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This list showcases the top United States based CEO’ operating in the E-Learning 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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Mohammed Hisamuddin
Co-Founder & CEO of Entri
Mohammed Hisamuddin is the Founder & CEO of Entri, a Plug and Play test prep platform for teachers and students in India. 70,000 students and 530 teachers have used Entri to improve their learning and teaching so far. 8 million questions have been attempted on Entri by students. We are targeting 1 million students and 3000 teachers in the next 1 year. Entri recently became the first Indian startup to get into LearnLaunch, a leading edtech accelerator based out of Boston. Hisam is currently in Boston participating in the LearnLaunch accelerator until demo day which will happen in September. He previously Co-Founded SMSGYAN, helped it grow to more than 10 million users and answer more than 100 million queries. Hisam and the co-founder’s at SMSGYAN represented India in the finals of DFJ-CISCO Global Business Plan Competition 2009. He was part of iAccelerator ’09 program from IIM-A which incubated and supported SMSGYAN. SmsGyan was rated among the 18 hottest technology innovations from India for 2011 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology – TR35. He was pivotal in opening up the SMSGYAN platform to developers, around 3000 developers created more than 10,000 SMS keyword apps and lead to partnerships with Twitter, Evernote and TrueCaller. He later co-founded Quest app, a P2P answering app which was incubated by 500 startups in San Francisco.
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About Entri: Entri is a vernacular language learning platform for teachers and students.
Gregg Coccari
CEO of Udemy
Gregg Coccari is the Chief Executive Officer of Udemy.Mr. Coccari brings more than 30 years of leadership experience to Udemy and previously held CEO positions at Stella and Chewy’s, Futuredontics, NetQuote, and Teleflora.
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About Udemy: Udemy is an online learning platform that helps students, companies, and governments gain the skills they need to reach their goals.
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.
Michał Borkowski
Co-founder & CEO of Brainly
Michał is the CEO and co-founder of Brainly and is responsible for product strategy, company strategy and culture. He and his co-founders established Brainly in 2009 in Kraków, driven by the conviction that collaborative online communities can empower students from around the world with knowledge and information. In a little more than a decade, Brainly has become the world’s largest online learning community for students, parents and teachers. After moving to New York City and living there for 4 years to open and build Brainly’s US office, Michał was only 16 when he started his first company, and he’s been shaking up the internet ever since. He grew up in a small town in Poland before heading to Warsaw to study corporate finance at the acclaimed Warsaw School of Economics. Michał now lives in Kraków with his wife, Kasia.
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About Brainly: Brainly is an online learning platform where students and parents get homework and study help from peers and experts.
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.
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.
Luis von Ahn
CEO & Co-Founder of Duolingo
Louis von Ahn is the CEO and Co-Founder of Duolingo. He is an associate professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, and he’s at the forefront of the crowdsourcing craze. His work takes advantage of the evergrowing Web-connected population to achieve collaboration in unprecedented numbers. His projects aim to leverage the crowd for human good. His company reCAPTCHA, sold to Google in 2009, digitizes human knowledge (books), one word at a time. His new project is Duolingo, which aims to get 100 million people translating the Web in every major language.
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About Carnegie Mellon University, Duolingo: Duolingo is a language-learning education platform that offers 98 total courses across nearly 40 distinct languages.
Darrell Silver
CEO & Co-Founder of Thinkful
Founder of Thinkful (acq by Chegg), Perpetually (acq by Dell).
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About Thinkful: Thinkful provides 1-on-1 learning with industry experts to bring high growth tech careers to their students.
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.
Subbarao Siddabattula
Founder and CEO of Practically
FOUNDER & CEO Serial Entreprenuer 20+ yrs exp. in the US, in technology senior leadership roles;
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About Practically: Practically is India’s first experiential learning app designed to make learning immersive for students of classes 6-12
Reshma Saujani
Founder and CEO of Girls Who Code
Reshma Saujani is the Founder and CEO of Girls Who Code, a national non-profit organization working to close the gender gap in technology. Through its Summer Immersion Programs and Clubs, Girls Who Code is leading the movement to inspire, educate, and equip young women with the computing skills to pursue 21st century opportunities. Started in 2012, the organization has grown to reach 40,000 girls in every state by the end of 2016. This year, Girls Who Code will run 78 Summer Immersion Programs and 1500 Clubs. The results speak for themselves: 90 percent of alumnae have declared or intend to declare a major or minor in computer science. Reshma began her career as an attorney and activist. In 2010, she surged onto the political scene as the first Indian American woman to run for U.S. Congress. During the race, Reshma visited local schools and saw the gender gap in computing classes firsthand, which led her to start Girls Who Code. Reshma has also served as Deputy Public Advocate for New York City and ran a spirited campaign for Public Advocate in 2013. Reshma’s TED talk, “Teach girls, bravery not perfection”, has more than one million views and has sparked a national conversation about how we’re raising our girls. She is also the author of the groundbreaking new book, Women Who Don’t Wait In Line. Reshma is a graduate of the University of Illinois, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and Yale Law School. She’s been named one of Fortune’s World’s Greatest Leaders, Fortune’s 40 under 40, a WSJ Magazine Innovator of the Year, one of the 50 Most Powerful Women in New York by the New York Daily News, CNBC’s Next List, Forbes’s Most Powerful Women Changing the World, Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People, Crain’s New York 40 Under 40, Ad Age’s Creativity 50, Business Insider’s 50 Women Who Are Changing the World, City & State’s Rising Stars, and an AOL/PBS Next MAKER.
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About Girls Who Code: Girls Who Code works to educate, inspire, and equip young women with the skills and resources to pursue academic and career opportunities.
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.
