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The people behind the standard

CAQA is led by some of the most experienced compliance, quality assurance and education professionals in Australian VET. Every trainer and assessor is credentialled under the Credential Policy 2025, and every executive meets the Fit and Proper Person Requirements.

Leadership

Executive leadership

Senior team

Senior team & specialists

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Nadia Spain

Senior Principal ConsultantCAQA & Australian Higher Education Group
25+ yrs educationASQA & TEQSAGovernance & RiskDigital Pedagogy

Nadia bridges complex regulatory requirements and high-quality delivery across VET and higher education. With 13 years of leadership in secondary education and curriculum design, she translates ASQA and TEQSA standards into practical, student-centred quality systems and keeps continuous improvement at the heart of every program.

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Anna Haranas

Former General Manager, LLND Expert & Quality Assurance ConsultantFormer General Manager, CAQA | Director & General Manager, Academia Group
LLND Specialist35+ yrs leadership6x ISO StandardsLean Six Sigma

CAQA's language, literacy, numeracy and digital literacy (LLND) expert and former General Manager, Anna brings more than 35 years of cross-industry leadership across VET, early childhood, allied health, hospitality and retail. She develops the LLND kits and pre-enrolment review tools that underpin our student suitability process, and her deep experience in quality management systems, ASQA audits and the Standards for RTOs 2025 continues to shape CAQA's compliance frameworks.

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Rishabh Arora

Senior Compliance Officer & Team LeaderCareer Calling Education Group (CAQA Skills)
Exemplar Global ISOAudit ReadinessPolicy DevelopmentTAS Review

Rishabh leads CAQA's compliance and administration team across the full compliance lifecycle: gap analysis, internal audit coordination, policy and procedure development, Training and Assessment Strategy review, trainer credentialling advice and ASQA/TEQSA audit readiness, plus quality assurance of an industry-leading resource library.

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Stuart Newman

National Sales & Account ManagerCareer Calling International | CAQA Groups
30+ yrs experienceClient RelationshipsRTOs, TAFEs & Government

The national face of CAQA's partnerships, Stuart builds and manages relationships with registered training organisations, TAFEs, universities and government agencies nationwide, bringing three decades of senior customer and operations leadership across utilities, hospitality, retail and real estate.

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Raj Kiran Kaur

Chief Operating and Financial Officer (COFO)Nurse Practitioner (AHPRA Endorsed) | Nursing Lecturer, RMIT University
15+ yrs clinical6,800+ advanced practice hrsDual Master's (UniMelb)OSCE & Curriculum Design

An AHPRA-endorsed Nurse Practitioner and clinician educator, Raj combines specialist intensive care practice at Northern Health with eight years of continuous nursing lecturing at RMIT University, bringing frontline clinical authority to curriculum design, assessment and clinical governance.

Governance you can verify: CAQA's executive officers meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements under the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Act 2011, and all trainers and assessors hold credentials required by the Credential Policy within the Standards for RTOs 2025. Verify our registration any time on training.gov.au.

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