What are we all about?

Sarah grew up in Essex and met Brian whilst studying Zoology at Oxford.

Her early career was spent in conveyancing and in founding and running a Montessori school in South Africa

A mainstay of PBS as a Director, shareholder and Company Secretary, Sarah is responsible for us sticking to the rules when most of us try to break them.

She reassuringly claims to have exactly the same children and grandchildren as Brian.

She listens to a huge amount of music and sings whenever she can, being a member of a small but perfectly formed band.

Cliff grew up in London and holds a Physics degree as well as an MBA.

A trained management consultant, he’s been a Partner with PwC, IBM and KPMG specialising in IT-led business strategy.

He’s now an advisor to high growth technology businesses, like PBS, to help them deliver outstanding client outcomes.

Cliff lives in Buckinghamshire with his wife, and together they have two daughters.

His hobbies include music and erratic golf, although most of his time is now spent under the thumb/paw of his beloved Hungarian Puli.

Helen was born in Canada but has lived in Oxfordshire in the UK since the age of 3.

Her early career was in retail, including running a petrol station and a newsagent.

She joined PBS in 2000 and has since worked in almost every function across the business. She knows PBS inside out and there is no one more committed to delivering for clients.

She is married to a South African and together they spend most Decembers in Cape Town.

Away from the office she’s a country girl at heart and loves dogs and being outdoors: horse riding, gardening and walking. Not all at the same time, we presume.

Emilie is our dedicated Client Partner, passionate about building lasting, meaningful relationships. With a background in fundraising, she understands the value of strong connections and is committed to ensuring you're continuously impressed with what we deliver. She takes pride in helping our clients get the most out of their game-based learning experiences, continually striving for successful and long-term partnerships.

Outside of work, you might find Emilie running or walking along the Ridgeway with her dogs, or trying (and failing) to outlift her mum at the gym. A lover of quizzes and trivia, she's always up for hearing an obscure fact or two!

Elisa is the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Ososim Limited, bringing new simulations to market, designing game content, and developing all facilitator materials.

She particularly enjoys partnering with clients, academics and thought leaders to turn concepts and abstract challenges into concrete scenarios and learning insights.

After early career experience in international corporate finance, she has been developing educational business simulations, teaching executive education courses at leading business schools and facilitating leadership teams since 1992.

She enjoys facilitating in French, German and English and has broad experience in working with executives from cultures all around the world.

Kenny is the CEO of Gameka (ProfitAbility's long-term software development partner).

Born and raised in Malaysia, he got his NLP certificate whilst in college back in 2003 before graduating in 2004. He started his career at Microsoft as an intern. Within 10 months, he was promoted to become the Product Manager for Windows in Malaysia. He then left to start his own training company and has over 10 years of experience in designing and developing gamification solutions for learning and people engagement.

He aspires to develop interactive software that can enrich learning for both adults and teenagers.

Now a father of 2 small kids, he dreads the weekends and welcomes the weekdays when schools and daycare centers are opened.

Shaun is a full stack developer with Gameka (ProfitAbility's long-term software development partner).

He has a Masters in Programming and is passionate about making games.

Despite having the skills to work in large game studios such as Marvel or Bandai, he prefers working on games that make an impact to gamers.

Mark is a proud “Zimbo”, having grown up in Southern Africa before venturing to UK for University , Cambridge, and qualifying as an accountant in London and transferring across to the more interesting world of business transformation and management consulting where I have been able to satisfy my work and travel bug with detours for work around EU (Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Italy, France, Czech Republic), from the UK and then stints in Africa (Zimbabwe and South Africa) and now currently in China (COVID limited the travel a bit recently!).

My work focus has been on business transformation and discovering, usually though painful experience, how to work (or not work!) across cultures in teams to deliver change and transformation projects and hopefully have some fun and meet great people in the process.

​Married with 2 teenage kids , one of whom is now back in the UK looking to start uni shortly, attempting to keep fit-ish and healthy by playing all sports including being a MAMIL on a bike!

Eleanor spent much of her childhood playing her Great Nanny Valley’s homemade paper mâché games or making a huge mess painting with her Grandad. She decided to channel some of this creative energy for good and went on to study Spatial Design at University of the Arts London. Following her passion of creating engaging experiences she worked at an educational board game company and within the Learning Design industry before finding her dream role at PBS.

Outside of work she loves travelling (30 countries and counting), festivals, and the great outdoors. She is a very proud auntie and loves taking her nieces camping and on sunrise walks, sometimes to their dismay!

Yas started her career in online media and digital marketing, she joined PBS in 2019. She manages many of our key customer relationships and is a CEO in the making.

She has a passion for grassroots sports and encouraging children, particularly young girls, to play it. She runs a junior hockey academy and coaches at a local independent school. She regularly plays netball, hockey and football herself.

As if that wasn’t enough, she also runs her own coaching business.

Yas and her fiancée are due to be married next year. The burning question is: which colleagues will get a wedding invite?

Jamie grew up in the UK and the USA and completed an economics degree in London before joining PBS as in intern in 2018.

Possessing immense ability, he has quickly risen to lead our development function. He has overall responsibility for our games and product roadmap.

Now living in Berkshire with his girlfriend and their cat, Frank, his main passions are finding new (edgy) music and Chelsea FC. He is also curiously obsessed with setting the track record on his local indoor go-karting venue (still not yet achieved).

