About Us

Sandi Lin

Sandi Lin is the CEO and Co-founder of Skilljar. Prior to Skilljar, she led product management teams at Amazon. Sandi has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Jason Stewart

Jason Stewart is the CTO and Co-founder of Skilljar. Prior to Skilljar, he was an engineering manager at Amazon, building robust, large-scale web applications. Jason also worked on the engineering teams of several software startups. He is a graduate of Carleton College.

Laura Wiler

Laura Wiler has more than 20 years of experience leading finance, accounting, and operations functions primarily in the software/SaaS industry. Previously, Laura served as VP of Finance and Business Operations for SageIntacct after Sage’s acquisition of Intacct in 2017. Prior to Intacct, Laura spent seven years at Webtrends, and before that, Laura held various positions in accounting and finance at MetaSolv Software before their acquisition by Oracle.

Laura is a licensed CPA in California (inactive) and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Portland State University. Laura loves the great outdoors and also enjoys cooking, yoga, and taking long walks with her two dogs, Sugar and Finn.

Sara Barnes

Sara Barnes joined Skilljar in 2016 and has since helped hundreds of companies implement or transform their customer education programs to drive product adoption and customer retention. As the VP of Customer Success at Skilljar, she oversees the Customer Success and Implementation teams. Sara’s impact was recognized with a 2021 APPEALIE Customer Success Leader award. As a lifelong learner, Sara has completed two online university degrees including a Masters of Professional Studies in Human Resources and Employment Relations at Penn State University.

Michael Freeman

Michael joined Skilljar with 20+ years of marketing, strategy, and operations experience across a broad set of industries, from startups to the Fortune 100. Most recently, Michael was the CMO at Certent (acquired by Insightsoftware), a SaaS provider for equity management and financial reporting software. Prior to that, he held a number of roles of increasing responsibility and leadership at companies such as Adaptive Insights (acquired by Workday), Highfive, ShoreTel, Mecalux, Teleflora, The Walt Disney Company, and Maersk. Michael has a BA in Communications Studies from University of California, Los Angeles and an MBA, also from UCLA – The Anderson School of Management.

Abdel Muamar

With over 22 years of experience in software development and technology leadership, Abdel brings extensive experience in building and scaling engineering teams. Since joining Skilljar in 2019, he’s been supporting the engineering organization, focusing on scaling our teams and processes in support of product development. Prior to Skilljar, Abdel held multiple technology leadership roles at various companies in the Seattle area. Abdel holds a B.S. in Computer Science and a M.S. in Software Engineering from Seattle University.

Niran Kundapur

Niran joined Skilljar in July 2021 inspired by the company’s vision of unlocking technology’s benefits for society through education and its customer focus value. Most recently, Niran was VP Product at Eightfold, where he is most proud of a responsible AI that helps people find their right career. He contributed to Eightfold’s journey from humble beginnings to users in 100+ countries and a $2.1B valuation over 3 years. Prior to this, Niran was head of shopping personalization platform at Bloomreach where he also oversaw the product training initiatives for customers. Niran has engineering degrees from Indian Institute of Technology and MIT and an MBA from Harvard.

Pat Hoey

With more than 20 years of sales leadership experience, Pat Hoey brings a deeply customer-focused approach and a wealth of expertise to Skilljar as the Vice President of Sales. He has specialized in building high-performing sales teams within high growth industries. Pat has excelled in both early stage and large enterprises from building sales organizations at start-ups like BetterUp and On24 to managing national sales teams at Gartner and Salesforce. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Santa Clara University.

Ashley Keller

Ashley Keller (she/her) is the Vice President of People at Skilljar. In this role, she leads the function responsible for creating an environment that enables people to do their best work, resulting in successful business results.
Before joining Skilljar, Ashley spent 14 years in both public and private companies focused on the full people lifecycle experience. A significant portion of her leadership experience comes from her time at Shipbob, where she was the first Head of People, and her time at Innovative Staff Solutions, where she was the Head of Operations. She graduated from Eastern Illinois University and holds both a PHR and SHRM-CP certification.