Amy Perko
Executive Director, Knight Commission

Amy Perko is the Executive Director of the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, an independent group comprised of university presidents, university trustees and former student-athletes who advocate for governance and policy changes to ensure that athletics programs operate within the educational mission of their universities. Perko has been involved with the work of the Knight Commission since the Commission reconvened in 2003 and has served as the executive director since July 2005. The Commission is funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

Throughout her career, Perko has been involved with sports, primarily college athletics.

In 1987, Perko graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude from Wake Forest University with a B.A. in history. A member of the Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame, Perko played basketball at Wake Forest and was named to the national Academic All-America team three times. She also earned All-ACC honors twice. Perko was a William Louis Poteat scholar and received the university’s award for excellence in history.

After graduating from Wake Forest, Perko earned a master’s degree in sports management from the University of Richmond.

She worked at the NCAA for over six years, and then at the University of Kansas as the Associate Athletics Director and Senior Woman Administrator. Perko left Kansas in 2001 to return to North Carolina when she was the first Team President named by the National Basketball Association for one of its men’s basketball development teams.

An active member of the Fayetteville, NC community, Perko served as President of the Board of Directors for the Partnership for Children of Cumberland County, an organization that focuses on early childhood development and education. She continues to serve on the organization’s Board of Directors. Over the past several years, Perko has served on the coordinating committee for a community-wide basketball league and has coached girls’ basketball teams in the league.

Perko and her husband Rick have two daughters, Anna and Kate.

Bret C. Johnson
Senior Director, Worldwide Partner Programs
Global Knowledge

Bret Johnson is a Senior Director at Global Knowledge with worldwide responsibilities for developing partner and reseller programs. He and his staff manage more than 30 partnerships, including relationships with IBM, Red Hat, EMC, Citrix, CA, Cisco, and Motorola. Prior to joining Global Knowledge, Bret was Vice President of Sales and Director of Partnerships in the advertising and entertainment industries with brand management responsibilities for Sara Lee, IKEA, Audi, and Lands End. Bret holds a BS in English from Illinois State University and currently lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with his wife and their two children.

Joe Panebianco
Director and Team Leader
TBM LeanSigma® Institute

Joe is sought after for his team-building and leadership skills, as well as his ability to help clients visualize and develop and implement successful transformation plans. He is uniquely skilled in effectively interfacing with all levels of an organization to facilitate change. He is a former operations manager with broad manufacturing and business experience. He currently serves as Director and Team Leader of the TBM LeanSigma® Institute, the training arm of TBM Consulting Group, Inc.

Charlotte DiLeonardo
CEO
Zebra Print Solutions

A Graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, Charlotte started her career as a Robotic Designer for Unimation, Inc working for Joe Engelberger "The Father of Robotics" She continued her career as a software designer for IBM where she received a patent for "Process Control of Real Time Systems", an object-oriented software tool for network management.

After a successful career in management at IBM, she left corporate America and opened the franchise AlphaGraphics of Raleigh with her husband Patrick. During their first year in business they received the Rising Star Award for achieving higher first-year sales of any previous franchise worldwide.

As an AlphaGraphics owner, Charlotte grew the company to become the 8th largest AlphaGraphics franchise worldwide by securing contracts with large corporations such as Progress Energy, Red Hat Software and Genworth.

In 2005, in order to pursue their own unique vision for the company, she and her husband left Alphagraphics and re-branded their business as Zebra Print Solutions, a company specializing in high volume, time critical training and marketing materials.

In 2006 they were awarded the Pinnacle Entrepreneurial Award for Business from Raleigh Chamber of Commerce and the Triangle ADDY award for the Zebra Print Solutions Announcement campaign.

Edward "Ed" Trolley
VP Learning Outsourcing
ACS Learning Services

Edward Trolley is Vice President of Learning Outsourcing for ACS. He is widely recognized as a pioneer in the training outsourcing industry when he orchestrated the first comprehensive training outsourcing deal between DuPont and The Forum Corporation in 1993. He has orchestrated many comprehensive training outsourcing relationships and continues that role within ACS. Prior to entering the training outsourcing provider space, Mr. Trolley spent 26 years with DuPont where he held a variety of progressive leadership positions in three of DuPont's strategic business units.

