Brightwave launches new Scottish HQ

New staff and Scottish office for e-learning specialist follows substantial growth and excellent year-end financial results

Brightwave, the work-place e-learning specialist, today announces the opening of its new Scottish office in West George Street, Glasgow, following growth in 2008/9 revenues of over 20 %. New regional manager Lesley Matheson further boosts the Scottish team, whilst Kelly Davis joins Brightwave's Brighton HQ as business development director.

Lesley will be responsible for client relationships, project delivery and strategic business expansion in Scotland. Her strong public sector background in the region will be essential in delivering e-learning projects for the likes of Glasgow, Edinburgh and Renfrewshire Councils, in addition to corporations including Sky and Royal Bank of Scotland.

Lesley joins from Sopra Group where she helped deliver key IT and consultancy projects to the NHS in Scotland. At Sopra, she was responsible for successful project implementation, team leadership, change management, budget control, risk management and stakeholder management.

e-Learning new business specialist, Kelly Davis, brings more than 15 years industry experience to her new role as business development director to support Brightwave's growing client base. She joins this month from New Horizons and was previously at Smartforce.

Charles Gould, Brightwave's MD comments: "We are delighted to be bucking the economic trend by announcing strong growth at Brightwave and the growing demand for highly engaging e-learning programmes. Our new Scottish office and Lesley's appointment marks a new phase in Brightwave's development as organisations are partnering with us more closely to deliver online training to large volumes of people that actually works."

Brightwave is also sponsoring the 'Securing a workforce for the future' COSLA (Convention of Scottish Local Authorities) Excellence Award. The award will be presented on 5 March 2009 at the Excellence Awards ceremony, which runs alongside the Conference. This follows a pilot of the Improvement Service's Development Profile tool in partnership with Brightwave, for elected members in Scottish Local Government - a video of the pilot will be demonstrated to delegates at COSLA.

Note to editors - About Brightwave

Brightwave is the UK's leading workplace e-learning specialist. Expert in developing quality e-learning solutions that achieve a positive measurable impact, Brightwave works in partnership with clients to provide a complete e-learning service, from bespoke content solutions to e-learning portals and platforms, capability building and consultancy.

Focussed on ensuring success, Brightwave makes design decisions to meet business goals and places the learner experience at the centre of every project regardless of business area - from onboarding through to major business transformation.

Clients include: BBC, BP, British Airways, Bupa Health and Wellbeing UK, Pfizer, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Sky, Royal Bank of Scotland, Unilever, Vodafone and Waitrose as well as public and third sector organisations like; City of Edinburgh Council, Glasgow City Council, National Trust, NSPCC, Renfrewshire Council, South Lanarkshire Council and The Home Office.

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