Fast Lane Management

Torsten has been working in the IT industry in Europe since 1985. He started with technical training and consulting projects and founded his first company in 1990, specializing in high-end networking services. …Read moreSince then, he has gained comprehensive executive board and sales experience leading several Cisco Learning Partners and IT training companies. He has a proven track record of growing businesses quickly and profitably and building successful strategic partnerships. Torsten founded Fast Lane in 2003 in several countries and is responsible for Fast Lane's outstanding global growth. Torsten holds a degree in Computer Engineering from PTL Physikalische Technische Lehranstalt, University of Applied Sciences Wedel/Hamburg.

Jonas joined Fast Lane in July 2021 as the Global CFO to manage the global financial activities supporting the accelerated growth plans at the Fast Lane Group. Jonas has extensive experience in the financial sector in different roles and positions. …Read moreFor about seven years, Jonas worked at DMB, a private equity company in Germany where he represented investors and worked closely with management teams to drive profitable growth along a wide range of industries. Before that, Jonas worked for more than three years in the transaction department at EY, the auditing firm, where he advised companies on transactions and in transition/crisis-situations. Jonas holds a Master’s Degree in Finance from the University of St. Andrews/Scotland and has completed his Bachelor Degree in General Business Administration at the University of Hamburg/Germany.

Dan O’Brien joined Fast Lane in Oct of 2010 as the COO Americas, responsible for business operations in Canada and the USA. Dan has an extensive background in training operations and services, …Read moreprior to Fast Lane he held the Position of VP Managed Learning Services at MicroTek a provider of learning solutions. While in that role he was responsible for building a global service line of business and for launching many new service offerings that supported high quality training delivery. Dan also spent 10 years at a very large global technology training company from 1996 to 2006. He started in Canada running Canadian Operations then spent 3 years running US operations and then 2 year running European operations; he left the company as the Global VP of Operations and Planning. In the past 17 years in the private training industry Dan has been instrumental in defining plans and strategies to manage growth and to drive efficiency and profitability in all countries where he has had management responsibility.

A computer instructor by training, Jennifer earned a ‘computer science in Business’ degree from DeVry Institute of Technology and has applied this knowledge to Corporate Enterprises where she worked in many roles all related to the Information technology field. …Read moreAfter spending over 10 years in the private sector, Jennifer’s interests expanded into entrepreneurship and started her own training company Directions Training. Jennifer has built a company with double digit growth, year over year and has expanded the organization from a local to a global focus. Following Fast Lane's acquisition of Directions Training Jennifer continues to use her skills to the leadership and growth of Fast Lane Group.

Michel has worked in the IT industry for more than 10 years. He started his career in the financial services sector in Egypt in 1998. He held different sales, business development and management positions at international IT training companies like Arrow ECS and …Read moreGlobal Knowledge. In between he was Channel Manager and Business Development Manager at Cisco. Michel has a B.Sc. of Accounting degree from Alexandria University in Egypt.

Luis has worked for Unisys Corporation most of his career in Executive Management positions, leading technical and consultant business groups and providing value add in complex technical Integration Projects in several Latin America countries. Also, he is an expert …Read morein business planning and organization, and a consultant expert in business process transformation in banks and business alignment. He also had direct sales roles coordinating sales groups of technological products across Latin America. Luis is a Computer Science engineer and has an MBA with a Marketing major and post-graduate degree in Tele-communications. He was appointed Information Services Director since 1999, Certified Principal since May 2000 and Certified Partner since 2003. In 2004 he was responsible for the consultant practice of Retail Banking for Latin America including Mexico and Brazil. He had the responsibility of over one hundred consultants and 23 managers, and had a total services quota over US$7.5M.

James has been working in IT for 15+ years. He began running sales in 1998 for a high tech start up in APJC that was purchased by a large Networking vendor in 2000. At that company over his 7 years he served as Product Manager, Sales and Business Development in various technologies for the whole of APJC …Read morewith particular geographic focus on China, Japan, India and Australia. James started his own professional services company that worked with many of the leading IT vendors across the theatre. Since then he has served as the GM of APJC for a number of US and European based companies entering the APJC region. His last role before ITLS was GM, APJC for a high end Data Center Consultancy outfit.