Geeta has over 12 years of experience in the writing and learning domain. Before Geeta founded Kern, she was an instructional designer and language expert at NIIT and Wipro. She started out her career as a journalist working with leading dailies and magazines like The Asian Age, The Hindustan Times, and Business Today. Geeta has authored books on business writing, project management, and an undergraduate level English textbook "Composition," published by ATI Technical University, USA. Geeta has masters’ degrees in journalism and business administration. Geeta is passionate about instructional design and has evolved a methodology called Learner Centered Methodology (link LCM to the blog article) to drive learning solutions at Kern. She also judges the annual Brandon Hall awards.
Rashmi has more than 9 years of professional experience in operations, finance, sales, and marketing. Rashmi worked for four years at NIIT heading operations of two of NIIT's biggest training centers. At NIIT she designed and implemented a new revenue accounting model. She also worked on a cost rationalization project to identify potential areas for cost optimization. Rashmi is a management graduate from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies. She is a Yellow Belt in Six Sigma and has led two key Six Sigma projects. Rashmi drives strategic planning and business directions at Kern. Rashmi also judges the annual Brandon Hall awards.
Rahul has 11 years of experience in Sales and Marketing. Rahul has worked with organizations such as Castrol, HP, and Asian Paints in various capacities. During his stint with Asian Paints & HP was instrumental in developing and institutionalizing various training programs for direct sales force as well as channels. Rahul has spearheaded some sales and marketing initiatives such as development centers for sales executives, business strategy for channel partners, and channel academy for indirect sales force.
He is a business consultant to many corporate such as Asian Paints, Schott Glass India, and Geetel India
Ripul Kumar
Director, User Research and Usability Consulting
Ripul has over 14 years of experience managing cross-cultural usability, visual design, and software development teams. Ripul spearheaded visual design and usability engineering for the development of acclaimed software products at Pramati, maker's of world's first J2EE server and development studio. Ripul has completed many full lifecycle usability projects for complex financial, ERP, insurance, call center, banking, supply chain, compliance, and point-of-purchase software applications. Ripul has consulted with American Express, SAP, ICICI Bank, Verizon Wireless, MetricSream, among others. Ripul regularly conducts usability workshops for software professionals. He co-founded Kern in 2004 and manages Kern's Usability Consulting practice. He works with software product companies to help make their software useful, usable, and pleasurable. Ripul is an Industrial Designer from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad.