Skillsoft has appointed Bernard Barbour as chief technology and product officer, giving him responsibility for both product direction and technology execution across its Percipio learning platform. 

The role places Barbour at the centre of aligning skills intelligence, learning content, and workforce capability for enterprise customers.

Percipio serves as Skillsoft’s foundation for learning delivery, integrating content, skills data, and workforce insights into a single system. The platform helps organisations identify current capabilities, uncover skills gaps, and connect learning directly to business needs. Barbour will oversee engineering, AI, data, and product teams, reporting to CEO Ron Hovsepian.

Barbour brings extensive experience in scaling enterprise systems. Before joining Skillsoft, he was chief technology officer at Indigo Agriculture, leading platform modernisation, and previously spent over a decade at Cimpress, managing global platform teams for content creation, design technologies, and personalisation systems. Skillsoft says this background positions him to operate Percipio as a system of record for skills rather than a collection of disconnected tools.

CEO Hovsepian highlighted the timing of the appointment, stating that Barbour joins the company as organisations reimagine how they prepare their people for constant change. He noted that Barbour brings “strong, hands-on experience building and applying AI at scale, turning customer needs into measurable outcomes.”

Barbour said his priority will be reducing friction for customers navigating complex enterprise technology stacks. He added, “Customers are trying to move faster while navigating fragmented tools and growing complexity. My focus is on listening closely, understanding what’s getting in their way, and helping deliver solutions that make progress easier to achieve.”

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