Aaron Skonnard
Co-Founder and CEO of Pluralsight
Aaron is a co-founder of Pluralsight where he serves as the Chief Executive Officer. Aaron has spent years developing course materials and teaching professional developers throughout the world. He has presented at many popular developer conferences like PDC, TechEd, and VSLive! Microsoft recognized Aaron as an MVP in the “Connected Systems” developer community for eight years. Aaron has written numerous books, articles, and whitepapers including the Essential XML Quick Reference (Addison Wesley, 2001), Essential XML (Addison Wesley, 2000), and his popular columns in MSDN Magazine. Aaron lives in Utah with his wife Monica and five children Michelle, Michael, Nathan, Gisela, and Emma.
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About Pluralsight: Pluralsight is a technology learning platform for software developers, IT admins, and creative professionals.
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.
Tom Griffiths
CEO and Co-founder of Hone
CEO and Co-founder, Hone. Passionate about growing the next generation of leaders with a product people love to use. Previously Chief Product Officer, Co-founder, FanDuel. Past life as PhD candidate in machine learning.
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About Hone: Hone provides effective, engaging, and scalable management training to help high-growth companies thrive.
Ian Schafer
Co-Founder @ CEO of Kindred
Ian is the Co-Founder & CEO of Kindred, founder and former CEO of the award-winning global ad agency Deep Focus, and one of the media, advertising, and tech industries’ leading voices and provocateurs. He founded Deep Focus in 2002, having previously served as Vice President of New Media at Disney’s Miramax Films. In 2007, Ian was named as an Advertising Age Media Maven and was inducted into the AAF’s Advertising Hall of Achievement in 2015. You can read what he has to say at ianschafer.com or at twitter.com/ischafer.
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About Kindred: Kindred is a professional network built to prepare executives for the future of socially responsible business.
Jack Lee
Co-Founder and CEO of Hello Genius
Jack Lee currently works as Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at Hello Genius. He is also a Board member and President of TecSync Technology (XTOUCH and INNJOO).
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About Hello Genius: Hello Genius is an app-based learning system that connects parents and children through personalized learning experiences.
Luke Skurman
CEO of Niche.com
Luke Skurman is the CEO and Founder of Niche.com. Niche provides in-depth reviews and analysis on colleges and K-12 schools. Luke originally started the business as College Prowler and has since grown it into one of the largest content start-ups in the United States. Luke grew up in San Francisco, he came to Pittsburgh in 1998 (and where he currently resides) to attend Carnegie Mellon University, where he received his bachelors and masters degrees. Luke is the youngest trustee in the history of Carnegie Mellon, he sits on the finance and research technology & commercialization committees. Luke is a Co-Founder and Chairman of Thrill Mill, a non-profit innovation accelerator, it has three parts – business plan competition, incubator and music festival. Luke is the founding curator of the Global Shapers Pittsburgh Hub, an initiative of the World Economic Forum. Luke is also a board member of the Sprout Fund. Luke has won national awards related to entrepreneurship from Business Week, Fast Company, and Inc. Magazine.
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About Niche.com: Niche.com is a platform that enables users to discover and research U.S. colleges, schools, neighborhoods, and companies.
Zachary Sims
Co-Founder & CEO of Codecademy
Zach is the cofounder and CEO of Codecademy, the easiest way to learn to code. Since the company started in August of 2011, millions of people have begun learning to program using the site.Codecademy has worked with organizations like The White House, the Government of Colombia, American Express, Rakuten, and more. Zach and his cofounder Ryan have grown Codecademy to 18 full time employees in New York and have raised $12.5m in venture capital financing from top tier investors including Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Union Square Ventures, Index Ventures, Yuri Milner, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, SV Angel, Richard Branson, Y Combinator, and more. Prior to founding Codecademy, Zach was a student at Columbia University. He has worked in product and business development/strategy capacities at startups including GroupMe (sold to Skype) and drop.io (sold to Facebook). He also has experience in the venture capital industry with AOL Ventures, the venture capital arm of AOL. Zach and Codecademy have been honored by many publications. TIME Magazine called Codecademy one of the “50 Best Websites of 2012,” while TechCrunch awarded Codecademy the “Best Education Startup” Crunchie Award in 2013. Zach has been named to Inc. Magazine’s 30 Under 30 list, along with Forbes Magazine’s 30 Under 30 list. The City of New York named him a New York City Venture Fellow in 2013.
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About Bowery Capital, Codecademy: Codecademy provides an online learning platform that teaches employable digital skills.
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.
Andrew Geant
Co-Founder, CEO of Wyzant
Andrew Geant is co-founder and CEO of WyzAnt, which brings the proven impact of personalized learning to all learners via the largest tutoring marketplace and community. WyzAnt has one of 75,000 tutors available within 10 miles of 97% of the US population offering their services in-person and online. Drew co-founded WyzAnt in 2005 with his Princeton classmate, Mike Weishuhn. Today, WyzAnt has 80 employees in offices in Chicago and San Francisco. With now over 2 million tutors and students that have used the platform, the company was bootstrapped with just $10,000 and has been cash flow positive since inception.
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About Wyzant: Wyzant is an online marketplace that helps students connect with qualified in-person and online tutors in over 250 different subjects.
Ryan Carson
Founder & CEO of Treehouse
Ryan Carson is the Founder and CEO of Treehouse.
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About Treehouse: Treehouse is an online technology school that guides students from zero to job-ready for the tech industry in 6-12 months.
