LeapIt Welcomes Three Senior Executives Into New Business Divisions; Industry Veterans Will Facilitate Company's Expanding B2B Operations.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers BALTIMORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 19, 2000 LeapIt, provider of e-learning solutions, announced the appointment of three new senior-level executives: Valerie LeBan, Larry Schwartz, and Randall Trask. These individuals bring a combined 47 years of experience to LeapIt. Valerie LeBan serves as Vice President of Marketing for LeapIt. She oversees marketing efforts across LeapIt's three divisions: LeapIt's eLibrary offering, LeapIt's Enabling Technology, and LeapIt's B2C (Business to Consumer) Refers to a business communicating with or selling to an individual rather than a company. See B2B. IT web site--LeapIt.com. LeBan is responsible for managing all marketing and communications, including public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most , advertising, direct mail and sales and promotional collaterals. LeBan brings 14 years experience in advertising and marketing to LeapIt, including a distinguished track record among dot-com companies. Prior to joining LeapIt, she was Director of Online Consumer Marketing for Cars.com, the nation's most comprehensive new- and used-car inventory information site and host of America's "car guys," Tom and Ray Magliozzi Raymond F. Magliozzi (born ca. 1948) is a co-host (with older brother Tom Magliozzi) of NPR's weekly radio show, Car Talk. He graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1972. , Car Talk web site. She also has held several management positions with brick and mortar See bricks and mortar. marketing firms. Valerie majored in marketing at Elmhurst College Elmhurst College was founded in 1871. It is a private four year institution affiliated with the United Church of Christ. It is located on 38 acres (154,000 m²) of land in Elmhurst, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. and completed the Communications Strategy Executive Program from Northwestern's Kellogg Graduate School of Management in 1999. Larry Schwartz has been appointed Vice President of the LeapIt eLibrary, a direct-to-business training offering designed to bring e-learning directly to employees. ELibrary courses maximize employee training in fast-growing professional areas, while maintaining the convenience of a distance learning program. As head of eLibrary, Schwartz will oversee the program, and leverage his experience with training services to manage eLibrary's growth and ensure that it is at the forefront of the latest content and training needs. Schwartz comes to LeapIt from the General Physics Corporation, where he served as the Director of Strategic Planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. and Outsourcing for the company. Prior to that, Schwartz worked at Electronic Data Systems (EDS (Electronic Data Systems, Plano, TX, www.eds.com) Founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot (independent candidate for the President of the U.S. in 1992), EDS is the largest outsourcing and data processing services organization in the country. ) from 1980 to 1998. With EDS, he served as V.P. of Business Development, where he led the development of new business, training services and training products for the company's Human Performance Services division. Schwartz brings 28 years of experience to LeapIt, in the areas of commercial, academic, government and overseas business. He is affiliated with the Association for Strategic Management (ASTD ASTD American Society for Training and Development ASTD American Society of Training and Development (Alexandria, Virginia) ASTD Air-Sea Temperature Difference ASTD Air Supported Threat Defense ) and holds a M.S. in Electrical Engineering electrical engineering: see engineering. electrical engineering Branch of engineering concerned with the practical applications of electricity in all its forms, including those of electronics. from The George Washington University George Washington University, at Washington, D.C.; coeducational; chartered 1821 as Columbian College (one of the first nonsectarian colleges), opened 1822, became a university in 1873, renamed 1904. in Washington, DC. Randall Trask is the newly-appointed Vice President of LeapIt's Enabling Technologies division. Trask will manage LeapIt's technology platform offering, which enables elearning that includes full-streaming video media technology, and has features such as live chat rooms and threaded discussion A running commentary of messages between two or more people in a discussion group. See message thread and discussion group. groups. The Enabling Technologies platform is fully scalable and customizable, which allows LeapIt customers to run distance learning applications, based on their needs and requirements with their own customizable interface. Trask has been in the technology-based training and testing industry since 1985. He was a founding employee of Drake Training & Technologies, which is now known as Thomson Prometric - one of the leaders in computer-based testing Computer-based testing (CBT), also called e-exam, computerized testing and computer-administered testing, is a method of administering tests in which the responses are electronically recorded, assessed, or both. . He has also served as president of Experior Integrated Solutions and Vice President of Business Development for National Computer Systems. Trask holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Regis College in Denver, Colorado. About LeapIt Comprised of three divisions, LeapIt provides eLearning solutions to business professionals and corporations. LeapIt Enabling Technologies provides dynamic, highly scalable technology and coursework for corporate and organizational environments. LeapIt eLibrary offers vendor-approved training courses focused on IT certification training, as well as professional development coursework delivered in a high-quality, flexible, on-demand training format. LeapIt.com is a consumer offering - featuring an online community that provides online certification training and career management resources for IT professionals and those seeking to begin an IT career. LeapIt.com utilizes courses from eLibrary, and is delivered through the Enabling Technologies platform. Initial funding for LeapIt was provided by Sterling Capital, and current investors include Sylvan Learning Systems and the Chauncey Group. |
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