Built from within higher education

Your placement partner, built by people who've been there.

Every person on our team has held senior roles inside Australian universities, faculties and higher education technology teams. We don't guess at your problems — we've spent years working alongside the people who have them.

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With over a decade of combined experience inside Australian higher education, we have held senior roles at the country's leading universities, built enterprise platforms scaling to tens of millions of users, and consulted with 80+ placement managers across faculties and RTOs to understand exactly where the system breaks down. We don't theorise about your challenges — we've managed them firsthand. CareerHive is the platform we wished had existed when we were sitting in your seat.

About CareerHive

Our team are experts in higher education and technology — the blend needed to transform how your institution manages work placements. We've held senior roles at leading Australian universities, advised on digital education strategy and built enterprise systems for the sector. We only hire people who have worked inside the problem. That's what makes CareerHive different: we don't just understand your workflow, we've lived it.

Our approach
Designed with placement managers, not for them
Built for Australian compliance from day one
Every client gets a named PM, not a ticket queue
Australian-owned, Australian-hosted, Australian-supported
80+
Placement managers consulted to build CareerHive
30+
Combined years in senior university and EdTech roles
6
Australian universities represented on our core team
18k+
Student placements delivered on the platform
Built by placement specialists & industry leaders from
Monash University Melbourne Business School Swinburne University Victoria University University of Melbourne Oracle EY NAB
How we work

We built the platform we needed in our old jobs.

Every feature in CareerHive traces back to a conversation with someone doing the work. We sat with coordinators, watched the spreadsheets and the email chains, and built for the parts nobody outside the role ever sees.

How we work 01
We only hire from inside the problem

Placement coordination, faculty administration, clinical rotations, enterprise security — every person on the team has held the role before they built for it.

From higher ed or enterprise tech100%
How we work 02
Designed with 80+ placement managers

Not a focus group at the end. Coordinators across faculties, RTOs and schools shaped the workflows, the wording and the exceptions before a line was shipped.

Consulted pre-build80+
Melbourne · Australia
30+ years · 6 universities
How we work 03
A named team, not a ticket queue

Every institution gets a project manager and an integration specialist by name, in Australian time zones, from the first call through to go-live and beyond.

Australian-based support100%
How we work 04
Built to scale, proven at scale

18,000+ placements delivered on the platform, on infrastructure designed by people who have run systems for tens of millions of users.

Leadership team

The people who built CareerHive.

Every member of our leadership team comes from inside higher education or enterprise technology — bringing firsthand understanding of the systems, pressures and people that make work-integrated learning complex. That background shapes every decision we make.

Naren Chellappah Strategic Partnerships
Naren Chellappah
Head of Partnerships

Naren spent over a decade in senior roles driving work-integrated learning at Australia's leading universities. He understands placement coordination from the inside — and built CareerHive to solve the problems he watched coordinators face every day.

Monash University Melbourne Business School Swinburne
Natalie De Niese Client Onboarding
Natalie De Niese
Customer Success & Onboarding

Natalie brings a wealth of experience bridging the gap between education and industry. Her expertise in work-integrated learning and placement programmes helps CareerHive deliver outcomes that genuinely matter for students, institutions and employers alike.

WIL strategy Industry partnerships
Parth Deo Innovation & Technology
Parth Deo
Head of Innovation & Strategy

Parth leads CareerHive's technology vision — building enterprise systems, AI-driven placement platforms and data-powered insights tailored for the EdTech sector. He bridges the gap between what institutions need and what technology can deliver.

Enterprise EdTech AI platforms
Cratis Hippocrates Governance & Partnerships
Cratis Hippocrates
Advisor, Governance & Partnerships

Cratis is a digital and international education leader who helped build Open Universities Australia (2003–2010), establishing and growing the brand via a partnership with SEEK from 2004. As RMIT CMO he drove the expansion of RMIT University's international growth (2010–2014) into offshore markets. At global education company Study Group he led university partnerships across ANZ (2014–2018), and has assisted clients including the SEEK-owned OES to grow, establishing partnerships with Monash, QUT, Auckland and others. Cratis brings proven capability to CareerHive to lead strategic partnerships and governance.

Open Universities Australia RMIT · CMO Study Group
Nitin Singh Technology & Security
Nitin Singh
Chief Technology & Security Advisor

As former CISO at Victoria University, with senior roles at Oracle, EY ANZ and NAB, Nitin brings enterprise-grade security leadership to CareerHive. Institutions can trust that student data and placement records are protected by frameworks built for critical infrastructure.

Victoria University Oracle · EY · NAB
Brendon McQueen Technology & Scale
Brendon McQueen
Technology Advisor

Brendon co-founded and served as CTO of HotelsCombined.com — scaling it from a bedroom startup to a global platform handling 25M+ monthly visitors, 5M+ real-time data points and operations across 40 languages. His expertise in real-time data architecture and scalable cloud infrastructure shapes how CareerHive is built.

HotelsCombined · CTO Real-time data Cloud scale
Donna Hannaford Client Success
Donna Hannaford
Client Services Manager

Donna is the reason our institutions never feel like they're on their own. With exceptional attention to detail and a genuine commitment to client outcomes, she turns every onboarding and support interaction into a partnership — not just a ticket.

Client partnership Onboarding
Langdon Rodda Digital Education
Langdon Rodda
Lead, Digital Education

Langdon is a digital education expert with a decade of leading large-scale technology transformation inside Australian institutions. He specialises in integrating innovative learning technologies in ways that actually stick — not just in the pilot.

Digital transformation EdTech integration
Pearl Doronila Strategy & Consulting
Pearl Doronila
Senior Consultant

Pearl brings deep expertise across educational technology, career development strategy and program design. Her understanding of institutional ecosystems has driven meaningful change in how universities approach career development and learning outcomes.

Career development Program design

Ready to stop managing placements manually?

Join the institutions that have replaced spreadsheets, email chains and legacy systems with CareerHive — and never looked back.

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