About SEHG · Team

The people behind the programs.

Synergy is built the way the work is delivered — a small leadership core, a named faculty and delivery bench engaged per program, and advisors whose credentials are checkable. Everyone listed here is a real person you can verify.

Tier one

Leadership

The people who run the company.

Founder

Dr. Sarit J. Levy, DBA

Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer

AI and education executive who builds what most AI/EdTech officers only govern. She has taught at university level since 2005 — including NYU and the University of Miami — and previously served as Chief Learning Officer across a 77-university partnership network, where she scaled revenue from $10M to $100M, built academic standards accepted by all seventy-seven, and personally cleared federal Title IV and Title IX audits. In the last five years she has trained more than 30,000 corporate executives and more than 30,000 public-safety personnel. She holds state law-enforcement training approvals most providers cannot obtain, and is a named co-inventor on two awarded U.S. utility patents in educational technology, having authored the novelty claims herself. Author of seven books, including AI in Education: An Academic Revolution. DBA, Touro University Worldwide · M.S. Computer Science · M.S. Management Engineering · B.A., Binghamton University · J.D. candidate.

Career figures describe Dr. Levy's record across her career, including prior organisations.

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Jack Bragin, CPA, MBA

Executive Chairman · Chairman of the Board

Veteran CEO, entrepreneur and M&A strategist with more than $1 billion in aggregate acquisitions and exits, including significant experience in the education and career-training sector. His track record includes building, scaling, acquiring and successfully exiting businesses, working directly with private-equity groups, participating in an IPO, and leading both entrepreneurial ventures and public-company operations. Bragin previously served for nearly two decades as Chairman and CEO of Boca Beauty Academy, where he built and scaled the career-education organization, achieved repeated Inc. 5000 recognition, and ultimately led the company through a successful eight-figure sale. He has also held senior leadership roles with publicly traded and major global organizations, with deep expertise in corporate finance, M&A, strategic negotiations, executive leadership, capital strategy and transaction execution. A CPA and MBA with Big Four experience, his role as Executive Chairman of SEHG focuses on enterprise scale, capital formation, M&A readiness, strategic acquisitions and maximizing shareholder value through an eventual liquidity event.

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Tier two

Faculty and delivery

Named subject-matter leads and facilitators engaged under agreement to deliver programs. Assignment is by program area and client need.

Isaias A. Medina III, J.D.

Legal, Government & Global Affairs

International lawyer, former United Nations diplomat, and global policy advisor. During Venezuela's Permanent Mission to the UN he served in the General Assembly's Sixth Committee (Legal) and was appointed its Rapporteur during the 71st Session, including rapporteur work on UNCITRAL matters. His diplomatic portfolio spanned international criminal law and the ICC/Rome Statute framework, the International Law Commission, Security Council-related matters, sustainable development, and international treaties, including work around the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda and the Paris climate framework. He resigned from Venezuela's UN delegation in 2017 amid the country's human-rights crisis, then attended Harvard Kennedy School as an Edward S. Mason Fellow in the Mid-Career MPA program. Earlier, he served as a foreign associate at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He has spoken at institutions including Yale, MIT, and Florida International University. At SEHG he leads government procurement and RFP strategy, legal and contracting support, government and workforce relationships, collections on awarded contracts, and international and restorative-justice initiatives.

Teri Nardo

Director, Corporate Subscription Sales

20+ years in business development. Secured $2M in program commitments in 5 months at Opioid Training Solutions. Grew a network of 800+ advisory-board members at Zschool, supporting cohorts ranging from 25 to 1,000+ professionals.

Carolyn Geraci

Executive Director, National Sales

Four decades in operations, sales, and large-scale event execution. Managed a nationwide law-enforcement conference portfolio at Zschool (up to 20 events/month) while ranking #1 in Executive Education sales. Co-architect of the public-safety go-to-market motion alongside Dr. Levy.

Tier three

Advisors

People who advise the business but do not deliver programs.

Commissioner George S. Mentz, JD, MBA, CWM®

Sr. Advisory Board Member — Global Credentials & International Expansion

Founder, CEO, General Counsel and Chairman of the International Board of Standards of the Global Academy of Finance & Management (GAFM®), with operations spanning 40+ countries and credential holders across 150+ nations, and international quality recognitions including ISO 9001 and ISO 21001/29993 certification. A licensed U.S. attorney (Louisiana and federal courts of Colorado) with a JD with international-law training and an MBA in International Business and Finance, he was appointed by the President of the United States as a Commissioner of the White House Presidential Scholars Program (2019–2022) and has served on government commissions overseeing billions in economic impact. Graduate law faculty at Texas A&M School of Law in wealth management, he has taught and designed 300+ law, business and ethics courses at accredited law and business schools, authored more than 40 books and audiobooks, built alliances with partners including Pearson Education and Thomson Reuters, and helped develop professional credentialing and online-education programs used in over 30 nations.

Rick Munder

Director of Accreditation for Public Safety and First Responders Curriculum

A 32-year law-enforcement veteran who retired from a Southern California police department in 2021. Rick holds a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice Management, is a certified Master Instructor through the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, facilitates law-enforcement classes throughout California, and serves as a Quality Assessment Program team member auditing police-training courses. His curriculum work includes courses for police agencies and California POST, POST training videos as a subject-matter expert, published writing, and service on the committee rewriting California POST's Supervisory Course. At SEHG, his specialty is accreditation across TCOLE, CLEE, POST, and IADLEST for public-safety and first-responder curriculum.

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Dr. Willie G. “Butch” Newkirk Jr.

Director of Public Safety Programs · University of North Georgia

Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Director of the University of North Georgia's Public Safety Academy. UNG's four-year academy provides Georgia P.O.S.T. basic law-enforcement certification and integrates the full 809 hours required by the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council into the Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice. UNG credits Dr. Newkirk's founding and mentorship with building the academy's university-based model, and identifies him as the director of the Public Safety Academy.

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Staffing model

How we staff an engagement

Leadership core.

Strategy, curriculum architecture, accreditation and compliance, contract delivery.

Named faculty under agreement.

Subject-matter leads and facilitators engaged per program area, named in the proposal before award.

Recruited to specification.

For contracts requiring additional instructional design, learner support or facilitation at scale, we recruit to the qualification standard stated in the solicitation and name personnel before award. Our curriculum, platform, assessment and reporting infrastructure is already built — what scales is delivery, not development.

Why the model works.

The platform carries registration, payment, learner support, reporting and assessment automatically. Headcount is required for facilitation and subject-matter depth, not for administration — which is what allows a small core to deliver at contract scale.

Every person on this page can be verified.

We name faculty in proposals before award and we do not list advisors or references as staff.

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