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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top California based CEO’ operating in the Education space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Austen Allred
Co-Founder & CEO of Lambda School
Austen Allred co-founded Lambda School and serves as its CEO.
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About BloomTech, Lambda School: Lambda School trains people to be software engineers for free in exchange for a share of future income.
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Kong Pham
CEO & Founder of Jumpcut
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About Jumpcut: Jumpcut creates captivating online courses.
Dan Rosensweig
President & CEO of Chegg
Dan Rosensweig has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer since February 2010 and as the Chairman of our board of directors since March 2010. From March 2009 to February 2010, Rosensweig served as President and Chief Executive Officer of RedOctane, a business unit of Activision Publishing and developer, publisher and distributor of Guitar Hero. From August 2007 to March 2009, Rosensweig was an Operating Principal at the Quadrangle Group, a private investment firm. From April 2002 to April 2007, Rosensweig served as Chief Operating Officer of Yahoo!, an Internet content and service provider. Prior to serving at Yahoo!, Rosensweig served as the President of CNET Networks and prior to that as Chief Executive Officer and President of ZDNet, until it was acquired by CNET Networks. Rosensweig also currently serves on the board of directors of Adobe Systems as well as Birchbox.Rosensweig holds a B.A. in political science from Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
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About Chegg: Chegg is a student media learning platform offering services to universities and community colleges.
Scott Chacon
Co-Founder and CEO of Chatterbug
Scott Chacon is a Git evangelist and Ruby developer currently as the Cofounder & CEO of Chatterbug. He is the author of the Pro Git book by Apress, the Git Internals Peepcode PDF as well as the maintainer of the Git homepage and the Git Community Book. [Source](http://schacon.github.com/about.html)
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About Chatterbug: Chatterbug building a new way to help you master language skills through adaptive courses.
David Rogier
Founder and CEO of MasterClass
David Rogier is the founder and CEO of MasterClass, the streaming platform where anyone can learn from the world’s best across a wide range of subjects. As a kid, Rogier loved learning but often struggled in school. In 2015, he created MasterClass to reinvent the traditional model and provide life-long learning opportunities for everyone. MasterClass has since transformed the online learning category providing intimate access to over 90 of the world’s best practitioners. In 2020, David Rogier was named one of the most influential leaders in media and entertainment on Fortune’s “40 under 40” list and as one of Variety’s Hollywood New Leaders.
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About MasterClass: MasterClass is a provider of an online education platform designed to offer video based vocational courses.
Alessandra Lezama
CEO of TOOTRiS
Alessandra Lezama is an entrepreneur and PE backed CEO, advocate for women pursuing careers in tech and other STEM fields, angel investor to San Diego-based early-stage companies and Founder and CEO of TOOTRiS, an on-demand Child Care technology platform that is reinventing how parents access and pay for affordable, high-quality Child Care. Passionate about technology, Alessandra has enjoyed an illustrious career of taking underperforming tech companies and turning them into scalable, high-performance powerhouses. Prior to founding TOOTRiS, Alessandra was the CEO for multiple technology companies, including AbacusNext, a San Diego-based company she stepped into with 29 employees and, in less than four years, transformed into a disruptive global technology organization with more than 500 employees across San Diego, Canada and the United Kingdom. Companies under Alessandra’s leadership have been recognized in Forbes and Inc., and in 2016 and 2017 she was named “Women Who Mean Business,” in 2018 as “Most Admired CEO of the Year” and in 2019 as “Most Influential” by the San Diego Business Journal. Alessandra is a member of the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce, serving on its board and management council. She serves on the board of Doors of Change, a non-profit that is helping to break the cycle and save the lives of runaway, homeless, and trafficked young people. She is a member of the California Preschool Business Advisory Council, supporting efforts to produce viable policy for high quality early education that gives a competitive edge for California’s businesses, both immediately and the future.
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About TOOTRiS: TOOTRiS is a technology platform that allows parents affordable access to high-quality Child Care, anytime, anywhere.
Tyler Bosmeny
Chief Executive Officer of Clever
With a background in startups and technology, Tyler spends his time at Clever working with innovative educational software companies. Prior to his current role, Tyler was Vice President of Sales at PaperG, ranked by Forbes as one of the top 100 most promising companies in America. Tyler holds an MA degree in Statistics and a BA degree in Applied Mathematics, both from Harvard. He is a native of Tucson, AZ, and currently resides in San Francisco.
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About Clever: Clever is a digital learning platform designed for K12 schools and used by 22 million students and teachers.
Jesse Pickard
CEO of Elevate Labs
Jesse Pickard is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Elevate.
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About Elevate Labs: Elevate is a cognitive training tool designed to build communication and analytical skills.
Marissa Streit
Chief Executive Officer of PragerU
Marissa Streit is the CEO of PragerU.
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About PragerU: PragerU is an online video resource that promotes knowledge and clarity on life’s biggest and most interesting topics.
Zahra Kassam
Founder and CEO of Monti Kids
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About Monti Kids: Monti Kids helps parents use Montessori educational play from birth to age three.
Morgan Mercer
Founder, CEO of Vantage Point
Morgan Mercer is the founder of the VR-based enterprise training company, Vantage Point. Vantage Point’s suite of immersive training tools is initially aiming at tackling Anti-Sexual Harassment and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) training. Mercer was recently regarded as one of the Top 10 Female Tech Innovators [in history] by TechRadar and has been featured in 4+ dozen publications including WIRED, NPR, The Economist, Vogue and more. Mercer was regarded by the UN Women chapter as a “Champion of Change” in the ‘Era of Equity’.
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About Vantage Point: We create experiences that change the way you think. Vantage Point is the future of workforce learning.
Brian Grey
CEO of Remind
Brian Grey serves as the Executive in Residence for Polaris Venture Partners. Grey moved to Polaris from Fox Sports Interactive, where he was Senior Vice President and General Manager.
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About Remind, Spright: Remind is a communication platform that helps every student succeed.
Sam Chaudhary
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of ClassDojo
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About ClassDojo: ClassDojo is a school communication platform that teachers, students, and families use to build close-knit communities.
Weiting Liu
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Codementor
Weiting Liu is the founder & CEO of Codementor, a live help marketplace for developers. Weiting is a serial entrepreneur and an alumnus of both Y Combinator (YC ’07 SocialPicks, ’12) and Techstars (Seattle ’13 Codementor).
