Mr. Barnett is the founder and CEO of KnowledgeAdvisors, which is a learning analytics company that helps organizations measure and improve performance through learning. KnowledgeAdvisors’ market leading analytics system, Metrics-that-Matter ä , is used by many of the largest most successful organizations in the world including Microsoft, British Telecom, the Department of Defense, U.S. State Department, PeopleSoft, Cisco, Blue Cross and Dell.

Prior to starting KnowledgeAdvisors, Mr. Barnett was a founder and President of Productivity Point International (PPI). PPI became one of the largest commercial training companies in the world. In addition, he spent several years in the banking industry in the areas of corporate finance and information systems.

Mr. Barnett has an MBA in Finance from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Business and has been certified in the Stern Stewart Economic Value-added (EVA) model.

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