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Christina Wein

Christina is a Sales Enablement Leader with over 20 years experience in sales or sales enablement. Her first-hand experience as a seller provides a clear understanding of challenges and pressures on a seller, allowing her to enable them with the right tool when they need it. As a recognized Sales Enablement Leader, she focuses on one core behavior… confidence. When selling agility, accountability, and solution expertise is achieved the confidence soars and the success follows. When asked about which sales model is the best, she believes, "the best sales model is the one that works for you."

Mark Probert

Mark has been a strategic leader in various learning technology organisations for over a decade. Mark brings his expertise from leading and developing teams at Instructure and Lumesse/Saba and LTG. Mark works with 100’s of organisations to help them implement their people-first L&D strategies by introducing talent and learning strategies that support connection, alignment, and growth plans in the face of hybrid and agile work.

Jeff Fissel

Jeff has spent his career in the video learning space. He led the integration of what was KZO Innovations' video technology (an organization he was a co-founder) into the Instilled LXP which combined forces with Bridge to build a market leading learning and development platform. Jeff has served as an adviser on video to some of the world's top companies and often shares his thought leadership at conferences, web events, and publications with the industry's top outlets. Jeff is currently helping drive product and sales alignment between LTG product and services businesses. He loves talking learning so please reach out anytime.

Ryan Houmand

Ryan’s background is in management primarily in corporate and retail spaces with organziations like ADP and The Home Depot. He’s an expert in employee experience and engagement. He’s the author of “A Passion for Monday” and believes everyone should love Monday just like Friday. In his role at Bridge he spends his days evangelizing the Bridge story and helping Bridge users to love it as much as he does.

Simona Fallavollita

Simona Fallavollita is the Director of Product Management at Bridge. In this role she oversees the development of learning, performance management, and career development software. Simona has spent over a decade working on learning and development solutions, ranging from professional certifications and computer-based testing, to learning experience platforms. Simona is passionate about improving the employee experience in the new age of work, and solving the challenges it presents to organizations everywhere.

Peter Brussard

Peter Brussard is a software executive with a long, demonstrable track record of more than 20 years of experience building software, leading teams and scaling revenue, he is currently the President and Managing Director of Bridge. His prior experience includes SVP Technology & Product Management at Instructure, SVP Product & Engineering at Rosetta Stone, and leadership roles at Microsoft and a variety of startups.

Balázs Bonda

Balázs has over 10 years of experience in working for multiple IT companies before joining Instructure and Bridge’s product organisation. Before that, Balázs gained a bachelor's degree in HR and a masters degree in Leadership and Management. This all comes together nicely at Bridge where Balázs can find benefit in having knowledge in both domains. At Bridge, Balázs contributes to product and organisation strategy, goal setting and leads by managing product managers and engineering teams.

Chris Coffman

Chris is VP Product for Bridge. Prior to joining Bridge in 2019, Chris led Product Management, Project Management, and UX for Rosetta Stone’s global language-learning business. Chris has over a decade of experience leading and coaching product teams. He began his career in venture capital and consulting, in the Silicon Valley and in Europe. Chris holds a BA from Dartmouth College and an MBA from the University of Washington.

Nichole Marconi

Nichole is Vice President of Marketing for Bridge. For more than 20 years, Nichole has led marketing initiatives that propelled revenue growth and brand awareness. Her experience comes from a variety of organizations, vertical industries and company sizes. Prior to her role at Bridge, she built the direct-to-consumer brand for ATD, one of the largest automotive suppliers in North America. Nichole specializes in digital marketing strategies and gets excited about unifying cross-functional teams to create momentum and growth.

Stephanie Kemp

Stephanie brings over 15 year of professional experience in teaching, management, and training to her current role on the Customer Success team at Bridge. As a former school teacher and a training and curriculum coach at Lululemon, Stephanie offers a wealth of experience to the organizations she works with to optimize their training and development programs. She’s a sucker for a classic pair of kicks, digs writing, oh...and doesn’t like coffee. Seriously.

