
Head of Schools, NSW
Emily Cheng
Finance Manager
Emma Ngo
Designer
Gisela Beer
Illustrator
Hailey Vogel Carvajal
Teaching and Learning Specialist
Hamish McCoy
Science Curriculum Editor
Honman Yau
Software Engineer
Huw Llewellyn
Engineering Team Lead
Ikram Saedi
Junior Software Engineer
Jeff Parsons
Senior Tooling Engineer
Jenna Minchuk
Head of Marketing
Jules Ius
Senior Teacher Happiness Officer
Julianna Jimenez
Director of School and District Partnerships
Karleen Han
Junior Software Engineer
Katrina Don Paul
Customer Operations Officer
Kelly Fernandez
Sales Operations Analyst
Kirsten Hood
Marketing Manager
Lara Rijksman
Implementation Specialist
Lavinia Monteiro
Junior Software Engineer
Leah Jabornik
Teacher Happiness Team Lead
Lilka Jones
Administrative Assistant
Liz Coleman
Professional Learning Leader
Makeila Reyes
People & Culture Manager
Marcus Finlay
Science Curriculum Writer
Matthew Needham
Head of Business Systems
Meghan Fennessy
Sales Enablement
Mel Horton
Oregon Science Education Leader
Mia Holton
Videographer
Nick Spain
Senior Platform Engineer
Nicole Li
Commercial Finance Partner
Paul Giardina
Senior Teacher Happiness Officer
Peter Gates
Engineering Team Lead
Pooja Prabhakaran
Designer
Quynh-Chi Nguyen
Staff Software Engineer
Rhys Walsh-Tindall
Support Engineer
Rochelle Scholtes
Concierge Coordinator
Sean Hurley
Head of Design
Shannon Cole
Senior Software Engineer
Shawna Jensen
Director of Educational Projects
Sofia Linardou
Software Engineering Intern
Steve Dornan
Head of Schools, WA
Stiele Hagens
Customer Operations Manager
Tim Brade
Studio Manager
Toni Cox
Science Team Leader
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