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This list showcases the top United States based Founder operating in the E-Learning space. If you think a Founder 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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Ben Nelson
Co-Founder of Lambda School
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About Lambda School: Lambda School trains people to be software engineers for free in exchange for a share of future income.
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.
Eren Bali
Co-Founder of Udemy
Eren Bali is the CEO and Co-Founder of Carbon Health. Eren leads the Carbon team towards his vision to democratize healthcare and make quality care accessible for everyone. Previously, Eren paved the way to make education accessible by founding Udemy, the world’s largest marketplace for online courses, with over 10 million students worldwide. In his youth, Eren was a star mathematician, winning awards in mathematics, physics, computer science and chess including the International Mathematical Olympiads. He still loves chess today and plays to unwind after a long day at the office.
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About Carbon Health, 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.
Russell Belfer
Co-Founder and Engineering of Chatterbug
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About Chatterbug: Chatterbug building a new way to help you master language skills through adaptive courses.
Liz Clinkenbeard
Co-Founder and Chief Communications Officer of Chatterbug
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About Chatterbug: Chatterbug building a new way to help you master language skills through adaptive courses.
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.
Yonatan Raz-Fridman
Co-Founder of Kano
As Cofounder & CEO of Kano, Yonatan and Team Kano are building a personal computing experience for a new creative generation – anyone, anywhere, from London to Mumbai, from Boston to Shanghai. Kano launched on Kickstarter in 2013, raising $1.5 million, and recently has shipped over 20,000 Computer Kits to kids, parents and teachers from 86 countries. Prior to starting Kano, Yonatan worked with the CEO of Keter Group, one of the world’s leading designers, manufacturers and marketers of plastic consumer products. He’s a graduate of the Zell Entrepreneurship Program during which he co-founded Funkkit, and served as operations team lead at the IDF
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About Kano, Supersocial: Kano provides a system of kits and coding platform that enables users to develop apps, games, and music.
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.
Daniel Friedman
Co-Founder & President of Thinkful
Dan co-founded Thinkful with the belief that great education is built on strong relationships between students and teachers and between peers. Prior to starting Thinkful, Dan was a product manager at Elm City Labs, where he helped entrepreneurs turn their ideas into products and find their first customers. He first started as an analyst at RRE Ventures, a venture capital firm in NYC (and now a Thinkful investor). Dan attended Yale University, but dropped out after two years to join the Thiel Fellowship, a program that pays 20 people each year to leave college and start a company.
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About Thinkful: Thinkful provides 1-on-1 learning with industry experts to bring high growth tech careers to their students.
Shailu Tipparaju
Co-Founder & CTO of Examity
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About Dallas Venture Capital, Examity, Strateology: Examity is an online exam proctoring company.
Shereen Anis
Founder of Kid Koderz
Shereen Anis bootstrapped, created and is the Founder of Kid Koderz
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About Kid Koderz, Representation Counts: Technology Education Summer Camp and After School Enrichment Program for Kids/ Teens
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.
Hakan Satiroglu
Co-Founder of LearnLaunch Fund + Accelerator
Hakan Satiroglu is the Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer at XR Terra.
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About LearnLaunch Fund + Accelerator, Mountain Gap Solutions, Testive, XR InLearning, XR Terra: LearnLaunch Fund + Accelerator invests in and supports entrepreneurs on the mission to positively transform education.
Eileen Rudden
Co-Founder & Board Member of LearnLaunch Fund + Accelerator
Eileen Rudden is the founder of Sankaty Growth Partners, and co-founder of LearnLaunch. Most recently, she served as the Chief Officer of College and Career Preparation for the Chicago Public Schools, where she led the efforts of the third largest public school system in the U.S. to ensure that its 400,000 students are college and career ready. She was a 2009 Broad Fellow and graduate of the Broad Superintendent’s Academy. Rudden is the Board Chair of SoundBite Communications (NASDAQ: SDBT), and former VP and GM of the Unified Communications Division at Avaya, a Fortune 500 business communications provider. At IBM’s Lotus Software unit, Rudden was senior vice president and general manager responsible for Lotus Notes and Same Time, the leading email and collaboration software. She also served as CEO of FairMarket (NASDAQ:FAIM). She is currently Chair of the Advisory Committee on Computing and Information Technology at Brown. She also serves as a board member at The Achievement Network, KnowledgeWorks Foundation, Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education, Maria Mitchell Association, and Pew Center on the Internet and American Life. Rudden received her MBA from Harvard Business School and her BA from Brown University.
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About LearnLaunch Fund + Accelerator: LearnLaunch Fund + Accelerator invests in and supports entrepreneurs on the mission to positively transform education.
Frank Yeary
Founder of WriteLab
Frank Yeary is executive chairman of CamberView Partners, a leading source of independent, investor-led advice for public companies. He was Vice Chancellor of his alma mater, University of California, Berkeley, from 2008 to 2012 and prior to this appointment was Global Head of Mergers & Acquisitions at Citigroup Investment Banking. Until its sale in 2015, he was also Chairman and Co-founder of Level Money, Inc., a financial organization helping the next generation of young adults achieve financial balance. As vice chancellor at UC Berkeley, Yeary led the development of a new sustainable financial strategy, designed and implemented the university’s first comprehensive middle-class financial aid program and initiated and oversaw the implementation of one of the largest re-engineering and cost reduction efforts ever undertaken by a public university. In addition, for nearly two years he acted as chief administrative officer managing a portfolio including finance, human resources, labor relations, internal controls and intercollegiate athletics. Prior to his appointment at UC Berkeley, Yeary held various positions in the investment banking division of Citigroup. During the period 2004 to 2008 he was Global Head of Mergers & Acquisitions where he significantly restructured the department, nearly tripled revenues and led the firm from the fifth to the second largest M&A business, as ranked by global M&A volume. Prior to 2004 he was global head of the Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT) investment banking practice at Salomon Smith Barney. Yeary received a bachelor’s degree from University of California, Berkeley in history and economics. He is on the boards of directors of eBay, Inc and Intel Corporation.
