Kal Raman
Kal is the CEO of GlobalScholar.com. Prior to joining GlobalScholar.com, Kal was the SVP of WW hardlines at Amazon.com since Aug 2004. At Amazon.com, Kal was in charge of the world wide hardlines business, as well as ownership of retail technology and online marketing for the entire company. Kal held variety of jobs at drugstore.com from 1998-2004. He was the CEO of drugstore.com from 2001-04 and also served as COO and CIO. While Kal was the CEO of drugstore.com, the revenues grew 70% to $246 M with the company achieving EBITDA profitability for the first time in Q4, 2003. As one of the early members of the senior management team at drugstore.com, Kal was involved in building the team/company from inception and was involved in various rounds of fund raising including taking the company public in 1999 (NASDAQ:DSCM). Prior to drugstore.com, Kal has served as the CIO of NationsRent and Senior Director of technology at Blockbuster and as Director of Technology at Wal-Mart.
Thomas C. Boysen, Ed.D
Dr. Thomas C. Boysen, Vice President for Professional and Institutional Relations of GlobalScholar, has served with distinction as a teacher and administrator in the schools of five states. He began teaching in a remote boarding school in Kenya. Later he served as a school superintendent for 20 years in Washington State, New York and California, culminating in his work as San Diego County Superintendent of Schools.
As the first Kentucky Commissioner of Education, Dr. Boysen led the implementation of the landmark Kentucky Education Reform Act. After leaving Kentucky, Dr. Boysen has served as Senior Vice President of the Milken Family Foundation, Chief Operating Officer of the Los Angeles Unified School District and Senior Vice President of K12 Inc., a learning systems company.
Dr. Boysen has served on numerous national boards and commissions and speaks and writes on school reform matters. Dr. Boysen received his Bachelor's degree from Stanford University and his Doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
William Zaggle
William is President of ExcelsiorSoftware.com. In 1986 William Zaggle co-founded Excelsior which has since established itself as the leading provider of assessment management software. In a prior role he was Vice President of Elite Software Development, Inc. of Bryan, Texas, leading the development and marketing of PC software for Mechanical Engineers worldwide. William built his first computer at age thirteen, and in 1980 graduated from Texas A&M University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science with a minor in Electrical Engineering.
Robert Kilgarriff
Robert (Rob) Kilgarriff is the Senior Vice President Sales and Marketing for GlobalScholar.com. Rob brings 27 years of extraordinary sales and marketing experience in technology and technology services, his career has included significant leadership roles in sales, marketing, product management, support and finance. Rob is responsible for all aspects of GlobalScholar's sales and marketing strategy as well service and support.
Prior to leading the GlobalScholar team, Rob has held senior management positions with Readers Digest, Plato Learning, Jostens Corporation, including Vice President Sales and Channel Development for Project Achieve. From 1986 until mid-1999, Rob served in various sales and technology management roles with GE Plastics and GE Capital and was a champion of numerous six sigma programs. His responsibility included strategy, marketing plans and tactics, advertising, customer segmentation, and alternative channel management.
Rob received his bachelor’s degree in business administration from Montclair University.
Brad Baird
Brad is the Vice President of Sales and Marketing for GlobalScholar.com. Brad Baird joined Excelsior as Director of Sales in 1998 and was responsible for the company's sales and customer support functions. He was instrumental in the development of all the key partnerships and business relationships that Excelsior Software established and GlobalScholar now enjoys. Brad has also been responsible for building the sales and marketing organization and defining the sales strategy at Excelsior and now GlobalScholar. He has extensive industry experience and is involved in several education organizations such as ASCD and ISTE.
In a prior sales management position at Sysco, the territories and the sales people Brad managed grew in the high double digit range annually. Prior to his Sysco experience, Brad was responsible for reseller channel and vertical market management for Earthweb, an Internet based start-up that reached $300 million in Nasdaq capitalization in less than three years.
