Linda Trude

Vice President, Institutional Sales
Rosetta Stone Inc.

As the vice president of institutional sales for Rosetta Stone, Inc., Linda Trude heads up the sales and marketing teams that serve the company’s education, corporate, government, military, and non-profit clients world-wide.

Since joining the company in 2005, Trude has solidified Rosetta Stone’s first-class sales organization, restructuring to better support customers with in-house and field representatives; establishing a marketing team dedicated to institutional markets; formalizing sales processes and support systems; streamlining partnerships; and growing strategic accounts. Trude also has overseen new release and product launches within institutional markets, including a military-specific edition of Arabic product, and the recently-released Rosetta Stone® Classroom Version 3 and Rosetta Stone® Enterprise Version 3 products.

Trude joined Rosetta Stone from ApplyYourself, Inc. (now Hobsons U.S.) where as Vice President of Sales and Marketing she successfully combined technology solutions with recruiting and business processes to develop a strong value proposition and a repeatable sales model. .

Trude is a graduate of Towson University in Towson, Maryland from which she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration. She also holds a Master of Business Administration in Marketing degree from Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland.