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Lisa Vongeyer
Chief Executive Officer | Co-Founder
Lisa leads the strategic direction of the company and manages the overarching operational goals at VGC.
Lisa has 20+ years of experience in the field of instructional design. As a learning consultant, she has designed 150+ successful solutions for Fortune 500, multinational organizations across varied domains including Zurich Insurance, Roche, Tiffany, Bayer, Allianz, ConocoPhillips, and different United Nations organizations including WFP, IFAD, FAO, and UNESCO.
She has managed large instructional design teams from recruitment and training to resourcing and upskilling and designed processes and frameworks to optimize and maximize resource utilization and revenue.
As CEO of a niche and growing company, Lisa’s primary focus is on building and growing a new format of an instructional design house where we combine high-quality work with efficient processes and continuous growth. Her role includes consulting and curriculum design, building and developing the team, and designing processes and ways of working to optimize efforts.
It’s a challenge that leverages all her learning and experience from the last two decades and keeps her on her toes!
Julian heads sales and marketing, with a focus on growing VGC’s brand recognition as a global provider of specialist instructional design services.
Julian is an experienced learning and development professional. In his career spanning 24+ years, he has worn several caps. He began his journey as an instructional designer and grew his capabilities developing custom learning solutions for corporate learners. He then led and managed a team of instructional designers for a prominent Learning Technology company.
After a decade in Instructional Design, he switched focus to consultative selling for custom learning solutions. In this career track, which spanned 10 years, Julian worked in the capacity of a Key Account Manager with responsibilities for growing revenue across several accounts. His experience conceptualizing and selling custom learning designs and his ability to speak the ‘language of learning’ enabled him to grow inroads within large multinational corporations operating in diverse fields like insurance, pharmaceuticals, banking and finance, transportation, and more.
As Head of Sales and Marketing at VGC, Julian begins yet another journey… building a brand!
Julian Vongeyer
Head, Sales and Marketing | Co-Founder
Reena Roy
Head, Design Strategy
As the Head of Design Strategy, Reena conceptualizes and curates the visual experiences at VGC.
Through her career spanning 25 years, Reena has lived by the philosophy that design is a way of life. She started her design journey at the National Institute of Design, with a specialization in Product Design. Since then, she has worked as the head of design for leading eLearning companies to create design solutions and manage large, multi-skilled design teams. She has extensive experience across courseware and interaction design, user interface design, information architecture, and branding and communication.
Reena’s design skills, expertise, and experience give VGC a strong base in design that is leveraged across consulting, solutioning, training, product design, and skill building.
She owns the visual design process and output completely and ensures that everything we deliver is up to her (very high) standards!
As the Head of Innovation and Growth at VGC, Peter leads the development of new business offerings, covering both strategy and execution for these offerings.
Peter got his Bachelor’s in Commerce in Pune, and—after working at a lead consulting firm—he moved on to do his MBA from William and Mary’s Raymond A. Mason School of Business in Virginia, USA. After graduating from the program, he worked at a management consulting firm in Washington DC, focusing on infrastructure projects in developing countries in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Middle East.
In his role at VGC, Peter is able to use his business education and consulting experience to develop new products and services for VGC. He identifies opportunities in the market, works with the team to develop new offerings to fill those needs, and liaises with clients and customers to make sure that VGC’s solutions exceed expectations!
Peter De Almeida
Head, Innovation and Growth
Danielle Julien
Principal Instructional Designer
As a Principal Instructional Designer, Danielle manages and oversees the delivery of projects and leads a cohort of instructional designers at VGC.
Danielle has 12 years of experience as an instructional designer, during which she has designed innovative learning courses and solutions for organizations across the US, UK, and Europe and managed teams of instructional designers to deliver successful projects from conceptualization to quality assurance. Danielle has also worked in the field of education where she earned a Post-Graduate Diploma in Creative Arts and Education from the UK and developed educational activities and curriculum for underprivileged students.
As a Principal Instructional Designer, Danielle is responsible for managing client relationships, projects, and teams to deliver high-quality instructional design solutions. She combines her instructional design expertise with her interest in processes and tools to design workflows based on specific project requirements and uses her team management skills to ensure that the work runs smoothly and efficiently.
As HR Business Partner, Remya designs and drives people-centric initiatives that enable us to achieve our organizational objectives.
It’s easy to acknowledge that HR forms the backbone of any company, but when you’re HR at an entirely remote organization, it’s a little difficult to put into words what you bring to the table. That’s why we’re calling it out… as HR Business Partner at VGC, Remya Ravi is oftentimes the glue that holds us all together!
Across her 13-year career, Remya has worked with leading firms across sectors like IT, Retail, Banking and Manufacturing. She has played various roles, including HRBP, Recruitment, and Corporate Organizational Development. Remya has volunteered at National Institute of Personnel Management (NIPM), and also comes with entrepreneurial experience of her own.
Throughout her career, she has grown and nurtured an intense passion for building and working in inclusive environments. Her personal philosophy is to keep things simple, and she dedicates her time to ensuring that employees have a seamless work experience at VGC.
Remya Ravi
HR Business Partner
Sai Kiran Guntupalli
Finance Business Partner
As the Finance Business Partner at VGC, Sai oversees the company's financial operations, planning, and compliance to drive business growth and stability.
Sai has been a great addition to VGC, joining us early in our company’s timeline, not just as a FinBP but as THE Finance Business Partner we were looking for as a small business! Sai looks after the company’s financial operations, management, compliance, and works closely with the CEO to enable business growth and stability. Quite early in his career, Sai has garnered impressive experience through his associations with brands based out of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.
With an MBA in International Business from ICFAI University and a Bachelor of Commerce from Osmania University, Sai’s expertise and capabilities ensures meticulous financial management and strategic planning for VGC as we grow towards our shared goals!