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About Arc.Dev, Codementor, Global Social, Peeridea: Codementor is an online marketplace connecting developers with experts for on-demand 1:1 help via screen sharing, video, and text chat.
Adrian Graham
Co-Founder & CEO of Seesaw
Adrian handles a variety of leadership responsibilities within Seesaw, with much of his time spent overseeing new product development, engineering efforts, and the company’s overall workplace culture.
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About Seesaw, Shadow Puppet: Seesaw is a platform for student engagement.
Sue Khim
CEO and Co-founder of Brilliant.org
Sue Khim is the CEO and Co-founder of Brilliant (brilliant.org) since Oct, 2012.
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About Brilliant.org: Brilliant delivers digital interactive STEM learning experiences to students, professionals, and lifelong learners around the world.
Matthew Glotzbach
CEO of Quizlet
Matt is the CEO of Quizlet. He joined Quizlet from 12 years at Google, where he was VP Product Management at YouTube. Prior to YouTube, he was on the founding team of Google Apps. Matt studied mechanical engineering at Cornell and grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
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About Quizlet: Quizlet is a learning platform that uses activities and games to help students practice and master what they’re learning.
Gautam Tambay
Co-Founder & CEO of Springboard
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About Springboard: Springboard is an e-learning platform that prepares people for modern careers through cutting edge curriculum and mentor guidance.
Justin Kitch
CEO & co-founder of Curious.com
I have lots of experience as a young CEO (I was the founder and CEO of Homestead for fifteen years until it was sold to Intuit) battling to build successful companies in the consumer internet space, including dealing with VC’s (I’ve raised ~$100M in my various ventures), recruiting, people management, etc. My time as the Chief Growth Officer at Intuit gave me lots of experience with large scale sales and marketing challenges. Mostly, I can relate to young, aspiring CEO’s, and love to feed off of their ideas, energy and inspiration… most of the time they just need a sympathetic and helpful ear.
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About Curious.com: Curious is an information platform for anyone to learn, teach and share knowledge and information on any topic.
Tom Ferry
CEO of Tom Ferry – Your Coach
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About FerryIntl, Tom Ferry – Your Coach: Tom Ferry – Your Coach, an International Real Estate Coaching and Training Company.
Tess Michaels
Founder & CEO of Stride Funding
Tess Michaels is a serial entrepreneur with experiences from Goldman Sachs and Vista Equity. She is a recipient of the Wharton Deans Award for Innovation and the Penn Alumni Award of Merit. At Harvard Business School she served as a trustee of the Harbus Foundation and as a Senator. Tess was named as a Woman to Watch by the UN Foundation in 2015; she won the Grand Prize at MIT FinTech Competition in 2019, and was honored as a Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2020.
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About Stride Funding: Stride Funding is an outcomes-driven company that provides Income Share Agreements to supplement student loans.
David Nussbaum
Founder and CEO of PORTL Hologram
David Nussbaum is the Founder and CEO at PORTL Inc.
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About PORTL Hologram: PORTL Hologram offers at-home hologram machines.
Vikas Gupta
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Wonder Workshop
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About Wonder Workshop: Wonder Workshop provides a platform that makes programming fun and accessible for children while they play.
Julien Barbier
Co-founder and CEO of Holberton School
Julien Barbier is the Co-Founder & CEO at Holberton School .
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About Holberton School: Holberton School is a project-based alternative to college for the next generation of software engineers.
David Zamir
CEO of Nana Academy
David Zamir is CEO and Founder of Nana Academy. David immigrated to the US from Israel in 2013. He learned how to fix appliances on youtube, then bootstrapped the company to $4M in revenue while fixing himself 2,500 appliances. With Nana — named after his mother —David aims to up-skill the 30M people who will lose their jobs because of tech automation with trade skills. Nana is a free online vocational school for appliance repair that gives graduates their first job and then helps them build their career through an AI-powered marketplace platform. Skilled trades are in high demand, but the current workforce isn’t equipped to meet it. At the same time, the U.S. is dealing with massive unemployment and underemployment caused by the pandemic. Nana is creating a pipeline of skilled tradespeople to meet the demand while also providing opportunity for millions of unemployed individuals across the country. We are backed by the Uber engineering founding team and other impressive investors. We’re excited to launch in new markets, make more investments in our in-person and online training efforts, and launch new verticals and product offerings. It’s a fun team as well — we have monthly BBQs with our technicians and are lucky to have an incredible office on the 11th floor of the beautiful and historic Oakland Tribune Tower (right off 12-street BART).
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About Nana Academy: Vertically integrated student-to-operator trade skills school, driven by an AI-marketplace.
Michael Choi
Founder, CEO of Coding Dojo
Michael Choi is the Founder and CEO of Data Compass. He is an entrepreneurial engineer with deep experience training and managing talented teams, founding and building new companies.
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About Coding Dojo, Data Compass: Coding Dojo is a bootcamp that helps students transform their lives through programming literacy.
Amir Nathoo
CEO and Co-Founder of Outschool
Amir Nathoo is a Co-Founder and CEO at Outschool.
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About Outschool: Outschool is a marketplace of live online classes for kids that connects learners, parents, and teachers together.
Bhavin Parikh
Co-Founder & CEO of Magoosh
Bhavin is co-founder and CEO at Magoosh, a company that creates web and mobile apps to help students prepare for standardized tests such as the GRE, GMAT, SAT, and TOEFL. He received his BS in Economics and Computer Science from Duke University and his MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. Bhavin loves advising startups on growing their ideas and teams. He used to play ultimate frisbee; now he eats gelato.
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About Magoosh: Magoosh provides online test prep that makes studying for standardized tests accessible, effective, and enjoyable.
Nick Sutardja
CEO of Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology
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About Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology: The Sutardja Center supports new venture teams with mentoring, network connections, and Delta prize awards.
Ryan Delk
CEO & Co-Founder of Primer
Ryan Delk is the CEO and Co-Founder at Primer. He was the COO of Omni before that.
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About Primer: Primer is an online community where 7-14-year-olds spend their time coding video games.
John Freddy Vega
Co-Founder & CEO of Platzi
John Freddy Vega is the Co-Founder and CEO of Platzi.
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About Platzi: Platzi is an effective online education platform that offers classes on marketing, programming, business, and design.
Andrew Lockhart
Co-Founder, Board Member & Chief Executive Officer of Fathom
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About Fathom: Fathom develops a coding automation platform designed to expedite medical coding practice.
