James Abela

NIU, ICE Malta and TheStudentCampus
Co-Founder

Co-Founder of first start-up venture NIU, a web application development firm based in the Maltese islands specialising in high-speed, SEO optimised web applications and cloud hosting (niu.com.mt)

Co-founder of one of Malta’s leading ICT academies, ICE Malta, representing educational partners Adobe, Autodesk, Linux, Microsoft, Cisco, AWS, The Digital Marketing Institute among other prestigious brands (icemalta.com)

Co-founder at TheStudentCampus.com, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company developing a unique, intuitive, safe platform which positions students and employees at the heart of the educational arena. In 2017, TheStudentCampus won ‘Malta’s Best Tech Startup’ award by the Malta Communications Authority – Malta’s biggest ‘Badge of Honour’ in eBusiness (thestudentcampus.com)

Nominated for the Europe ICT Start Up Awards in 2013 and was awarded the title of Innovative Entrepreneur in 2014. Regularly invited as a guest lecturer at the University of Malta and is a regular contributor for a number of publications and local and international conferences and fora focused on education in the digital era, entrepreneurship and information technology.

Currently living and working in the Maltese islands implementing a business strategy, identifying business opportunities, new collaborations and developing strong customer relations for his companies worldwide.