Mr. Trolley received his B.S. in Management Science from the Case Institute of Technology in Cleveland, OH. In 1994, he received the Excellence in Sales and Marketing Award from the Sales and Marketing Executives of Philadelphia. Mr. Trolley has named as one of the "100 Superstars of HR Outsourcing" by HRO Today magazine and Training Outsourcing Leaders by Training Industry Magazine.

Mr. Trolley is co-author of the book, Running Training Like A Business: Delivering Unmistakable Value, published by Berrett-Koehler. He is also a contributing author to two ASTD published books, Building Learning Capability Through Outsourcing and Lies About Learning.

Gene A. Pease

Gene A. Pease is Founder, CEO and Board Member of Capital Analytics, Inc. Capital Analytics a privately owned software and consulting company in Durham, North Carolina, has made breakthrough discoveries in linking the investments in human capital to business outcomes. Capital Analytics is creating and applying innovative methods and robust technologies to measure, improve, and optimize the human capital investments organizations make each year. The company has significant experience and education in this field and owns three patents, and has one pending, to support its proprietary technology, ProCourseÒROI. They have piloted projects with over twenty-five Fortune 200 companies, including U.S. Bank, Chrysler, Sun Microsystems, Verizon, Sprint, Citibank, Key Bank, Wells Fargo and Dupont.

Capital Analytics has established a solid reputation for providing statistically accurate financial values for investments in human capital, such as training, new technologies, mentoring, leadership development and learning methods. Their approach is to use the best mathematical models and methodologies available, tempered by significant business experience, to treat any organizational initiative as an observational study. Six years of development has been invested into their groundbreaking solution.

Mr. Pease received an MBA with honors, in Entrepreneur and Venture Management from the University of Southern California.  He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Architecture from the University of Cincinnati.

Mr. Pease is active in the non-profit and local community. He serves on the Board and was founding Chairman of the Entrepreneurs Partnership of the Triangle Community Foundation. In the community of Chapel Hill where he resides, for the past nine years he has been a Board member, three years as President, of the Gimghoul Historic District.  In 2005 he was Chairman of the Chapel Hill Citizens Budget Committee, and also was Vice-Chairman of the Horace Williams Citizens Committee. In 2004 through 2007 he sat on the Chapel Hill Planning Board. Mr. Pease is currently President of the Chapel Hill Library Foundation, a member on the Library expansion Building Committee, and is a Board member of the Orange County Water and Sewer Authority (OWASA).

Mr. Pease is also an avid roller hockey player in Chapel Hill.

MOHANA RADHAKRISHNAN
VP CLIENT SERVICES

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 recently underscored, 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.

Howard Rohm, CPT

Howard Rohm is President and CEO of the Balanced Scorecard Institute. Howard has 40 years of experience as an international speaker, facilitator, and consultant in strategic planning, performance management and measurement, and balanced scorecard systems.

Howard developed the award-wining "Nine Steps to Success" balanced scorecard strategic planning and management framework, and has helped dozens of organizations worldwide build balanced scorecard and performance management and measurement systems. Clients include: Purdue University, the Oneida Indian Nation of Wisconsin, Greenville (NC) Utility Commission, SAS, Centex Construction, Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, the International Bank of Moscow, the Canada Passport Office, the U.S. House of Representatives, the City of Newark, the U.S. Department of Commerce, Constellation New Energy, and the Blue Man Group.

Howard has worked in government and industry, including Booz, Allen & Hamilton, the Atomic Energy Commission, and the U.S. Department of Energy. He has consulted to seven Cabinet offices in Washington, and retired from government service as the Executive Director of the Advanced Nuclear Reactor R&D Program, where he co-authored the nation’s first national energy plan and contributed to several White House studies on nuclear non-proliferation. Howard built the Balanced Scorecard Institute from a simple Internet Web site into a widely recognized training and consulting organization providing performance management and measurement services to hundreds of organizations in dozens of countries.

Howard has undergraduate and graduate engineering degrees from Iowa State University and George Washington University, is a Certified Performance Technologist, and has taught and lectured at five colleges and universities. He is an adjunct professor at the U.S. Government’s Federal Executive Institute, and is listed in Who's Who Worldwide. In a White House ceremony in 1998, he received a "1000 Points of Light" award for community service from First Lady Barbara Bush.