Salman Khan
Founder & CEO of Khan Academy
Sal started Khan Academy in 2005 to help his cousins (and soon other people’s cousins). In addition to setting the vision and direction for Khan Academy, he still makes a lot of videos (although he’s not the only one anymore). Sal holds three degrees from MIT and an MBA from Harvard.
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About Khan Academy, Khan Lab School: Khan Academy is a nonprofit organization that provides a free world class education for anyone, anywhere.
Mark M. Whelan
CEO of Future Center Ventures and Co-Founder of Digital Asset Analytica
Mark M. Whelan is a renowned futurist and innovator known for his pioneering contributions to technology, innovation, and social entrepreneurship. Educated at the University of Nottingham, Oxford and INSEAD He is the founder of the forecasting and innovation agency end futurist collective: Future Center Ventures and Co-founder of Digital Asset Analytica, the world’s first digital asset due diligence suite. He is the author of the best-selling futurist series: How Deep Fakes and Propaganda Are Reshaping Reality, How to Use Science Fiction for Future Forecasting, A Brief Introduction to Unravelling Complexity and Emerging Trends & Tech. He’s also the creator of the science fiction forecasting methodology practised by individuals and companies around the world.
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About Future Center Ventures: Future Center Ventures is a forecasting and innovation agency and futurist collective
About Digital Asset Analytica: Digital Asset Analytica is a due diligence suite for the emerging asset class.
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Sepideh Nasiri
Founder & CEO of Persian Women In Tech
Sepideh (“Sepi”) Nasiri is an award winning serial Entrepreneur with 16 years of experience working in the Tech Industry, the Founder of Persian Women In Tech, the former Vice President at Women 2.0 and a life-time advocate for women, diversity and inclusion. Mrs. Nasiri started her career as a Co-founder and Managing Editor of a digital and print Los Angeles Magazine and later joined a number of successful startups in Silicon Valley. In 2014, she was recognized by San Francisco Business Times/Journal “40under40” and Diversity Journal’s 2014 “Women Worth Watching”. Currently, Mrs. Nasiri advises early stage startups including at global initiatives such as WeMENA (a program by the World Bank) and mentors globally many female entrepreneurs and founders in technology serving as an advisor to initiatives such as TechWomen, an initiative of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA).
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About Persian Women In Tech: Persian Women In Tech supports Iranian women in Tech/STEM from all across the Globe’s landscape.
Kirill Makharinsky
Co-Founder, CEO, President & Board Member of Enki
Kirill is the CEO and Founder of Enki, a tech-enabled skills training company. Previously, Kirill cofounded Emerging Travel, a leading online travel agency; and Quid, an intelligence tool for strategy teams. Both companies have over $40M annual net revenue each. Kirill is an Oxford University alum where he graduated with a double first in Mathematics and as the #1 UK Graduate of the Year.
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About Emerging Travel Group, Enki: Enki is maximizing employee potential through modern, tech-enabled skills training.
Jack Herrick
Founder and CEO of wikiHow
Jack Herrick is a serial entrepreneur and current CEO and Founder of wikiHow. Jack founded wikiHow, which is like Wikipedia for how-to. Jack started and self financed wikiHow from inception to it’s current position as one of the most popular sites on the web receiving over 25 million unique visitors per month. Prior to wikiHow, Jack was co-CEO of eHow. With Josh Hannah, Jack purchased eHow in 2004. Between 2004 and 2006 eHow grew 30x in traffic and revenue and became the largest pure play how-to site on the web. Demand Media acquired eHow in 2006. In 2002 Jack co-founded Luminescent Technologies with Dan Abrams, Eli Yablonovitch, and Stan Osher. Luminescent is a computational semiconductor lithography company that has raised over $25 MM in venture capital. From 1999-2001 Jack was CEO and co-founder at BigTray, a Sequoia funded e-commerce company. BigTray was sold in 2001 and remains the largest online vendor of restaurant equipment and supplies.
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About Signpost, wikiHow, wikiHow: wikiHow is a web- and wiki-based community that provides its users with a database of how-to guides.
Elizabeth Douglas
CEO of wikiHow
Elizabeth Douglas is currently the CEO of wikiHow.com, the world’s leading how-to website. Driven by wikiHow’s mission to reach everyone on the planet, Elizabeth collaborates with her teams to create innovative solutions for growing and scaling wikiHow. Under Elizabeth’s leadership, wikiHow has grown over 1500%, and today is visited by more than than 150 million people every month across 230 countries. Elizabeth holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Stanford, as well as an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. Before business school, Elizabeth worked as a User Experience Engineer at Apple. While working at Apple, she served as the President of Women at Apple, a group dedicated to supporting women in tech. Elizabeth is a strong believer in authentic leadership. Her vulnerable, empathetic, approachable style has led to her being a successful student mentor and speaker. She currently lives in the Bay Area with her husband and two young daughters.
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About wikiHow: wikiHow is a web- and wiki-based community that provides its users with a database of how-to guides.
Suren Markosian
Co-Founder & CEO of Epic
Suren is the CEO and co-founder of Epic!, the first all-you-can-read e-book service built specifically for school-aged readers. He is a successful, serial entrepreneur and founder of several consumer tech startups, including CrowdStar, which rose to become one of the largest social gaming companies with over 200M users, second only to Zynga. Having created and successfully scaled large entertainment and e-commerce businesses to serve hundreds of millions of customers, Markosian is an expert in product design, gamification, technology, scalability, consumer growth and marketing.
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About Epic: Epic is an internet company that specializes in books, eBooks learning, and educational technology.
Jordana Stein
Founder & CEO of Enrich
Jordana Stein is an expert on financial aid and student debt for GoGirl Finance. She founded SpareSugar, which explains the ins and outs of student loans in no-nonsense terms. She’s also got a strong command of economic and financial policy as she is a speechwriter for the Secretary General of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). She’s got a Masters from London School of Economics and Sciences Po.
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About Enrich: enrich is a private professional network for senior leaders share knowledge offline with trusted peers.
Deepak Sekar
Co-Founder and CEO of Prof Jim
An inventor with 125 patents and the creator of Sally the Robot, Deepak is responsible for technology, products, and strategic partnerships as President of Chowbotics. Deepak founded Chowbotics in 2014 to make fresh food more accessible to all through the application of advanced robotics. Prior to Chowbotics, he was a Director at Rambus and Chief Scientist at MonolithIC 3D Inc. He received his B. Tech from IIT Madras in 2003 and PhD from Georgia Tech in 2007.
