Nelson Sivalingam

CEO

London, England, United Kingdom16 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

CEO of a fast-growing EdTech company.
Produced award-winning films and documentaries.
Recognized as a top innovative founder.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in EdTech with expertise in learning platforms and business development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Learning And DevelopmentAi

Other Skills

Knowledge ManagementContinuous LearningPersonalized LearningVideoEntertainmentTelevisionFilmFilm ProductionWeb ContentSocial Media MarketingCameraDigital MediaVideo ProductionVideo EditingMarketing

About

From award-winning high growth technology businesses to successful Sri Lankan street food restaurant groups, I've spent more than a decade building businesses from the ground up and scaling them. As for filmmaking, I produced and directed ads, music videos, documentaries (for WHO, Royal Society of Science) and later a feature film that travelled the world being screened at festivals (and picking up best film!). I'm currently the CEO and Co-Founder at HowNow, one of the fastest-growing technology companies transforming the way organisations approach learning across the world. Our clients include tech unicorns GymShark and Checkout.com as well as global enterprises such as Mercer, Telefonica and Investec to name a few. As mentioned by Forbes and TechCrunch, we're one of the edtech companies to watch out for, backed by industry influencers like Mark Pearson (founder of MyVoucherCodes.com), Andy Murray (Tennis Champion), Michael Whitfield and Chris Bruce (founder of Thomson Online Benefits) and Alwin Magimay (Previously digital leader at McKinsey, KPMG and Accenture). I have been a speaker at over 100 events including HR Summit, AI Talks, Google Campus, London Tech Week and a mentor for Startup Britain and a Guest Lecturer on Entrepreneurship. I have been recognised by Virgin Media Business as one of the top 30 young innovative founders in the country as well as one of the top Asian Stars in Tech by KPMG. I'm a thought-leader on Startups, Technology and Workplace Learning contributing to publications such The Guardian, The Telegraph, Startups.co.uk, and Training Industry to name a few. I was also recently featured in Bloomberg's documentary on Entrepreneurial Mindset.

Experience

16 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 9 mos

Average Tenure

9 yrs 8 mos

Current Experience

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Author of 'Learning at Speed'

Jun 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 11 mos

The world is changing fast, but are you? Do you know where the skills gaps are in your organization? Do you know how to fill these gaps? Most importantly, can you make the necessary changes quickly enough to succeed?
Learning at Speed is a practical book which brings together the best from lean and agile methodologies to show how they can be applied to learning and development (L&D) to improve individual and organizational performance. This provides a people development framework which can be used to deconstruct a learning strategy and optimise each element for improved results. It shows how to identify learning barriers and possible solutions, leverage company data to understand learning needs and how to assess the most effective learning resources and delivery channels.

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Co-Founder and CEO

Sep 2016 – Present · 9 yrs 8 mos · London

HowNow is an integrated learning platform built to help today’s organisations onboard, upskill and enable their teams with the knowledge they need, everywhere they work.
The learning resources your team needs lives in dozens of apps, websites, systems and brains - inside and outside of your organisation. As a result, even proactive employees can’t find what they need to get work done and grow. HowNow brings together all of these learning resources in real-time so you have a single, dynamic source of truth.
HowNow makes all the knowledge searchable and makes personalised learning recommendations based on your role, experience, skills gaps, business goals and real-time market data on in-demand skills for your role. Feels like magic, powered by AI.
With HowNow, organisations can build a continuous learning culture and develop business critical skills by enabling self-directed learning. They can also drive productivity by giving teams access to relevant knowledge everywhere they work - in their inbox, CRM, helpdesk, chat tools, on mobile and hundreds of other places. It’s like an invisible layer that sits on top of your entire workflow, powering your team with relevant knowledge.
HowNow is packed with features. Autonomous curation of learning resources. Personalised learning recommendations. Easy knowledge-sharing tool to bring together your company’s collective intelligence. Insights to track skill development and identify knowledge gaps in real-time.
With beauty poured into every pixel, HowNow is consumer-grade UX with Enterprise-level functionality.

Learning and DevelopmentAIKnowledge ManagementContinuous LearningPersonalized Learning