Sujata Stead

Chief Executive Officer

Sujata joined as the CEO of Janison on 1 May 2024. She has over twenty years’ experience in growth and transformation leadership in the global education and assessment sector.

Prior to joining Janison, Sujata was the founding CEO of Cambridge Boxhill Language Assessment (CBLA), the Melbourne based organisation that develops and manages the Occupational English Test (OET). Under Sujata’s leadership, OET created the market and became the leaders in language assessment for global mobility of healthcare professionals, delivering close to a million tests in just over ten years, with the business experiencing over 1,500% growth during this period.

Sujata is a Trustee of the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, the largest convention centre in the Southern Hemisphere. She has a MSc in International Business from the University of London, Birkbeck College and MA (Cantab) from Cambridge University. Sujata lived and worked in the UK and India before moving to Australia. She loves travelling, cooking and spending time with her young family.