Tribal Group: Expert Technological Assistance for the Education Sector
Ian Bowles, CEOHeadquartered in Bristol, UK, the company focuses on the education market across the globe. Being a world-class technical assistant to the education sector; Tribal provides expertise, software and services that enable its customers to underpin student success. “We deliver market-leading Student Information Systems that are complemented by two specialist divisions,” adds Ian. QAS offers a broad range of quality assurance, peer review, bench marking and improvement services; andi-graduate provides the leading global benchmarks for student experience. One of Tribal’s major products is SITS:Vision which is a Student Management System for Higher Education that helps manage the student administrative processes, starting from initial enquiry to graduation and alumni. It allows its customers to recruit, retain and deliver the best student experience for world-class graduates.
Tribal also possesses other management systems for supporting the lifelong learning journey, including ebs for colleges, Tribal Campus for international colleges, Maytas for Training Providers and employers and School Edge for schools.
Tribal’s approach is to work with schools, colleges and universities for understanding their specific problems and over come those effectively. The company has a strong educational services business especially the Quality Assurance Services and a widespread global benchmark for student experience. Both of these businesses give a great insight into the overall educational trends and support its customers in transforming their teaching and learning provision along with guiding them for improvement. The company gradually grew through acquisition and organic growth, especially in the education sector. In 2015, Tribal earned revenues of over £100m and presently possesses a market leading position in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. The company is also growing in the APAC region by providing services to a wide range of customers in Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand etc.
“Our customers include more than 600 higher education organisations, several hundred further/tertiary education and vocational institutions, thousands of schools, Government and State bodies, training providers and employers,” Ian elaborates further. Keeping pace in this competitive market, Tribal is looking to develop functionality that can easily be adopted by its present and prospective customers and help them build a student information ecosystem. While being a cloud-first technology base, for ease of deployment, lower costs and faster route to delivery, Tribal will continue to support on-premise requirements. The company will combine its new offerings and those of third party partners, to offer its customers the best Student Information solutions.
Tribal’s approach is to work with schools, colleges and universities for understanding their specific problems and over come those effectively. The company has a strong educational services business especially the Quality Assurance Services and a widespread global benchmark for student experience. Both of these businesses give a great insight into the overall educational trends and support its customers in transforming their teaching and learning provision along with guiding them for improvement. The company gradually grew through acquisition and organic growth, especially in the education sector. In 2015, Tribal earned revenues of over £100m and presently possesses a market leading position in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. The company is also growing in the APAC region by providing services to a wide range of customers in Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand etc.
Being a world-class technical assistant to the education sector; Tribal provides expertise, software and services that enable its customers to underpin student success
“Our customers include more than 600 higher education organisations, several hundred further/tertiary education and vocational institutions, thousands of schools, Government and State bodies, training providers and employers,” Ian elaborates further. Keeping pace in this competitive market, Tribal is looking to develop functionality that can easily be adopted by its present and prospective customers and help them build a student information ecosystem. While being a cloud-first technology base, for ease of deployment, lower costs and faster route to delivery, Tribal will continue to support on-premise requirements. The company will combine its new offerings and those of third party partners, to offer its customers the best Student Information solutions.
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Appointment of Chief Executive Officer
The Board of Tribal is pleased to announce the appointment of Mark Pickett as Chief Executive Officer ("CEO") with immediate effect.
Mark joined Tribal in July 2016 as Chief Financial Officer and has since then been a key member of the Board helping lead the turnaround of the Group. In September 2018, Mark was appointed Acting Chief Executive Officer whilst retaining his position as Chief Financial Officer.
Since taking on the role as Acting CEO, Mark has shown excellent leadership, strategic thinking and operational capability, giving the Board great confidence that he is the best person to take Tribal forward. These skills, combined with his energy, focus and enthusiasm, have enabled significant operational and strategic progress to have been made over the last six months.
Mark joined Tribal in July 2016 as Chief Financial Officer and has since then been a key member of the Board helping lead the turnaround of the Group. In September 2018, Mark was appointed Acting Chief Executive Officer whilst retaining his position as Chief Financial Officer.
Since taking on the role as Acting CEO, Mark has shown excellent leadership, strategic thinking and operational capability, giving the Board great confidence that he is the best person to take Tribal forward. These skills, combined with his energy, focus and enthusiasm, have enabled significant operational and strategic progress to have been made over the last six months.
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The directors of Tribal Group have identified clear and compelling benefits for the company stemming from this acquisition. They intend to unanimously recommend that shareholders vote in favor of the proposal, as stated by the London-listed company.