SumTotal appoints Fowler as CEO

BANGALORE: SumTotal Systems, Inc., a provider of learning and business performance technologies and services, today announced that Donald E. Fowler has been appointed as its CEO.

Fowler has been serving as interim CEO since October 19, 2005, and had previously served as chairman of the board of SumTotal and also of Docent, which merged with Click2learn in March of 2004 to form SumTotal.

SumTotal also announced that current director and audit committee chairman Jack Acosta has been appointed chairman of SumTotal's board of directors.

Fowler is currently involved with various private companies, through advisory or board memberships, and most recently served in an executive capacity as CEO of eT Communications from 1996 to 1998, and as interim CEO of several other companies between 1996 and 2002.

He was a senior vice president at Tandem Computers from 1986 to 1996. Fowler also

served in executive roles with Bechtel Group from 1976 to 1986, and IBM from 1965 to 1976. In addition to Docent, he has also served on the boards of ADAC Laboratories and TelCom Semiconductor, and now serves on the board of Storage Engine, Inc.

Fowler received a bachelor's degree in mathematics and a master's degree in business administration from the University of Washington.