LONG ISLAND, N.Y., August 27, 2001 - Ara Ohanian, CEO and founder of CERTPOINT Corp., an eLearning software and services company that matches speed to knowledge with speed to market, has recently been nominated for SmartExecutive's eLearning Executive of the Year Award alongside renowned CEOs including Jack Welch of General Electric, John Chambers of Cisco Systems, Larry Ellison of Oracle, and Bill Gates of Microsoft.

The nomination builds upon Vuepoint's momentum after a string of recent successes, including an $11 million round of funding, the addition of new board members, entering into a large engagement with Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., as well as new customers iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions, a Sun-Netscape Alliance, and The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation, the largest financial services post-trade infrastructure organization in the world. Additionally, CERTPOINT recently hosted the CERTPOINT E-Learning Summit 2001 with Brandon Hall, Ph.D., CEO and lead researcher of Brandon-Hall.com, to provide a forum for clients to share best practices and learn how recent trends would directly impact their organizations.