SEATTLE - July 31, 2008 - Giant Campus, the nationally recognized leader in innovative technology education programs for youth and families, today announced that it added Chris Dukelow as its Chief Financial Officer.
Dukelow will lead the financial strategy to further develop and accelerate the growth of Giant Campus within a sizeable and growing market. With more than 20 years of strong experience in finance, operations, and business development, Chris brings a broad range of skills to Giant Campus that match well to the company's immediate and long term goals.
Most recently, Chris was the CFO of AdmitOne Security (formerly BioPassword) and prior to that the COO for Escapia, a leading provider of vacation rental travel solutions. Chris spent seven years with Aventail helping them grow and raising over $100 million in venture funding while holding a number of executive positions including Chief Financial Officer, Vice President of Sales and Vice President of Business Development.
"This is a terrific opportunity to work with a company that has enormous potential - and a proven track record," said Dukelow. "21st Century skills education is a tremendous opportunity to impact the lives of youth and to build a great company. Giant Campus has proven itself to be a leading innovator of technology education, and has an even brighter future as it expands its curriculum and delivery techniques. It's exciting to be a part of something that will make a real difference in peoples' lives."
Chris also has experience in executive and financial management roles working for Entricom, Burlington Environmental, Stars Children's Wear and Coopers & Lybrand. "We're really looking forward to having Chris aboard to drive business operations and financial functions for the company," said Pete Findley, CEO of Giant Campus. "Not only does Chris have the background and skill set to do this job, his personal character will be a great addition to the company leadership."
About Giant Campus
Giant Campus is an education and learning-experience company that empowers individuals with 21st century skills to help them to contribute and succeed in a global community. With more than 3 million learners worldwide, and an excess of 1 million hours of in-person instruction, Giant Campus is working to develop the most effective methodology for creating, delivering and assessing learning. The Giant Campus suite of online education and youth products is delivered in a variety of environments, including K-12 school classrooms, U.S. military installations, university-hosted summer computer programs, the federal government, private companies and online. Giant Campus is a four-time honoree of Washington CEO magazine's Best Companies to Work For award, the winner of the Homestreet Bank's Small Business Spotlight Award for 2006, and was named within the 2008 Deloitte's Top 50 fastest growing technology companies in Washington State. For more information, visit www.giantcampus.com.