Press Release: Honorlock Strengthens Its Leadership Team with Key New Hires

With its leadership team in place, Honorlock is well positioned for strong growth, product innovation, and customer success.

BOCA RATON, Florida, April 29, 2019 — Honorlock, a cloud-based proctoring solution that is transforming how educational institutions protect the academic integrity of online courses and assessments with its patented solution, today announced the strengthening of its leadership team with four key hires. Dionne (Dee) Bohne joined the company as Vice President of Sales, Brandon Smith as Vice President of Customer Success, Tess Mitchell as Vice President of Marketing and Andrew Simkovsky as Chief Technology Officer. Together, the four new hires bring decades of leadership experience in high-growth SaaS and Ed Tech organizations.

Bohne comes to Honorlock with more than 15 years of experience in education, most recently with Instructure where she had the opportunity to impact early-stage growth by exceeding sales quotas. At Honorlock she brought together a world-class sales team using a consultative sales approach to exceed sales targets.

Smith joined Honorlock from testing and assessment platform ExamSoft where he held executive-level roles in both Operations and Customer Success. At Honorlock, he is leading the Operations and Client Care teams toward implementing lean operational efficiencies and evangelizing customer success best practices to develop support centers of excellence.

Mitchell held executive-level marketing roles at a variety of education companies including Relias, CAE, and Redilearning and brings a proven track record for product launch and driving rapid growth in b2b demand generation. At Honorlock, she will be responsible for marketing innovation and execution in branding, demand generation, sales enablement and pipeline acceleration.

Simkovsky joined Honorlock to head up the company’s Technology and Product Management functions. He is a product engineering and cloud architecture professional with over 18 years of technology experience, including cloud infrastructure design, database development, and product engineering and delivery.

“All four individuals have immensely impressive track records of scaling education technology in high-growth organizations, while at the same time not losing sight of the importance of the customer,” said Michael Hemlepp, Honorlock CEO and board member. “We have plans to do big things in 2019 and I’m thrilled to have such a visionary team lead us to bring our cutting-edge solution to our education partners.”

Press Release: Honorlock Raises $2.5 Million in Funding and Appoints New CEO

The online proctoring company, used by three of the 10 largest universities in the US, will accelerate hiring, sales, marketing and product development

BOCA RATON, Florida, April 25, 2019 – Honorlock, a cloud-based proctoring solution that is transforming how education institutions protect the academic integrity of online courses and assessments, today announced that it has raised $2.5 million in Series Seed Preferred funding led by board members Daniel Cane, CEO, Modernizing Medicine, and Michael Hemlepp. The funding comes after Honorlock’s initial seed round, totaling $4.2 million in funding for the company to date. The funding will help the company hire key team members, expand sales and marketing and fast-track product development.

Board member, Michael Hemlepp, accepted the role of CEO and will assume leadership of the Company allowing founder, Adam Roth, to step into the role of CTO and lead the Company’s innovation.

“Honorlock is revolutionizing how higher education is delivering online assessments,” said Hemlepp. “I am honored to lead the Company through the next stages of hyper-growth to become the leading proctoring solution in the industry.”

The Honorlock platform delivers analytics to educators on how students are approaching their online assessments. It’s the first and only system to use A.I. to detect suspicious behavior and trigger a live proctor to “pop in” to a student’s session to prevent dishonesty before it happens. Patented technology detects the use of secondary devices including cell phones and tablets during testing, and a Search & Destroy function removes illicit test content from third-party websites rendering it virtually impossible to access.

“We see a growing demand for an advanced proctoring solution that delivers the efficacy of 1:1 live proctoring with the ease of use and affordability of an automated platform,” Hemlepp said. “Honorlock hits the sweet spot of both and we are thrilled with the rapid adoption among leading academic institutions.”

About Honorlock

Honorlock is revolutionizing the way education institutions protect the academic integrity of their online courses and assessments. Used by three of the 10 largest universities in the US, Honorlock’s proprietary features provide educators with the assurance that their test is protected, and students with the flexibility of proctored exams whenever and wherever they need it. Honorlock is dedicated to providing world-class service and support 24/7/365. www.honorlock.com.