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About Prof Jim: Prof Jim is an educational platform that revolutionizes the education sector by using artificial intelligence.
Joseph Huang
CEO of StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund)
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About StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund): StartX is an educational non-profit that helps Stanford’s top entrepreneurs.
Kimberly Bryant
Founder & CEO of Black Girls CODE
Kimberly Bryant is the Founder and Executive Director of Black Girls CODE, a non-profit organization dedicated to “changing the face of technology” by introducing girls of color (ages 7-17) to the field of technology and computer science with a concentration on entrepreneurial concepts. Kimberly has enjoyed a successful 25+ year professional career in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries as an Engineering Manager in a series of technical leadership roles for various Fortune 100 companies such as Genentech, Merck, and Pfizer. Since 2011 Kimberly has helped Black Girls CODE grow from a local organization serving only the Bay Area, to an international organization with seven chapters across the U.S. and in Johannesburg, South Africa. Black Girls CODE has currently reached over 3000 students and continues to grow and thrive. Kimberly serves on the National Champions Board for the National Girls Collaborative Project, and the National Board of the NCWIT K-12 Alliance. Kimberly and Black Girls CODE have been nationally recognized as a social innovator and for her work to increase opportunities for women and girls in the tech industry. In August 2012 Kimberly was given the prestigious Jefferson Award for Community Service for her work to support communities in the Bay Area. In 2013 Kimberly was highlighted by Business Insider on its list of “The 25 Most Influential African- Americans in Technology” and was named to The Root 100 and the Ebony Power 100 lists. A highlight of 2013 for Kimberly was being invited to the White House as a Champion of Change for her work in tech inclusion and for her focus on bridging the digital divide for girls of color. In 2014 Kimberly received an American Ingenuity Award in Social Progress from the Smithsonian along with being given the Inaugural Women Who Rule Award in Technology via Politico. She has been identified as a thought leader in the area of tech inclusion and has spoken on the topic at events such as Personal Democracy Forum, TedX Kansas City, Platform Summit, Big Ideas Festival, SXSW, and many others.
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About Black Girls CODE: Black Girls CODE is a non-profit organization dedicated to teaching girls aged 7 to 17 about computer programming and digital technology.
Elena Masolova
Founder & CEO of Eduson
Founder & CEO at Eduson. Investor at TokenStars, the first celebrity management platform on the blockchain.
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About Eduson: Eduson is a corporate eLearning platform.
Jude Gomila
Founder and CEO of Golden
Jude Gomila is currently CEO and Founder of the startup Golden.
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About Golden: Golden is a developer of a self-constructing knowledge database used to accelerate discovery and education.
Lisa Falzone
CEO & Co-Founder of Athena Security
Lisa Falzone is the Co-Founder & CEO of Athena Security, an award-winning Gun Detection solution enterprises. Since starting the company from the ground up in 2017, Falzone has been a trailblazer in technology. She is spearheading her last company Revel Systems which rasied over 100m in funding and a evalution over 500m. Revel’s mission was to help entrepreneurs around the world build their dream business.
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About Athena Security: Athena’s mission is to save lives by preventing crimes like active shooter situations with AI Gun Detection Software and detecting a fever.
Tim O’Reilly
Founder, Chairman & CEO of O’Reilly
Tim O’Reilly is the founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media Inc. Considered by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world, O’Reilly Media also hosts conferences on technology topics, including the O’Reilly Open Source Convention, Strata: The Business of Data, the Velocity Conference on Web Performance and Operations, and many others. Tim’s blog, the O’Reilly Radar “watches the alpha geeks” to determine emerging technology trends, and serves as a platform for advocacy about issues of importance to the technical community. Tim is also a partner at O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, O’Reilly’s early stage venture firm, and is on the board of Safari Books Online, PeerJ, Code for America, and Maker Media, which was recently spun out from O’Reilly Media. Maker Media’s Maker Faire has been compared to the West Coast Computer Faire, which launched the personal computer revolution.
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About O’Reilly, Oreilly AlphaTech Ventures, Oreilly AlphaTech Ventures, POPVOX: O’Reilly provides technology and business training, knowledge, and insight to help companies succeed.
Michelle Sun
CEO & Founder of First Code Academy
Michelle is the CEO and founder of First Code Academy, a leading coding and STEM education institute that teaches coding to kids from 4 to 18 with hands on workshops, camps and regular programs. She founded AppJamming Summit, the largest app development competition that attracts thousands of submissions from students (8-15 years old). She is a visiting instructor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)’s Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL), on the Mobile Computing Master Trainer program. Prior to starting First Code, she graduated from the inaugural class of Hackbright Academy, a leading coding bootcamp in San Francisco, and held various technical roles in high growth startups in Silicon Valley, including as the first growth hacker at Buffer and Bump Technologies (acquired by Google in 2013). Born and raised in Hong Kong, she graduated from University of Chicago and began her career at Goldman Sachs as an equity analyst. In addition to running First Code Academy, she is also passionate about women entrepreneurship and empowerment, cofounded a community for women in technology, Women Who Code (Hong Kong chapter). In her free time, she loves to train for long distance running, vinyasa yoga and travel. She contributes to Forbes and Womany (top blog in Taiwan). Her work has received international and regional accolades including the Forbes 30 Under 30 in Asia List in 2016, BBC 100 Women Entrepreneurs in 2015, Women of Hope Award (Entrepreneur Category 2015) and (Tech Category 2014) and American Chambers Women of Influence Awards (Young Entrepreneur Category 2015).
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About First Code Academy: First Code Academy is the leading K-12 coding education institute with presence in greater china and southeast asia.
Richard Lin
CEO & Co Founder of Ombre
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About Ombre: Ombre is a provider of a microbiome testing kit designed to incorporate personalized probiotics and microbiome testing.
Taylor Freeman
Founder & CEO of Axon Park
Taylor Freeman is the Founder & CEO of Axon Park, a virtual campus where students from around the world can learn together in VR. He has been working at the intersection of VR and education over the last five years during which time he established two incubation spaces in LA and San Francisco housing over 150 AR and AI startups, hosted over 500 events focused around VR and AR, oversaw the training of nearly 1,000 students in-person on VR development, consulted with companies like NASA, Stanford Medical, Google, and IDEO and built a news media platform focused on VR that reaches millions of people per month. Taylor was awarded Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2017 for his work building the industry and he taught the first remote in-VR class with at MIT in 2018. He is deeply passionate about using VR to unlock new levels of human cognition and overcome the challenges many students face in the classroom around geographical limitations, student and teacher bias, and overall accessibility.
