FRANK RUSSELL, president and CEO of GeoLearning, was named CEO of the Year at the 2009 Prometheus Awards sponsored by the Technology Association of Iowa (TAI).

PRES. BARACK OBAMA has named a new acting administrator of the General Services Administration and an acting director of the Office of Personnel Management.

ARUN CHANDRA, 47, is SumTotal Systems’ chief executive officer. In this role, he will be responsible for the company’s operational activities and it is also intended that he will join the board of directors.

NetOp Tech, Inc., and NetOp Tech, Ltd., fully owned subsidiaries of Danish IT company Danware A/S, has named David Auwarter education sales manager in the United States and Peter Claxton education business development manager in the United Kingdom.

DYKNOW, a leader in interactive education technology, named its 2008 Advisory Board. They are: Dr. Charles Bostian of VPI-SU; Debbie Rice of Auburn,  Ala. City Schools; Elizabeth Helfant of St. Louis, Mo.; Kimberly Henninger of St.

TOTAL LEARNING Concepts, upon its move from Boston to Lawrenceville, N.J.

Avilar, Inc. has a new CEO: Thomas Grobicki, who reportedly possesses the ability to lead the company in its quest to increase its market share in Web-based competency management and e-learning solutions.

The board of directors of Adayana, a global performance- solutions company based in Minneapolis has named Mike Jackson president and chief executive officer. Jacksonis the founder and head of Indianapolis-based ABG, Inc.

KNOWLEDGE ANYWHERE’S NEW leader of its Food Service and Retail Performance Support Group is C.J. Johnson, former AccelSales president.

GENEED, INC., a leading provider of online training in the life sciences, has appointed Terry Carmichael to head up its Internet marketing efforts.