The NCEO is delighted to welcome Marianne Snook as the new manager of its exam prep course for candidates for the Certified Equity Professional (CEP) designation, the industry-leading standard for stock plan administrators. Marianne was a founder, in 1999, of Stock & Option Solutions, Inc. (SOS) from which she retired as its chief executive officer in 2014. SOS consults and outsources for companies with equity plans, helping them to find short- and long-term solutions to assure proper delivery of its programs. She will be taking over for Achaessa James, who built the course to its current market-leading position—over 80% of CEP candidates use the course. The CEP certification is a program of Santa Clara University's Certified Equity Professional Institute.