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Executive Vice President, Group Chief Technology Officer Skillsoft, and Chief Operating Officer SumTotal

Skillsoft is the innovative leader in eLearning, online training and talent solutions for an enterprise organization's most valuable resource, its people.

Senior software executive experienced in operating complete business units with full P&L responsibility. Product strategy, product design and execution, product go-to-market, and consultative sales are core strengths— balanced with experience in large scale operations inclusive of engineering, services, sales and marketing management. My core strength is taking a customer-centric approach to drive innovation in product, process, and organizations to achieve tangible business results. As Skillsoft's Chief Product and Technology officer, created the Percipio platform. The platform attracted 1.5B in investments and was instrumental in Skillsoft's June 2021 IPO; as Chief Operating Officer of SumTotal, dramatically improved customer retention rate from mid 80s to high 90s and returned the core LMS business to growth; as Group President at ACI Worldwide, managed and grew a global SaaS business of 400M by 5% over six quarters. I encourage you to read the recommendations below from the CEOs that I have worked with, for more color on who I am and how I get things done.