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About Axon Park: Welcome to your new virtual campus. Empowering organizations and individuals to harness the power of XR + AI for learning.
Sara Mauskopf
Co-Founder and CEO of Winnie
Sara Mauskopf is the CEO and Co-founder of Winnie, a marketplace for daycare and preschool helping over 4M parents across the United States. Sara has a background in consumer technology and product management. Prior to founding Winnie she was the Director of Product at Postmates, and prior to that held product leadership roles at Twitter, YouTube, and Google. She graduated with a Computer Science and Engineering degree from MIT. She’s also a mom of 2, soon to be 3, young children.
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About Winnie: Winnie is a marketplace for child care built on powerful data systems and backed by a trusted community of parents and providers.
Neil Dsouza
CEO of GetSetUp
Founder of Zaya.
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About GetSetUp, Zaya: GetSetup is a social learning platform that offers classes and social opportunities to help older adults.
Brian Gerkey
Chief Executive Officer, Founder of Open Robotics
Brian Gerkey is CEO of Open Robotics. Prior to joining Open Robotics, Brian was Director of Open Source Development at Willow Garage. Previously, Brian was a Computer Scientist in the Artificial Intelligence Center at SRI, and before that, a postdoctoral research fellow in the Artificial Intelligence Lab at Stanford University. Brian received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California (USC) in 2003, his M.S. in Computer Science from USC in 2000, and his B.S.E. in Computer Engineering, with a secondary major in Mathematics and a minor in Robotics and Automation, from Tulane University in 1998. Among other accolades, Brian was recognized by MIT Technology Review with the TR35 award and by Silicon Valley Business Journal with their 40 Under 40 award.
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About Open Robotics: Open Robotics support the development, distribution, and adoption of open software and hardware for use in robotics.
Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia
Founder and CEO of Product School
I’m an entrepreneur with over 10 years of experience building global companies and digital products. I founded Product School in 2014, which is the global leader in Product Management training with a community of over one million product professionals. All of our instructors are real-world Product Leaders working at top Silicon Valley companies including Google, Facebook, Netflix, Airbnb, PayPal, Uber, and Amazon. Prior to Product School, I founded Floqq, the largest online education marketplace in Spanish and Portuguese at the time. Floqq joined the 500 Startups and Startup Chile accelerator programs. I hold a Certificate in Global Business Management and Marketing from the University of California, Berkeley, a BS in Computer Science from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and a BS in Industrial Engineering from the Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca. Throughout my career, I’ve participated as a speaker in more than 1,000 events, conferences and classes around the world. Outside of work, I love playing soccer, tennis and skiing.
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About Product School: Global leader in product management training
Cristobal Viedma
Founder & CEO of Lingokids
Viedma Cristobal is the Software Engineer: Head of platform at Viki Inc.
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About Lingokids, Viki: Helping families around the world raise amazing kids.
Jeff Scheur
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of NoRedInk
Jeff Scheur After teaching high school English for 8 years and grading 15,000 papers, Jeff created NoRedInk to help his students improve their grammar and writing skills. A National Board Certified Teacher, former debate director, and speaker on education innovation, he is intent on improving the feedback loop in classrooms and empowering students to become skilled, creative, and confident writers. He holds an MA in Education from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a BA from Oberlin College.
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About NoRedInk: NoRedInk is a web-based learning platform supporting students to improve their grammar and writing skills.
Sachin Gupta
Co-founder & CEO of HackerEarth
Sachin Gupta is co-founder & CEO at HackerEarth.
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About HackerEarth, MyCareerStack: HackerEarth is adeveloper assessment software that helps companies to accurately measure a developer’s skills through online coding tests.
Taylor Nieman
Co-Founder and CEO of Toucan
Co-Founder and CEO of Toucan (JoinToucan.com)
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About Toucan: Learn a new language while browsing the web. Download the browser extension for free today! JoinToucan.com
Charlie Maynard
Co-Founder & CEO of Going Merry
Charlie Maynard is the Co-Founder & CEO at Going Merry.
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About Going Merry: Going Merry makes it easy for students to find and apply for financial aid. We are used by students & counselors at 1 in 3 US high schools.
Cameron Yarbrough
Co-Founder and CEO of Torch
Cameron is the Co-founder and CEO of Torch Leadership Labs. He brings 15 years of entrepreneurial experience to his role as CEO, along with a deep background in mindfulness and psychotherapy. After the successful sale of a “click and mortar” retail company in 2005, Cameron spent 30 days on a silent meditation retreat. Insight from that period of silence and subsequent meditation retreats were foundational to his development as a leader, and lead him to study the roots of Freudian and Humanistic psychology at the California Institute of Integral studies, after which he co-found Well Clinic: a mental health company in San Francisco. Under Cameron’s leadership, The Well became the Bay Area’s leading provider of private pay psychotherapy services. Torch is the natural next step in Cameron’s leadership journey, as it aims to democratize coaching by making it available to leaders at every level of an organization. Cameron has also served as an interpersonal dynamics facilitator at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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About Torch: Torch is a leadership development platform that provides coaching, software, and feedback to raise performers to the next level.
Gregor Freund
Co-founder and CEO of Versal
Gregor is CEO and co-founder of Versal (launched in June ’13), an open publishing platform for anyone to create amazingly interactive online courses. Gregor has been a technologist and entrepreneur for over 20 years. As founder and CEO of Zone Labs (acquired by Check Point Software in 2004), Gregor invented the personal firewall and created a holistic internet security solutions (ZoneAlarm) installed by hundreds of millions people worldwide. Previously, Gregor joined former Borland CEO Philippe Kahn as a founding engineer at Starfish Software (acquired by Motorola). Starfish developed much of the core IP for device synchronization in the wireless industry. Earlier in his career, Gregor founded Borland’s first independent development and distribution companies in Italy and Germany. After being acquired by Borland, Gregor moved from Munich to Silicon Valley to join the company as a principal software architect. He holds 15 patents covering mobile, security and general Internet technologies.
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About Versal: Versal is a new way for anyone to create interactive online courses and share them with the world – no coding required.
