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Bill Bruck is the lead solutions architect and co-founder of Q2Learning, LLC, developer of the xPERT eCampus, the leading collaboration platform for learning and knowledge sharing and winner of the 2004 Brandon Hall gold Excellence in Learning award for innovative technology.
Bill designed the eCampus technology and end-to-end methodology that has been used in hundreds of communities of practice and blended learning programs for Fortune 500 corporations. He serves as a luminary for media and industry relations, and provides keynotes internationally on collaboration technologies and their impact on organizations.
Bill comes from academia, where he was a tenured full professor of psychology and director of institutional research at Marymount University. During that time, he designed a system for assessing institutional effectiveness that was cited as an exemplar during re-accreditation by the Southeastern Association of Schools and Colleges (SACS).
Bill has written over a dozen books on the effective use of technology, which have been translated into five languages. Microsoft Press published his latest book, "Taming the Information Tsunami."
Dr. Bruck earned his bachelor's degree from Brown University in human studies, his master's degree from Duquesne University in clinical psychology and his doctorate from the University of Florida in counseling psychology. His accomplishments have been recognized by his listing in Marquis Who's Who in America since 2000.
Will is responsible for GeoLearning’s worldwide marketing operations, including the overall positioning and promotion of the company, its products and services. He also oversees GeoLearning’s product management function responsible for evaluating market needs, defining new products and product requirements, translating feature requirements into engineering specifications, and bringing new products and services to market.
During his 8-year tenure, the company has been the recipient of more than 50 awards recognizing GeoLearning’s products, industry contributions and business performance. Will’s previous marketing and product management experience includes more than 10 years in the training and development, insurance and health care industries.
Will is a frequent speaker at training industry conferences and the author of numerous articles on training practices, learning technology, and marketing of learning services. He has a BA in Economics from York University (1994) and his MA in Marketing from Drake University (1995).
Vikas Joshi founded the Harbinger Group, where he serves as the Chairman and Managing Director. Today the group is known for its innovative software products, and has established a market presence in over thirty countries around the world.
Vikas Joshi's leadership at Harbinger has resulted in groundbreaking product innovations in the e-learning industry. One of his patent-pending inventions led to Raptivity, the world's first rapid interactivity builder, which makes learning interactive, engaging and fun. Other products propelled by his vision include Elicitus, the award-winning e-learning authoring tool, and the Offline Content Player, a scalable platform for offline e-learning. Under his leadership, Harbinger has also emerged as a trusted provider of software services to a wide range of technology companies ranging from Microsoft to several Silicon Valley start-ups.
Vikas is a frequent speaker at industry events, and is recognized as a thought leader in e-learning technology and its role in knowledge management. He has written a book titled Strategic e-Learning Mantras, which distils the best practices in corporate eLearning into a handy guide. He actively advises and speaks at local colleges and other organizations.
After IIT Bombay, where he completed his B.Tech, Vikas got his MS from Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY on a Graduate Fellowship, working on artificial intelligence. He lives in Pune, India and hangs out in the Silicon Valley a few months every year. In his spare time, an occasional book provides him diversion from high tech entrepreneurship, unless the book also happens to be on the same subject.
Greg Luckock is director of global technology and development strategies for Raytheon Professional Services (RPS), a unit of Raytheon Company. RPS is an award-winning provider of integrated learning solutions that improve the performance of commercial, military and government organizations worldwide. The company delivers more than five million hours of custom training in 27 languages on six continents each year. A nineteen-year career learning professional, Luckock focuses on creating and implementing innovative technology and development strategies that deliver measurable value to RPS's clients.
Formerly, Luckock was a senior leader within Convergys' Learning Solutions practice, where he led the business's entry into the learning outsourcing market and defined its learning outsourcing strategy. Prior to his position with Convergys, Luckock held senior positions within PricewaterhouseCoopers' (PwC) global learning consulting and outsourcing practices where he helped clients apply business, organizational, and financial disciplines to their training function and defined the firm's learning outsourcing technology strategy. Luckock began is career as cofounder and president of Software Academy, one of the largest privately held desktop productivity and network certification companies in the United States.