Gayle Jennings O’Byrne
Founder and CEO of iNTENT Manifesto
20+ years of finance, investment banking, philanthropy and lobbying experience. Previously, executive positions in Mergers and Acquisitions, Global Philanthropy, International Government Relations at JPMorgan Chase. Media Manager at Sun Microsystems. Developed and managed investment strategy and corporate relationships. Enjoys valuation, modeling, due diligence and championing founders and startups. Graduate of Wharton School of Business and the University of Michigan School of Business. Attended National University of Singapore and City of London Polytechnic. Conducted academic consulting project in Israel.
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About iNTENT Manifesto, The Prometheus Exchange, WOCstar Fund: iNTENT Manifesto IS an educational and investment platform.
Evan Marwell
Founder & CEO of EducationSuperHighway
Evan is a serial entrepreneur, having started companies over the last 25 years in the telecom, software, hedge fund, and consumer retailing industries including INFONXX (now KGB) and Criterion Capital Management. Collectively, these businesses created thousands of jobs and generated billions of dollars of revenues and investment returns. Evan founded the non-profit EducationSuperHighway in 2012. In its first three years, the organization helped shape President Obama’s ConnectED initiative and served as a catalyst for modernization of the Federal Communications Commission’s $3.9 billion E-rate program, earning Evan the 2015 Visionary of the Year award from the San Francisco Chronicle. Evan is an honors graduate of Harvard College ’87 and Harvard Business School ’92.
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About EducationSuperHighway: EducationSuperHighway is focused on providing internet infrastructure that students and teachers need for digital learning.
Matt Wilkerson
Co-founder & CEO of Paragon One
Co-Founder & CFO at AHAlife.com
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About Paragon One: Paragon One turns company work into scalable remote externships that help students gain hands-on work experience in different industries.
Julie Hansen
CEO, US of Babbel
Julie Hansen is CEO U.S. at Babbel. Based in the company’s New York office she is leading the US expansion of the world’s top-grossing language learning app. Before joining Babbel, Julie was the COO and President of Business Insider. Under her leadership the news site became the most visited business outlet on the internet. Prior to Business Insider, Hansen held top management roles at sports site NCAA.com, Condé Nast Publications, and Time Inc. Julie has over two decades of experience growing digital media companies, launching interactive web sites, deploying mobile apps, and leading online and offline marketing campaigns. She began her career at Penguin Books, publishing learning software for literature among other products.
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About Babbel: Babbel is the market-leading app for language learning.
David Shrier
Co-Founder & CEO of Esme Learning Solutions
David is a globally recognized thought leader in technology and educational innovation, serial entrepreneur, and author. The portfolio of digital classes he created for MIT and University of Oxford have engaged more than 15,000 innovators in over 140 countries, and revolutionized the model for university short-course offerings. He is a Professor of Practice (AI and Innovation) with Imperial College Business School, and holds a secondary appointment as Associate Fellow with SaÏd Business School, University of Oxford. David has published five books in the past five years focused on technology disruption, the three most recent of which with MIT Press or Little Brown. His latest book, Augmenting Your Career: How to Win at Work in the Age of AI will be published by Little Brown in spring 2021.
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About Adit EdTech, Colorado School of Mines, Copper, Esme Learning Solutions, FINRA, Imperial College Business School, MIT Press, Riff Analytics, University of Oxford, Visionary Future: Esme Learning is transforming the world’s workforce for the Fourth Industrial Revolution using AI.
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.
Scott Burgess
Founder & CEO of Continu
Scott Burgess is the Founder & CEO of Continu.
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About Continu: Continu is the World’s First Learning Amplification Platform™ helping companies train teams better!
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.
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
Dan Charbonneau
CEO , Founder & Owner of CBT Nuggets
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About CBT Nuggets: CBT Nuggets is an online platform that provides a diverse range of on-demand video training services for IT pros.
Neal Shenoy
Co-Founder & CEO of BEGiN
Neal Shenoy is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at BEGiN. Neal manages BEGiN’s purpose and vision, sets its strategy and execution plan, recruits talent and manages strategic relationships with investors and partners. Neal has built a team with deep industry expertise across organizations such as Nickelodeon, PBS Kids, Scholastic, Barnes & Noble, Pearson and Mattel.He has helped guide BEGiN to be one of the largest, fastest growing and most promising platforms for early childhood literacy and language learning, earning recognition from the Aspen Institute, American Library Association, Education World and National Education Association. Neal is also a Co-Founder of SAAVN, the largest streaming service for South Asian music in the world, and a Founding Partner at [212]MEDIA, which builds consumer media ventures in fragmented markets alongside major media companies. Prior to [212]MEDIA, Neal was Co-Founder and President of Simile, a contextual advertising platform in media and publishing. With a B.S.F.S. in International Relations from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University Neal began his career as an Investment Banker in an upstart unit of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette that advised media & telecom companies.
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About [212]Media, BEGiN, HOMER, Speakaboos: BEGiN is an award-winning company offering best-in-class solutions across digital, physical, and experiential learning to kids globally.
Zak Ringelstein
CEO & Founder of Zigazoo
Zak Ringelstein is the CEO and Founder at Zigazoo.
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About Teachers College at Columbia University, Zigazoo: Zigazoo is the leader in children’s short-form video.
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
Jamie Fitch
Co-Founder & CEO of OnlineMedEd
Jamie is an Ohio State and Tulane graduate rooted in medicine and healthcare. He’s currently the cofounder and CEO of OnlineMedEd (OME), a hyper-growth adult learning platform based in Austin, TX. In his day to day he focuses on investing in his employees through coaching to keep his company culture genuine and aligned. As an angel, he invests in industries such as: medical diagnostics, telemedicine and digital marketing. Jamie’s focus on culture, trust and empowerment has led him to become passionate in supporting startup community. He helps craft narratives to attract talent, funding and business opportunities.
