Meet the Team

Kerry Brookes - RTO Manager, Head of Teaching & Learning

Kerry Brookes comes to CEAV Institute with over 20 years of teaching experience in a variety of Secondary and Training settings including Secondary, Special Needs, Independent, Community and Alternate… View bio

Susan Elmasri - Senior Trainer & Assessor

Susan Elmasri has been an educator for over twenty years and worked in a range of learning settings. After teaching internationally, she returned to Australia to deliver career and pathway education a… View bio

Penny Hysen - Senior Trainer & Assessor

Penny Hysen is a professional member of ACCE and has a wealth of careers development experience in the education sector before commencing as a Trainer and Assessor for the CEAV Institute. Her professi… View bio

Jasmine Alexander - Trainer & Assessor

Jasmine brings over 15 years of diverse educational experience to her role as Trainer & Assessor. She began her career in banking and financial services, where she spent five years honing her skil… View bio

Kristy Lillyst - Trainer

Kristy is a proud Gunditjmara woman with more than 20 years' experience in the educations sector across the catholic, government, tertiary and Koorie education sectors. Her passion for building pathwa… View bio

Jenny Holmes - RTO Administration Executive

Jenny has been in senior level administration with CEAV Institute for over 3 years. Prior to that she ran her own Marketing Business. She also has over 20 years’ experience in HR Management, Marketing… View bio

Nikki Pinder - RTO Administration Officer

Nikki has been the Administrative Officer at CEAV Institute for over 2 years. She has previously worked in several RTOs within the training and education sector. She also has over 10 years’ experience… View bio

Laura Ryan - RTO Administration Officer

Laura has varied experience working within education. She holds registration with the Victorian Institute of Teaching and has worked as a primary school teacher for the past 5 years.She has been emplo… View bio