Brad holds a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration from the University of Northern Colorado with a double major in Finance and Management. He participated in the Universities Honors and Entrepreneurial Leadership Programs.
Anthony Faulkner
Anthony is the Chief Product Officer for GlobalScholar.com. Anthony is a graduate of Western Michigan University with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Industrial Arts. In 1993 he became a Technology Education and Computer Science teacher. At Olivet Community Schools, Anthony created the new position of Technology Coordinator. While there, he installed Olivet’s first network, utilizing a Beta version of Pinnacle to help familiarize teachers with their new network computers. His belief in and familiarity with the Pinnacle program led him to represent Excelsior Software in 1996, on a part-time basis. In 1999 Anthony left Olivet Community Schools to represent Excelsior Software on a full-time basis through his consulting company T-N-T Educational Consulting, Inc. Today T-N-T Educational Consulting represents Excelsior Software in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin. Anthony's expertise led to the development of the Pinnacle PDA Collection, and custom development of the Pinnacle Internet Viewer. In 2005, Anthony became Vice President of Development for Excelsior Software, leading the development team for the Pinnacle Web project.
Lyle Groome
Lyle is Vice President of Student Information System Development at GlobalScholar.com. He has been a leader in the development of Student Information Systems since 1983. As founder and CEO of ExLogica, Inc., Lyle developed and marketed the Silk Student Information System. Previously, in 1983, Lyle developed the Osiris School Administration System and founded Tamarac Systems, Inc., which was one of the early innovators in student systems, with installations in thousands of schools. ExLogica was acquired by GlobalScholar.com in January 2009. Lyle received his Bachelor of Science degree and Master of Science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
John Hults
John is GlobalScholar.com’s CFO. Prior to joining GlobalScholar.com, he founded Blue Jean Images, LLC in 2006 and continues as Chairman of this Beijing and Seattle based digital content production company. John was VP Financial Planning & Analysis at Getty Images, Inc. (NYSE:GYI) from 2001 to 2006. Prior to Getty Images, John spent 7 years in the wireless telecom industry. He led the Seattle market as VP/GM for WinStar Telecommunications (NASDAQ: WCII) following a series of financial analysis and process design roles at WinStar and wireless industry pioneer McCaw Cellular/AT&T Wireless. John served 7 years at sea and ashore as a US Naval Officer, and then earned his MBA at the JL Kellogg School at Northwestern University. He is a proud member of the US Naval Academy class of ‘83.
Muru Subramani
Muru is the Chief Technical Officer and Vice President of Technology for GlobalScholar.com. Prior to joining GlobalScholar.com, he was a Research Software Design Engineer at Microsoft Research. While at Microsoft Research, Muru was involved in a variety of research projects and published numerous research papers as part of the Adaptive Systems and Interaction Group. Prior to Microsoft, Muru worked at Valve Corporation, where he helped build the companies online game distribution platform, at Drugstore.com as a core member of the original engineering team that built the companies ecommerce platform and at Intel Corporation as a senior software engineer. Muru holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science from University of Madras, India.
Piper Muoio
Piper Muoio is the Vice President, Client Services for GlobalScholar. Piper brings over 20 years of professional experience in client and professional service management, data center operations, business development and sales. Piper will lead our continued efforts to develop “best in class” customer service, support and service delivery with the goal of “delighting” our prospects and customers, as well as supporting our current installed base of customers as they evolve and build upon their current Pinnacle Suite implementations.
Piper comes to us most recently from AdmitOne Security where she was the Director of Client Services, managing the product support and implementation teams. Prior to that she built, grew and led the Professional services team at Managed Objects as the Director of Professional Services from 2000 - 2008. Prior to 2000, Piper served in various consulting and management roles with Deloitte & Touche and PriceWaterhouseCoopers where she brings a depth of experience in project and account management, implementation methodologies and overall excellent service delivery.
She received her B.S. degree in Business Administration/Marketing from Pennsylvania State University and has completed some courses toward her MBA/MIS
