CEO - Janine Yancey

In 2000, Janine founded emTRAiN in order to create a web-based method of training many employees at a time on topics such as preventing harassment, equal employment opportunity, disability discrimination, and other HR compliance issues. Prior to founding emTRAiN, Janine traveled around the country for several years, serving as a trainer to hundreds of managers and employees each day. That experience made it clear to her that web-based compliance training filled a need in the marketplace.

Janine has practiced labor and employment law for more than 15 years. Previously, she was with Liebert, Cassidy, California's largest and most respected public sector labor and employment law firm. She is qualified as an expert witness in investigations and has provided expert testimony regarding harassment investigations and harassment prevention training. In 2001, Janine first litigated and used the issue of workforce harassment training as an affirmative defense when she successfully defended a large city against sexual harassment charges in a jury trial.

Janine is a licensed Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) and has served a term on the Board of Directors for the Northern California Human Resources Association (NCHRA), a Bay Area affiliate of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). Janine earned her J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 1992, where she served on Hastings's Constitutional Law Quarterly Journal. She earned her B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989 where she was a Dean's Scholar.

CTO - Nick Buskirk

Nick is the overall architect of emTRAiN's SaaS Learning Management System (LMS Dashboard) and eLearning courses which he designed to work together as a system for unparalleled compliance reporting and ease-of-use by non-technically minded end-users.

Nick's strategy to create a more powerful, flexible and affordable LMS was to run our system on a MySQL database, which offers high speed, high reliability, wide distribution, and ease of use. Along with the MySQL database, Nick chose a Linux operating system, Apache server, and PHP and Perl programming languages. This combination is referred to as a "LAMP" technology platform.

While LAMP programmers (like Nick) are a rare commodity, LAMP is an elegant and streamlined database application and is used in approximately 10 million installations, including such well-known companies as Yahoo, Google and Craig's List.

Nick attended University of California, Berkeley, where he studied economics and foreign languages and was a Dean's Scholar.

COO - Asaff Levy

Asaff Levy brings more than 15 years of sales, marketing, and client management experience in the high-tech industry. Asaff has been involved in early-stage as well as established hardware and software companies.

Prior to joining emTRAiN, Asaff was the Sales and Marketing Director at CelluTag, a company focused on wireless solutions to a mobile workforce, where he was responsible for developing sales and marketing strategies to help penetrate the marketplace with wireless solutions. At CelluTag, Asaff established and fostered strategic relationships with the company's partners in the wireless field.

Prior to CelluTag, Asaff was Product Department Manager at the Q Group PLC, an international e-learning company. In this role, he handled pre- and post-sales activities and oversaw all client relations management and contract fulfillment (in Europe, Asia Pacific, U.S.) at the corporate level.

Asaff earned a bachelor's degree from Derby University and an MBA in Finance from Manchester Business School at Manchester University.

LMS Advisor - Steve Goldberg

Steven Goldberg is Bersin & Associates’ Principal Analyst covering HR technology providers and their solutions. He has operated in high-profile roles in HR Technology and HCM Solutions Advisory for over 25 years, including executive positions in corporate HR Technology, HCM Product Strategy and Workforce Transformation Consulting. His perspectives and insights are largely rooted in having served as Global Head, HR Technology and Talent Management Processes for major investment banks in the U.S. and Europe – followed by being appointed Global Head, HCM Product Strategy and primary spokesperson for PeopleSoft’s HCM product line.

Widely considered an HR thought leader and HCM solution innovator, Steven was invited to the Human Capital Institute's “2009 Executive Roundtable of 10 Respected HR Thought Leaders”, is often published in HR Executive and Workforce Management magazines, and has been cited in Forbes, Acquisitions Monthly (UK), Australia Financial Review, HR.com and Employee Benefit News.

Steven’s broad areas of expertise include advising end-customers and solution providers on maximizing the value of HR technology, leveraging practical modeling and predictive tools in Human Capital Management, providing forward-thinking perspectives on executive compensation and governance, optimizing the mix of insourcing and outsourcing in HR, and managing Human Capital risks and opportunities in M&A’s and corporate restructurings.

He holds an MBA in HR and a BBA in Industrial Psychology, and has served as a Board Advisor to emerging HR Technology companies with unique offerings in Learning, Compensation, Performance and Recruiting Management.