Martin Brutosky Appointed CEO of eChalk to Guide Company's Aggressive Growth

NEW YORK, June 19 /PRNewswire/ -- eChalk, Inc., a national education
technology company, today announced the appointment of Martin Brutosky as
Chief Executive Officer. Brutosky brings 30 years of experience implementing
successful marketing, sales, business development, and capital recruitment
strategies at several leading technology companies.
His appointment comes as eChalk, one of Deloitte & Touche's Technology
Fast 50 companies in New York, continues to focus on aggressive growth by
offering new segments of the market a safe and secure online solution that
transforms K-12 schools into well-recognized and high-achieving communities.
"We are glad that Martin shares our excitement about eChalk's growth
opportunities," said John Hickey, a member of eChalk's board of directors.
"His leadership will take us to the next level."
"eChalk is the only service-delivered solution that combines communication
and learning applications in a customizable system that can be easily aligned
to state standards and district goals," said Brutosky, who joins eChalk from
TetraData, a leading provider of K-12 performance management and data-driven
solutions, where as CEO he led growth in the customer base to more than 4,000
schools in 34 states.
"As more schools see the limitations of content management tools that
cannot guarantee service, safety or security, eChalk demonstrates its superior
value by providing the kind of online protection, in-person professional
development, and rigorous web usage analysis simply unavailable anywhere
else," he said.
Since its inception nearly a decade ago, eChalk has been at the cutting
edge of the market, creating communities in which everyone vital is connected
to the classroom and involved in the education process.
"We extend learning from school to home and beyond, reproducing online all
the essential elements of the K-12 classroom setting within a community
controlled and monitored by each school or district," said Torrance Robinson,
President and Founder of eChalk. "Everyone knows what is happening at all
times and this transparency breeds accountability. In education, this is more
valuable than any social network or content management system-it is a fully
protected, fully empowered community of peers and partners."
Another unique feature of the growing eChalk community is a lesson
planning component that improves collaboration among curriculum directors,
teachers, and principals. "Imagine a streamlined method of communicating
standards; tracking submitted plans; identifying instructional gaps; and
analyzing what has been taught against each standard-all this is fully
integrated into our online solution," said Daniel Watts, who will remain on
eChalk's board of directors after serving as CEO for the past two years.
About eChalk www.echalk.com
Founded in 1999 and headquartered in New York City, eChalk offers K-12
schools web-based systems that transform teaching, learning, and leadership by
creating communities in which all stakeholders can easily communicate,
collaborate, and connect. Students are given a new way to learn, teachers a
new way to teach, and administrators a new way to lead. Each community is
customized to meet the needs of each school and district.
SOURCE eChalk, Inc.

Dan Morris, eChalk, Press Office, +1-646-723-3406, dmorris@echalk.com