Michael Brannick Joins Brainbench Board
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Donald W. Boucher
Vice President, Global Marketing
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donald.boucher@prometric.com
(CHANTILLY, VA - August 29, 2002) BrainbenchTM, the global leader in online skills measurement, announced today that Michael Brannick, the President and CEO of Prometric, a part of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC). and the global leader in technology-enabled testing and assessment services, has agreed to join the Brainbench board of directors.
"We are thrilled to welcome Michael to the board. Leveraging his vast knowledge of the human capital management and global education markets, and his experience in building successful companies, will enable Brainbench to accelerate its growth," said Brainbench's President and Chief Executive Officer Mike Russiello. "The addition of Michael to our strategic decision making team will be invaluable as we continue to expand our deployment of enterprise skills measurement solutions in Fortune 1000 and Federal government accounts."
"Corporations require better management tools to improve upon the skills measurement segment of human capital development," Mr. Brannick said, "I'm looking forward to joining the board to represent the strategic investment that The Thomson Corporation is making in Brainbench and to facilitate closer business links with other companies within Thomson."
Mr. Brannick has been involved in a broad range of developmental and research activities in the education industry for more than two decades. Prior to joining Prometric, he served as president and chief executive officer of Peterson's, also a part of The Thomson Corporation. Before joining Peterson's, Mr. Brannick served as senior vice president of business development for Jostens Learning Corporation. He also spent eight years with the National Education Corporation in a variety of senior marketing roles.
Mr. Brannick holds an M.A. degree in industrial psychology from California State University at Long Beach, and specialty certifications from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, and the University of Southern California.
About Brainbench
With more than 3.9 million registered users and over 400 different skill assessments, Brainbench pioneered online skills testing to measure the skills of employees and resellers that are crucial to a company's bottom-line success. Utilizing the largest ISO 9001 library of tests, companies rely on Brainbench to help them measure, track and improve their employees' vital professional skills, with online skills measurement solutions that improve retention, training success, customer satisfaction and profitability. Corporate customers include Booz Allen Hamilton, Cable & Wireless, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DrKW), EDS, H&R Block, IBM, Interwoven, Manpower, Qwest, TAC Worldwide, U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and Verizon. Major investors include Manpower, Thomson Learning, Terra Lycos and Primus Venture Partners.
About The Thomson Corporation and Prometric
The Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com), with 2001 revenues of $7.2 billion, is a global leader in providing integrated information solutions to business and professional customers. Thomson provides value-added information, software applications and tools to more than 20 million users in the fields of corporate and professional training, assessment and testing, higher education, reference information, law, tax, accounting, financial services, and scientific research and healthcare. The Corporation's common shares are listed on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC). Its learning businesses and brands serve the needs of individuals, learning institutions, corporations and government agencies with products and services for both traditional and distributed learning.
As part of The Thomson Corporation, Prometric is the global leader in technology-enabled testing and assessment services for information technology certification, academic admissions, and professional licensure and certifications. Prometric delivers more than six million standardized tests a year for more than 200 clients, in more than 25 languages, over the Web or through a network of more than 4,800 testing centers in more than 140 countries. Prometric employs more than 3,000 employees worldwide.
