SumTotal Systems CEO and leadership

John Frederick is Skillsoft’s Chief Administrative Officer where he oversees the company’s strategy, business planning and administrative teams, including Finance and HR. In addition to his organizational responsibilities, John will work closely with CEO, the Board, our shareholders and our senior leadership team to drive the evolution of our strategy and support the transformation of our core business processes in support of that strategy. John has more than 20 years of experience leading operating and administrative functions within private and public companies with revenues ranging from $60 million to more than $2 billion. He most recently served as Chief Operating Officer of SnagAJob.com, the largest platform for hourly work, connecting more than 100 million unique visitors annually with employment opportunities at 300,000 employer locations in the US and Canada. Prior to Snag, John was the Chief Financial Officer of Synchronoss Technologies, and prior to that was the Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative and Financial Officer of Avid Technology. Before joining Avid, he held senior finance and administrative roles in consumer product and technology companies.

Experienced Senior Vice President with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry. Skilled in Requirements Analysis, Enterprise Software, Agile Methodologies, and Databases. Strong engineering professional who graduated from University of Florida with a BSBA and MBA.

Michael Pellegrino is a Chief Operating Officer at SumTotal Systems and is based in Nashua, New Hampshire. He has worked as Chief Financial Officer at Skillsoft; SVP, Finance & Investor Relations at Skillsoft; and SVP, Financial Planning & Analysis at Skillsoft. Michael attended University of Massachusetts, Lowell between 1998 and 2002 and Isenberg School of Management between 2009 and 2011.

Hardeep is an innovative leader and executive with more than two decades of experience leading software businesses. Hardeep’s passion for education and proven expertise in guiding companies through periods of growth has been instrumental to the ongoing successful implementation of PowerSchool’s expansion plan. Under Hardeep’s leadership, PowerSchool has introduced award-winning, integrated classroom solutions and made a lasting impact on the future of K-12 education. For Hardeep, leading a company that includes thousands of educators and technology specialists is a natural evolution of his lifelong commitment to harnessing the power of technology to transform lives and unlock student potential. Hardeep brings that ethos and his belief that a high-quality education is a fundamental right to his leadership of PowerSchool.

Most recently, Hardeep successfully led PowerSchool’s acquisition of Schoology-the ninth acquisition during his tenure as CEO. Additionally, he oversaw the expansion of talent from 500 to more than 2,500 employees, and PowerSchool is now the largest education technology provider serving more than 45 million students in over 80 countries. The Software Report recently ranked Hardeep number five on its list of 50 SaaS CEOs where he was honored as the top-ranking education software CEO within the list of prestigious executives. Gulati has also been the recipient of EdTech Digest’s EdTech Leadership/CEO Award and named executive of the year from the Business Intelligence Group’s BIG Awards for Business.

Prior to joining PowerSchool in 2015, Hardeep was CEO of SumTotal Systems. Under his leadership, the company became the #1 market leader in enterprise learning systems and saw record-breaking growth in cloud computing services. During Hardeep’s tenure, SumTotal provided talent expansion solutions, which enable continuous and contextual learning for employees to improve talent engagement, productivity, and business results to 43 million users with small-to-midsized organizations as well as half of the Fortune 500. Hardeep joined SumTotal after his time at Oracle, where he led strategy and product development across a variety of enterprise application areas. Before Oracle, Hardeep was Vice President of Products at SpinCircuit, an information exchange enterprise software company founded by Cadence, HP, Flextronics, and Avnet. He was also founder and CTO at eBizAutomation, an enterprise integration company that was acquired by SpinCircuit. Early in his career, Hardeep held senior consulting positions at Lucent Technologies and Dun & Bradstreet.

Hardeep received his Master's in computer science degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and is graduate of Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology. He received his MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.

Hardeep loves to spend time with family-traveling, biking, golfing, and playing chess with his kids.