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Senior Account Manager

Joe Strick

Senior Account Manager
Joe Strick is a Senior Account Manager at TalentQuest. He has spent the last 12 years helping organizations optimize their workforce and talent needs. He is passionate about ensuring clients are successful in executing their talent, performance, and learning strategies.
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Client Success Manager

Bernard Jackson

Client Success Manager
Bernard Jackson is a Client Success Manager at TalentQuest with seven years of experience in the Client Management space. He enjoys exceeding customers’ expectations and building strong relationships. In his spare time, Bernard enjoys participating in and watching sports and is a former University of Georgia football player.
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Executive Vice President

Rick Brandt, Ph.D

Executive Vice President
Dr. Brandt obtained his Ph.D. in clinical psychology at the University of Southern Mississippi and spent 10 years working in private practice and local government before joining TalentQuest in 1996. He currently serves as Executive Vice President at TalentQuest, where he specializes in executive coaching.
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Executive Consultant

Marsha Schrage, Ph.D., SHRM-SCP

Executive Consultant
Dr. Schrage is an Industrial/Organizational Psychologist and an Executive Consultant at TalentQuest. Having served the bulk of her career inside the business in talent leadership roles, Dr. Schrage’s experience leading organizational development, talent management, and learning teams spans big technology, global restaurants, financial services, and the non-profit sector. Since joining TalentQuest in 2018, Marsha partners with clients to deliver customized talent management and leadership development strategies, facilitate employee engagement and learning solutions, and provide executive assessment and coaching services.
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User Experience Architect

Michael Harvey

User Experience Architect
As User Experience Architect at TalentQuest, Michael is responsible for leading interface design efforts while collaborating with product teams to enhance usability based on client and end-user feedback. His over 20 years of digital experience includes UI/UX design, creative direction, front-end development, and email marketing. Michael is a graduate of The Pratt Institute and Savannah College of Art and Design.
Vice President

Jon Naphin

Vice President
Jon Naphin is a Vice President with TalentQuest. As a client advocate, he takes a lead role in directing TalentQuest’s activities within select client relationships. Prior to joining TalentQuest, Jon held management positions at General Motors, ADP and Peachtree Software. He is the founding Chairman of LaAmistad, an Atlanta-based non-profit providing tutoring and life-skills training to Latino students and their families. Jon is a native of Niagara Falls, Ontario, earned his Bachelor’s degree from Kettering University in Flint Michigan and his MBA from the Harvard Business School.
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Director of Software Development

Brent Miller

Director of Software Development
Brent Miller is the Director of Software Development at TalentQuest. Throughout his career, he has honed his technical skills through various development roles where he now leads a large, global, engineering team and is responsible for the architecture of the entire TalentQuest SaaS portfolio.
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Software Developer

Ajay Shenoy

Software Developer
Ajay is a Software Developer at TalentQuest who loves learning new technologies and implementing them to solve real-world problems.  He also has an interest in understanding human behavior and loves to gain life perspectives from entrepreneurs and successful people.
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Head - Creative Services

Avinash Patil

Head - Creative Services
Avinash Patil is a senior creative professional with formal training in animation film making. With over 15 years of experience, he has held various roles in pre-production and production - working on animated series and movie projects before venturing into eLearning.
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Client Experience Advisor

Bobby Hedges

Client Experience Advisor
Bobby joined TalentQuest in 2019 and is a Client Experience Advisor specializing in implementation and training on TalentQuest solutions. Prior to joining the TQ team, he cultivated a resume full of varied jobs. In his free time, he is an artist and a mediocre guitarist.
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Chief Technology Officer

Niranjan Nimkar

Chief Technology Officer
As the CTO at TalentQuest, Niranjan leads Product Management, Software Development and Infrastructure. He is also responsible for the company’s information security policies and compliance. Niranjan joined TalentQuest in 2007 and has more than 25 years of experience leading and managing small and large-scale software teams in several countries. He has an extensive background in software engineering, product design and agile product development across many business verticals, including manufacturing, financial services, and human capital management (HCM). 
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Chief Revenue Officer

Mahim Mishra

Chief Revenue Officer
Mahim Mishra is the Chief Revenue Officer at TalentQuest. He has over 25 years of senior-level management and consulting experience with high-growth technology organizations and eLearning corporations. Mahim graduated from St. Stephen's College in Delhi where he also received an LLB from the Delhi Law Faculty.
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