Kaplan. Joe Farnell has been appointed chief commercial officer at Kaplan International. Joe will be responsible for identifying and executing global strategic initiatives and business acquisitions and analysing major investment opportunities across the group of companies. Joe has particular expertise in different models of public-private partnership in higher education, including TNE. Joe has worked for Kaplan since 2019, spending most of that time working for Kaplan’s International Pathways business in the UK and across Kaplan’s various businesses in the Middle East. Joe joined Kaplan from KPMG and before that the National Audit Office and is a Chartered Accountant. Joe commented: “Kaplan International is a broad collection of impressive businesses and I’m looking forward to spending more time working across all of them in this new role.”