ELT Expands Senior Leadership Team
Leading Provider of Workplace Ethics and Compliance eLearning Names New Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Marketing
SAN FRANCISCO (April 25, 2011) - ELT, leading specialists in ethics and workplace compliance training, today announced the expansion of the company's executive management team with the addition of Derick Sutton as chief financial officer and Ken Robinson as vice president of marketing. Having served more than 2,500 clients to date, and trained more than six million employees, ELT welcomes the seasoned thought leaders, who will help drive the company's strategic growth initiatives.
"As a company that prides its self on creating compliance programs that foster a culture of ethics, inclusion and respect, we seek dynamic leaders with industry experience that will help us move our company forward," said Shanti Atkins Esq., president and CEO of ELT. "The addition of Derick and Ken are key to further advancing ELT's industry-leading position, while continuing to increase the number of clients - of all sizes and across multiple industries - who can benefit from our state-of-the art training solutions."
As ELT's chief financial officer, Sutton brings 15 years of leadership experience in finance, strategy and operations to the company. With a mission to propel growth, Sutton will be responsible for ELT's finance and administrative functions, and will work with the executive team to develop and execute its ambitious growth strategy. Prior to ELT, Sutton was vice president of finance and investor relations at Codexis, Inc. where he contributed to that company's initial public offering.
"As ELT continues to cultivate a strong reputation for offering clients the most engaging, effective training solutions available, I look forward to helping lead the company to elevated success," said Derick Sutton, chief financial officer of ELT. "I'm thrilled to help develop and execute the company's growth strategy, catapulting it to the next level."
With more than 15 years of marketing and operations experience, Ken Robinson joins ELT with a plan to enrich the company's integrated marketing efforts, while driving corporate positioning, branding, public relations, and field marketing to generate strong sales leads. Ken will provide a unified view of customer interactions across ELT's marketing and sales teams, and put the right strategies, tools, and metrics in place that will have the greatest positive impact on the company's growth. Most recently Ken was the vice president of worldwide marketing at Satmetrix where he was responsible for demand generation, product marketing and corporate communications.
"I am delighted to join ELT during such an exciting period of the company's growth. After holding senior-level positions with market-leading enterprises, I've developed a passion for aligning sales and marketing to accelerate growth," said Ken Robinson, vice president of marketing at ELT. "Joining ELT offers the opportunity to impact the development of a forward-thinking brand and to influence a broad range of employers and employees who can benefit from our services."
ELT specializes in providing online training courses on key state and federal employment laws that mandate broad-scale and repetitive workplace education. Quality and innovation has fast-tracked the company's growth over recent years. For the most up-to-date information regarding ELT visit www.elt.com.
ELT
ELT provides online training solutions to help employers manage their most important workplace compliance challenges. ELT specializes in the topics that create the greatest legal risks, and where effective employee training can prevent misconduct, establish powerful legal defenses, and help to create a culture of ethics, inclusion and respect. The company focuses on harassment training, ethics training, wage & hour training and EEO training. ELT features legal content from Littler Mendelson, the world's largest employment law firm, and is endorsed by SHRM, the world's largest human resources association. ELT's award-winning courses engage employees with compelling stories drawn from actual cases and real events. Leveraging the latest technology and high-end media, ELT's solutions reflect the level of quality that organizations want to associate with their compliance programs. With more than a decade of market-tested success and millions of employees trained, ELT is trusted by today's most respected employers.

