We build the skills intelligence infrastructure enterprises need to lead, translating workforce capability into revenue growth, productivity, and competitive edge, while opening inclusive pathways to opportunity at scale.
Abodoo™ was founded on a simple observation: the enterprises shaping the AI economy were making workforce decisions without live visibility into the skills they already had, or the skills they urgently needed.
Static frameworks, annual audits, and job title planning could not keep pace with roles being reshaped by AI. Leaders needed a new operating layer, one that turned skills into measurable business intelligence, not an HR initiative.
Today, Abodoo™ powers SkillSuite™ and SIIO™, the skills intelligence infrastructure CEOs, CFOs and CROs rely on to unlock revenue growth, productivity, and competitive edge, while opening fairer pathways to opportunity for the people inside their organisations.
A world where every enterprise leads with live skills intelligence, turning workforce capability into measurable revenue, productivity, and competitive advantage in the AI economy.
To give enterprises the skills intelligence infrastructure they need to see, match, and mobilise capability in real time, so leaders can make confident decisions that drive growth, resilience, and inclusive opportunity at scale.
Our leadership team is united by a shared mission to transform education and workforce development through innovative skills intelligence.
Vanessa has spent more than twenty years working at the intersection of talent, workforce transformation, and policy, coaching over 2,000 individuals through career transitions from Dublin to Detroit, Lagos to London. Her core insight is that most organisations don't have a talent problem; they have a visibility problem, they can't see the skills they already have, map how those skills connect to the work that needs doing, or measure what changes when AI enters a role or a job title becomes obsolete overnight. As the Founder of Abodoo™ she led the team that built skills intelligence infrastructure from the ground up, and created The S.K.I.L.L.S 1st System™ to give leadership teams a practical, human-centred framework for execution. She is also Author of Seeing Clearly (forthcoming), Host of the Global Skills Podcast, rated #1 Must-Listen L&D Podcast 2026, Co-Founder of BritePass, and a keynote speaker at the European Commission, European Parliament, CNBC, and the World Manufacturing Forum.
Board Advisor on Enterprise Transformation and Commercial Performance
Sandra is an enterprise transformation executive operating at the intersection of AI, workforce strategy, and commercial performance. With over 35 years' experience spanning sales leadership, commercial strategy, and large-scale learning transformation, she brings deep expertise in connecting workforce capability to measurable business outcomes. During her 30-year career at Dell Technologies, Sandra led global capability transformation across sales and corporate services, supporting tens of thousands of employees and partners through major shifts in digital learning, workforce readiness, AI-enabled coaching, and performance systems. Her work has delivered significant commercial impact, including more than $1.5bn in revenue contribution, increased seller productivity, and global recognition for learning innovation, measurement, and sales training excellence. Sandra has led large, complex global teams, managed major learning and transformation budgets, and helped reposition L&D as a strategic driver of revenue, productivity, and enterprise performance.
Board Advisor on Skills and Workforce Learning
Edmund Monk leads The Learning and Performance Institute (LPI), a global authority reshaping how organisations approach workplace learning. As CEO and co-founder, he advises Fortune 500 companies on learning strategies that drive measurable business outcomes in today's AI-powered landscape. At the intersection of technology and human development, Edmund has pioneered frameworks that help organisations navigate skills transformation, focusing on practical applications of artificial intelligence in learning and teaching leaders how to implement AI solutions that enhance rather than replace human capabilities. His influence extends beyond the LPI through his role as a non-executive director for multiple companies and his commitment to mentoring emerging talent, with research on performance-driven learning that has become essential reading for organisations adapting to rapid workplace evolution. With over 25 years of industry expertise, Edmund brings a rare combination of strategic vision and practical implementation, helping Abodoo™ guide enterprises building future-ready organisations and resilient work cultures.
Chair of the Board
Daniella Freeman is a Leadership Coach, Organisational Transformation Specialist and Strategic Advisor with two decades of experience driving large scale change at Google and Deloitte. During her 15 years at Google, she led leadership development strategy across the Global Business Organisation, impacting over 4,000 managers annually and delivering measurable culture shifts at global scale. Daniella recently joined the International Advisory Board of Saviesa Think Tank, an independent European body exploring what it means to be human in the age of AI. She is the founder of her own executive coaching and organisational transformation practice, working with C-suite leaders navigating complexity, AI driven change and the future of work. As Chair of the Board at Abodoo™, she brings deep expertise in leadership, culture, and organisational transformation at the most human level.
Board Advisor on Learning and Workforce Planning
Simon is a senior executive leader in learning, workforce transformation, and AI-driven capability strategy, with nearly 30 years' experience leading change at scale across the UK technology sector. As former Chief Learning Officer at Microsoft UK, he led enterprise-wide culture change and workforce evolution, steering learning through AI transformation and shaping national skilling initiatives that enabled millions to develop digital and AI capabilities. Simon has built new business units, established critical functions, and led commercial operations, consistently helping organisations harness new tech, adapt to disruption, and unlock human potential and future-ready skills.
