SAN FRANCISCO/PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — ParentPowered PBC, an training know-how firm that gives research-based digital household engagement, right this moment introduced the appointment of Terri Soutor as Chief Govt Officer (CEO) and Melissa Palmer as Chief Income Officer (CRO). These strikes coincide with ParentPowered’s preparations for substantial development because it continues increasing its product portfolio to additional improve scholar help.
Soutor is an skilled C-suite chief and go-to-market strategist, expert at constructing and rising training know-how corporations. As CEO at FastBridge Studying, Soutor scaled the corporate over a 4 yr interval to $11M ARR at a forty five% annual development charge and delivering greater than 25 million assessments to over 1.6 million college students throughout the nation and incomes the corporate the glory of changing into the second fastest-growing personal firm in the Twin Cities. Her enterprise acumen, management and accomplishments have been publicly acknowledged. She made the checklist of CEOs in The Actual Energy 50 by Minnesota Enterprise and was a recipient of a Titan of Expertise award from Minneapolis/St. Paul Enterprise Journal. She has served since early 2022 on the ParentPowered Board of Administrators and brings an in-depth understanding of the group’s mission to help scholar studying.
“We’re poised to make an actual distinction in scholar studying with a devoted crew and a mission that really issues. I’m proud and excited to steer the cost and amplify our influence collectively,” stated Terri Soutor, ParentPowered’s incoming CEO.Tweet this
Palmer has greater than 15 years of senior administration expertise within the training know-how and content material sector, with a confirmed monitor file of creating and scaling profitable strategic gross sales groups. As a senior chief at Illuminate Training, she created and scaled a nationwide gross sales group that elevated new enterprise bookings from $12.1M to $18.6M over two years. Whereas there, she merged 5 gross sales groups into one built-in crew that leveraged a “land-and-expand” technique to extend cross promote from 35% to 55% in the identical interval.
“Backed by sturdy analysis and a monitor file of success, ParentPowered’s digital household engagement program holds immense promise. We’re poised to make an actual distinction in scholar studying with a devoted crew and a mission that really issues. I’m proud and excited to steer the cost and amplify our influence collectively,” stated Soutor.
“The importance of ParentPowered’s constructive influence on youngsters and its potential ripple impact throughout communities can’t be overstated,” stated Palmer. “I’m proud to affix the corporate at this vital juncture of development and eagerly anticipate contributing to our impactful journey forward.”
Founding CEO Ben York, Ph.D., will stay on the Board of Administrators and act in an advisory capability via the transition.
“It has been an honor and a privilege to steer ParentPowered, and I’m extraordinarily pleased with the work we’ve achieved. As we evolve to serve extra households, I couldn’t be extra excited to have Terri on the helm,” stated founding CEO Ben York, Ph.D. “I’ve had the pleasure of working together with her since early 2022 when she joined the corporate’s board, and I’ve the utmost confidence that she’s the best particular person to steer ParentPowered into the long run,” he added. “Terri brings a deep dedication to serving households and kids to the function, together with a deal with constructing purpose-driven cultures, speedy scaling expertise and a monitor file of success,” stated Dr. York. “I look ahead to persevering with to help Terri, Melissa and the broader ParentPowered crew as they usher within the subsequent section of the corporate’s evolution.”
Soutor and Palmer labored intently collectively after Soutor introduced FastBridge to Illuminate in 2019. Reflecting on their time there collectively, Soutor stated, “We knew we had been having an influence and accelerating our mission. There was an incredible quantity of gratification for the crew and our traders. We look ahead to doing the identical at ParentPowered. Each resolution we make begins with mission, imaginative and prescient and values.”
Soutor holds a Grasp of Science in Administration from Troy State College and a Bachelor of Enterprise Administration from the College of Hawaii. Palmer has a Grasp of Training in Utilized Linguistics from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Expertise College in Australia and a Bachelor of Arts in Baby Improvement from San Jose State College.
Soutor and Palmer step into these roles as ParentPowered is poised to raise its mission to create easy-to-use instruments for excellent parenting to enhance the lives of all youngsters. For extra details about ParentPowered’s evidence-based household engagement applications, go to http://www.parentpowered.com, and keep linked with ParentPowered on social media via Fb and LinkedIn.
About ParentPowered PBC
ParentPowered PBC is the main digital household engagement supplier for colleges, districts, Head Begins, group organizations and authorities businesses serving households from start via eighth grade. ParentPowered makes household engagement straightforward for all, with evidence-based applications that attain dad and mom and caregivers wherever they’re with just-right methods to help their baby’s studying and improvement. The ParentPowered strategy fosters constructive relationships between caregivers, youngsters and colleges to enhance scholar outcomes. Based in 2016, the corporate has partnered with over a thousand academic establishments to serve over a million households throughout all 50 states, Canada, Mexico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
