CERTPOINT - Vuepoint CEO Ara Ohanian Nominated for eLearning Executive of the Year by SmartExecutive

... Fellow Nominees Include Jack Welch, John Chambers, Larry Ellison and Bill Gates...

LONG ISLAND, N.Y., August 27, 2001 – Ara Ohanian, CEO and founder of Vuepoint Corp., an eLearning software and services company that matches speed to knowledge with speed to market, has recently been nominated for SmartExecutive’s eLearning Executive of the Year Award alongside renowned CEOs including Jack Welch of General Electric, John Chambers of Cisco Systems, Larry Ellison of Oracle, and Bill Gates of Microsoft.

The nomination builds upon Vuepoint’s momentum after a string of recent successes, including an $11 million round of funding, the addition of new board members, entering into a large engagement with Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., as well as new customers iPlanet™ E-Commerce Solutions, a Sun-Netscape Alliance, and The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation, the largest financial services post-trade infrastructure organization in the world.  Additionally, Vuepoint recently hosted the Vuepoint E-Learning Summit 2001 with Brandon Hall, Ph.D., CEO and lead researcher of Brandon-Hall.com, to provide a forum for clients to share best practices and learn how recent trends would directly impact their organizations.

“I’m very honored to be nominated and will continue to do my best to help organizations achieve their goals through the capabilities and advancements in eLearning,” said Ara Ohanian, CEO of Vuepoint.

Online voting is open to the public at www.smartexecutive.com until Sept. 24. SmartExecutive Inc., the leader in producing senior executive leadership conferences, will announce the winner Oct. 10 at the National 2001 eLearning Executive Leadership Conference in Detroit.

About Vuepoint

Vuepoint (www.vuepoint.com), an e-learning company focused on providing a single platform combining a learning content management system (LCMS) and a learning management system (LMS), creates competitive organizations through a business-savvy approach. Vuepoint Learning System (VLS) incorporates dynamic knowledge management into an e-learning environment and has helped leading organizations such as Deloitte Consulting, 3Com, Carlson Marketing Group, A.T. Kearney and Toyota achieve speed-to-market advantages, improve productivity and employee retention and streamline costs.  Incorporated in 1996, Vuepoint’s management team is comprised of experienced professionals who come from the ranks of global leaders such as Procter & Gamble, KPMG LLP and Dow Jones Telerate as well as experts and scholars from the e-learning industry.