Maurice Heiblum

President and General Manager, Blackboard Collaborate

As General Manager of Blackboard Collaborate, Maurice provides the leadership for generating new market opportunities, building distribution channels, driving sales, developing and executing the organization’s marketing strategy, and managing operations.  Formerly the President of Elluminate, Maurice brings 11 years of experience in the education market and 22 years of executive, sales and marketing management experience in the IT industry with start-ups and publicly traded organizations.

Prior to Elluminate, Maurice served as the Founder and CEO of FindGoodHelp.com, a reverse auction services exchange. Prior to FindGoodHelp.com, Maurice served as General Manager, OnMark Division at Viasoft (now ASG Software) where he built a highly profitable software and services division from the ground up in just over 18 months.

Maurice also held a number of increasingly responsible sales and marketing management positions over a 13-year career at IBM including Marketing Operations Manager, Marketing Manager, US Marketing Executive for Desktop Operating Systems and Advisory Sales Representative in New York. Maurice graduated from New York University with a bachelor's degree in Finance and Marketing.