Blackboard Names Stavros Cademenos Vice President of International Strategic Development.Business Editors WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 24, 2002 Blackboard (1) See Blackboard Learning System. (2) The traditional classroom presentation board that is written on with chalk and erased with a felt pad. Although originally black, "white" boards and colored chalks are also used. Inc., the leading Internet infrastructure company for e-Education, today announced the appointment of Stavros Cademenos to Vice President of International Strategic Development. In his new position at Blackboard, Dr. Cademenos will play a key role in the company's international expansion and is charged with leading efforts related to channel partner development, software localization Customizing software and documentation for a particular country. It includes the translation of menus and messages into the native spoken language as well as changes in the user interface to accommodate different alphabets and culture. See internationalization and l10n. , publishing and content relationships as well as technology alliances. Dr. Cademenos joins Blackboard Inc. from WebCT, a higher education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. focused e-Learning tools company, where he served as Vice President and Managing Director, International. In his role, Dr. Cademenos successfully architected all international operations Internal Operations (I.O., IO or I/O) is a fictional American Intelligence Agency in Wildstorm comics. It was originally called International Operations. I.O. first appeared in WildC.A.T.S. volume 1 #1 (August, 1992) and was created by Brandon Choi and Jim Lee. and grew international revenue from less than 5% to more than 30% of the company's total 2001 revenues. "I look forward to strengthening Blackboard's presence in the global academic marketplace and further establishing the company as the most widely adopted e-Education platform in the world," said Cademenos. "Blackboard is making by far the industry's largest investment in the global e-Education market and is committed to providing international clients with its full range of products, services and support." Dr. Cademenos brings more than 15 years of experience in formulating innovative international expansion strategies for U.S. technology companies and deploying their presence on a global scale. Prior to WebCT, Dr. Cademenos was Vice President, International at the GartnerGroup in the VisionEvents division. Prior to Gartner, Dr. Cademenos served as head of international operations with several IT companies including Articulate Systems and Focus Enhancements (Nasdaq: FCSE FCSE Frequency Control Symposium and Exhibition ), which he co-founded and took public. Dr. Cademenos joins Blackboard at a time of significant growth in Blackboard's international operations. In 2001, Blackboard's international market presence increased nearly 100% to 417 institution-wide licenses to lead the global academic e-Education market. "We are extremely pleased to add this level of talent to our growing international team and enhance our reach across the globe," said Andrew H. Rosen General Manager of Blackboard's international business. "Stavros's academic background and expertise in growing international operations will add tremendous value to Blackboard and to our expanding global user base." Dr. Cademenos holds a PhD from Brandeis University Brandeis University, at Waltham, Mass.; coeducational; chartered and opened 1948. Although Brandeis was founded by members of the American Jewish community, the university operates as an independent, nonsectarian institution. . As a Ford Foundation Fellow he did post-graduate work in international business pedagogy in the doctoral program at the Harvard Business School Harvard Business School, officially named the Harvard Business School: George F. Baker Foundation, and also known as HBS, is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. . He holds an MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration from Southern Methodist University Southern Methodist University, at Dallas, Tex.; United Methodist; coeducational; chartered 1911. The school's facilities include laboratories for electron microscopy and stable isotopes, a museum of paleontology, and a graduate research center. and a BA in Economics from the University of Athens. Dr. Cademenos is a frequent speaker on international e-Learning policies and their impact on the global higher education market. About Blackboard Blackboard Inc. was founded to transform the Internet into a powerful environment for teaching and learning. The company offers a complete suite of enterprise software products and services that power a total "e-Education Infrastructure" for schools, colleges, universities and other education providers. Blackboard solutions deliver the promise of the Internet for online teaching and learning, campus communities, auxiliary auxiliary In grammar, a verb that is subordinate to the main lexical verb in a clause. Auxiliaries can convey distinctions of tense, aspect, mood, person, and number. services and integration of Web-enabled student services and back office systems. The Blackboard Learning, Community Portal, and Transaction Systems are consistently ranked by industry analysts as the market share and customer satisfaction leaders for thousands of academic institutions and a leading number of the Internet's most popular consumer education sites. The company is headquartered in Washington, D.C., with offices and staff across North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe and Asia. Please visit www.blackboard.com for more information. |
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