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About OnlineMedEd: OnlineMedEd is a digital health care learning platform designed for medical students and health professionals.
Justin Serrano
Founder & CEO of Littera Education
Justin Serrano is the former President of Kaplan’s K12 and College Prep division which provides state test readiness programs and college preparation solutions. As President of Kaplan K-12 and College Prep, Serrano was responsible for having driven a new SAT/ACT strategy that propelled Kaplan to the leading market position in 2010. He also spearheaded the development of Kaplan’s Smart Track™, an adaptive software platform which analyzes individual student performance and prescribes custom learning plans. Previously, he was President of SCORE! Educational Centers, a subsidiary of Kaplan, where he created groundbreaking software that enabled a completely integrated offline/online tutoring model featuring adaptive online instruction, automated teacher lesson plans, and real time parent reporting. Prior to his management role at SCORE!, Serrano oversaw Kaplan Test Prep’s graduate business where he led the integration of official test maker content into Kaplan’s courses. Justin graduated with a B.S. From Cornell University and an M.B.A. From Harvard Business School. He now serves on the board of CFY (formerly Computers for Youth), a non-profit dedicated to bringing technology into low income households in order to help close the achievement gap.
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About Littera Education: Littera Education is an education platform that offers online tutoring to students.
Nate Davis
CEO of Stride
Davis is Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of K12 Inc., a provider of proprietary curricula and on-line education programs for students in kindergarten through high school. Davis worked as Managing Director of the RANND Advisory Group, a business consulting group that advises software, technology, media and venture capital firms before assuming the role of Chairman of K12 in 2013. From 2007 to 2008 he was President and Chief Executive Officer of XM Satellite Radio, a provider of direct satellite radio broadcasts in the U.S., and from 2006 to 2007, was its President and Chief Operating Officer. He also was a member of the XM Satellite Radio Board of Directors from 1999 until 2008. From 2000 to 2003, he was President and Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of XO Communications (formerly Nextlink Communications). He has also held senior management roles at Nextel Communications and MCI Communications. He began his career at AT&T. Davis also serves as a trustee of the RLJ Lodging Trust. Davis served as a director of Charter Communications, Inc. from 2005 to 2008 and as a director of EarthLink, Inc. in 2011. Davis has served as a director of Unisys since 2011 and is a member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Davis brings managerial and operational expertise to our Board. This expertise, as well as his extensive experience in the communications industry, brings a valuable perspective to the Board as Unisys continues its work to strengthen its competitive and financial profile in a changing IT industry.
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About K12, Stride: Stride is an education company that sells online schooling and curriculum to state and local governments.
Julio Cotorruelo
CEO of Domestika
Julio G. Cotorruelo is a Co-founder & CEO at Domestika Inc.
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About Domestika: Domestika is a creative community where creative experts share their knowledge and skills through professionally produced online courses.
Brooks Morgan
Co-Founder and CEO of Podium Education
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About Podium Education: Podium Education helps colleges and universities add in-demand tech skills to undergraduate majors.
Josh Fabian
Founder and CEO of Metafy
Josh Fabian is the Founder and CEO at Metafy. Additionally, Josh Fabian has had 3 past jobs including Founder & CEO at Kitsu.
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About Metafy: Metafy is an online coaching platform that enables video gamers to monetize their talent through coaching and courses.
Matthew Gross
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Newsela
Matthew Gross has a nineteen-year career in the education sector, for-profit and nonprofit entrepreneurship, and product development and distribution. Matthew was Executive Director of the Regents Research Fund, a privately funded affiliate of the New York State Board of Regents and Education Department that helped lead the implementation of Race to the Top–driven education reforms. Reporting to Education Commissioner John King, Jr, Matthew oversaw the organization’s growth strategy, public–private partnerships, talent acquisition, and day-to-day operations. While at the Fund, Matthew led the development of EngageNY.org, a web application providing teachers and administrators with resources for implementation of Common Core state standards and teacher and principal evaluations. Since its August 2011 launch, the site has been viewed over fourteen million times by educators in all fifty states. Matthew played a leadership role in the development of the Regents Research Fellows, a team of nationally recognized thought leaders who help lead the implementation of the Common Core, next-generation assessments, and other education reforms spurred by Race to the Top. Under Matthew’s purview, the Fund raised over $9 million in support from many of the nation’s most respected education funders including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, Carnegie Corporation, and the Robin Hood Foundation. Prior to joining the Fund, Matthew was Vice President of Planning & Resource Development at Pencil, a national leader in building private-sector partnerships with public schools that improve student achievement. He led a wide array of initiatives at Pencil, including the development of the Pencil Exchange, a social media and relationship-management application for business–school partnerships now used in over 400 schools nationwide. Earlier, Matthew spent several years managing entrepreneurial ventures, including as co- founder and President of out-of-home media company Submedia, which secured over $6 million in venture investment, $2 million in annual bookings, contracts with multiple government agencies, and licensing agreements in Europe and East Asia. Matthew co-holds two patents for Submedia’s technology. Matthew began his career as a Teach for America corps member, teaching music at C.S. 50 in the South Bronx. He serves on the School Leadership Team of P.S. 101 in Queens, which his three boys attend. He holds a B.A. from Columbia University.
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About Newsela: Newsela is an Ed-tech startup that takes content from trusted providers and turns it into learning materials.
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.
Gustavo Rodriguez
Co-Founder and CEO of BabySparks
Gustavo Rodriguez previously worked as an investment banker for JPMorgan (NY) and Merrill Lynch (London). During his years with JPM and ML Gustavo focused in the consumer & retail sectors, providing advice to key clients like Nestle, Danone, Unilever and General Mills among others. Gustavo graduated Cum Laude with a B.S., Industrial Engineering from Los Andes University (Bogota, Colombia) and has a Masters of Business Administration from the Darden School (University of Virginia).