Jeremy Farnsworth

Jeremy Farnsworth is the Interim Head of CX, working directly with the Customer Support, Implementation, and CSM, and Renewals teams. He has spent over nine years in roles involving customer experience for web development and cloud software companies. Jeremy has a Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology from Utah Valley University and a passion for education and career development.

Akash Savdharia

Akash is an entrepreneurial technology executive with over 10 years of experience bringing SaaS products to market that solve impactful data-driven problems. Prior to joining Bridge, Akash was the co-founder and CEO of Patheer, an AI-powered talent marketplace to help companies grow and retain employees by empowering them to discover new career paths and opportunities internally. At Patheer, he drove the company's vision, strategy, and products, which revolutionized the enterprise talent and career mobility space. In September 2020, Learning Technologies Group acquired Patheer to bolster its product and technology expertise in this fast growing market. At Bridge, Akash is the Vice President of Talent Solutions, and continues to drive the vision, growth, and strategy for skills and talent mobility.

Sky Land

With 6 years of experience as an Account Executive at Bridge, Sky has developed a deep understanding of the needs and desires of his clients. His approach to customer service is centered around building meaningful relationships and ensuring that every interaction is a positive one. He takes pride in being a product expert, able to effortlessly communicate the unique value of our offerings to prospective customers. Sky’s personable nature allows me to connect with individuals on a personal level, creating an environment of trust and open communication. He is dedicated to delivering exceptional customer experiences and committed to the success of his clients.

Simon Waldram

For more than 15 years, Simon has worked at the cutting-edge of emerging technologies, as a Multimedia teacher for 11-19 students and a Director of Technology in the healthcare sector. His extensive experience, combined with a first-class BA and master of Management and Leadership, positions him as a leader within both the commercial and educational sectors. As the Product Manager at Bridge he’s responsible for Gomo Learning and content creation. He’s passionate about delivering value at every interaction and to increase sustainable proven value for both customers and business. This combination of education and commercial experience has enabled Simon to ensure that businesses develop the SaaS tools required to empower customers and provide a framework for success.

Drew Stinger

Drew has been immersed in the learning technology space for over 6 years and has loved every minute of it. From working in global ad agencies (McCann Erickson), and professional sports organizations (go Jazz!), and now in learning technology, Drew has gained valuable insights in the world of managing teams, clients, and peers. Drew loves enabling individuals and teams to have more open, effective conversations centered around connection, alignment and growth and has seen the impact it can have on employee satisfaction and productivity. Skiing, biking, netflix-ing (that’s a word right?), and being a remote working dad, are just a few of his passions!

Sarah Meneses

Sarah has spent the last ten years in the learning space, including K-12, Higher Education and Professional Learning. Before that, she was a competitive gymnastics coach, where she first learned that having challenging, personalized conversations with her high-level athletes was the single most important thing in guiding them towards success in competition and in life. Sarah has brought that passion for leadership and coaching into the corporate learning space, where she leverages technology to help managers lead and develop their teams.

Lucy Littler

Lucy Littler serves as a Strategic Customer Success Manager. With over 15 years of experience in the learning technology space, Lucy brings genuine consultancy expertise and robust relationship management to her customers. She focuses on driving adoption, retention, and developing growth opportunities. Passionate about ensuring customer success, Lucy has collaborated with various organizations to truly understand their business needs and provide optimal solutions and outcomes. Remember to be your authentic self, as first impressions really count!

AUTHORS at

BRIDGE

Christina Wein

Mark Probert

Jeff Fissel

Ryan Houmand

Simona Fallavollita

Peter Brussard

Balázs Bonda

Chris Coffman

Nichole Marconi

Stephanie Kemp

Jeremy Farnsworth

Akash Savdharia

Sky Land

Simon Waldram

Drew Stinger

Sarah Meneses

Lucy Littler

Drew Stinger

Sarah Meneses

Stephanie Kemp

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