Paul Terlemezian

Paul Terlemezian is the owner and founder of iFive Alliances, LLC. This firm focuses on building revenue producing strategic alliances for training, consulting and technology companies. Its methods include proprietary tools that are licensed to iFive clients as part of its implementation, consulting and training services.

Paul has over 30 years of business experience and nearly 20 years of alliances and direct sales experience in the high technology and training industry. He has worked for Digital Equipment Corporation, IBM (Catapult Division), Sterling Software (KnowledgeWare), Achievement Plus and with Sylvan Learning Companies that were focused on eLearning. He has designed, implemented and managed strategic alliances for training, technology and consulting companies.

He earned his M.S. in Mathematics at Northeastern University in Boston and taught Differential Equations and Calculus to freshman while doing so. Later, he joined DEC as a technical instructor and traveled around the world teaching clients how to use and program computer systems. He has managed customer training businesses for several companies and founded iFive Alliances in June of 2003.

He is the 2008 President for the Atlanta Chapter of ASTD (American Society for Training and Development ) and the Affiliate Chair for the Southeast Chapter of the Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals (ASAP). In 2008 he founded and launched the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) Workplace Learning Society. His speaking activities include the Business Wise Business Wisdom Academy and presentations on alliances for the Southeast Software Association, the Atlanta IT Association, Vistage, C-Level Enterprises CEO Boot Camp and TAG (Managing Your Business as an Asset.)

LaVon Koerner
Chief Revenue Officer
Revenue Storm

With over two decades of international consulting in sales and marketing effectiveness, LaVon Koerner is recognized worldwide as a leading expert in diagnosing and transforming sales and marketing organizations. LaVon passionately believes that companies and people can tap systematic disciplines and rigorous analysis to unleash profitable revenues and professionalize the business of sales.

LaVon co-founded Revenue Storm in 2001 to offer to companies worldwide a suite of comprehensive, proven tools and techniques for profitable revenue growth. As Chief Revenue Officer, LaVon helps organizations achieve revenue acceleration through demand creation and reap immediate, sustainable gains.

Prior to co-founding Revenue Storm, LaVon spent fifteen years with Holden Corporation, ultimately as its president. LaVon developed Holden’s core training methodology, which has been installed in hundreds of organizations worldwide. Called upon as both a thought leader and coach, LaVon traveled the globe to help organizations uncover the true cost of sales.

A major portion of LaVon’s work involves evaluating and assisting under-leveraged sales and marketing organizations, and analyzing market dynamics in a wide array of industries. As a result, he has helped create sales processes that reduce the cost of sales while increasing revenue through aggressive market share acquisition.

LaVon has been privileged to help many of today’s Fortune 500 companies achieve sales excellence, including EDS, Sun Microsystems, Ericsson, British Telecom, Ernst and Young, and Microsoft. He is uniquely positioned at the forefront of the design and installation of sales and marketing methodologies.

In demand as a speaker, LaVon’s passionate and entertaining style endears him to his audiences—whether at private workshops, executive coaching, annual sales meetings or industry conventions, including the Strategic Account Management Association and the International Conference on Organizational Development, where he spoke alongside former President George Bush.

LaVon is the author of numerous articles, papers and an upcoming book series. His article “Revenue Storm Sales Analysis of US Presidential Campaign” captured news media and analyst attention.

Chris Gaborit

Chris Gaborit is a director and founding partner of The Learning Factor. He focuses primarily on The Learning Factor’s global partnerships, customer relations and business development.

With more than thirty years experience, Chris has worked and travelled extensively in the Asia Pacific region. He has lived in the USA, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand. His wide ranging experience and understanding of doing business internationally is an asset to The Learning Factor’s clients when delivering learning services to a global marketplace.

Chris has been pivotal in developing The Learning Factor’s Asia Pacific business and with his operational experience he focuses on developing, maintaining and enhancing client and partner relationships through the implementation of measurable key performance activities. His approach is one of flexibility with the initiative to adapt accordingly to implement the necessary action to deliver the best possible outcome. Chris has given The Learning Factor’s clients and learning partners access to a wealth of worldwide learning services and resources built up over many decades.