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About BabySparks: BabySparks is a developer of tools and programs to help parents engage their babies and toddlers in the critical areas of early development.
Dan Adika
CEO & Co-Founder of WalkMe
Dan Adika Before co-founding WalkMe, Dan was a software engineer at HP. Prior to that, Dan completed with honors a 6 year tenure in the Army’s elite computing unit.
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About WalkMe: WalkMe provides a digital adoption platform to let organizations measure, drive, and act to maximize their digital transformation.
Tom Higley
Founder & CEO of 10.10.10
Tom Higley, a Denver-based entrepreneur, has founded six tech startups over the course of the past 20 years, including Service Metrics (acquired by Exodus Communications for $280 million) and StillSecure (aka Latis Networks). He has been a waiter, a janitor, a carpenter, a painter, a GM auto worker, a music store manager, a teacher, a guitar player, a lawyer, a CEO, a board member, and a mentor. He has been a mentor in the Boulder TechStars program since 2006 and at Galvanize since its opening in 2012. Tom earned his bachelor’s degree at the University of Michigan, 1985, and his juris doctor at Harvard Law School, 1989. He continues to start companies and advise founders of startups.
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About 10.10.10, Iggli, X Genesis: 10.10.10 gives impact entrepreneurs the context and tools to develop market-based solutions.
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.
Kim Thanos
Founder and CEO of Lumen Learning
Kim Thanos is the CEO and co-founder of Lumen Learning, a company that supports institutions to improve student success through the use of open educational resources and learning analytics. Through her work at Lumen Kim has assisted over 100 institutions in transitioning high-enrollment courses to use open educational resources, allowing students to have access to required course materials from day 1, and creating over $10 million in savings for students. Marquis projects include the courseware development for the Washington State community college’s CBE program, and the creation $0 textbook cost degree programs for the 23 colleges of the Virginia Community College System. Prior to creating Lumen Learning, Kim led the Next Generation Learning Challenges-funded Kaleidoscope Project. She has provided leadership, guidance and support to a broad range of collaborative and community source higher education initiatives including Kuali, DuraSpace, Opencast, Sakai and the Digital Preservation Network.
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About Lumen Learning: Lumen Learning provides high quality open courseware and support for educational institutions.
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.
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.
Joe Moriarty
CEO & Co-Founder of Raven360
Joe Moriarty has a long history of motivating teams and delivering increased sales for various technology providers. He joined Raven360 in May 2011, previously working with Hybrivet Systems, where he was vice president of sales and marketing. While there, Joe led efforts that delivered a 2003 percent increase in sales from April 2010 through February 2011, when 3M acquired Hybrivet Systems. Joe also served as vice president of sales at TR3 Solutions, where he led the sales group to successfully market a portfolio of Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions for retail and consumer packaged goods. His work experience also includes director of sales roles for both Sterling Commerce (now IBM), and TR2 Solutions, a cloud-based startup acquired by Sterling Commerce, as well as senior software sales positions at Commerce One, AppNet, and Research and Planning. Joe holds a Bachelor of Science in Resource Economics from the University of Connecticut.
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About Raven360, Raven360: Raven360 provides a sales readiness platform that delivers up-to-date and consistent sales content, training and coaching.
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.
David Massias
Co-Founder and CEO of Shadow Health
David S. Massias is the co-founder and CEO of Shadow Health, Inc. which is a multi-disciplinary educational software developer of rich learning environments and Digital Clinical Experiences™(DCEs). Shadow Health develops these educational environments to address the critical issues facing our national and global health care systems – maintaining quality-of-care in the face of increasing provider shortages. They are positioned to reform the status quo of allied healthcare education delivery by providing a virtual, accurate, and in-depth clinical environment to practice diagnostic reasoning, communication, and procedural skills. Prior to the establishment of Shadow Health, David was a partner with the V2R Group, focused on acquiring and commercializing university technologies (i.e., ICU Data Systems, Inc., Red Lambda, Inc.), and a member of the PricewaterhouseCooper’s mergers and acquisitions group in their New York City and Chicago offices since 2000. As an adjunct Professor, David was honored with the 2008 Outstanding Faculty Award from the Masters of Science in Entrepreneurship Program at the Warrington College of Business at the University of Florida and serves on education centric boards such as the University of Florida’s Innovation through Institutional Integration.
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About Draman Foundation, Shadow Health: Shadow Health provides a platform for medical, nursing and allied health students to engage in standardized simulated clinical experiences.
Fahim ul Haq
Co-Founder and CEO of Educative
Fahim ul Haq is the Co-Founder & CEO at Educative
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About Educative: Educative provides interactive and adaptive courses for software developers with pre-configured developer environments in the cloud.
Madjid Salimi
Co-CEO & Co-Founder of AMBOSS
Dr. med. Madjid Salimi is a licensed physician, software engineer and serial entrepreneur. While studying computer science and economics at the University of Cologne, he co-founded and served as managing director of Netempire AG and also co-founded TomPower GmbH und Unit Parktech AG. While retaining his seat on the advisory board of Netempire, he then went on to study Medicine at the Universities of Göttingen, Hamburg and La Sapienza in Rome where he went on to earn his doctorate in medical education. With the additional accreditation of an entrepreneurship development program at M.I.T., Cambridge, USA, Madjid was set on the path to co-founding MIAMED GmbH where he currently serves as Co-CEO and Head of Product Development. Madjid completed his clinical rotations in Surgery at the University of Buenos Aires and Radiology at Mount Sinai (New York) and UCSF (San Francisco) and also spent parts of his education in Brazil, Italy and South Africa. Madjid is also a keen lacrosse player and went on to represent the German national side for several years before also coaching the Italian national team.
