About Us
About Us: Established in 2012 just after the success of the London 2012 Olympics, the team at Ascentium Associates is made up of a dedicated group of professionals that are passionate about your learning and development needs.
Most importantly are our faculty of experienced practitioner trainers, which is what sets us apart. We’ve a dedicated section on our website so that you explore the expertise that we can offer you to help with your career development and progress.
Please follow this link to see our trainer profiles
Kapriel Kasbarian - Director – Kapriel joined Ascentium Associates in the Spring of 2013. He is responsible for all aspects of the day to day running of our business. Kapriel is a learning and development professional who joined us from Armstrong Transaction Services where he undertook commercial due diligence and strategy consulting projects for private equity and corporate clients.
“Our faculty of practitioners and their experience and expertise is what makes us different. We look forward to working with you.”
Prior to that he was at PEI where he established and ran their training business for 5 years. Prior to setting up the training division, he ran PEI’s specialist book publishing and directory division and its research and data team providing online database products.
He has also gained strategy consulting and commercial due diligence experience at PMSI and Bain & Co, and financial markets experience at RBS. Earlier in his career he worked in retail audit at MEMRB International in Cyprus. Kapriel has an MBA from Cass Business School, London and a BA in Management from the University of Hull.
Robin Illingworth – Robin founded the company having been involved in a lifelong passion for learning and excellence.
“We strongly felt there was a need to provide specialist practitioner training in our markets.”
Robin is also part of the training faculty and specialises in commercial due diligence training.
Robin worked for many years in finance and business around the world before moving into the M&A market. He is also a Founder Director of Drystone Strategy Partners. Drystone is the third Commercial Due Diligence practice Robin has led and he has now personally overseen and conducted reviews for over 200 transactions.
Previously he worked for Inchcape and then Coca Cola in South America, specialising in strategic development and mergers & acquisitions. Robin has a degree in banking and international finance from the City University Business School and an MBA from Manchester Business School.
Why train with us?
We are passionate and focussed on your training and development needs and offer many strong reasons as to why you should consider training with us:
- Faculty Expertise – Our faculty of experienced practitioner trainers, makes us different from other providers. We have a dedicated section on our website so that you explore the expertise that we can offer.
- Small Class Sizes – Our courses are small groups (usually between 8-15 people) and are highly interactive. This allows for a lot of scope to ask questions and join in discussions. Attendees are encouraged to actively join in, contributing with their own experiences and also challenge and learn from each other. Individual and group exercises are designed to get people thinking about, reinforcing and applying their learnings.
- Learning with your peers – Our programmes are primarily aimed for industry participants, so you can expect to be training alongside an engaging peer group.
- Quality Programme Materials and Certificate of Completion – All programme attendees will receive the programme content and a certificate of completion.
- Quality venues – We always use easy to get to venues that are centrally located and which provide the right balance of comfort and technology to facilitate your learning experience.
- Feedback – Programme feedback is very important to us, both during and after a programme and forms a basis for ongoing continuous improvement.
- In-house training – In addition to our scheduled programmes we also offer bespoke programmes offering expertise, convenience and cost effectiveness.
- Track record – Our team of professionals have many years experience of planning, designing and delivering training programmes.
- Online Training – In response to demand from our clients, all our programmes are available for live online training delivery.
