MONTREAL, Oct. 29, 2015 /PRNewswire/ - EXO U Inc. ("EXO U" or the "Corporation") (TSX Venture: EXO) is pleased to announce the following key addition to its senior management team.
Last week the Company announced the appointment of Mr. Kevin Pawsey as its new Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Pawsey, who joined EXO U as its Chief Operating Officer in August, is a three-time CEO in the education sector and brings over twenty years of experience to EXO U. Mr. Pawsey has a proven history of success in developing sustained business growth internationally in the fields of education, technology and online learning.
EXOU is pleased to announce the addition of Jim Kirchner as Senior Vice President of Business Development. Mr. Kirchner, a Senior Executive and former CEO in the education technology sector, has over 20 years experience and a proven history of success.
Previously, Mr. Kirchner was Senior Vice President at Amplify, Inc, a NewsCorp subsidiary, where he lead a 30 person sales force which contributed to achieving over $79 Million of revenue for Amplify Insight for Fiscal Year 2015, beating forecast. Prior to Amplify, Jim was a founder and CEO of LearningStation, a leading formative assessment SaaS solution that had multimillion dollar contracts with the States of Arizona, Kansas and several large districts in the US prior to being sold to private equity.
Mr. Pawsey States, "Part of the strategy associated with my move to CEO was to bring in experienced staff in the fields of K12, Higher Education and developing OEM and Distribution Agreements. Jim is the first of these strategic hires and I am very pleased that he has joined as Senior Vice President of Business Development. Jim has significant experienced in K-12, Assessment and associated technologies and will be a significant asset in the building of additional contracts and revenues for EXOU".
"I am excited to join the EXO U team and be a part of the leadership as we scale the company by growing adoption worldwide" stated Mr. Kirchner. "EXOU's software allows robust and effective technology integration in the classrooms that optimizes time on instruction leveraging all technology devices in a school. The speed and ease of this solution is some of the best I have seen in my 20 years in the education technology industry. I look forward to introducing EXOU to the world!"