Leadership Team
Vision. Action. Impact.
Our company 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. For more than a decade, they've focused exclusively on helping corporations achieve maximum business value from learning - by applying intelligent strategies and innovative information technologies.
What sets our senior executives apart is their extraordinary vision - coupled with their ability to develop and motivate a worldwide organization that consistently exceeds expectations by putting customer needs first.
MEET OUR LEADERS:
 | Ramesh Ramani Founder & CEO |  | Mohana Radhakrishnan VP Client Services |
 | Mike Murrell VP Business Development |  | Gordon L. Johnson VP Marketing |
| Ed Bauer SVP Worldwide Sales |
Ramesh Ramani
Founder & CEO
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Ramesh sets the overall strategic direction for Expertus - ensuring that our products, 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 is 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 enterprise performance 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 customer 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 software and consulting practices – focusing primarily on engagements that require technology integration and learning business process 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 almost 20 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.
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Ed directs Expertus' global sales team with vision and expertise gained from more than three decades of software industry executive leadership.
He excels in building high-energy teams and identifying revenue opportunities (via direct sales and channel partner organizations), while developing creative product strategies and marketing that fuel company growth. In particular, his proven track record in bringing emerging technologies to market has helped drive the successful launch of Expertus' flagship software product - the groundbreaking ExpertusONE platform.
Prior to joining the Expertus team, Ed specialized in steering high-technology businesses to their next level of revenues and profit - serving as CEO, COO, Division General Manager and in other executive management roles. Most recently, as SVP of Worldwide Sales at Kazeon, he guided the organization through rapid growth to market leadership - and through a subsequent acquisition by EMC.
Ed holds a BA in Finance from University of Notre Dame.
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