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About AMBOSS: Improving healthcare by making medical knowledge universally accessible.
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.
Daniel Jacobs
Founder and CEO of Avanoo
Mr. Jacobs has spent more than a decade running organizations that have a deep helping purpose, build tight communities and innovate technologically. His organizations have scaled to support millions of people in living better lives and have been featured in most major newspapers and magazines in the western world. He has appeared as a guest on many major US television networks.
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About Avanoo: Avanoo helps leaders sustain, scale, and drive ROI with positive culture changes in their enterprises.
Chris Sleat
Founder & CEO of Workbench Platform
Christopher Sleat Is The Lead Product Manager at Google.
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About Google, Workbench Platform: The only comprehensive platform for project-based learning.
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.
Thomas Brunskill
Co-Founder and CEO of Forage
homas Brunskill is the co-founder and CEO of Forage. Before moving to San Francisco in 2018, Tom was a corporate lawyer at a multinational law firm in Australia.
It was during his own career journey that Tom discovered that an education and a degree doesn’t necessarily translate to knowing how to do a specific job role.
After observing the unfair advantage those with access to connections or educational opportunities had, Tom co-founded Forage to provide anyone the ability to learn through virtual job simulations produced by the world’s top companies.
By breaking down barriers to gaining workplace-specific skills, Tom hopes to level the opportunity playing field and help students get great jobs.
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About Forage: Forage creates free open-access training courses for candidates to build their career skills and confidence.
Ryan Corey
CEO / Co-Founder of Cybrary
Co-Founder at Cybrary
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About Cybrary: Cybrary is the cybersecurity and IT Career Development Platform. Cybrary is the fastest growing, fastest-moving catalog in the industry.
Gary Lipkowitz
Chief Executive Officer of Vyond
Gary joined GoAnimate in 2011, with over 15 years of media and entertainment experience earned in the US and Asia. Previously, he was the COO of Wego.com in Singapore, a price comparison travel search engine referred to as “the Kayak of Asia.” He also served as an advisor to Idol Films, a Hong Kong-based film development company during this time. Prior to Wego, he was Asst. Vice President with Mediacorp Raintree Pictures, Singapore’s feature film studio, concentrating on film financing and international sales. Prior to Raintree, he served as a strategy consultant with Yahoo! Southeast Asia, advising senior management on a variety of strategic, operational and financial issues. Before moving to Asia, Gary was an award-winning corporate television writer/producer in Chicago and Austin. He also wrote, produced and directed the English-language adaptations of over 20 anime franchises for ADV Films, including both “fan titles” such as City Hunter, Legend of Crystania and Queen Emeraldas, and “crossover titles” such as Tekken and Sonic the Hedgehog. He holds a BA in Economics & Psychology (Magna Cum Laude) from New York University, an MFA in Film/TV from Northwestern University, and an MBA (With Distinction) from INSEAD. He is an avid volleyball player and has a growing interest in Balinese art.
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About Vyond: Vyond puts the power of video in the hands of everyone.
Christine Tao
Co-Founder and CEO of Sounding Board
Christine Tao serves as Chief Executive Officer and Director at Sounding Board Labs. She is also the Strategic Advisor at Startups. Ms. Tao is a former Advisor at Adenda Media Inc. and Governing Board of Directors at HR West & NCHRA (Northern California Human Resources Association). Christine graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business with a bachelor of science in Business Administration and received an MBA in Marketing & Operations at The Wharton School.
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About Sounding Board: Sounding Board provides a data-driven virtual leadership development platform for corporate leaders.
Spencer Fry
Founder & CEO of Podia
Spencer Fry is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Podia.
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About Podia: Podia is an operator of an online storefront for online courses and digital products.
Ted Blosser
CEO & Co-founder of WorkRamp
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About WorkRamp: The all-in-one learning platform to train your customers, partners, and employees.
Nicole Bishop
Founder & CEO of Quartolio
Nicole Bishop is the Founder and CEO of Quartolio.
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About Quartolio: AI-powered platform that accelerates research by connecting the dots across scholarly documents, data, and discussions
Tilek Mamutov
Co-Founder and CEO of Outtalent
Tilek Mamutov is the co-founder and CEO of Outtalent. Prior to that, Tilek served as a project lead for Google[x]. He holds a BS degree in software engineering from the American University of Central Asia (AUCA).
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About Outtalent: Outtalent helps top software engineers from emerging markets get jobs abroad at companies like Google.
Doug Donovan
CEO & Co-Founder of Interplay Learning
Doug Donovan is the CEO & Co-Founder at Interplay Learning.
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About Interplay Learning: Interplay Learning is an information technology company that specializes in virtual reality and 3D solutions.
Oleg Oksyuk
Founder and CEO of AllRight.com
Oleg Oksyuk is the Founder and CEO of AllRight.com.
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About AllRight.com: AllRight.com is an online english school for kids and children on educational and exciting programs.
Ahsan Rizvi
CEO of Kiddom
Founder at Kiddom
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About Kiddom: Kiddom is an education platform offering a digital curriculum to engage students virtually or in the classroom.
Bratati Ghosh
Chairman & CEO of Turn the Bus
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About Turn the Bus: Turn the Bus is an AI/ML-driven edTech non-profit organization that brings video and audio-based digital learning solutions.
Connor Zwick
CEO of Speak
Connor Zwick is the CEO and Co-founder at Speak.
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About Speak: Speak helps you get better at speaking english.
