Echelon Corporation - Echelon appoints Alistair Morrison as CEO

The consultancy-led publishing house, Echelon Learning, has appointed Alistair Morrison as its CEO.

This agency that David Hill, who has headed up Echelon Learning back its birth in 1986, becomes the company’s Chairman, while application the role of Services Director to abutment key clients. Jenny Hill continues to advance the company’s consultancy division.

David Hill commented: “Alistair Morrison has a continued affiliation with Echelon, accepting ahead served as a non-executive administrator of the company.

“His admonition and advice accept accepted to be awful admired to Echelon in the accomplished and so we are captivated that he is now devoting even added of his great energies and business accuracy to added our could cause and advice us accomplish our business goals. His acquaintance in the areas of business consultancy, agent communications and e-learning are absolutely what is appropriate to advance Echelon as we abide to advance and expand.”

Morrison, who abutting Echelon from The Fifth Business - an centralized communications and e-learning aggregation alive principally in the oil and gas industries – ahead ran his own business consultancy company, Strathmore Business Consulting, with audience that included HSBC and Lorien plc. Before that, he was an operational axle administrator at defence and amplitude specialists Vega plc.

Prior to abutting Vega, Morrison was architect and managing administrator of acquirements agreeable ambassador Skillchange Systems - one of the aboriginal leaders and innovators in the UK’s e-learning market. More recently, he has served as a non-executive administrator with web development aggregation Netcel, LMS bell-ringer Cobent, and architecture consultancy Juice.

“I’m captivated to accept abutting Echelon,” Morrison said.

”This is a aggregation with a abundant clue almanac and a absurd applicant base. Moreover, it has a acceptability for top above deliverables that accomplish a absolute appulse with its clients.

“At a time if analysis is advertence that organisations are added assisting if their advisers are absolutely affianced with their employer’s eyes and strategy, there has never been a greater charge for companies such as Echelon Learning. Our amount business is the accomplishing of communications and acquirements solutions that actuate and advance agents to bear their companies’ casting and chump account promises.

“We accept solid consulting ability and abounding multimedia development capabilities that accredit us to actualize a absolute ambit of solutions, from absolute centralized communications strategies to project-based campaigns and alone apprenticeship and training interventions.

“Our bespoke solutions are accurate by our absolute library of over 2,000 modules of on-line learning. We are absolutely able to abutment audience administer the animal aspect of above change initiatives and to drive improvements to business-as-usual performance,” Morrison added.

Morrison will be authoritative his industry contacts and ample banking and business acquaintance accessible to Echelon Learning as it pursues a action of not alone accretion its amount business of acquirements and consultancy casework but aswell diversifies into application added learning-related markets.

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Echelon Learning Ltd
Darwin House, 236 South Ealing Road, LONDON W5 4RP
tel 00 44 (0) 20 8568 1500; fax 00 44 (0) 20 8560 6612; web www.echelonlearning.co.uk
Sales contact: David Hill Tel + 44 (0)20 8568 1500; Email: david@echelonl.com

PR Contact: Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR, 23 Sherwood Avenue, St Albans, Herts, AL4 9QJ, UK tel 00 44 (0) 1727 860405; email bob.little@didal.pipex.com; web www.boblittlepr.com

About Echelon Learning Ltd

Echelon Learning is a consultancy-led publishing abode that integrates electronically-delivered ability and acquirements into the development of administration abilities and business performance.

Echelon Consulting spearheads the company’s account with the development of new agreeable in affair clients’ requirements. This is usually acquired from analysing agent ability and acquirements needs captured during applicant acquirements programmes.

Where appropriate, Echelon Publishing offers this new agreeable to a added admirers by publishing the actual in all-encompassing format. This is fabricated accessible in the anatomy of simple to use ‘learning nuggets’ and is complimented with business development advice accountant alone from one of the market’s best-known providers, Bloomsbury.

Echelon e-Learning provides the cyberbanking systems which accredit agreeable to be published, broadcast and acceptance tracked, and offers work-based solutions to a all-around audience. Echelon’s attenuated learning, based on a bespoke website busy with actual called to abutment specific courses, builds ability above-mentioned to the accident and refreshes appliance if aback at the desk.

Echelon technologies advice organisations abode solutions at people’s fingertips, whether analytic accustomed business and work-related problems or allowance accretion abilities and connected able development.

Echelon:

• Has a agreeable administration arrangement enabling advisory or acquirements actual to be developed or adapted into XML so that it can be appear and broadcast in argument and/or via the web.

• Has a acquirements administration arrangement to accommodate accessible acceptance via the web to awful structured information, which is calmly searched and retrieved, and whose acceptance can be tracked and acquirements logged.

• Publishes and/or reformats agreeable for able bodies and bartering organisations to advice acceptance and advisers advance or advance requisite abilities throughout their careers.

• Supports humans from the alpha of their careers in alive with able bodies to advance and bear the acquirements agreeable appropriate by acceptance in advancing for examination.

• Frees up the ability and acquirements absolute aural a business so that humans accept accessible acceptance to these assets in allowance them to break problems or advance their careers.

• Works with a amount of abject cavity organisations and able bodies.