The People Behind corporate.school

Petko is a seasoned executive with over 20 years of leadership experience spanning corporate governance, regulatory compliance, and professional education across Europe and the Middle East. He holds a Master of Science in Economics, an MBA in International Business, and maintains active certifications in Project Management (PMP) and Anti-Money Laundering (CAMS). His career has taken him through senior advisory roles at multinational financial institutions, where he designed compliance frameworks adopted across 14 jurisdictions and led executive training programmes for boards of directors and C-suite leadership. Petko has served as an external examiner for professional certification bodies and contributed to policy working groups on financial crime prevention. He founded corporate.school with a singular conviction: that verified competency, not networking or luck, should determine who gets hired. Under his chairmanship, the platform has established rigorous examination standards, a transparent credentialing system, and direct employer-candidate matching that eliminates the inefficiencies of traditional recruitment.

Nizar is a distinguished technologist and systems architect with deep expertise in building secure, scalable platforms at the intersection of education, artificial intelligence, and enterprise software. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering and a Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence, complemented by professional certifications as an AWS Solutions Architect Professional and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). Over a 15-year career, Nizar has architected mission-critical systems for Fortune 500 companies, led engineering teams of over 40 professionals, and designed cognitive assessment engines that have evaluated more than 200,000 candidates globally. His technical vision drives every aspect of the corporate.school platform — from the AI-powered Astra Quiz cognitive assessment to the secure credentialing infrastructure and the privacy-first candidate matching engine. Nizar is a published researcher in adaptive learning systems and a regular speaker at international conferences on the application of artificial intelligence in professional development and talent acquisition.