Learning Resources names Woldenberg sales chief

Learning Resources Inc. and its Educational Insights division announced the promotion of Stephen Woldenberg as vice president of sales for both brands.

Woldenberg will be responsible for managing the Vernon Hills-based company's internal sales team, sales representatives and distributors, as well as continuing to drive sales at e-commerce and brick-and-mortar retail partnerships including mass and specialty stores.

For the last three years, Stephen served as director of e-commerce sales at Learning Resources, where he was responsible for managing several online customers. Prior to that, Woldenberg was at Google for five years working with several of Google's top e-commerce pureplay advertisers. Woldenberg holds an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and an undergraduate degree from Northwestern University.

"Stephen will lead us in a changing retail environment where consumers are shopping online more than ever while our retail partnerships with specialty and mass market retailers as well as educational dealers offer great promise," said Rick Woldenberg, CEO of Learning Resources Inc.