Frank Gartland brings nearly 16 years experience in the software industry holding executive and upper management positions in product strategy and development, marketing, sales, business development and publishing. Before joining iLinc, he served as Vice President, Solution Strategy & Development at Incentive Logic, a custom online incentive solution provider, where his teams were responsible for client implementations, enterprise architecture, application development, operations, network operations and IT. Prior to that he served as Director of Product Development at KnowledgeNet, where Gartland helped pioneer the delivery of instructor-led training over the Web. He is recognized as a leader in virtual classroom technology and proven approaches to content delivery over the Web. His teams delivered more than a half-million hours of virtual classroom instruction and built thousands of hours of expert-led recorded training helping to fuel triple-digit growth over a five-year span. When KnowledgeNet was acquired by Thomson, Inc., Gartland became the Director of Product Management and led the process of creating and deploying tools for a newly combined sales force and successfully integrated the overall product strategy and budget of the two companies. Prior to KnowledgeNet, he played an integral role with Mastering Computers as they went from less than 20 employees in 1991 to a publicly-traded company in 1996 (formerly NASD: MASC) and was sold to Platinum Technology in 1998 for $225 million. Gartland holds a BA from Purdue University. |