Deborah
Lenart and Ty Roberts Join Career Education Corporation as Senior Vice
Presidents of Newly-Defined Strategic Business Units
Lenart
to Head University Group and Roberts In Charge of Art &
Design
HOFFMAN
ESTATES, Ill.--(March 10, 2008)– Career Education Corporation
(NASDAQ:CECO) today announced two new appointments: Deborah (Deb) Lenart
will be
the Senior Vice President for the University Strategic Business Unit (SBU),
and
Ty Roberts will be the Senior Vice President for the Art & Design
SBU. The two will serve as members of Career Education Corporation’s
(CEC) Executive Leadership Team, as well as provide guidance and direction
to
the president and CEO on company-wide strategy and operations.
“Deb
Lenart and Ty Roberts are joining CEC at a pivotal juncture for the company
and
their roles will be integral to our future success,” said Gary E. McCullough,
president and CEO, Career Education Corporation. “We made measured
decisions as we restructured the organization and have selected individuals
with
skill sets applicable to the business they will lead. We look forward
to benefiting from the expertise and fresh ideas they each will bring to
CEC.”
Deb
Lenart has amassed significant experience in various executive management
positions within communications and media companies. During the
course of her career, she has exhibited intense focus on customer satisfaction
and has led culture change initiatives. Most recently, Lenart was
U.S. segment leader responsible for leading the Communications Service Provider
industry for Electronic Data Systems Corp. (EDS), a global information
technology and applications outsourcing firm. Prior to EDS, Lenart
led several venture-backed start-up and turnaround portfolio companies as
CEO of
Callipso and Eziaz, as well as multi-billion dollar corporate divisions of
Ameritech as president of Custom Business Services and president of New Media.
Lenart has also led key legislative and regulatory policies with state and
federal commissions, law makers and Congress. Her public policy
experience includes providing testimony before both the US House of
Representatives and the US Senate on telecommunications and media regulatory
issues. Lenart holds a B.S. degree in marketing from the University
of Illinois and an MBA from Loyola University.
Ty
Roberts comes to CEC from his post as vice president for DeVry, Inc. where
he
led operations for DeVry’s online division and previously helped lead the
turnaround at DeVry’s professional education division. He also served
on the advisory board for DeVry’s leadership academy and strategic planning
committee. In addition to his tenure in the education industry,
Roberts has a strong background in marketing, business development and general
management, domestically and internationally, with consumer product companies
PepsiCo and Gallo. He began is career in product management with
Nortel. Roberts earned a Masters in Management from the Kellogg
Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and is a graduate
of
Southern Methodist University with a B.S. degree in Operations Research and
Engineering Management.
About
Career Education Corporation
The
colleges, schools, and universities that are part of the Career Education
Corporation (CEC) family offer high quality education to a diverse population
of
approximately 90,000 students across the world in a variety of career-oriented
disciplines. The more than 75 campuses that serve these students are located
throughout the U.S. and in France, Italy, and the United Kingdom, and offer
doctoral, master's, bachelor's, and associate degrees and diploma and
certificate programs. Approximately one third of students attend the web-based
virtual campuses of American InterContinental University Online and Colorado
Technical University Online.
CEC
is an
industry leader whose gold-standard brands are recognized globally. Those
brands
include Le Cordon Bleu Schools North America; Harrington College of Design;
Brooks Institute; International Academy of Design & Technology; American
InterContinental University; Colorado Technical University and Sanford-Brown
Institutes and Colleges. Through its schools, CEC is committed to providing
quality education, enabling students to graduate and pursue rewarding
careers.
For
more
information, see the company’s website at http://www.careered.com. The company's
website includes a detailed listing of individual campus locations and web
links
to its more than 75 colleges, schools, and universities.