Stephen Tober
CEO & President of Career Step
Stephen J. Tober has spent much of his 25+ years of corporate experience working in or around the education market. In his last position as CEO and President of American InterContinental University, Steve was responsible for serving over 18,000 online students as well as overseeing several brick-and-mortar campuses in both the U.S. and London. Prior to his time as AIU, Steve held executive positions with both public and private technology and web development companies, and he also has experience in the corporate finance law and investment banking sectors. In his role at Career Step, Steve is committed to providing the highest quality education and exceptional service to students, graduates, and partners. He holds a J.D. from University of Virginia.
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About Career Step: Career Step is an online provider of career-focused training in other words.
Stephen Dinan
CEO of The Shift Network
Stephen Dinan is the founder and CEO of The Shift Network and a member of the Transformational Leadership Council and Evolutionary Leaders. Stephen is a graduate of Stanford University (Human Biology) and the California Institute of Integral Studies (East-West Psychology). He helped create and directed the Esalen Institute’s Center for Theory & Research, a think tank for leading scholars, researchers, and teachers to explore human potential frontiers. As the former director of membership and marketing at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, he was the driving force behind the Shift in Action program and the One Minute Shift media series. He is the author of Sacred America, Sacred World and Radical Spirit (New World Library). He has been a featured speaker at the World Cultural Forum in China, the Alliance for a New Humanity in Costa Rica, Renovemos Mexico in Mexico City, and the University of Cuenca in Ecuador, as well as many US conferences, events, radio programs, and online summits. Stephen lives in San Rafael, California, with his beloved wife Devaa.
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About The Shift Network: Shift Network is an internet-based transformational education firm covering areas from spiritual growth to enlightened business, and more.
Tim Kelly
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Planet3
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About Planet3: Planet3 is an exploration-based learning company that presents the entire Earth as a living laboratory.
Andrew McGarrity
Founder & CEO of Thrivist
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About Thrivist: Thrivist is a learning & analytics platform for K-12 that enables schools to personalize learning and to make better decisions based data.
Karim Mokhtar
Founder and CEO of Mokhtar Group Inc.
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About Malqart, Mokhtar Group Inc., Multilingualinc, Skillset Academy: The only global B2B lead generation and Lead-to-Opportunity service available in the market today.
Shaunak Roy
Founder & CEO of Yellowdig
Shaunak Roy is the Founder & CEO of Yellowdig, a social collaboration platform currently used by more than 30 institutions including The University of Pennsylvania, The University of Virginia, and Duke University. Before starting Yellowdig, Shaunak was Director, Business Development for FMC Corporation, a $5 billion NYSE listed diversified chemical company based in Philadelphia. In his prior life Shaunak has worked as a management consultant with Booz & Co and KPMG across the US, UK and India. He has two masters degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.Tech from IIT Bombay.
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About Yellowdig: Yellowdig is an online learning experience driven by peer collaboration, gamification, and data science.
Bruce Davis
Chief Executive Officer of Hudson Global Scholars
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About Hudson Global Scholars, Stride: Hudson Global Scholars was founded by a team of seasoned online education leaders of millions of students & education providers.
John Lynch
Founder & CEO of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
John “Jack” Lynch is the Founder & CEO of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH). Prior to HMH, Jack was the CEO at Renaissance Learning, a leader in K–12 learning analytics, owned by Hellman & Friedman and Google Capital.
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About Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is a global learning company specialized in pre-K–12 education content, services, and technology solutions.
Melissa Jawaharlal
CEO and Co-Founder of STEM Center USA
Melissa Jawaharlal is a co-founder of STEM Center USA and engineer at Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems. She studied at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland and got her Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC). Melissa’s research field is primarily in space exploration in which she’s served as a design lead for currently orbiting satellites at the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) as well as performed software optimization for the United States Air Force. Melissa is passionate about exploring the final frontier of space and engineering for the developing world. Most importantly, she works to ensure that future generations will share that zeal for STEM advancement. She has presented her work at MIT through the Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams program as well as through NCIIA and Inventor’s Digest. Melissa has mentored and taught in numerous robotics related activities for several years and has been recognized for her coaching and instruction style. She is passionate about hands-on, experiential learning and seeks to revolutionize K-12 STEM education. Melissa is an avid traveler and enjoys adventuring to new places and scuba diving.trepreneur. Educator. Traveler. Vegetarian going Vegan.
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About California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, STEM Center USA: STEM Center USA inspires the next generation of STEM leaders by developing a passion for STEM careers at a young age.
Olcay Yilmazcoban
Co-founder & CEO of SenpAI.GG
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About SenpAI.GG: SenpAI.gg is a gaming coach for the 1.4 billion PC gamers globally.
David Zakariaie
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Senseye
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About Civil Air Patrol, Senseye: Senseye is a Neurotechnology company
Joelle Emerson
Founder and CEO of Paradigm
Joelle is a former plaintiff-side employment lawyer dedicated to helping companies build workplaces where diverse employees can thrive. As a Skadden Fellow at Equal Rights Advocates, Joelle represented clients and pursued policy change in the areas of sexual harassment, equal pay, and discrimination in hiring and promotions. Joelle draws on a background in social science to identify and address the structural barriers that prevent organizations from effectively recruiting and retaining diverse talent. Joelle is a graduate of the University of Southern California, summa cum laude, and Stanford Law School.
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About Paradigm: Paradigm works with innovative companies to organize more inclusive work environments.
Byron Giles
CEO & Founder of CertificationPoint
Byron Giles is an American Internet entrepreneur and retired US Air Force Officer as well as the author of the book ‘Unleashing Your Harnessed Potential’. Byron founded CertificationPoint Inc. as a platform to help build meaningful relationships between students and prospective business customers to increase the number of proven career-ready students.
