Our Team
OUR SHILIN SPEED READING TEAM
We are fortunate to have a great team that assists in driving the Shilin Speed Reading Courses
MARTIN SAM
Martin Sam is the CEO, co-founder, owner and the head-facilitator of the Shilin Speed Reading Institute.
Having first attended the course as a client in 2010, Martin partnered with Dmitriy Shilin (the course creator) to help share this unique course with the world.
He began facilitating the course in 2016 and has since taken over as the lead facilitator of the Shilin Speed Reading Program.
He has over 10 years of experience as a student of speed reading and over 7 years’ experience in helping others develop their reading speed.
Martin Sam
Chief Executive OfficerDIMITRIY SHILIN
Dmitriy is a businessman, husband, father and Ukrainian emigrant who lives in Cape Town South Africa. Dmitriy is the creator of the original version of the Shilin Speed Reading Program.
In order to supplement his income to support his family he began teaching students how to read faster using his own personal training methodology. On the second presentation of the course he “accidentally” discovered power of his training method when one of his students, Irina Ivanchenko, began reading full page lengths of text with full comprehension of what she read.
Dmitriy and his school went onto train thousands of students in the Ukraine between the mid-1980s
and early 1990s. He serves a consultative role in the company.
Martin Sam
ConsultantMATHEW HASWELL
Mathew is a start-up founder, businessman, husband and lives in Durban South Africa.
Mathew has a range of experience having previously worked in roles in Marketing and Communications, HR and Learning & Development for multinational corporate companies. He has experience in supporting various Digital Transformation projects. He is incredibly passionate about human behaviour, technology and learning.
With 4 degrees, including a Masters in Medicine (MMed) and experience in marketing and communications. He serves in a consultative role in the company.
