The Conygre Team
It is the consistent high quality of our trainers that sets us apart from other training companies. All are consultants at the top of their profession. We do not work with recent graduates, inexperienced technologists, or people who just 'read the book out'.
Nick Todd
Founder and Owner - specialising in Java / NodeJS / AWS / Agile / JavaScript / DevOps
Nick is a highly experienced educator and mentor, in demand for his expertise in many areas of Java and .NET technologies. Nick is a published author, writing the JavaServer Pages Developers Handbook for Sams Publishing and Nick has also authored various training courses and papers over the years for various global and local companies. He has been CTO for two startup businesses, one specialising in Genetic testing software and the other a hyper-local delivery business that delivers food for JustEat. Most recently, Nick has been teaching a great deal of AWS courses and on boarding programs.
Dotun Olowoporoku
Business Development Manager
Dotun has been working with our CEO Nick Todd for many years, most notably when Dotun was CEO of meals.co.uk where Nick was CTO. In his role with Conygre, Dotun is helping to develop and grow our business, particularly around our techbootcamp.io products and our onboarding programs. Dotun is also CEO for the very successful thestarta.com helping African entrepreneurs.
Ian Jukes
Cloud Computing, Java and Python Instructor
Ian has been involved in IT since the late 90's, and has extensive Java, Web, and Cloud experience. He teaches most of the Conygre curriculum and has worked with our graduate training classes. He is also involved in our digital transformation training.
Andy Davies
Leadership and Management Trainer
Andy specialises in leadership and management training. He has been teaching this kind of content now for many years, and is hugely experienced and capable in this area. Those who have been taught by him always speak extremely highly of him. Our onboarding programs incorporate personal effectiveness training which has been very beneficial.
George Ball
Instructor specialising in Scala / Java / JEE / Unix / Perl / XML / JavaScript
George has been working in technical training over many years, and his knowledge and approach to training are greatly admired amongst many others in the profession. You cannot fail to be impressed when you are in the classroom with George. You will learn much about the subject, but his wider IT experience also shines throughout his delivery. George has delivered onboarding programs in Shanghai, Pune, London, NYC and many other locations for a variety of investment banks and financial institutions.
Michael Callaghan
Instructor - specialising in .NET / Java / Spring / WPF / Spring
Michael has been teaching Information Technology for many years, initially in a university setting and then in a commercial setting. He has worked with us delivering Spring and JEE training. He also regularly teaches the .NET platform.
Steve Jones
Instructor - specialising in .NET / C# / C++ / WPF / Unix
Steve teaches C++ for us and he delivers training on the .NET platform and has a very broad experience not only of teaching but also of developing IT systems. Steve has delivered onboarding programs to investment banks in London for many years.
Dan Haywood
Instructor and consultant specialising in Agile, Object Modelling, Java, .NET and Sybase technology
Dan has over 20 years experience as a consultant, architect, mentor and trainer. He is also a published author and a regular presenter at agile conferences. His experience takes in a wide variety of enterprise technologies used in various industries, primarily government, the financial industry and utilities. When not delivering training or consultancy Dan is a committer for a number of open source projects, including the Naked Objects framework and its sister projects.
Martin Bond
Instructor specialising in Java / Spring / Python / Linux / Perl
Martin has over 30 years academic and commercial experience in open systems and object oriented software engineering, working with both private and public sector organisations. His experience ranges from compiler writer, Unix systems administrator, software architect to IT/IS strategy consultant. He is a published author, a Chartered member of the BCS and is one of our MoD Security Cleared instructors. Martin has delivered onboarding programs for many US investment banks in New York, London and Belfast.