Board Advisor on Global Talent and RPO
Hayden is a global talent acquisition and workforce transformation leader with more than 20 years of experience helping organisations identify, engage and hire high-impact talent across investment banking, professional services, pharma, technology, healthcare and industrials. Formerly leading global sourcing, attraction and insight at AMS, he built high-performing teams and data-driven hiring models that helped organisations uncover talent others could not reach. Today, Hayden advises organisations on hiring strategy, operating model redesign, skills-based hiring and internal mobility, using AI, diagnostics and workforce insight to improve recruitment outcomes and candidate experience at scale. As Board Advisor on Global Talent and RPO, he brings Abodoo™ deep expertise in workforce intelligence, skills visibility and the future of talent acquisition, helping enterprises surface and connect hidden talent across fragmented systems and platforms.
Elisa's work focuses on how generative AI, digital technologies, and cybersecurity are reshaping education systems and workforce readiness, particularly within major EU-funded and multi-stakeholder initiatives addressing skills gaps, occupational profiles, and training frameworks for emerging industries. With a strong track record across higher education and corporate sectors, she has worked closely with universities, training providers, policymakers, and edtech organisations to design future-ready learning models, micro-credentials, and skills strategies aligned with labour market needs. As a keynote speaker and panelist, Elisa is known for bringing clear, evidence-based insight to complex challenges, bridging strategic vision with practical implementation, and ensuring Abodoo™ helps educators and business leaders adapt and thrive in the digital economy.
Chief Information Officer
Bryan drives the architecture behind Abodoo™'s skills intelligence systems, ensuring the platform delivers scalable, high-impact solutions for educational providers, enterprises, and governments across the globe. With deep expertise in enterprise information systems, data infrastructure, and secure cloud architecture, he leads the design of the integrations and pipelines that turn fragmented people, learning, and labour-market data into a single source of skills truth. Bryan has spent his career bridging engineering and business strategy, translating complex technical capabilities into clear operational outcomes for the organisations Abodoo™ serves. His focus on resilience, interoperability, and standards-based architecture means clients can deploy skills intelligence at scale without compromising on security, governance, or speed of execution.
Chief Technology Officer
With a deep background in enterprise innovation and AI, Ben leads the technology vision behind Abodoo™ and SkillsAI, powering smart, seamless integration with learning ecosystems and corporate platforms to close the skills gap. He has spent his career architecting large-scale data and AI systems, with particular focus on natural language understanding, semantic search, and the practical application of machine learning to real-world workforce challenges. Under his leadership, the engineering team has built one of the most comprehensive skills ontologies in the market, used by enterprises, educators, and governments to translate fragmented people data into live, actionable intelligence. Ben combines technical depth with a pragmatic delivery mindset, ensuring Abodoo™'s platform is scalable, secure, and ready for the demands of the AI era.
Board Advisor on Government
Former CEO at Moody's and a global public affairs leader, Donough brings decades of strategic insight from the intersection of finance, government, and international policy. Across his career he has advised governments, multilateral institutions, and Fortune 500 boards on navigating complex regulatory landscapes, economic transformation, and large-scale change programmes. His experience spans European and global policy environments, with deep expertise in how public-sector strategy, funding, and skills agendas shape national competitiveness. As Board Advisor on Government, Donough helps guide Abodoo™'s mission, scaling inclusive, AI-powered skills solutions and ensuring the platform delivers measurable impact for governments and the citizens they serve.
Chief Product Officer
Ben is a seasoned tech entrepreneur specialising in leading global remote tech teams and driving innovation across SaaS platforms, co-working, and remote matching models. With more than two decades of experience scaling product organisations, he has built and shipped enterprise-grade systems that connect people, data, and opportunity at scale. Ben is dedicated to fostering sustainability and inclusivity through technology, championing distributed working models and the role of digital infrastructure in opening up access to talent. At Abodoo™ he shapes the product vision and strategic roadmap, ensuring the platform stays ahead of how skills, work, and learning continue to evolve.
Together, we are passionate about closing the skills gap and leaving no one behind as we future-proof the skills of tomorrow for our partners. Our commitment drives us to create innovative solutions that ensure everyone has access to the opportunities they need to thrive in an ever-evolving digital economy.
The principles that guide everything we do and shape how we build technology for a better future
We exist to give enterprises the skills intelligence they need to lead, and to open inclusive pathways to opportunity at scale.
Promoting diversity, equality, and inclusion through skills-first approaches that look beyond traditional barriers.
Leveraging cutting-edge AI and technology to solve real-world challenges in education and workforce development.
Technology serves people, not the other way around. Every solution we build puts human potential at its core.
Skills intelligence is a revenue imperative. SkillSuite™ translates capability into the outcomes enterprise leaders are measured on.
Aligning capability to where it creates measurable revenue and market share.
Closing gaps faster so teams operate at the speed the AI economy demands.
Live skills intelligence that turns workforce decisions into a strategic advantage.
Enterprise leaders are navigating unprecedented workforce change with limited visibility into actual capability.
AI is rewriting roles faster than annual planning cycles can respond. Without live skills visibility, leaders cannot see where capability is forming, eroding, or being left on the table.
Most enterprises still rely on static competency frameworks and job title planning. CEOs, CFOs and CROs are making revenue critical workforce calls without the real time intelligence they need.
The skills that drive productivity, mobility, and competitive edge already exist inside most enterprises, they just aren't visible. That hidden capability is the largest untapped lever on the balance sheet.