Brock Luker
Co-Founder/CEO of Creator Arcade
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About Creator Arcade: Learn Electronic Dance Music alongside the world’s most popular DJ’s
Jim Steyer
Founder and CEO of Common Sense Media
Jim has spent more than 20 years as one of the most respected experts and entrepreneurs on issues related to children’s policy and media in the United States. As CEO, he is responsible for the overall leadership of Common Sense Media, the nation’s leading nonpartisan organization dedicated to improving the media lives of kids and families. Prior to founding Common Sense, Jim was Chairman and CEO of JP Kids, a respected family media company. Before that, he served as President of Children Now, a leading national advocacy and media organization for children, which he founded in 1988. Jim began his career as an elementary school teacher and then became a public interest lawyer. He served as a law clerk for the California Supreme Court, as a deputy district attorney, and as a civil rights attorney with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. In addition to his duties at Common Sense, Jim teaches popular courses on civil rights, civil liberties, and children’s issues at Stanford University, where he has taught for the past 22 years in the School of Education and Department of Political Science. During that period, he has received a number of Stanford’s highest teaching honors. Jim is also the author of the widely acclaimed book The Other Parent: The Inside Story of the Media’s Effect on Our Children, which draws upon his extensive experience as a leading child advocate, educational media expert, and dad. Over the past decade, Jim has appeared regularly on a variety of national television and radio programs, including The Today Show, Good Morning America, Oprah, CNN, The O’Reilly Factor, and Larry King. He hosts a regular weekly segment, “Kids and the Media,” on CBS-5 TV in San Francisco, and his work has been featured in many publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, Newsweek, and The Wall Street Journal. Jim grew up in New York City and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford. He received his JD from Stanford Law School, where he founded the East Palo Alto Community Law Project. Jim is the father of four children and lives with his family in the Bay Area.
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About Common Sense Media: Common Sense Media provides information and education to help kids and families thrive in a world of media and technology.
Nitesh Goel
Founder & CEO of Padlet
Founder of Padlet
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About Padlet: Building software for a good education.
Azhar Khan
Founder and CEO of Agnitus
CEO at PhotoGAUGE.
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About Agnitus, Cornell University, PhotoGAUGE: Agnitus is a developer of touch-enabled learning applications.
Shaan Hathiramani
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Flockjay
Shaan Hathiramani is a Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Flockjay. He is a former CXO at Thistle and Portfolio Manager at Balyasny Asset Management L.P. and Alyeska Investment Group. Mr. Hathiramani graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor of arts in Applied Mathematics.
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About Flockjay: Flockjay is an online academy that empowers job seekers with the tools and training they need to break into tech.
Advait Shinde
CEO of GoGuardian
Founder and CEO at GoGuardian.
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About GoGuardian: GoGuardian is an edtech startup that makes subscription software for K-12 schools.
Michael Ellison
Founder and CEO of CodePath
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About CodePath: CodePath is a nonprofit increasing diversity in tech by transforming CS college education.
Hanmei Wu
Cofounder and CEO of Empowerly
Hanmei Wu is a Co-Founder and CEO of Empowerly. She graduated from UC Berkeley with a B.S. in Business Administration.
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About Empowerly: Empowerly is a platform for personalized college and career guidance
Marco Marinucci
Founder and CEO of Mind The Bridge
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About Mind The Bridge, Mind the Seed – MTS Fund: Mind The Bridge provides innovation advisory services for corporations and startups.
Leo Sanada
CEO / Co-founder of WeAdmit
Leo Sanada, the passionate founder and CEO of WeAdmit Technologies, Inc., is revolutionizing the field of college counseling. Since its inception in 2017, WeAdmit has been committed to empowering young minds, facilitating their journey to dream colleges, and fostering early career planning. Through its innovative online platform, WeAdmit extends its reach to over 30 states, assisting high school students in securing admissions with clear academic and professional objectives. This approach paves the way for students to start their freshman year with purpose and determination. Supported by esteemed angel investors and venture capital, WeAdmit’s growth is accelerating at a remarkable pace, marking its footprint in the competitive landscape of education technology.
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About WeAdmit: WeAdmit guides high school students through the complexity of college admissions, help them discover their passion, and achieve their goals.
Kevin Wu
CEO and Founder of Pathrise
Kevin Wu is a Founder and CEO at Pathrise.
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About Pathrise: Pathrise is an online mentorship program for tech professionals that provides training, and advice to help in landing the next job.
Vivian Shen
Co-Founder and CEO of Juni Learning
Vivian Shen is the Co-Founder and CEO at Juni Learning
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About Juni Learning: A learning platform helping every student achieve their best future.
Esther Crawford
Co-founder/CEO of Squad
Esther is an award-winning pioneer in Millennial marketing who spearheaded groundbreaking digital campaigns in social and video for Fortune 500 companies. She previously led product marketing for Silicon Valley startups including Coach.me and Stride. After finding early success on YouTube, Esther started a social marketing agency whose clients included Weight Watchers, Sears Holdings and more. She was an on-air contributor to CNN, Fox News, and iVillage. Esther holds a Master’s of Arts in International Relations from Durham University in England, an Arabic language certificate from Jordan University and a Bachelors of Science in Philosophy from Oregon State University.
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About Squad: Acquired by Twitter in 2020. Hang out with friends in audio and video rooms.
Elise Smith
Co-Founder & CEO of Praxis Labs
Elise Smith is a co-founder and CEO at Praxis Labs. Prior to co-founding Praxis Labs, Elise invested in and coached entrepreneurs developing diversity and inclusion solutions at NewSchools Venture Fund, a venture philanthropy. Prior to that work, she developed ed-tech products and led ed-tech partnerships at IBM Watson. Elise holds a B.A. in Geography & Social Inequity from Dartmouth College and an MBA and MA in Education from Stanford University. Inspired by her parents’ fight for educational equity, Elise is dedicated to scaling access and opportunity with the goal of creating a more equitable society.
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About Praxis Labs: Praxis reimagines corporate bias training, integrating research-backed curriculum with cutting-edge VR technology.
Joshua Broggi
CEO & Founder of Woolf
Joshua is the founder of Woolf, a university project that makes it possible for qualified academics and institutions to create accredited courses and teach them. Previously, at Oxford, Joshua was a member of the Faculty of Philosophy, a member of Wolfson College, and a member of the governing Congregation of the University. He also held a Humboldt Fellowship, during which I worked on the definition and measure of human progress.
