Headquarters:
Tenancy 1, Ground Floor, 2 Luton Lane, Melbourne, VIC 3122
Year founded:
1910
Number of employees:
17
Phone:
+61 03 9229 3843
Email:
schools.marketing@tes.com
Website:
tes.com/en-au
LinkedIn:
linkedin.com/company/tes-au
Rod Williams
Chief Executive Officer
Jonathan Joffe
Managing Director - AUS
Max Lienard
Chief Product and Transformation Officer
Leadership
Rod Williams joined Tes in June 2020 and has led the company through a period of growth and transformation. Focused on advancing Tes’ vision to improve outcomes for students and schools around the globe, he is driving the evolution of the business to cement its place as a world-class software provider in the education sector.
Under his leadership, Tes continues to innovate, helping educators and school leaders improve outcomes for students worldwide.
Chief Executive Officer
Rod Williams
Jonathan Joffed joined Tes as managing director, Australia in November 2024 to lead the growing business in Australia, integrating a complex set of solutions, 1,500+ customers and 200+ new people.
Joffe has a background in leading commercial organisations through large scale business and cultural transformation.
Managing Director - AUS
Jonathan Joffe
Max Lienard joined Tes in 2022 and brings extensive experience in transforming and scaling digital businesses. He leads Tes’ product strategy and transformation agenda, ensuring the company delivers innovative solutions that meet the evolving needs of schools.
His focus on customer value, operational excellence and product innovation supports Tes’ long-term growth and success.
Chief Product and Transformation Officer
Max Lienard
Benjamin Jones
Head of Customer Value and Success - APAC
Benjamin Jones leads customer value and success across APAC at Tes, focused on helping schools get lasting value from its products and services. He brings more than 20 years’ experience in customer success, operations and service transformation across SaaS and technology businesses. Jones has a track record of building high-performing teams, improving customer retention and scaling customer operations across APAC and global markets.
Head of Customer Value and Success - APAC
Benjamin Jones
Tanya Hanouch
Sales and School Success Director - ANZ
Tanya Hanouch leads sales and customer success across Australia and New Zealand at Tes, working with independent, Catholic and government schools to help students and teachers succeed through technology.
She brings more than 20 years’ experience in technology, over 10 of them in edtech, with a track record of building and scaling education programs, developing high-performing teams and creating lasting partnerships with schools.
Sales and School Success Director - ANZ
Tanya Hanouch
Samantha Purych
Senior Financial Controller
Elizabeth Bounds
General Counsel
Nealy Farshadi
Principal, Strategic Client Relations
Pam Chhabra
Manager – Residential Strata
Samantha Purych, CPA, is senior financial controller at BIS Safety Software, where she oversees financial reporting, accounting operations, and compliance support for the organization. She brings over a decade of experience across controllership and senior accounting roles, including public practice experience at Grant Thornton LLP and earlier finance roles in municipal and corporate environments.
Purych holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Grant MacEwan University and completed her CPA designation through the CA School of Business. At BIS, she plays a key role in strengthening financial processes, ensuring reporting accuracy, and supporting data-driven decision-making as the company continues to scale.
Senior Financial Controller
Samantha Purych
Elizabeth Bounds oversees Brown & Riding’s legal, risk management, and claims departments. As the company’s chief legal resource, she reviews and negotiates corporate contracts and manages the firm’s litigation, internal legal resources, and relationships with outside counsel.
She also works closely with B&R’s senior management in developing overall risk management strategies for the firm and is directly accountable to the Board of Directors for implementing risk control measures and for the facilitation and oversight of corporate liability insurance placements. In the claims department, she takes an especially active role in policy interpretation and client claims advocacy.
General Counsel
Elizabeth Bounds
Nealy Farshadi is instrumental in helping strengthen and grow Brown & Riding’s client relationships. She maintains and improves quality procedures, oversees B&R’s ISO certification, and manages the firm’s client feedback program. Her contributions enable the executive management team to act on client input effectively. As a result, B&R’s client feedback scores greatly exceed the average and continue to improve each year.
Farshadi also supports and furthers the growth of B&R and its employees by contributing to professional development within the organization and being a resource to staff.
Principal, Strategic Client Relations
Nealy Farshadi
Stephen McMillan first entered the financial services Industry when he joined GE Capital as a finance analyst in 2008, from which he progressed through roles working both onshore and offshore. From there, he moved into Pacific Premium Funding as a financial planning and analysis leader in 2012 and was a key resource in the evolution of the business, first with the successful sale to Macquarie Pacific Funding and then the following progression into IQumulate Premium Funding, where he is now the commercial manager.
As commercial manager, McMillan leads a team that is responsible for commercial analysis and business support, identifying and reporting improvement initiatives, and the securitization and treasury functions of the business.
Commercial Manager
Stephen McMillan
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Stephen McMillan first entered the financial services Industry when he joined GE Capital as a finance analyst in 2008, from which he progressed through roles working both onshore and offshore. From there, he moved into Pacific Premium Funding as a financial planning and analysis leader in 2012 and was a key resource in the evolution of the business, first with the successful sale to Macquarie Pacific Funding and then the following progression into IQumulate Premium Funding, where he is now the commercial manager.