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About CertificationPoint: College Student Work Experience Builder
Felix Brandon Lloyd
Co-Founder & CEO of Zoobean
Mr. Felix Brandon Lloyd serves as Chief Professor of BancVue, Ltd. Mr. Lloyd founded and serves as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Dad at Zoobean, LLC. mr. Lloyd is a former Washington, D.C. Teacher of the Year and creator of MoneyIsland.
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About Zoobean: Zoobean offers an application that creates personalized reading challenges, reading tracking, and literacy resources for readers.
Greg Shove
Chief Executive Officer of Section4
Gregory Shove is the Chief Executive Officer of Section4.
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About Section4, SocialChorus: Section4 is democratizing business education through innovative and engaging 2-3 week sprints.
Craig Ulliott
CEO of Codeverse
Specialties:software development, scalable web architectures, social business models, viral marketing
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About Codeverse: Codeverse is the world’s first interactive coding studio & edtech platform,, founded on the mission to teach a billion kids to code.
Ramesh Ramani
Co-founder & CEO of Expertus
Ramesh sets the overall strategic direction for Expertus − ensuring that our products, services, organizational structure, operational practices and guiding principles work together to deliver superior value. A skilled entrepreneur, Ramesh has led many early-stage companies through successful growth. He’s adept at evaluating business opportunities and structuring companies to profitably address market needs. In particular, he excels at forming teams, developing talent and leveraging global alliances.
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About Expertus: Expertus Inc. offers learning management systems and services.
Gunnar Cuevas
CEO of CARL
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About CARL, Eight Two Capital: Investing platform. Access smart data-driven investment strategies
Sabari Raja
Co-Founder & CEO of Nepris
Sabari has a strong track record in building and launching successful education technology products in markets around the globe. Prior to starting Nepris, she worked for 15 years with Education Technology division of Texas Instruments to lead product and content strategy, publisher relations, business development, partnership and alliance ecosystem for new edtech products. Sabari has an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from India, Masters in Computer Science from Louisiana State University and graduated Beta Gamma Sigma with an Executive MBA degree from Cox School of Business, SMU.
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About Nepris: Nepris connects educators and learners with a network of industry professionals, virtually.
Eric Yang
Co-Founder and CEO of ITutorGroup
Eric Yang serves as Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at iTutorGroup. Eric Yang has had overall responsibility for setting the strategic direction of iTutorGroup. With over 15 years in the education business, Eric Yang has provided the vision and drive that has seen iTutorGroup become the world’s largest online English-language education platform based on the number of live sessions. Eric Yang has always been passionate about education and information technology. As a pioneer in online learning, Eric Yang is dedicated to redefine education through iTutorGroup’s innovative, technology-based, learner-centric, interactive platform.His endeavors has been consistently recognized by the industry. Under Eric Yang’s leadership, iTutorGroup has won various accolades in technology, innovation, and education. Eric Yang has spent almost two decades at the intersection of the education and technology sectors both in Asia and the US. Prior to iTutorGroup, he established and built a number of successful entrepreneurial ventures, including an internet venture and an education institution, in the 1990s. In his career, Eric Yang had taught and undertaken research at the University of Tokyo in Japan. Eric Yang received a Ph.D. in Chemistry from UCLA, where he also won awards for the quality of his teaching.
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About ITutorGroup: ITutorGroup provides individualized and personalized learning experiences to students and business professionals.
Dror Ben-Naim
Founder and CEO of Smart Sparrow
Dror Ben-Naim is Founder & CEO of Smart Sparrow. Dror spent the good part of the last 10 years thinking, coding, reading and writing about Adaptive eLearning. He is a big believer in empowering teachers with great technology that inspires them to teach better. He loves working with visionary teachers and learning from them. With a Ph.D. in Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Educational Data Mining from the University of New South Wales in Sydney and a Bachelor of Science in Physics and Computer Science, Dror is also Smart Sparrow’s chief nerd and software architect.
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About Smart Sparrow: Smart Sparrow owns and operates an e-learning platform, which enables students and professionals to create an e-learning courseware.
Elisabeth Stock
CEO & Co-Founder of CFY
Elisabeth Stock built CFY from a nascent non-profit in 1999 into a national leader in the K-12 digital learning space. Recognized as an expert in her field, Elisabeth is a Pahara-Aspen Education Fellow and a life-long Ashoka fellow. She has given a TEDx talk and high-level briefings at the White House, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Federal Communications Commission, and she has served as an advisor to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the NYC Department of Education. Elisabeth has been featured in the Wall Street Journal and on National Public Radio and has published Op-Eds in media outlets such as Education Week and the Huffington Post. In 2001, she was honored by Crain’s New York Business as one of 40 New Yorkers under 40 shaping the city. From 1996-97, Elisabeth served as a White House Fellow in the Office of the Vice President, where her experience as the principal architect of a government-wide education technology program led her to launch CFY a year later. Elisabeth was a high school teacher for two years while a Peace Corps volunteer and later worked for the World Bank on appropriate technology in Africa. She also worked at the Vera Institute of Justice and helped the Open Society Institute start the After-School Corporation. Elisabeth served as a member of the MIT Board of Trustees (1997-2002) and is the youngest individual ever to be appointed to the MIT Executive Committee (2000-2002). Elisabeth has earned four degrees from MIT. She also holds a patent for a medical device.
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About CFY, PowerMyLearning: CFY is a national nonprofit organization that helps students, teachers and parents use digital learning to improve educational outcomes.
Ben Nelson
Chairman & CEO of Minerva Project
Ben Nelson is the Chairman & CEO at Minerva Project.
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About Minerva Project: Minerva Project is designed to prepare students for leadership and innovation, combining liberal arts and sciences curriculum.
