Biographies

CONNIE BROUGHTON
Connie Broughton is the assistant director of eLearning at the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges and has been the managing director of WashingtonOnline since 1999.  Before working for WashingtonOnline, she taught composition, American Lit and technical writing for the Community Colleges of Spokane and Washington State University.  Her chapter in a monograph on state wide virtual collaborations will be published in the Jossey-Bass Directions for Higher Education series in Summer 2009.

CHARLIE EARL
Charlie Earl has been Executive Director for the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges since February, 2006. Prior to that he served as president of Everett Community College from 1999 until 2006. Previous positions include: Deputy County Executive for King County; General Manager for Snohomish County Public Utility District; and Chief Administrative Officer for Thurston County.

CABLE GREEN

Cable Green is the eLearning Director at the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges. Cable works on system online learning initiatives and implementing pioneering learning technologies and practices. He served as the Director of Technology for the Ohio Learning Network and Director of Educational Technology for the Ohio State University College of Pharmacy before coming to the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges in 2007.

CHRIS REYKDAL
Bginning in July 2005, Chris has served as Deputy Executive Director of Finance at the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges. In this position he is responsible for the management of personnel, legislative process, communications, finance, office operation for the SBCTC and primary staff support to college presidents in the Washington Association of Community and Technical Colleges (WACTC). From 2002-2005, Chris served as Operating Budget Director at the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges. Prior to working at the State Board, Chris was Fiscal/Policy Analyst, Senate Transportation Committee for the Washington State Senate from 1999 – 2002.

ERIC FRANK

Eric was born and raised in Boston, and has lived in Philadelphia and New York. Sometimes, he gets confused and thinks that Pittsburgh is the west coast. He used to have more diverse passions in life, but now, as co-founder of three concurrent startups– two-year old Miya, one-year old Emma, and Flat World Knowledge, also one, his passions have become singularly focused: the pursuit of sleep. It may be a while yet. Eric brings an 11 year track record of success in higher education publishing. He has held positions in sales, editorial, and marketing at Thomson (now Cengage –so much more 2.0-ish, yes?) and Prentice Hall, a division of Pearson Education. Recently, Eric was Director of Marketing for Prentice Hall Business Publishing, a division with annual sales in the hundreds of millions. There, he managed a team of marketing managers and marketing communications staff, and had overall responsibility for strategy, budget, staffing and execution. Eric’s group had dotted line responsibility for training and supporting over 160 sales representatives.