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Karen Gage, joins the Blackboard executive team as vice president of the Blackboard Beyond Initiative, a key initiative by the company to focus on the next phase of e-Learning. As director of this effort, Ms. Gage oversees a dedicated team in launching a series of Web properties that connect the institutions, faculty, and students who use Blackboard worldwide across education segments and disciplines.
Ms. Gage comes to Blackboard with over ten years of experience working in the high technology sector. Most recently she served as senior vice president of marketing at WebCT, where she was in charge of product marketing, public relations, marketing communications, events, user community relations, and the company's Web presence. Ms. Gage has joined Blackboard as part of the company’s integration with WebCT following the February 2006 merge of the two companies.
Prior to her role at WebCT, Ms. Gage served as director of product marketing at the Inso Corporation, a global provider of content management software solutions. Before that she was a high-tech equity analyst at Alex. Brown & Sons.
Ms. Gage received her bachelor's degree in Economics from Duke University and her MBA from Columbia Business School. | 