UK Training Industry Press Releases

Consultancy-led publishing house, Echelon Learning, has appointed Alistair Morrison as its CEO.

David Hill, who has headed up Echelon Learning since its inception in 1986, becomes the company's Chairman, while retaining the role of Services Director to support key clients. Jenny Hill continues to lead the company's consultancy division.

David Hill commented: "Alistair Morrison has a long association with Echelon, having previously served as a non-executive director of the company.

"His advice and guidance have proved to be highly valuable to Echelon in the past and so we are delighted that he is now devoting even more of his unbounded energies and business acumen to further our cause and help us achieve our business goals. His experience in the areas of business consultancy, employee communications and e-learning are exactly what is required to lead Echelon as we continue to develop and expand."

Morrison, who joined Echelon from The Fifth Business - an internal communications and e-learning company working principally in the oil and gas industries - previously ran his own business consultancy company, Strathmore Business Consulting, with clients that included HSBC and Lorien plc. Before that, he was an operational board director at defence and space specialists Vega plc.

Prior to joining Vega, Morrison was founder and managing director of learning content producer Skillchange Systems - one of the early leaders and innovators in the UK's e-learning market. More recently, he has served as a non-executive director with web development company Netcel, LMS vendor Cobent, and design consultancy Juice.

"I'm delighted to have joined Echelon," Morrison said.