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[|Desire2Learn] Incorporated is a world-leading provider of enterprise eLearning solutions that enable institutions and other organizations to create teaching and learning environments that reflect their vision, values, goals, pedagogical approaches and branding. Desire2Learn and its subsidiaries support more than five million learners worldwide and [|clients] include [|higher education], [|K-12] , as well as [|associations] , [|government] and other leading organizations. For more information, visit: [|www.Desire2Learn.com], call 1.888.772.0325 or 1.519.772.0325.

 Elluminate, Inc. provides proven, best-in-class solutions for real-time online learning and collaboration that deliver exceptional outcomes, including enhanced learning experiences, increased retention and completion rates, and higher ROI. Elluminate serves over 600 million web-collaboration minutes annually to over 7 million teachers and students located in over 170 different countries.

Desire2Learn and Elluminate are excited to host the "Economic Benefits of Online Learning" roundtable.

Presenter Holly Sagues

Chief Strategist and Policy Officer Florida Virtual School hsagues@flvs.net At Florida Virtual School, planning for the future starts with remembering the past and understanding the school’s continuing reason for being. It also means having the broadest possible perspective on what works best. These are some of the things that Holly Sagues contributes each day to the success of her school. Since 1998, Ms. Sagues has lived the mission and core values of Florida Virtual School. She has also made the needs of students the driving force behind her educational career. Her first assignment at FLVS involved the development and teaching of her school’s first business courses. In that assignment, she drew upon her extensive prior experience as a classroom teacher of business and computer science courses into which she had incorporated the most up-to-date technologies. Over the years, Ms. Sagues’ contributions to FLVS have been recognized with increasing levels of responsibility. Prior to her current position, she was responsible for the development and oversight of her school’s information and instructional delivery technologies. Today, she is a vital resource to her school’s President and Chief Executive Officer and the Leadership Team. In addition, she also provides data-based analysis and insights to her school’s decision makers regarding growth initiatives, strategies for achieving school goals, and tactical procedures for day-to-day operations. Ms. Sagues, who is a certified Project Management Professional, says her job is part objective analysis and part intuition. As a former businessperson with an extensive accounting background, Ms. Sagues understands the power of numbers for reporting current conditions and for identifying future prospects. As an educator and long-time member of the FLVS staff, she also has an intuitive sense of the needs of her school and its place in the advancement of education. She understands the promise offered by FLVS for making a significant difference in the quality of education available to all students. Ms. Sagues earned her Master of Arts degree in Vocational Education and Technical Training, and her Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and Accounting from the University of Central Florida.

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John Baker, CEO and President Desire2Learn Incorporated John Baker founded Desire2Learn in 1999 at the age of 22, while still a student at the University of Waterloo. With passion, dedication and an exceptionally strong team behind him he has grown Desire2Learn to 180 employees and 5 million users worldwide, all completely through self-funding. John is a strong believer in community involvement devoting both personal and business efforts to local entrepreneurship and development and applying technology to improve society worldwide.



Maurice Heiblum President Elluminate, Inc.

As President of Elluminate, Maurice provides the leadership for generating new market opportunities, building Elluminate's distribution channels, driving sales, developing and executing the company's marketing strategy, and managing operations. Maurice has 22 years of executive, sales and marketing management experience in the IT industry with start-ups and publicly traded organizations. Prior to Elluminate, Maurice served as the Founder and CEO of FindGoodHelp.com, a reverse auction services exchange. Prior to FindGoodHelp.com, Maurice served as Vice President, Product Marketing at Viasoft ( now ASG Software) where he built a highly profitable $75 million software and services division from the ground up in just over 18 months. Maurice also served as President of The Sound Marketing Group, a point-of-sale advertising company which was subsequently sold to the Inventure Group. Prior to that, Maurice held a number of increasingly responsible management positions over a 13-year career at IBM including Marketing Operations Manager for a $1 Billion sales region, Marketing Manager for the City of New York, US Marketing Executive for Desktop Operating Systems and Advisory Sales Representative in New York. Maurice graduated from New York University with a bachelor's degree in Finance and Marketing.

 Kristie Clements, Ed.D. K12 Marketing Manager D2L Ltd., a US subsidary of Desire2Learn Incorporated 888.772.0325 x 419 HQ  678.765.7537 GA office  678.997.5429 mobile 

Dr. Kristie Clements is the K-12 Marketing Manager for D2L Ltd, a US based subsidiary of Desire2Learn Incorporated. Before joining the corporate world she served students in a wide variety of public education positions for over 18 years.  Being a school based administrator in the nation’s 13th largest district, her positions included middle school teacher, special needs pre-K administrator, and high school principal in Gwinnett County, Georgia.  Subsequently, as the founding Program Manager of the Georgia Department of Education’s State Virtual School, Dr. Clements found a method, via online learning, to provide quality educational opportunities for students regardless of geographic location, socio-economic status, size of school, or lack of highly qualified teachers.  In her current position <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> she is able to broaden her sphere of influence to the entire North American region and expand educational opportunities to more students through the adoption of the Desire2Learn enterprise suite of products. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, serif; mso-spacerun: yes; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Having learned from each opportunity that no one method, style or approach can address the educational needs of all students, Dr. Clements brings experiences from a wide variety of levels to bear in the arena of online learning. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">

<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Rajeev Arora Vice President, Marketing & Strategy Elluminate, Inc.

As Vice President, Marketing & Strategy, Rajeev Arora is responsible for establishing relationships with strategic partners and identifying new markets where Elluminate can excel. Rajeev has over twelve years of sales, marketing and product development experience in the software and Internet industries. Most recently, Rajeev was Senior Vice President of Products and Strategic Marketing at Opnix, Inc. - an Internet Infrastructure software firm based in Tempe, AZ. Prior to Opnix, Rajeev served as Vice President of Product Marketing at Viasoft (now ASG Software), where he was responsible for launching the company's PC software business unit from a concept to sales of over $75M within 18 months. Previously, Rajeev served as Business Unit Manager at Software Emancipation Technology, and as Product Manager and Northeast Sales Manager at SCO. Rajeev has served as President and was part of the founding team for TiE-Arizona - the Arizona chapter of The Indus Entrepreneurs. In the past, Rajeev has served on the Board of Arizona Software Association. Rajeev holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a M.S. in Engineering Management from Santa Clara University.