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About Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Oxford, Woolf: Marketplace, Market Network, EdTech, Higher Education
Preston Silverman
CEO & Co-founder of RaiseMe
Preston Silverman is the Cofounder / CEO at Raise Labs, Inc.
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About RaiseMe: RaiseMe is reinventing financial aid.
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CEO & Co-Founder of KiraKira3D
Serial entrepreneur, Founder and CEO of KiraKira, engineering educational company & mobile 3D modelling app. KiraKira is an Intel-Capital backed startup based in Silicon Valley, partnering with companies like HP and Autodesk to democratize access to 3D modelling and 3D printing. Studied art and engineering at Brown University and The Rhode Island School of Design. Featured in Fast Company this year as 100 Most Creative People in Business.
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About KiraKira3D: KiraKira3D is a First 3D Modeling Mobile Application
Arpit Jain
Founder & CEO of SplashLearn
Arpit Jain is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at SplashLearn.
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About SplashLearn: SplashLearn is an EdTech startup company providing game-based math and reading courses to students in pre-kindergarten to grade five.
Lucian Tarnowski
CEO & Founder of BraveNew
Lucian is Founder and CEO of BraveNew.com, the enterprise platform for knowledge sharing communities. BraveNew ‘Communities of Purpose’ enable organisations such as Lockheed Martin, Mercer, Manpower and the Collaborative Health Network to use curated content to connect, engage and develop stakeholders inside and outside of the company around any initiative such as Veterans, STEM, Women, Diversity, Health, Sustainability and Leadership development. BraveNew is creating the ‘Knowledge Graph’ by mapping members informal learning. Through peer-to-peer learning communities BraveNew is helping its client break down the knowledge silos that exist everywhere and over time identify collective intelligence of communities. The company has been awarded the Best Advance in Social Learning Technology by Brandon Hall Group. Lucian lives with his wife in San Francisco. He has been honoured as a Young Global Leader (YGL) by the World Economic Forum and is winner of the Global Enterprising Young Brit. He has served on the Steering Board for a World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Talent Mobility and has been Topic Champion for Employment and Skills. He obsesses over the social science behind communities and believes communities give humans both meaning and context in increasingly complex world. Lucian is passionate about using technology and communities to disrupt the way people learn and has worked in vocational education from the age of 9. In his spare time he runs Take Heart India, a 50 year old no overheads charity started by his father that provides blind and handicapped people in rural India with the vocational employment skills to required to get lifelong employment or start a small business. He sits on the Board of Innovate Educate, a US Foundation that aims to bridge the skills gap with a demand driven approach to jobs. He has spoken at gatherings such as Davos, TEDx, The China Digital Summit and for companies such as Coca-Cola, Oracle, Pearson, IBM and PWC. He speaks to audiences around the world about the convergence of talent and technology and its impact on the future of the global workforce and learning.
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About BraveNew, Civana, The World Economic Forum: BraveNew enables collaborative learning by creating engaging online spaces for professional communities to share knowledge.
Dave Vasen
Founder & CEO of Brightwheel
Dave Vasen is the founder and chief executive officer of [brightwheel](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/dave-vasen#/entity), a mobile platform for early education that serves as the hub for preschools and families. Previously, he was an advisor at Tempo AI. Prior to joining Tempo AI, Vasen leadership roles in the fields of product and business development at AltSchool and Amazon. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and an MBA from University of Pennsylvania – The Wharton School.
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About Brightwheel: Brightwheel is the first all-in-one software platform for preschools and childcare providers.
Jeff N. Maggioncalda
CEO of Coursera
Jeff Maggioncalda joined Coursera as CEO in June 2017. He previously served for 18 years as the founding CEO at Financial Engines Inc, a company co-founded by economist and Nobel Prize winner William Sharpe. Financial Engines grew rapidly under Jeff’s leadership, providing high-quality online investment advice that has helped millions of people save and prepare for retirement. Jeff has also worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company and Cornerstone Research, and continues to serve as a Director of Silicon Valley Bank, Inc. He holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and English from Stanford University. In his free time, Jeff is a lifelong learner and proud dad, and enjoys studying music theory and spending time with his wife and three daughters.
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About Coursera: Coursera is an online education company that partners with universities and organizations to offer classes on their platform.
Graham Glass
CEO of CYPHER LEARNING
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About CYPHER LEARNING, Matrix LMS, NEO LMS: CYPHER LEARNING is a company that specializes in providing learning platforms for schools, businesses, and entrepreneurs around the world.
Stefano Bellasio
CEO & Founder of Cloud Academy
Stefano started working with web stuff, projects and big messy websites when he was fifteen and never stopped. He loves building things and creating companies that solve real problems in any industry. Cloud Computing, E-commerce and SaaS Software are among his preferred topics and passions.
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About Cloud Academy: The best enterprise e-learning platform for cloud technologies including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and the DevOps ecosystem
Paul Kellenberger
Chief Executive Officer of zSpace
Paul guides zSpace, Inc.’s vision of “Bringing zSpace to the mainstream.” Prior to zSpace, he was CEO for Chancery Software, the leading provider of Enterprise Student Administrative Systems. Paul built a successful team and profitably grew the business, resulting in the sale of the company to Pearson Inc. Paul has also held senior positions in general management, sales, marketing, and corporate development at Motorola Inc., Digital Equipment Corporation, and Inacom Corporation.
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About Infinite Z, zSpace: zSpace offers a system that enables its users to integrate their normal lives with a desktop-based virtual reality system.
Brian Tobal
CEO of SchoolHouse
Brian is the co-founder of Veri.com. He was formerly a teacher and educational researcher.
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About SchoolHouse: SchoolHouse is an EdTech startup that provides micro schooling and home education solutions.
Angelo Kaichen Huang
CEO, Founder of BlaBla
Founder at BlaBla EdTech
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About BlaBla: BlaBla is a language learning app that makes learning a language engaging, fun, and mobile.
Jill Li
CEO & Co-Founder of Parent Lab Inc.
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About Parent Lab Inc.: ParentLab helps parents connect and grow with their children through insightful, research-based content.
Benjamin Grubbs
Founder and CEO of Next 10 Ventures
Benjamin Grubbs is the founder and CEO of Next 10 Ventures.
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About CreatorPlus, Next 10 Ventures: Next 10 Ventures is a leading venture group focused solely on the global Creator economy.
