Leadership Team
Vision. Action. Impact.
Our organization is built on a strong foundation of talent, accomplishment and cross-cultural awareness. Each of our leaders contributes 20 or more years of relevant experience in the global enterprise arena. Over the last decade, we've focused exclusively on corporate learning management functions - including strategic planning, IT, business processes and content development.
But perhaps most importantly, we understand how to build and motivate a worldwide service organization that consistently succeeds by putting clients first.
MEET OUR LEADERS:
Ramesh Ramani
Founder & CEO
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Ramesh sets the overall strategic direction for Expertus - ensuring that our services, organizational structure, operational practices and guiding principles work together to deliver superior value.
A skilled entrepreneur, Ramesh has led many early-stage companies through successful growth. He’s adept at evaluating business opportunities and structuring companies to profitably address market needs. In particular, he excels at forming teams, developing talent and leveraging global alliances.
Prior to founding Expertus, Ramesh was on the executive team at Fireclick - a $25-million web analytics innovator, where he served as Controller and Head of Finance. He also served as VP of Finance at Peac International - a $50-million international electronics distributor, where he guided the company through exponential growth.
Additionally, he’s operated as consulting CFO, securing funding and establishing core financial processes and systems for numerous technology ventures. Early in his career, he held management positions at Wells Fargo and Franklin Templeton.
Ramesh holds an MBA from Oklahoma State University.
Mohana Radhakrishnan
VP Client Services
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Mohana is Expertus’ chief consulting strategist. She guides Global 2000 corporations as they evaluate, optimize and transform their learning organizations to achieve key business objectives. Drawing on her deep, first-hand knowledge of the learning domain, Mohana’s approach to solving complex operational challenges is client-specific and vendor-neutral. She specializes in defining the appropriate role of new and existing technologies, applying best practices to business processes, and creating performance metrics to monitor and improve results.
To bridge the interests of training leaders and C-level executives, Mohana combines a seasoned, “big picture” perspective with relentless attention to detail. Along the way, she forges strong, trusting relationships across client organizations. Her success as a learning solutions strategist was underscored in 2006, when TrainingIndustry.com named her among the "Top 20 Most Influential Training Professionals.”
For more than a decade, Mohana has designed and delivered robust learning applications with measurable impact. Leveraging her extensive knowledge of enterprise software, corporate training systems, and OLAP reporting and query tools, she has managed multi-faceted, technology-intensive programs from requirements definition to full-scale deployment.
Previously, Mohana drove development of fund accounting systems at Franklin Templeton Investments. Earlier, she served as a product manager at a financial analytics software company.
Mohana holds a Masters in Accounting from Oklahoma State University, and is a licensed CPA.
Mike Murrell
VP Business Development
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Mike defines and directs all sales initiatives for Expertus consulting practices – focusing primarily on engagements that require Learning BPO and LMS Integration expertise. He develops comprehensive sales strategies and manages their implementation through direct, channel and partner relationships.
Combining more than 12 years of experience in enterprise-class business development, technical sales and software engineering, Mike recognizes the complexities associated with large-scale technology implementation, deployment and support. Learning solutions are his particular forte.
For eight years prior to joining the Expertus team, Mike held various sales leadership positions at Global Knowledge – a technical training services provider. While there, he managed successful solutions for marquee accounts such as AOL, McAfee, SBC and Wachovia. Previously, he held technical and sales positions at The Hartford and Nortel Networks.
Mike received a BS in Economics from Furman University and is a member of Mensa International.
Gordon L. Johnson
VP Marketing
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Gordon develops and executes programs that generate visibility and understanding of Expertus offerings among target audiences. Specifically, he directs all branding, market analysis, marketing strategy, public and analyst relations, and demand creation activities.
With more than 17 years of B2B marketing experience, Gordon has devoted the bulk of his career to perfecting value-added customer communications, integrated direct marketing, and customer interaction programs in training environments.
He has guided marketing initiatives for numerous training service providers – most notably Global Knowledge, Productivity Point International, Cognos Learning, Webucator and TeKnowlogy. In addition, he has helped numerous corporate training departments boost utilization of their services through internal workforce marketing. Some of those clients include Merck, UPS and Lockheed Martin.
Before entering the training industry in 1994, Gordon was a graphic designer for Butterworth Jetting Systems. He began his career in Dallas as an editor for Business Addison and the South Central Oracle Users Journal.
Gordon earned a BS in Marketing Management from The University of Texas at San Antonio.
Srinivas Krishnamurthi
Founder & Managing Director,
Global Development Centers
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Srini oversees all aspects of Expertus’ Global Development Centers. He ensures that our technical specialists are highly efficient and effective in deploying and supporting robust, multi-million dollar software applications.
His extensive IT knowledge, comprehensive program management skills, and first-hand experience with cross-cultural business practices uniquely qualify Srini to spearhead Expertus’ core offshore functions.
Prior to founding Expertus, Srini operated as an IT consultant, developing enterprise solutions to integrate disparate business processes across multi-faceted supply chains. Respected as an SAP expert, Srini has successfully managed three full-cycle SAP implementations. Companies who have benefited from his technical expertise include Accenture, McData (EMC), Philips Semiconductors and Varian.
Srini holds an MBA from Oklahoma State University.
Jim Hanlin, PhD
VP Content Strategies & Solutions
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Jim brings more than 30-years of academic and industry experience to his role as the guiding visionary behind Expertus' learning content practice. He is responsible for defining and expanding innovative services that marry Expertus' advanced learning technology with best practices in content design, development and delivery.
A recognized learning industry leader, Jim most recently served as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Marketing Officer at Training Industry, Inc., where he established the organization as a vital link in the the learning community value chain - cultivating business alliances, analyzing key industry trends, and promoting the interests of training professionals, worldwide.
Prior to Training Industry, Inc., Jim founded and grew three successful companies - each focused on developing corporate learning strategy and custom training programs. Along the way, Jim directed all facets of successful enterprise-class training initiatives for numerous educational institutions, non-profit organizations and global corporations. His expertise in integrating instructional systems, curricula and content has elevated him to an elite stature among today's learning practitioners.
Jim holds a PhD from the University of Pittsburgh, an MEd from Kent State University and a BA from Dickinson College.
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