The founder of the MINDSET syllabus and chief instructor is Charlie Riley, who has combined over 35 years of traditional martial arts, street self defence and close quarters combat experience. He's a certified Master Close Quarters Combat instructor, Black Sash Kung Fu instructor, Kickboxing and Chinese Boxing instructor along with that he has other instructorship qualifications in Unarmed Combatives, Pacific Archipelago Combatives and Filipino Combatives. While in New Zealand he was also the Combat Striking Instructor for the Krav Fighter Gym in Auckland.
The following instructors below have all been personally certified and trained by Charlie.