Navient is led by an experienced group of organizational, and information technology experts.
Robert H. Sharron, Ph.D. , CEO & Founder
Bob has a career history spanning more than twenty-three years as an entrepreneur, industrial psychologist, and CEO. In 1982 he became partner at Hurst Associates Inc of Boston MA, where he headed the Executive Development and Assessment Division. By 1987, he had founded the USA operations of the SHL Group plc, building that company from inception to being the number one provider of employee selection and testing systems to Fortune 1000 companies. After SHL went public in 1996 (London Stock Exchange), Bob went on to become Managing Principal for a newly launched division of Educational Testing Services (ETS) in Princeton, NJ. That ETS division strategically focused on HR consulting to Global 2000 companies. While at ETS, Bob expanded operations in Europe and Asia Pacific and headed all domestic corporate consulting. In 1999, he founded Criterion International, an Internet based assessment company that was purchased by ePredix, Inc, one of the leading firms in Internet based employee-testing systems. Following a two and a half year tenure as President of Manchester, Inc. (a career management consulting firm) and a unit of the MPS Group Inc. (MPS:NYSE), Bob provided the creative work in performance management automation that led to the founding of Navient Corporation. Bob holds a PhD from Boston College, and is a member of the American Psychological Assn (APA) and a member of the Society of Industrial & Organizational Psychologists (SIOP).
Ronald C. Page, Ph.D.
Ron is an entrepreneur and a senior level industrial psychologist whose career has been dedicated to developing and implementing innovative human resource programs. Focusing on employee and organizational effectiveness, he has extensive experience in: competency modeling and job analysis, selection system design and validation, individual assessment, performance management, job evaluation, 360º assessment, career planning, and leadership development. He has held senior HR roles at the State of Minnesota, Control Data Corporation, Hay Management Consultants, Saville & Holdsworth Ltd., and Human Resource Consultants and has managed HR initiatives in North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Dr. Page has authored over 40 papers, articles, book chapters, and presentations on various human resource topics and was a recipient of the 2004 Research Award from the Minnesota Career Development Association. He is a Licensed Psychologist (LP) and a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) and has been an Adjunct Professor at the Industrial Relations Center (IRC) of the Carlson School of Management (CSOM). He obtained his Ph.D. in Counseling and I/O Psychology from the University of Minnesota.
Nicolas J. Wegener
Nic is the founder and chairman of Serio Technologies Inc., a MN based technology firm. He is a seasoned programmer; writing fluently in over 14 programming languages and has created and delivered hundreds of online applications for Serio Customers. Nicolas also gives back to the community through a number of Open-Source support forums including qmail, MySQL, Fedora Core, Samba and TCPHP. Nic is a part owner of Navient Corporation and serves as a Senior Partner and Technical Advisor to the company. Nic is the chief architect of Navient’s HiringNavigator™ testing and assessment platform and has been the Senior Engineer of the Adobe ® AIR based system version of the TapDance Skills Testing program – TapDance Live!
In his career thus far, Nic has served as an Inventory Control/Point of Sale software specialist veteran and also was responsible for the installations & maintenance of some of Minnesota’s medium sized retailers and IT systems including Schuler Shoes, Love From Minnesota and Archivers. As a result he realized the need for centralized systems controlling Inventory, Sales Force Management and Self Service Customer Service. Nic has created a new generation and suite of products for Serio Technologies utilizing bi-communication and porting methodologies. He is currently engaged in advanced studies in Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
