Brent Wahl is new COO at Inspired eLearning

by Abhinav Mohapatra

Enterprise educational products provider, Inspired eLearning, has announced the appointment of Brent Wahl as the company’s Chief Operating Officer (COO). Wahl will be responsible for Engineering, Product Management, Sales, Implementation Management, Managed Services, and Technical Support Operations.

Prior to joining Inspired eLearning, Wahl held multiple senior leadership roles with Cisco. Most recently, Head of Operations for Cisco’s Service Provider Video business focused on strategy, enablement, and operations. Previously, he was the Head of Operations for Cisco’s Video & Collaboration Group, a portfolio of Video, Collaboration, Internet of Things, and Consumer businesses.

“For the past 20+ years, Brent has helped companies establish and accelerate category-leading solutions, and expand market share,” said Felix Odigie, CEO of Inspired eLearning. “We are thrilled for him to join our team, and bring his wealth of experience, expertise and leadership during this time of unprecedented growth for our organization.”

Brent Wahl commented:

“I am excited to join such an innovative and disruptive company in the information security sector. I look forward to working with Felix and the Inspired eLearning team to help our customers further educate and prepare their employees against cyber security and other risks they face everyday.”

Before joining Cisco in 2000, Wahl held multiple management roles with Ingram Micro where he helped create Ingram’s customizable outsourcing services to the global reseller community and lead several sales productivity initiatives.

Earlier in his career, Wahl founded two start-up businesses, and held program management positions with The Koll Company and the William Lyon Company. Wahl has an MBA from Pepperdine University and a BS from San Diego State University. He is also an Advisory Board Member with the Silicon Valley Executive Network.

Inspired eLearning offers turn-key Security Awareness and Compliance programs that include fully customizable off-the-shelf Cyber Security and Compliance training, PhishProof phishing assessment software, custom courseware design and development, content integration, and a fully hosted web-based eLearning course.