Our Management Team


To contact any member of our team, please send an email to info@certilearn.com
 

Thomas C. Byrne, Chairman. Mr. Byrne has been a member of the board of directors of Jamba, Inc. since January 2005. Mr. Byrne has served as administrative partner of New River Capital Partners, a private equity fund, which he co-founded, since 1997. Prior to co-founding New River Capital Partners, Mr. Byrne was the vice chairman of Blockbuster Entertainment Group, a division of Viacom, Inc. Additionally, Mr. Byrne was president of the Viacom Retail Group and represented Blockbuster in all cross-Viacom opportunities. Prior to joining Blockbuster, from 1985 to 1987, Mr. Byrne was employed by KPMG Peat Marwick. Mr. Byrne has a B.S. and M.A. in Accounting from the University of Florida. Mr. Byrne is a certified public accountant and is a member of the board of directors of Certilearn, Inc., Intralearn Software Corporation, ITC Learning, Swisher International, Inc., Pivotal Fitness, and the Private Equity Committee of the University of Florida Foundation.

Jack Lynn, CPA, Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining CertiLearn, Mr. Lynn worked for Deloitte & Touche, where he managed the audit engagements of high profile public companies. Previous experience also includes service as a financial analyst for Claire's Stores, a publicly traded company with worldwide retail operations. He is a Certified Public Accountant, Mr. Lynn earned a Master of Science in Taxation from Florida International University and a BA in Accounting from the University of Texas.

Mark Lambertson. Mark Lambertson comes to Certilearn with over twenty years' experience in selling and developing computer based training. Skills include new business development, executive sales management project management, graphic design, instructional design concepts and authoring tools, primarily utilized in developing multimedia training. He is highly skilled at understanding business problems and building client relationships.  Mark builds client-focused organizations emphasizing product excellence, client relationship building, production processes and personalized employee development. Mark's ability to apply strategic planning, new business development, sales and marketing leadership and his deep understanding of the tools and techniques used to develop successful education initiatives (e-Learning) will expand Certilearn's presence in the rapidly growing distance learning vertical. Accomplishments include development of a fully automated blended learning platform to deliver APhA's Immunization and Diabetes certificate programs to pharmacists, as Senior Vice President growth of LearnSomething's Association and Channel Sales business from 300k in annual sales to 2.7 million and CBT production efforts for CN Railroad, UPS, Georgia Pacific, Weyerhaeuser, Ryder Logistics, Beazer Homes, Pearson Education, University of Phoenix and 26 National Associations.

Diana Kleiman. Ms. Kleiman comes to Certilearn with over 25 years experience in the production of corporate communications, training and e-learning.  As President of AVDirectors, Inc. for 17 years and  VP/Director of Product Development and Content for Avaltus (formerly Payback Training Systems) for 8 years. Most recently she had developed company and  curriculum for supermarket chains which has been recently been acquired by Certilearn. Ms. Kleiman has extensive experience consulting with corporate clients in pharmaceuticals, healthcare, finance, grocery and retail, as well as associations, franchisors and government for the move into successful e-learning. Ms Kleiman has worked with Subject Matter Experts in the areas of health, safety, food safety and hospitality to provide cost effective and successful training, particularly for high turnover, entry level employees and management development. Supervising teams for the design, development and production she has produced  over 1500 hours of video, interactive CD-Rom and e-Learning curricula.