Luckock is a graduate of Grove City College in Pennsylvania. He and his family reside near Dallas, Texas.
Prior to founding Zeroed-In, Chris served as Chief Technology Officer for THINQ Learning Solutions, Inc. where he was the visionary and driver behind the TrainingServer® suite of products. During his 15-year tenure at THINQ, Chris transferred his experiences and vision into a framework called The Learning Management Maturity Model (LM3)™. As a first of its kind, THINQ’s LM3 combines organizational process maturity and various technologies to help organizations define and execute on their learning and performance strategy.
Today, Chris’s work continues to bridge the gap between learning strategy and execution. His most recent innovation, CLO Dashboard™ zeroes in on learning and performance metrics by aligning business goals and objectives to key learning indicators (KLI) and supporting measures. His efforts have won him respect as a speaker and author by numerous trade associations and journals including ASTD, CLO Magazine, HR Executive, Training Director’s Forum, and The Conference Board. Chris holds a BS in Business Information Systems from the University of Phoenix. He resides near Baltimore, Maryland with his wife and two sons.
Assignments have included strategic counsel on IT-enabled learning programs, developing key performance metrics to monitor and improve learning initiatives, training strategy, outsourcing logistics, and full-scale technology deployments.
Clients value Mohana's ability to forge deep, trusting relationships and consider her a critical advisor who balances a seasoned, "big picture" perspective with a relentless attention to detail.
Previously, Mohana served as a product manager and business systems developer at a financial analytics software company and at Franklin Templeton.
Mohana holds a Masters degree in Accounting from Oklahoma State University.
Frank Russell is the President and CEO of GeoLearning, Inc., a leading provider of ASP-hosted human capital management and development (HCMD) solutions. GeoLearning has been awarded some of the e-learning industry's largest outsourcing contracts, including a 5-year $7 million contract to host and service the federal government's Electronic Human Resources Integration (EHRI) initiative, a $2.56 million 3-year contract to host and deliver homeland security-related training for the State of New Jersey's 145,000 first responders, and a 4-year contract to host the Government Online Learning Center at www.golearn.gov that provides online training services to 1.8 million federal government employees.
Frank has more than 25 years of experience in the training and development field. Prior to founding GeoLearning, he was president and co-founder of Excellence in Training Corporation, a leading producer of video-based training. Frank's extensive experience in the computer-based training field includes research at the Center for Advanced Computation at the University of Illinois where the first Internet browser was invented. He worked for Control Data Corporation in the late 1970s with the Plato System, which was the first commercially viable CBT authoring system. He has also been the director of training for a Fortune 500 company and head of training for the State of Iowa.
He was a founding member of the Digital Learning Organization (DLO) and President of its e-learning standards committee prior to its merger with the Instructional Systems Association (ISA), in which he continues to maintain his membership. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and workshops on topics related to training, professional development and the current state and future of the e-learning industry.
Prior to joining Intrepid, Brian spent six years at Microsoft, leading efforts in the development of learning standards and the movement of their proprietary WBT content to an online, interoperable format. In addition, Brian directed the information technology team responsible for the enterprise-wide consolidation of all learning management systems across the Microsoft enterprise. Brian has also led efforts in developing localization and globalization strategies, methods and process for creating accessible (508 compliant) learning content, collaborative XML authoring environments and blended learning strategies.
Brian has served on and led efforts within the IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee, IMS Learning Design and Reusable Competency working groups, a Learning Object Metadata reference model developed in partnership IBM, Cisco, Thompson NETg and Click2Learn as well as the ISO MPEG 21 efforts on a digital rights expression language. In the “Learning Standards Evangelist” capacity, Brian has presented at industry conferences and events in the United States, Europe and Australia.
Brian's previous work experience focused on the design and development of customer facing systems for the Internet, catalog and retail environments. He is a strong proponent of user-centric systems and applying best practices learned using various methodologies and tools from Object Oriented design, Six-Sigma and other areas to realize business.