Carl Wooten
Vice President, Sales and Marketing
UNISON, LLC

Carl Wooten has over 17 years of pharmaceutical sales, sales management, sales training and development, executive leadership and marketing in the pharmaceutical/biotech industry. He has worked with organizations such as; Abbott Laboratories, Glaxo Wellcome, GlaxoSmithKline and Sepracor, Inc.

His responsibilities have included, but not limited to, managing and leading both small and large highly successful sales teams, building and leading highly effective training and development teams and serving in multiple product launch marketing roles. He has participated in the launch of 15 novel pharmaceutical products, many of which have been “blockbuster” brands and extend over 9 therapeutic areas.

Recently, he served as the launch captain responsible for the training and preparation of over 1200 multi-specialty sales representatives for the launch of Lunesta, which became one of the top five most successfully, launched products in the history of pharmaceutical launches. This milestone significantly contributed to over 1 billion dollars in combined product sales for Sepracor, which elevated the organization to profitiability for the first time. Most recently, Carl served as a Senior Sales Director where he was extremely successful in several launch execution initiatives for key brands.

Carl has founded several start up organizations related to the human performance betterment of the pharmaceutical sales industry. Companies such as; Time-Concepts.com and Core Pharma Concepts both of which are dedicated to improving the value the pharmaceutical industry provides physicians.

He recently joined UNISON, LLC as our Vice President of Sales and Marketing, where he has leveraged his past experiences in order to continue a strong tradition of providing excellent client value through the UNISON collaborative technology.

Carl is married and the father of four.

In addition, Carl served in the military (Army National Guard) for 10 years. He attended Ohio University-Athens and Xavier University.

Michael Aumann

Michael Aumann, Executive Director of Facilitador® and performanceAgents™, is an international subject matter expert on Corporate Best Practices analysis and documentation, Knowledge Transfer strategies, and custom e-Learning development - all aimed at achieving rapid knowledge transfer and sustained organizational performance improvement.

Michael's vision lies in his belief that "progress cannot exist without knowledge, and that sustained productivity gains can be achieved through the facilitation of knowledge transfer". He works to enable both large and medium organizations to improve human performance by applying a disciplined and systematic process for identifying, documenting, and leveraging internal behavioral best practices.

Michael's management and corporate consulting career began when he was hired by a Fortune 500 company (WITCO) to oversee their international sales division's expansion. With that experience, he went on to co-found a New York-based trading firm which grew past $30mm in sales within two years and was later acquired by Honeywell.

His passion for how knowledge is acquired and transferred led him to co-found Facilitador® LLC in 1999, a Certified MBE, DBE, and WOB that specializes in knowledge transfer via custom learning solutions, and specifically, custom e-learning- learning solutions that leverage technology. Facilitador® learning solutions have been implemented in over 100 countries in various languages.

Facilitador® clients include: Bank of America, Heinz, Citibank, Microsoft, Silver Hill Financial, and more. Visit www.facilitador.com for more information.

performanceAgents™ LLC was established in 2003 as a DBA to Facilitador® and is currently a multi-million dollar, privately owned company. performanceAgents™ focuses on replicating top performers within sales, service and support environments by analyzing, documenting and leveraging top performers' best practices.

performanceAgents™ clients include: American Cancer Society, Constellation NewEnergy, Primavera Software, Monster.com, Northwestern Mutual, Brighthouse Networks, Wellpoint, and others. Please go to www.performanceagents.com for more information.

Michael dedicates his free time focusing on his family and believes in a strong work/life balance. He has been a mentor in "Take Stock in Children", a not-for-profit organization benefiting children of low income families.

Michael received his BA from Hofstra University in New York and is fluent in both English and Spanish. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the ISPI in South Florida. (The International Society for Performance Improvement).

Dan O'Brien
Vice President, Managed Services

As Vice President of Managed Services, Dan O’Brien is responsible for the development of managed learning service strategies, growth initiatives, and new market penetration.

Dan joined MicroTek in 2006 and brings extensive experience in managing training centers, instructor resources, courseware fulfillment, supply chain services, project management and product management. Dan joins MicroTek with over 23 years of training operations experience. Prior to joining MicroTek, Dan was Vice President of Global Operations and Planning at Global Knowledge. Prior to Global Knowledge, Dan worked for GeoTrain and PCS. Dan also retired after 20 years of service as a Sergeant Major from the Canadian Armed Forces.

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