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    BSG Team Ventures completes New York Search for Chief Executive Officer of eCornell

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    BSG Team Ventures has recruited Paul Krause to join the leadership team at eCornell. He will be serving as the Chief Executive Officer of the company, bringing to the organization over 15 years experience at various online learning companies.

    Prior to e-Cornell, Krause served as the Cofounder and President of Matrix Insights LLC, an education management company that provides an integrated approach to leadership assessments and personalized leadership development and allows organizations to enhance their leadership development programs, team-building events, and executive coaching.
    Before that, Krause served as President and CEO of Element K, growing it into the second largest corporate e-learning company in the world before it was sold in 2011 to Skillsoft.
    In addition to his leadership role at eCornell, Krause also currently serves on the Advisory Board of Matrix Insights LLC and is an Associate Vice Provost for Online Learning at Cornell University.
    Krause earned his Bachelor of Science in Business Management and Marketing from Cornell University and received his MBA in Finance, Corporate Accounting and Operations from the University of Rochester - William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration.

    About eCornell

    eCornell, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cornell University, provides many of the world’s leading organizations with online professional and executive development in the areas of leadership and management, human resources, financial management, healthcare, marketing and hospitality management. The company has delivered online courses to more than 50,000 students in more than 200 countries.

    For the full eCornell press release, please visit here.

    About BSG Team Ventures Education Practice

    For almost two decades BSG Team Ventures has been an active participant in the growth of the Education industry, with a track record that includes more than 250 senior-level searches for companies big and small, public and private, for-profit and not-for-profit, at the VP level and above. Many have been with private equity partners.

    Its industry expertise comprises the full spectrum of education markets--K-12, postsecondary, corporate, and consumer--and products and services that include distance learning, SES and EMO, administrative and curricular technology solutions, assessment, teacher professional development, for-profit college education, and corporate training. Clients have gone public, merged, been acquired, raised and invested capital, grown through acquisition, and, with most, thrived under strong leadership.

    BSG's commitment to the industry also goes beyond executive search. As sponsor and panelist for such industry events as the GSV Summit, Capital Roundtable’s Private Equity Investing in For-Profit Education Companies; APSCU's Education Industry Finance and Investment Institute and Senior Executive Management Seminar; and the SIIA Ed Tech Industry Summit, BSG has remained persistent in its belief that competence as a service provider begins with knowledge of an industry's people, companies, niches, and trends.

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    -by Megan Gillis on Jul 15, 2015 11:21:00 AM

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