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About the Company

Welcome to Pearson. We have a simple mission: to help people make more of their lives through learning. We are the world`s leading learning company, with 40,000 employees in more than 80 countries helping people of all ages to make measurable progress in their lives. We provide a range of education products and services to institutions, governments and direct to individual learners, that help people everywhere aim higher and fulfil their true potential. Our commitment to them requires a holistic approach to education. It begins by using research to understand what sort of learning works best, it continues by bringing together people and organisations to develop ideas, and it comes back round by measuring the outcomes of our products.

About the Person

Albert Hitchcock serves as group chief information officer of Vodafone. Mr. Hitchcock served as Chief Information Officer of Nortel Networks Ltd. since December 2002. Mr. Hitchcock was responsible for leveraging Nortel Networks' global IT enterprise infrastructure for success, as well as demonstrating the strategic and competitive advantages of its corporate enterprise solutions. He served as Chief Information Officer of Nortel Networks corp. from 2002 to July 2007. Since joining Nortel Networks in 1993, he has held positions in the information services organization, served as the IS Leader for the EMEA region and prior to that served as the IS Leader for Nortel Networks Optical Components group. He held positions with Racal Vodafone Ltd. and British Aerospace Dynamics PLC. He serves as Director of TeleManagement Forum. Mr. Hitchcock holds an Electronic Engineering and Systems Engineering Degree from South Devon College of Arts and Technology and an MBA from the Center of Management Studies at Exeter University.