Studee was founded by Chris Morling and Simon Andrews.
They each bring highly complementary strengths to the same challenge: building a better way to manage international admissions.
Chris has built and scaled successful digital businesses by identifying customer problems, simplifying complexity, and creating products people trust. Simon has spent more than 20 years in international higher education, working closely with universities and helping students navigate major education decisions.
International admissions needs both: strong product thinking and a deep understanding of how international education works in practice.
Chris Morling
Founder of money.co.uk, built and sold in one of the UK’s most competitive digital markets.
Chris has a track record of building ambitious digital products in competitive markets.
He founded money.co.uk and built it into one of the UK’s leading comparison platforms before its sale in 2017. That experience reflects more than commercial success. It shows a strong understanding of how to identify customer friction, build trust, and make complex decisions easier for users.
Chris has also built teams and products designed to do exceptional work. His approach goes beyond performance alone. He cares about creating experiences that are thoughtful, high quality, and genuinely better for the people using them.
That mindset shapes Studee. We are not interested in building something that is merely functional. We want to build something genuinely useful, well considered, and clearly better than the fragmented ways of working that exist today.
Simon Andrews
More than 20 years in international higher education, working with universities and student pathways worldwide.
Simon brings deep sector understanding to Studee.
He has spent more than two decades in international higher education, building education-focused businesses and working closely with universities around the world.
Over that time, he has developed a detailed understanding of how students explore options, how institutions recruit, and how international education decisions are made in practice.
Because international admissions is shaped by sector realities, institutional priorities, and the different ways students, schools, and universities move through the process across countries and systems, that experience gives him first-hand insight into where the friction sits and why better coordination matters.
Why this pairing works
Studee sits at the intersection of two difficult challenges.
One is building products that simplify complex, high-stakes processes in a way people can trust and actually use.
The other is understanding the reality of international admissions — the people involved, the pressure points, and the operational complexity behind every application.
Chris and Simon bring both.
That is central to how Studee is being built: with product discipline and sector understanding from the start, not as a generic software idea and not from a distance.
Built with practicing counselors
That same approach carries through into how Studee is being developed.
We are building with practicing counselors through our Counselor Circle and ongoing feedback, so the product reflects real workflows, real constraints, and the real-world challenges faced by school counselors, students, and university admissions teams.
Solving this well takes more than experience. It takes close attention to how the work actually happens.