Senior Management

Joe Ewart has been a director of Editure since 2005 and was appointed Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Editure in 2007.  Mr Ewart has spent the majority of his career in the financial services industry including almost fifteen years in investment banking.  He was a Managing Director in investment banking at Goldman Sachs JBWere, was head of the real estate investment banking group in Australia and was a member of the Goldman Sachs Global M&A Leadership Group.  Mr Ewart was also a Managing Director and before that a Director in investment banking at Deustche Bank.  He was a Principal and Vice President in investment banking at BT Wolfensohn.  Prior to that, Mr Ewart was also a Vice President at BT Alex.Brown and a Vice President at Bankers Trust Australia.  He started his career at Arthur Andersen and is a chartered accountant.  Mr Ewart holds a Bachelor of Economics degree, Master of Commerce degree, and is a member of the Financial Services Institute of Australia.

Jeff Vohden was appointed President of Editure’s Teacher Professional Development Division in 2007.  Prior to that, he worked with the business as an external consultant and was instrumental in developing the marketing strategy for the business.  Prior to joining Editure, he was Senior Vice President in Sales and Marketing at Pearson Learning (the world’s largest education company).  At Pearson he successfully established alternative sales channels, a cross-discipline strategic sales team, and new procedures to improve efficiencies across sales and marketing.  Mr Vohden was also Senior Vice President of Marketing at Prentice Hall where he directed the marketing activities for one of the nation’s largest and most successful secondary-level educational publishers.  He was also a Marketing Manager for Scholastic (a US listed education company) in the Instructional Publishing Group.  Mr Vohden was a Vice President at Silver Burdett Ginn, a US educational publisher.  He started his career as a high school biology teacher.  Mr Vohden holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree and a Masters of Business Administration degree.

Barrie Lambert has been President of the Editure Technology Division since 2008.  Mr Lambert is responsible for managing both the Education Technology and ICT Infrastructure and Managed IT Services businesses.  Prior to becoming President Mr Lambert was Chief Financial Officer from 2005 to 2009.  Before joining Editure, Mr Lambert was based in San Francisco, where he was Vice President, General Manager for Sephora, the largest specialty retailer of beauty products in the USA.  In this role he was responsible for Sephora’s e-commerce and direct mail business.  Prior to becoming Vice President, General Manager for Sephora he held the roles of Chief Financial Officer and Operations Manager.  Mr Lambert has over 20 years experience in finance roles across a number of industries, combined with several years in operations and general management.  He has held senior positions with BHP, Coopers & Lybrand, Trusthouse Forte (UK), Merrill Lynch (UK) and The Adelaide Steamship Group of Companies.  Mr Lambert holds a Bachelor of Arts (Accountancy) degree from the University of South Australia, Master of Business Administration degree from the AGSM, University of Sydney and is a Chartered Accountant.

Nicholas Grogan was appointed Chief Financial Officer in July 2009 and previously held the role of Head of Corporate Development from 2007 to 2009.  Mr Grogan has over 10 years experience in accounting and corporate finance working across a broad range of industries.  Prior to joining Editure, Mr Grogan was an Associate Director with Hindal, an Australian boutique investment bank.  During his time at Hindal Mr Grogan specialised in negotiating business sales, providing strategic advice and managing capital raisings for large to medium size private and public businesses across a variety of industries, including ICT Software, Infrastructure, Retail, Property and Printing Services.  Prior to his time with Hindal, Mr Grogan worked with KPMG in its Banking and Finance Group, working with clients such as NAB, Motorola and Multiplex.  Mr Grogan has a Bachelor of Commerce degree, and a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance & Investment (FINSA) and is a Chartered Accountant.