QA founder joins Enterprise Study
Enterprise Study, the producer of the ESP training business administration platform, has announced the appointment of Mike Cheeseman, an original founder of QA Training, to Chairman of its Board of Directors.
Mike Cheeseman will provide direction to Enterprise Study's
management team as it positions ESP with 5,000 plus small and
medium-sized UK training providers that currently do not have an
affordable, off-the-shelf purpose-built, administrative and
e-commerce solution available to them. ESP, launched in December
2002, is a training business administration platform that enables
training businesses and corporate training departments, to manage
course schedules, bookings and e-commerce, training-centre
operations and third-party-provider services, on line through an
Internet browser.
Mike Cheeseman: "ESP provides the functionality associated with
the large, mission-critical, network-installed training
administration applications, through a pay-as-you-go on line
service and for a fraction of the comparable costs. Until now, only
the larger training providers have been able to consider such
applications, as they've required considerable investment in
implementation, management and support. Providing the same
functionality in an on line service, offers greater market
scalability and now makes purpose-designed training administration
and e-commerce services affordable to around 5,000 small and
medium-sized UK training businesses and corporate training
departments."
Larger providers are also set to benefit from reduced systems
costs and by being able to free up much human resource that is
currently tied to scheduling and transaction management
processes.
"ESP enables training providers to devote greater proportions of
their resource to sales and marketing and less to administration
and support overheads," added Cheeseman.
At Intel, in the 1980s, Mike Cheeseman was responsible for
Customer Training in the United Kingdom and the United States and
for Systems Engineering in the United Kingdom. In 1985 he
co-founded QA Training, which became Europe's premier technical IT
training company earning a reputation for quality and technical
leadership.
For the last five years Mike has worked as a business angel
investing in and assisting, start up companies in the IT and
training sectors. These have included: Q Learning, a provider of
management training; iORA, a leader in data replication technology;
Quantiv, an innovator in object-oriented business components for
e-commerce systems and DevelopMentor, a US-based advanced technical
IT training company.
Mike also judges the PricewaterhouseCoopers 'Business of the Year
Awards' and is Chair of Governors at Bibury School and Vice Chair
of Governors at Cirencester College.
Mike joins Enterprise Study as Chairman of the Board of Directors,
which is a part-time position and will assist the business through
its start up phase, advising the management team in finance and
business administration.
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Notes
Mike Cheeseman is available to the media for comment.
Photography is available for download on request.