Jeff Rogers has been working with families and students, preparing them for academic English in readiness to go abroad at high school age and beyond. Mr. Rogers has done post graduate work in medicine and physics, and has an extensive background in technology, systems architecture and development. Apart from his 13 year history in the language training field, Mr. Rogers heads up the technology, pedagogy, curriculum and delivery side of development and management for GEC.

Current Position

• Director, JAAC : Japan-America Academic Center
• Executive Director, Educatius-Japan
• COO, IEI Foundation, a U.S. government certified non-profit corporation

Main Career

• Born in Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
• B.A. in Sociology, Missouri State University, USA
• After graduating from the University - worked for the Department of Commerce of the State of Missouri
• 1987 - Founding Director, JAAC Japan-America Academic Center
• 1990 - Representative, JAAC Japan-America Academic Center
  U.S. Headquarters (University of California, Irvine)
• 2005 - Returned to Japan as Japan Representative for the University of California Extension Consortium

JAAC is an investor in and strategic partner of GEC. Mr. Takase is the Director of GEC operations in Japan.

Bruce Veldhuisen, has been operating post secondary Teacher Training for over three decades on five continents.  He is currently Director at Paris University of International Education.  He holds a PhD in Education and an MBA.

Andrew has been managing the curriuclum development teams for GEC and for more than 5 years, and has a deep background in both teaching and in writing academic materials. Andrew has held content development and editorial contracts with Government agencies in Korea prior to joining GEC, and has been involved with L2 language training for over a decade.

Andrew's strong organizational skills and people management capabilities makes him a key coordinator both of development teams and when custom corpus scheduling, scoping and sequencing of GEC course and lesson content is required to fit the needs of GEC customers.

Andrew also contributes to the design of GEC course and lesson structures, and to the aesthetic appeal both of GEC's proprietary courses and custom courses we develop for special clients. He is in constant development communication with GEC's technology teams to iron out and innovate better systems and tools in GEC's digital lesson authoring environment, and with regard digital lesson delivery mechanisms for the GEC LMS.

Sanjok has a deep set of both technology and team management skills. He has been the chief data base architect and manages both the front end and back end teams for GEC. Sanjok has a fundamental understanding of GEC systems and technologies, and he is a key member for any tech customization or intergration requirements.

Aoife is an Irish educator based in Cambodia with over ten years of teaching experience.

Perry Tkachuk is the co-founder of GEC. He is a Canadian educator living in Thailand. Tkachuk has over 40 years of international education experience, ranging from executive university administrative positions, and university, high school, and English Language School teaching. He designed many types of bridge programs for thousands of students to begin their studies in their home country and end in US high schools and universities. For the past 20 years, Tkachuk has been in the EdTech sector, setting up distribution networks for Distance Education degrees, online High School Dual Diploma programs and online English courses. Tkachuk considers GEC as his most important contribution to international education, for there are presently no (or very limited) programs for students to become proficient at academic English—especially writing and speaking.

Şule Koçoğlu 
Born in Adana in 1978, Şule Koçoğlu graduated from Anatolian Teachers’ High School (Language Department) and Middle East Technical University as an English Teacher. 

She has taken “Creative Writing” certifications from Boğaziçi University and Nazım Hikmet Cultural Center instructed by Turkish Writer, Prof. Dr. Murat Gülsoy; “Writing Children Short Stories and Fairy Tales” and “Creative Writing” by Turkish Writer Lüset Kohen Fins; “World and Turkish Literature” by Associate Professor Zeynep Uysal, the head of Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Turkish Literature and Language Department; “Grammar and Punctuation” from University of California, Irvine; “Writing and Editing” from Michigan State University; “Writing Books for Children Diploma” from U.K. Her ongoing international trainings and diploma courses include; creative writing, novel writing, proof reading and editing, fantasy writing, children psychology, and well-being in children.