Portland training tech company OpenSesame named two new members to its board of directors who bring decades of tech, talent, finance and governance experience to the organization.
Tamar Elkeles and Emily Rollins join the board the company that last year raised $50 million from investors.
Elkeles has been in human resources roles for 30 years including 25 years as chief learning and talent officer at chipmaker Qualcomm. She has written four books on human resources and learning. She is on the board of sales and technical training company GP Strategies (NYSE: GPX) and was on the board of the now dissolved special purpose acquisition company G3 VRM (Nasdaq: GGGVU).
“The workforce is in a state of transition. Companies are investing in their talent through training as a key differentiator for attraction and retention,” Elkeles said in a written statement. “And OpenSesame is at the forefront, providing solutions to leverage learning and development in this new world of work.”
OpenSesame has an online catalogue of more than 25,000 training courses from hundreds of publishers. Customers use OpenSesame to find curated courses that integrate with a company's corporate learning management systems and learning and development programs. Customers can also create custom courses and develop courses in 19 languages.
Rollins spent 28 years at Delloitte and worked on complex governance, audit and reporting processes. She is a board member of sound technology company Dolby Laboratories (NYSE: DLB), on-demand manufacturing marketplace Xometry (Nasdaq: XMTR), biotech Science 37 Holdings (SNCE) and payments company Dwolla Inc.
“OpenSesame’s growth trajectory is remarkable,” Rollins said in a written statement. “The company’s offerings are invaluable with a broad course catalog and ability to expand the e-learning footprint to people not already exposed to online learning.”
OpenSesame CEO Don Spear noted that Elkeles and Rollins both bring decades of experience as practitioners within companies to the board. He called out their experience with global growth, change, diversity and scaling.
“The services and breadth of courses we offer are changing the way people learn and work throughout the world. It starts with the people and expertise we have attracted to build OpenSesame,” he said in a written statement.
