Frank A. Russell

Frank A. Russell was formerly the president, CEO and founder of GeoLearning, a managed learning services company offering on-demand software as a service (SaaS) learning management system (LMS) solutions for corporate internal training, talent management and external initiatives, headquartered in West Des Moines, Iowa.[1] [2]

History

Russell has worked for more than 25 years in the training and learning technology industries. Prior to founding GeoLearning, he was president and co-founder of Excellence in Training Corporation, a producer of video-based training. Russell's extensive experience in the computer-based training field also includes research at the Center for Advanced Computation at the University of Illinois where one of the first Internet browsers was invented. He worked for Control Data Corporation in the late 1970s with the PLATO System, one of the first commercially viable CBT authoring systems. He has also worked as the director of training for a Fortune 500 company, Massey Ferguson, and as the head of training for the State of Iowa.[3][4]

Russell received his master's degree from the University of Illinois and his bachelor's degree from Southern Illinois University.

Russell was named CEO of the Year at the 2009 Prometheus Awards sponsored by the Technology Association of Iowa.[5] He was voted to Training Industry's 2007 list of the "Most Influential Training Professionals" by his peers in the industry and was the 2006 Entrepreneur of the Year by the Des Moines Business Record. In 2005, Russell received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in the Business Services category for the Central Midwest Region[6] and was named Small Business Person of the Year for the State of Iowa by the U.S. Small Business Administration.[7][8]

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gollark: Devastating life changing events aren't really all that likely, but unexpected somewhat bad or good or just extremely weird ones will crop up with *some* frequency.
gollark: Actually, none of these are "intelligence" really, what's a better word...
gollark: That sounds like possibly excessive pessimism. Intelligence would be coming up with long term plans which are flexible enough to be able to deal with changing circumstances, and being able to execute on them.
gollark: I tend to over*research* stuff in advance a lot, but not actually plan based on it because I would never stick to it anyway.

References
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  4. "Taking risks, turning profits". Business Record.
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-03-02. Retrieved 2010-07-21.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-06-15. Retrieved 2010-07-21.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. "Wayback Machine". web.archive.org. October 29, 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-10-29.
  8. "502 Bad Gateway nginx openresty 208.80.154.49". www.knowledgenetwork2010.com.
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