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Fuse expands senior leadership team to support culture and commercial growth

Fuse, the learning and knowledge platform for enterprise, has today announced the continued expansion of its senior leadership team with two key appointments.

Experienced People Director, Florence Carter, who previously held senior HR roles at technology scaleups, Busuu and Patsnap, joins Fuse as VP of People and assumes responsibility for HR strategy and talent development across the company’s global regions.

Sarah Beech, who joins as Finance Director, has extensive experience in finance management for both blue chip and start-up companies in the telecommunications and retail sectors.

Commenting on the company’s latest senior leadership hires, Fuse CEO, Luke Oubridge, said: “We’re incredibly excited to welcome Florence and Sarah to the Fuse team, at the same time adding to our women in tech leadership roles. Both bring a huge amount of knowledge and industry experience with them, and their combined talent will be key in helping us to further embed our people-centric culture, as well as our readiness for Fuse’s next stage of commercial growth.”

Florence Carter – who assumed her role as VP of People in September this year, commented: “I’m thrilled to be heading up the people function at Fuse – a company that’s leading the way in L&D innovation, and which shares my own passion for enabling people to access learning and continual development. As a remote-first company, building culture and community will be top of my agenda and that’s a challenge I’m very much looking forward to.”

Adding to Carter’s comments, newly appointed Finance Director, Sarah Beech, said: “Fuse is a company at the cutting edge of learning technology. That creates huge potential for growth, and from a finance point of view, a real opportunity to help steer the company’s commercial growth, ensuring that we stay on track to achieving our ambitious growth plans. That’s an exciting opportunity and I’m very pleased to be joining at a pivotal stage in that journey.”

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Seasalt and Fuse launch innovative supplier hub to create connection and drive sustainability

Cornish fashion brand Seasalt today announces the launch of an innovative Supplier Hub designed to support communication and align Seasalt suppliers with its commitment to ethical business and sustainability.

Seasalt, which is headquartered in Falmouth, and sells online to 157 countries as well as having 70 retail stores across the UK and Ireland, developed the new hub in collaboration with Fuse – the learning and knowledge platform that has been supporting employee development at Seasalt since January 2020.

The new Supplier Hub was designed with the purpose of enabling seamless communication and creating a more connected supplier ecosystem that better understands the Seasalt brand, its values, and in particular, its commitment to ethical trading practices around the world.

Launched to all suppliers in May 2021, the hub is already proving popular with suppliers as it provides quick and easy access to knowledge – a key benefit that is helping to create better affiliation with the Seasalt brand and nurture an ethically strong and legally compliant supplier network.

Commenting on the new Supplier Hub, Seasalt’s Chief People Officer, John Govier, said: “Fuse has been a fantastic tool for Seasalt to develop our people strategy and take internal communications to the next level. Rolling it out for our supplier partners has allowed us to share our values and improve our communication with them. We are delighted with how it has been received so far.”

Steve Dineen, Founder and President of Fuse, said: “The Seasalt team is renowned for its ambitious sustainability targets and they recognise that strong communication with extended supplier audiences sits at the heart of that.

Dineen continued: “We’re delighted to have collaborated with Seasalt in developing this innovative hub and we have no doubt it will support the company as it continues to grow in a way that puts people and planet first.”

Sixty-seven fabric, footwear, accessories, and homeware suppliers have now been onboarded to the Supplier Hub.

Dipti Thakur, VP Merchandise Marketing at Afflatus International – one of those 67 suppliers – comments on the benefits it is delivering: “The new system enables us to stay up to date at the touch of a button. It provides all the necessary information around standard operating procedures, and it’s now much easier for us to retrieve, store and locate important content.”

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Fuse expands leadership team to support scaling growth

Fuse, the learning and knowledge platform for enterprise that ignites people and business performance, today announces the expansion of its senior leadership team with two significant new hires – a move that will help prepare the learning tech scaleup for its next phase of growth.

Learning industry veteran, Roberta Gogos, who previously held senior marketing roles at Docebo, Looop, and The Starr Conspiracy, joins Fuse as VP of Marketing and takes responsibility for leading the company’s strategic marketing at a global level.

Tom Ridley, who joins as VP of Sales EMEA, is equally ingrained in the learning tech industry having formerly held senior sales and customer success roles at Valamis and Skillsoft.

Commenting on the two new hires, Fuse CEO, Luke Oubridge, said: “Both Roberta and Tom bring with them a wealth of industry and functional expertise and their respective appointments will play a key part in supporting the business as we continue to grow and expand into new markets.”

Luke continued: “We have developed a product that is second to none and we have very ambitious plans for taking that to market over the coming months and beyond. Roberta and Tom – along with the rest of the fantastic talent we have at Fuse – will be pivotal to that and we’re delighted to have them onboard.”

Roberta Gogos – who first joined Fuse in the capacity of senior marketing consultant before assuming her new role last month, commented: “As an industry, we need to move beyond the course mindset and start facilitating human connection and knowledge sharing at scale. These are the learning experiences that drive people and business performance – and it’s very much the Fuse way. This is really what inspired me to join the team at this very exciting juncture.”

Echoing Roberta’s comments, Tom Ridley – who officially joined the Fuse team in June this year, said: “Fuse is on a mission to forever change enterprise L&D. The platform is highly innovative in the truest sense of the word and it’s set to transform not only how people learn at work, but how well they perform as a result. That’s incredibly exciting and I’m delighted to be leading the EMEA sales effort as Fuse continues to scale upwards and outwards.”