He regularly bores us with tales of how he was the best left-back county football has ever seen. When approached for comment, none of his former teammates remembered who he was.

Born and educated in Sussex, Graham now lives in Oxfordshire with his wife and two young daughters who are adorable but time-consuming (his words).

He has a background in growing SMEs and start-ups in the digital media and management consultancy sectors. He joined PBS in 2019 following the completion of his MBA from the Henley Business School. He likes to mention his MBA regularly.

As CEO, he is ultimately responsible for the performance of the business, the wellbeing of the team and strategies for growth. Mainly though he gets in the way of others who have much more natural ability.

He is obsessed with watching most sports and regularly plays a poor standard of football, golf and cricket, blighted by decreasing fitness and increasing mal coordination.

He is a founding director of a UK based charity called Mosaic for Women UK, which supports activities to eradicate domestic violence in South Africa.

Nigel grew up in Mauritius and at boarding school in the UK – where he met Brian!

He is a research scientist by training and has studied various bits of marine biology in West Africa, the Arabian Gulf, the Caribbean and Indian Ocean. He even has a fish species named after him... how cool is that.

After accepting Brian’s invitation to join PBS back in 1987, Nigel has specialised in growing client relationships and course facilitation. He still facilitates the occasional course and remains an active Director, shareholder and account manager.

He lives in Oxfordshire where he and his wife share four grown up children and three grandchildren.

He is often found at lunchtimes swimming in the River Thames behind our offices and he regularly enters insane long distance swimming challenges around the world.

He continues his marine biology on the side with projects in Senegal and The Gambia, and in the southern Seychelles.

Brian is of Danish descent and started life in the Bahamas and Jamaica where his parents wrote books and sold European antiques to American tourists. Still following? He studied Zoology at Oxford and then worked with Tony Buzan teaching thinking and learning techniques.

He began designing simulation-based training in the 1980s. He has worked worldwide with a wide range of multinationals and business schools, designing and delivering training on business acumen, change, teamwork and leadership. He is still involved in PBS as a Director, shareholder and learning consultant.

He claims to be a “language nut”, whatever that is. He speaks French and Spanish fluently and variously incompetent Afrikaans, Esperanto, German, Hindi, Mandarin and Zulu. He is also a published author on the topic of business finance.

He is married to Sarah. Together they have 3 children and 4 grandchildren. He plays an electronic clarinet and loves yoga, sun, sailing, diving and, weirdly, bell-ringing.

Richard had a nomadic childhood following a traditional military family experience.

He followed his father’s footsteps and spent 20 years as British Army Officer. He then had 15 years at a global IT company, finishing as a very senior and very important executive.

After spending 3 years as a high school science teacher, he joined PBS in 2020 and has since led our facilitation and commercial functions with great success. Although he can’t create a slide deck to save his life.

With 3 adult children, Richard recently became a grandfather and now lives in Canada with his wife. Together, they are on the incredible journey of becoming adoptive parents.

Jim (aka Sim Jim) was born on a small island (Manhattan) and fell in love with business simulations while taking a capstone MBA course over 30 years ago. Since then, he has designed, facilitated, managed, and customized over 300 business acumen and leadership courses using business simulations in 5 continents for over 10K participants from over 100 organizations including 50 Fortune 500 and Global Fortune 500 companies, across all industries, functions, and talent levels.

​Jim’s passion is to integrate and apply (1) client’s business and organizational challenges, (2) business acumen and leadership knowledge and skills, and (3) various blended learning strategies and methodologies, including business simulations and experiential learning journeys, to enable businesses and individuals to (1) think critically and make better business decisions, (2) solve business problems, and (3) improve their business performance.

​To develop critical thinking skills at home, Sim Jim uses the Socratic method to answer his children’s questions.

Following three years in international corporate finance in London and Paris, and an operational finance role for an arts organization in London, I have worked over 20 years with finance and strategy simulations.

My clients include multinationals and business schools. I have a warm and energizing style of facilitation combined with solid business and finance knowledge acquired as a financial analyst and during my MBA

Studies at INSEAD. I enjoy VV and making explicit the links between finance and business decisions.

​I speak English, Italian and French fluently.

Nigel trained as an accountant in the 1980s before escaping to the wild 20 years ago and holding various senior management jobs in B2B distribution. He still holds his FCCA qualification and is obsessed with making financial numbers easier for the rest of the human race to understand. He has worked in finance, IT, supply chain, strategy and pricing roles, often with a remit to improve processes and systems.

Nigel is also particularly interested in Change Management and ensuring that the “People on the ground” are properly equipped with training and understanding to make changes work.

​Nigel is based in Derbyshire, having lived in both France and Spain during the 90s. He likes to think he can speak both languages fluently, despite an accent that causes great hilarity wherever he goes. He also causes mirth with his attempts to play golf, and loves being out on his bike in the Peak District.

After spending close to 15 years in leading diverse and large teams, delivering financial and operational results for a global IT organisation, Sekar decided to go back to school at the age of 41 much to the shock of his friends as well as colleagues and to the exhilaration of his family.

Following the completion of his MBA at the University of Cambridge in 2007, he continued his career in the telecommunications and agri-business sectors where he was responsible for formulating and delivering strategic change, ensuring operational effectiveness, leading continuous improvement initiatives and more importantly managing and aligning people to deliver business results.

An avid fan of Liverpool FC, Sekar currently manages the SE Asian region for PBS and uses his extensive experience assisting organisations execute strategy to achieve business objectives.