Andy Sparks
Co-Founder & CEO of Holloway
Andy Sparks is the Co-Founder & CEO of Holloway, a publishing and technology company in San Francisco that publishes reliable frameworks for solving complex practical problems. Prior to Holloway, he co-founded Mattermark. He lives in San Francisco, CA and graduated from The Ohio State University.
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About Holloway: Holloway publishes comprehensive practical Guides, each researched, written, and refined by experts.
Skyler Lucci
Co-Founder & CEO of HeyTutor
Skyler is an LA-based entrepreneur with a keen interest in education, technology, and design. Like other successful entrepreneurs, Skyler thinks that bold moves coupled with opportune timing and flawless execution define the formula for success. He’s deeply convicted to “strike when the iron’s hot.” This philosophy, along with his mental agility and comfort with change, has informed HeyTutor’s pivots and transformations over the past three years. It also defines his management style when dealing with the day-to-day of operating a national company. His action-oriented approach – paired with the ability to know what he doesn’t know and the humility to admit it – has been instrumental to HeyTutor’s success. He makes a concerted effort to surround himself with talented people whose skill sets are sometimes mutually exclusive, but always complementary to his own. This has helped him build a team that’s not just smart and capable, but also cohesive as a group and high functioning as a unit. As he puts it, “The HeyTutor team is – as a whole – greater than the sum of its individual parts.” His teambuilding capability is what makes him so great at the one thing that determines success in the tutoring industry: execution. Skyler brings this – namely, his ability to execute efficiently and effectively – to his role as HeyTutor’s CEO. Skyler’s developed a passion for surfing and snowboarding, but grew up playing football, and doing martial arts – the latter of which he did competitively (he’s nationally ranked in the Soviet martial art form of SAMBO). He’s also an absolute sports fanatic (especially football) and is fiercely loyal to LA sports franchises – he does, however, prefer the Lakers over the Clippers and the Rams over the Chargers. Apart from all things sports, Skyler has a penchant for classic 80s music. His favorites range from pop icons like Michael Jackson and Prince to Americana rockers like Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers and Bruce Springsteen.
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About HeyTutor: HeyTutor is an online platform that allows students, tutors, and agencies to connect in real-time.
Pooja Shah
Co-Founder, CEO of KidzToPros
Pooja drives KidzToPros strategic vision and manages all business interactions. Before KidzToPros she was involved with several Silicon Valley giants launching mobile phones and security apps, including: Apple, Google, Facebook, and Symantec. Turning strategy into action when it comes to work or at home is what drives Pooja day in day out. Networking, technology, ability to look beyond hurdles and creating opportunity for the future is the part that Pooja drives at KidzToPros.
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About KidzToPros: KidzToPros is a provider and marketplace for after school enrichment programs.
Madhu Narasa
Co-founder / CEO of Snapwiz
Madhu Narasa is the CEO & Co-Founder at Edulastic, Snapwiz Inc.
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About Edulastic, GLIDER.ai, Snapwiz: Snapwiz delivers learning solutions by combining interactive widgets and context aware social learning with adaptive technology.
Lauren Dachille
Co-Founder, CEO of Nimble
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About Nimble: Nimble is a data science company that helps school districts identify and hire teachers.
Mark Atkinson
Chief Executive Officer of Mursion
Mark Atkinson has been CEO of Teachscape since July 1999. Prior to founding Teachscape, he was a network news producer with experience in reporting, producing, and directing network news documentaries. Mr. Atkinson was Senior Producer and Manager of New Markets for CBS News Productions, where he focused on multimedia production and the education market. Mr. Atkinson is a graduate of Yale University and serves as a trustee of the Oracle Education Foundation.
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About Mursion, The Achievement Network: Mursion, a virtual reality environment or platform where professionals practice and master the complex interpersonal skills.
Michael Lombardo
Founder & CEO of BookNook
Founder & CEO at BookNook.
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About BookNook: BookNook ensures equitable access to rigorous and engaging instruction through technology innovation
Srinivas Sriramdas
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Edyst
Srinivas (Vasu) Sriramdas is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Edyst. He is also Vice President at Deloitte – Marketing, Communications and Business Development (Australia EDC) at Deloitte. Sriramdas is a former Project Manager at Satyam and Manager of VisualSoft Technologies. Srinivas earned an MBA in Marketing at Andhra University.
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About Edyst: Edyst is an early stage online learning & employability startup for aspiring software developers.
Yuval Goren
Founder & CEO of Success Wizard
Yuval Goren is the Founder/CEO of Success Wizard, a company he founded with the goal of helping million people worldwide live happier, more authentic and fulfilling lives. Success Wizard develops customized software platforms and interactive online programs for the personal development, life coaching and education markets. Prior to founding Success Wizard, Yuval enjoyed a very successful and rewarding two-decade-long career as an entrepreneurial executive in the hi-tech industry. He made a career transition when he felt it was time to re-define his life purpose, follow his passion and pursue his dream. He then spent a few years going through an intensive process of self-discovery, exploration and education in the areas of personal development, human psychology, and life coaching. As a result of his own midlife transition and personal transformation, he decided to utilize his skills, experience and passion to help others gain insight, develop themselves, and improve their overall well-being.
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About Success Wizard: Online and Mobile Life and Success Coaching Programs
Gagan Biyani
CEO and Co-Founder of Maven
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About Maven: Maven is a developer of an online cohort-based leadership program designed to create a community where anyone can start their own course.
Vu Van
Co-founder & CEO of Elsa
Vu Van is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Elsa
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About Elsa: Elsa is an AI-enabled language learning platform focusing on English pronunciation training and accent reduction.
Ann Greenberg
Founder and CEO of Entertainment AI ™
Ann Greenberg is a serial entrepreneur and inventor. Ann’s new venture, Entertainment AI™ (Sceneplay, Inc.) is developing groundbreaking, patented systems using AI and Blockchain to automate media creation, distribution and analysis. In 1998, Ann co-founded Gracenote, the world’s largest entertainment data company, and the first crowdsourced company. Gracenote helps consumers to discover and engage with relevant, personalized content across platforms—from smart TVs, to smartphones and the streaming media in their cars. Gracenote was acquired by Nielsen for $560M in 2017. Prior to founding Gracenote, Ann co-founded ION, an early digital studio who worked with David Bowie, Brian Eno, Todd Rungren, The Residents, Primus and leading technology companies. Ann also ran marketing for Edward R Pressman Film Corporation.
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About Entertainment AI ™, Fanpulse: The Smart Content Company – Entertainment AI merges human and machine creativity to engage a new generation.