As commercial manager, McMillan leads a team that is responsible for commercial analysis and business support, identifying and reporting improvement initiatives, and the securitization and treasury functions of the business.
Product Manager
Claire Watson
Stephen McMillan first entered the financial services Industry when he joined GE Capital as a finance analyst in 2008, from which he progressed through roles working both onshore and offshore. From there, he moved into Pacific Premium Funding as a financial planning and analysis leader in 2012 and was a key resource in the evolution of the business, first with the successful sale to Macquarie Pacific Funding and then the following progression into IQumulate Premium Funding, where he is now the commercial manager.
As commercial manager, McMillan leads a team that is responsible for commercial analysis and business support, identifying and reporting improvement initiatives, and the securitization and treasury functions of the business.
Commercial Manager
Stephen McMillan
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Risk Placement Services
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Tes is a global technology company serving the education sector, with a mission to enable great teaching, improve outcomes and help schools and educators thrive. Its software and services span the full school lifecycle – learning management, learning support, inclusion, student and staff wellbeing, behaviour management, timetabling, parents’ evenings and school operations – alongside trusted journalism and insight through Tes Magazine.
Australia represents more than a third of the business globally, and a significant share of Tes’ school software capability was built here. Products like Timetable, Teach Starter, SEQTA, Synergetic, and AssetWhere are already embedded in the daily life of schools and classrooms across hundreds of schools in Australia, the UK and International school space – and it’s on that foundation that Tes is building the platform for what comes next. The most significant recent development has been the launch of Tes360 in April 2026. The Tes360 platform connects the range of software tools a school already uses, surfacing insight through connected data rather than adding another dashboard to an already crowded screen. When attendance, wellbeing notes, timetabling and staffing data sit together, patterns emerge weeks earlier than they would from any single system. The headstart of knowing something is developing before it becomes a crisis is the clearest illustration of what interconnection makes possible.
Product overview
Every student deserves the opportunity to thrive, and schools need the right tools to understand, support and respond to their individual needs. As student wellbeing, learning support and compliance requirements continue to grow, educators need solutions that bring together meaningful insights and streamlined processes without adding to their workload.
SEQTA and Learning Pathways help schools create a more connected approach to student support. SEQTA provides a holistic view of each learner by bringing together learning, wellbeing and attendance information in one place, while Learning Pathways helps schools manage personalised learning support plans, including Individual Learning Plans (ILPs) and Individual Education Plans (IEPs). Together, they support informed decision-making, stronger collaboration and more personalised support, helping schools improve outcomes for every student.
Key features and capabilities
SEQTA supports a whole-school approach to learning and wellbeing by bringing together academic progress, attendance and wellbeing information into a single platform. It helps educators identify trends, monitor student progress and make evidence-informed decisions that support both achievement and wellbeing.
Learning Pathways simplifies the creation and management of personalised learning support plans, making it easier for schools to develop, review and collaborate on ILPs, IEPs and other student support plans. Schools can document goals, adjustments and interventions, track progress over time and maintain a clear record of support for students with diverse learning needs.
Together, these solutions help reduce administrative burden, improve collaboration between teachers, learning support teams and school leaders, and provide greater visibility of the information needed to deliver timely, personalised support while meeting evolving compliance requirements.
Integrations
SEQTA and Learning Pathways are designed to work within your school's existing technology ecosystem. They support integration with Student Information Systems (SIS), School Management Systems (SMS) and other education technologies through APIs and established integration methods such as Wonde. This helps reduce duplicate data entry, improve data consistency and support efficient workflows, allowing educators to spend more time focusing on students.
SEQTA enables educators to record and monitor learning, attendance and wellbeing information throughout a student’s journey, providing a comprehensive picture of their progress and engagement. These insights help schools identify students who may benefit from additional support or intervention.
Learning Pathways provides a structured environment for creating, implementing and reviewing personalised learning support plans. Educators can work collaboratively with colleagues and families to set goals, document adjustments, monitor progress and keep support plans up to date. By providing a clear, consistent process, schools can deliver more coordinated support while ensuring every student’s needs remain at the centre of decision-making.
How the product works
After-sales and customer services
Tes’ commitment to schools extends well beyond implementation. Dedicated onboarding and professional services teams support schools through setup and training, helping staff build confidence from day one.
Each school is partnered with a dedicated school success manager who provides ongoing guidance, shares best practice and helps schools maximise the value of their investment over time. This is complemented by responsive customer support teams, an extensive online knowledge base and self-service resources, ensuring help is always available when it’s needed.
Contact for a demo
schools.marketing@tes.com
It’s also where regulatory readiness comes in. Although the Term 1 2027 bullying response requirements are already built into Tes’ thinking, compliance cannot be treated as a bolt-on, requiring schools to re-engineer their processes every time requirements shift. The case Tes is making is that a genuinely connected system makes a school structurally more responsive not just
to this deadline, but to any that follow.
At the heart of its offering is Tes360, a connected platform for deeper insight and greater impact, connecting information without friction, saving time, speeding up decision making, providing insight and driving action across schools and groups.
Built on more than 115 years of education expertise, Tes works with education communities worldwide to help teams save time, strengthen oversight and focus on what matters most.