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"I would put the quality of the management team at Intrepid Learning Solutions up against any other private company in the country. They are smart, scrappy, creative, and completely focused on satisfying and creating value for their customers. We are proud to have been original investors in the company and are deeply committed to Intrepid's long-term success." |
Leadership Team
Vikesh Mahendroo
President and Chief Executive Officer
Vikesh Mahendroo provides strategic leadership for Intrepid, focusing on operations, finance, and client, board, and investor relations. He joined Intrepid in 2007 after a distinguished 23-year career with Mercer Human Resources Consulting. Mahendroo was one of the firm’s senior-most partners, serving as Executive Vice President of Global Accounts, chairperson of the Mercer Global Leadership Team, and a member of Mercer’s Global Operating Committee. He served as Mercer’s executive sponsor for a number of Fortune 500 clients.
Mahendroo joined Mercer in 1984 and worked as an executive compensation consultant and in several management roles. He served as president of the U.S. company from 1996 until fall 2000. Through his career at Mercer, Mahendroo developed extensive experience growing and running a world-class professional services organization, and a deep understanding of human resources and talent management issues. He is co-author of a recent Mercer published article, "Your First 100 Days as Chief Human Resources Officer."
Mahendroo has bachelors and masters degrees in economics from Delhi University and a MBA from Columbia University. He is a member of World at Work and SHRM, where he has been elected to the Special Expertise Panel on Global Issues. He is a director of ProV International, an IT services and solutions company based in Tampa, FL.
Mahendroo and his wife Kiran live in the Seattle area. They have two daughters, Shivani and Aditi who live in New York City.
As Executive Vice President, Client Services, Mike Flanagan leads the delivery of learning services to Intrepid clients, including consulting, instructional design, media production, instructor led-delivery, and project management. As an Intrepid consulting principal, Flanagan has led client teams for major global clients in industries that include financial services, high technology, management consulting, aerospace, and retail, and in service areas that include learning strategy, LMS selection, organizational benchmarking and curriculum development.
In his prior roles at Intrepid, Flanagan developed many of the research methodologies, consulting toolsets, and process models that are now the basis for ongoing Intrepid consulting work. He has written a monthly column on web-based training design for Training magazine, and frequently speaks at industry conferences and workshops on topics ranging from e-learning strategy to best practices in web-based training design. A graduate of Yale University with a master's degree from the University of Washington, Flanagan has an extensive background in education, curricula design, and applied linguistics.
Sam HerringSam Herring is co-founder of Intrepid Learning Solutions and leads the company’s sales, solution architecture, marketing and account management operations. Herring has led relationships with many of Intrepid’s major clients including Autodesk, Honeywell, Macy’s, Salesforce.com, S.C. Johnson, Washington Mutual Bank, and Wells Fargo.
Herring is a member of ASTD’s Board of Directors, and is recognized as a "Who’s Who" training industry thought leader by TrainingOutsourcing.com. He is immediate past-chairman of the ASTD Board of Directors Selection Committee, and is a past advisory committee member of ASTD and TechLearn conferences. Herring is a frequent speaker at leading industry conferences and seminars, where he speaks on topics ranging from designing effective corporate learning strategies, to best practices in vendor selection, and outsourcing.
Herring holds a master’s degree from Harvard University, where he studied ethics, religion and workforce development, and a bachelor’s degree in history from Yale University. He is also a director of New Futures, a Seattle-area children and family services agency.
Nelson Rockefeller leads Intrepid's business development and strategic partnership efforts, merger and acquisition consideration, market research, and business impact and measurement services. He has a strong background in business, education and
government service.
Prior to joining Intrepid, Rockefeller served in a variety of posts. As a Policy
Assistant to the United States Senate Majority Leader, he provided primary
staff support on welfare reform and represented the Majority Leader in staff
coordination of Republican Governors and Senate/House leadership objectives
for welfare reform, Medicaid reform, and job training/workforce development
issues. As Special Assistant to the Deputy Director of the White House Office
of Management and Budget his duties included negotiating the resolution of
policy issues for The President’s National Urban Policy Report and providing
analysis for the Executive and Legislative branches for over $3 billion of
Federal housing and urban development programs. At JP Morgan, he worked as
an Associate, primarily assisting portfolio managers in the Private Banking
Group with global equity selection and equity/fixed income analysis.
Rockefeller has served as a Trustee of the State University of New York and
as an Advisory Council Member of the New York State Office of Science, Technology
and Academic Research Advisory Council. Rockefeller earned a B.A. from Dartmouth
College and an M.B.A. from Columbia University Business School. He is a member
of the Board of Directors of The Conservation Fund.
Jo Surbrugg
Chief Financial Officer
Jo has 20 years financial management experience, spending the past 7 years
in executive management positions in the Seattle emerging technology sector.
Most recently she served as Chief Financial Officer of Intelligent Results,
Inc., a venture-backed software company. Her experience involves formulating
business plans; raising capital in the private equity markets; developing
financial models and budgets; establishing accounting systems, processes
and procedures; positioning companies for sale; and negotiating M&A and
other strategic transactions. She has recruited and led successful teams.
As Intrepid’s CFO, Jo is responsible for accounting and financial reporting,
treasury management, debt and equity structuring, contract negotiations, and
investor communications.
Jo holds Bachelor Degrees in International Business and Spanish from the University
of Colorado and a Master of International Management degree from the American
Graduate School of International Management.