Founders of skybleu research ltd

Dr Albin Wallace FBCS CITP FRSA MRi is the founder and CEO of SkyBleu Research Ltd, a company providing independent digital education support services.  He is also a Director of Association of Education Advisers and Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Educators. 

Albin has 44 years’ experience in education.  He has extensive experience in supporting schools. Between 2003 and 2016 he was a senior executive director in two multi-academy trusts and Director of Digital Learning at Bedford School from 2018 to 2022. Albin is a Fellow of the RSA and a Chartered Life Fellow of the British Computer Society where he is also a Certified IT Professional. 

He has a doctorate in education from the University of Sheffield where his thesis was on the formal and informal uses of the internet for learning. He has also spoken at a large number of international education conferences. Albin has supported head teachers, senior leaders and local governing bodies across all sectors of education and digital learning both in the UK and internationally.  He holds the Bronze and Silver Awards for Inspiring Digital Enterprise.

Claire Wallace MBCS CITP is the co-founder and COO of SkyBleu Research Ltd, a company providing independent digital education support services.   

Claire has 25 years’ experience in education.  She qualified as a teacher in 1996 with BA(Hons) and Information Technology as a specialism. Claire taught as a Primary School teacher for eight years and was a member of SLT before leaving teaching and working for a number of multi-academy trusts in project management and support. 

Claire also set up a satellite BCS ECDL qualification centre to train and support teachers in Level 1 and 2 certifications for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Databases and Outlook. 

Claire holds the Bronze and Silver Awards for Inspiring Digital Enterprise.