Jerry Nine is the chief operating officer and a founder of SkillSoft. Nine is responsible for the non-financial functional divisions of the company including sales, marketing, customer service, alliances, engineering, content development and the Books24x7 business unit.
Following the merger of SkillSoft and SmartForce, Nine became the executive vice president, worldwide sales and marketing. In this role, he was responsible for the company's worldwide sales, services, support, alliances and marketing activities. Nine was also the general manager of content solutions, which includes Books24x7.
Prior to SkillSoft, Nine was the vice president, sales and marketing, at NETg and was with Sytron Corp., a leader in the software data storage management market, which was sold to Arcadia Software.
Earlier in his career, Nine held positions in engineering, marketing and sales with venture-capital-funded technology companies including Archive Corp. which grew to a $400 million publicly traded organization.
Nine holds a bachelor's degree in marketing from the University of Tennessee, a bachelor's degree. in electrical and computer engineering from George Mason University and an MBA from San Jose State University.
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