Who we are

The team behind Cambridge Online Education is an ever-expanding group of innovative and ambitious minds.

We pride ourselves on producing world class courses and excellent learner experiences grounded in 3 core pedagogical principles; professional centred learning, rigorous application, a connected cohort.

To achieve that, we have crafted a unique configuration of expertise in-house. Our team contains specialists in all aspects of online education, including learning design and development, media and visual design, marketing, sales and course delivery.

Meet our leadership team

  • Karen Greetham

    DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS

  • Erica Ryan

    HEAD OF DIGITAL CONTENT & MEDIA

  • Asli Derya

    HEAD OF LEARNING DESIGN

  • James Reeve

    HEAD OF DIGITAL MARKETING

  • Karen Greetham, Director of Operations

    Karen is an experienced online education specialist and senior leader. She has led a number of digital production, project management and operations teams. Her career has centred around shaping and delivering online education programmes for some of the UK’s leading higher education providers. Working closely with our Managing Director, her role at COE sees Karen holding responsibility for the project management, design, development and operations of creating and delivering our online courses. Before taking up her current position, Karen held a number of roles at King’s College London’s online learning department, most recently as Head of Production and Partnership Operations, where she focused on creating and building specialist online learning design and development teams.

    Please feel free to get in touch at karen.greetham@cambridge.org

  • Asli Derya, Head of Learning Design

    Asli has over 10 years’ experience working in the learning space with extensive knowledge of learning design and digital learning. Previously she worked with in-house corporate learning and development (L&D) teams, including one of the Big Four consulting firms. She has held a number of L&D roles from apprenticeships to business partnering to leadership development before specialising in learning design. In her roles she has led change projects, helped organisations transform their learning through EdTech, built centres of excellence and increased L&D teams’ capabilities.

    From 2019 to 2021, she held the position of Board Director for the eLearning Network, where she focused on setting up longitudinal research on the future of L&D. She is a member of the CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development) and a committee member in her local branch. She is a life-long learner herself and is completing her final year of an MSc in Human Resource Development and Consultancy where she is undertaking a research project on developing a leading assessment strategy for professional learners.

    Please feel free to get in touch at asli.derya@cambridge.org

  • Erica Ryan, Head of Digitial Content & Media

    Erica has over 15 years' experience in designing and developing professional learning to contribute to the transformation and growth of successful online learning environments. Her professional experience is a combination of her three passions: the future of online learning, the design of innovative and creative media and assessing organisational challenges in order to transform ideas into sustainable and workable solutions.

    She is currently leading the development teams building visual content, online content and media to create advanced courses. Working in the educational industry in a variety of roles, her focus has been on fostering growth, innovation and originality.

    Erica also works as a Freelance Producer across a wide range of projects, from out-of-home advertising campaigns to feature films, as well as having worked on a number of award-winning short films.

    Please feel free to get in touch at erica.ryan@cambridge.org

  • James Reeve, Head of Digital Marketing

    James has nearly more than 15 years digital leadership experience with an extensive agency and client-side background in both B2C and B2B, from start-up through to global transformation.

    With proven experience and agility across a wealth of industries including Tech, Travel, Automotive, eComm, Education and publishing, James’ mission is to deliver best-in-class integrated digital experiences that deliver transformational results.

    He has used this mantra to lead & deliver successful strategies for clients including Argos, Play.com, Nissan, Harley Davidson, Economist, Advanced, University of East Anglia, Archant, Hoseasons, and many more.

    James is driving our global digital marketing capabilities across experience, advertising and CRM to ensure our courses are presented and accessible to the right people, in the right place at the right time.

    Please feel free to get in touch at james.reeve@cambrdige.org