GlobalEnglish promotes senior executives to CEO and President

GlobalEnglish Corporation, a leading provider of on-demand Enterprise Fluency software for multinational organisations, has appointed Mahesh Ram as Chief Executive Officer and Tom Kahl as President. Ram and Kahl have also been elected to serve on the company’s Board of Directors. With more than 12 years and eight years of service at GlobalEnglish, respectively, Ram and Kahl have played a vital role in the rapid growth and success of the company and will now lead GlobalEnglish into the next phase of this growth.

“As business becomes increasingly global, a vexing management dilemma has emerged for leaders of multinational companies who are seeking growth and innovation in more geographies than ever before. They have become increasingly challenged to improve the productivity and efficiency of their non-native English speaking employees, who are required to use English, the de facto language of business, on the job every day. Communication accuracy and efficiency translates into productivity in the global workplace. And productivity drives profitability,” said Reece Duca, GlobalEnglish Founder and Chairman of the Board.

Duca further said, “Both Mahesh and Tom have the ideal skills and leadership strength for GlobalEnglish. With many years of success leading both our sales and product development efforts, Mahesh Ram has a rare combination of deep customer knowledge, global business experience, and a keen understanding for how technology can transform human performance. Tom Kahl is a gifted and strategic leader, and has been a driving force behind the Company's rapid growth over the past several years as our Executive Vice President of Corporate Sales with an intense focus on what makes our customers successful.”

GlobalEnglish enables its customers to realise dramatic performance and productivity increases through the use of innovative software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings that directly address these challenges and create competitive advantage.

According to a recent survey commissioned by GlobalEnglish, only a small fraction of global employees – 7 per cent of 26,000 non-English speakers surveyed from 3,500 top multinational corporations – strongly agree that their Business English skills are sufficient to do their jobs, while 92 per cent of them reported that English is critical to their role.

“The global economy has dramatically changed the way companies must operate. With globally-dispersed work teams, heightened competitive pressure, and the rapid growth in emerging markets, a high level of communication prowess in a common language is an absolute strategic imperative for success. Unfortunately, most of the old approaches to solving this problem don't solve the true problem of Enterprise Fluency at the scale required,” said Mahesh Ram, CEO, GlobalEnglish.

Prior to his new role as CEO, Ram served in a variety of senior management roles at GlobalEnglish, including Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and most recently as Executive Vice President of Product Development. He has more than 20 years of senior management experience with leading on-demand technology companies, including the Thomson Corporation (now Thomson Reuters) and Wolters Kluwer, where innovative digital solutions sharply increased customer satisfaction, profitability and shareholder value.