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About WriteLab: WriteLab is an online writing platform offering immediate, objective, and constructive responses to any writer’s prose.
Donald McQuade
Co-Founder and Chief Learning Officer of WriteLab
Donald McQuade is the Co-Founder and Chief Learning Officer at WriteLab.
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About WriteLab: WriteLab is an online writing platform offering immediate, objective, and constructive responses to any writer’s prose.
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
Charu Noheria
Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Practically
Charu Noheria is a Co-founder and Chief Operating Office at 3RDFLIX Visual Effects Pvt. Ltd.
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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.
Nick Grandy
Co-Founder of Outschool
Nick Grandy is the Co-Founder of Outschool. He leads product and support. He was previously product manager at Clever, first engineer at Airbnb and worked as a high school physics teacher in Brooklyn. Nick holds an AB in Astronomy from Harvard and an MSc in Computer Science from Oxford.
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About Outschool: Outschool is a marketplace of live online classes for kids that connects learners, parents, and teachers together.
Mikhail Seregine
Co-Founder of Outschool
Mikhail Seregine is the Co-Founder of Outschool. He leads engineering and design. He’s previously worked to design and build Google Consumer Surveys, Social Gold payment services, and Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. Mikhail holds a BS in Computer Science from Stanford.
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About Outschool: Outschool is a marketplace of live online classes for kids that connects learners, parents, and teachers together.
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.
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.
Lee Daley
Co-Founder, Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer, and Chairman of Hello Genius
Lee Daley currently works as Chairman, Co-Founder, and Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer at Hello Genius. He previously worked at McCann Worldgroup as Chief Strategy Officer EMEA, WW Head of Strategic Planning, Knowledge and Innovation, and Global Board Director.
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About Hello Genius: Hello Genius is an app-based learning system that connects parents and children through personalized learning experiences.
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.
Joshua Dahn
CCO & Co-Founder of Synthesis School
Joshua Dahn is the Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Synthesis School. He is also the Founder of Astra Nova School.
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About Synthesis School: Synthesis School is an online enrichment program for ages 8 to 14 with a mission to nurture future innovators.
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.
Ryan Bubinski
Co-Founder of Codecademy
Ryan and Zach have been working together on Codecademy since 2011, back when they were students at Columbia.He started building web applications at age 13 and hasn’t stopped since, except for an occasional break to practice cooking or spend time with team members and friends.
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About 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.
Lalit Ahuja
Founder of Ansrsource
Prior to co-founding ansrgroup in 2003, Lalit served as the CEO of several companies including Datamatics, LG, News Corporation (Star TV) and NDS Ltd. He also held posts as the CEO and chairman of Target Corporation India.
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About ANSR Consulting, Ansrsource, Kyron Global Accelerator, X-10 by ANSR: Multidisciplinary content & project development for higher education & professional training institutes
Byron Hsu
Co-Founder, President, CTO of Paragon One
Founder at Paragon One.
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About Founders Pledge, Paragon One: Paragon One turns company work into scalable remote externships that help students gain hands-on work experience in different industries.
Beth Porter
Co-Founder, President & COO of Esme Learning Solutions
Beth is vice president of product and will lead the strategy, development, and implementation of edX’s product roadmap. Prior to edX, Beth was vice president of software product management at Pearson Education where she led product and service development for large-scale online education systems. Beth has spent her career envisioning and developing computer-enabled and online teaching and learning experiences. Her education expertise helps edX develop a cutting-edge platform to help professors, learners, and institutions transform education. Beth holds a BA and an MAT from Cornell University.
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About Esme Learning Solutions, Riff Analytics: Esme Learning is transforming the world’s workforce for the Fourth Industrial Revolution using AI.
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.
Oksana Kovalchuk
Founder of ANODA Web & Mobile Development Agency
“When I started ANODA in 2013, my experience in the industry was frustrating. From one side waterfall way built buggy products. On the other, we had dozens of uncontrolled tickets without a plan and with missed deadlines. Both developers and clients were completely frustrated with results, expectations, and quality. Experience working inside big outsourcing companies gave me an idea to create another(anoda) way to create software. For customers and team players, this way should be both flexible and predictable. This value became our DNA. I wanted to make excellent software that people would actually use. And to do that by putting the human element back in software development. As a first stage, we implemented our processes like Agile. That gave power and responsibility back to the creator. And we built the principle of testing constantly into our flow. When completed these changes, I added warranty in our responsibility. It is a personal challenge to keep any application that was crafted by our minds on a top-level of quality. No matter what. Transform people’s life through software. Automate boring tasks and free up more time for creativity. Now we’re working on robotic process automation to free up more time for creative people from routine to put in place innovative things. It is to achieve more than 1 billion downloads of all our crafted apps by the end of 2030. We think we’re off to a pretty good start.
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About ANODA Web & Mobile Development Agency: Web and Mobile solutions for Healthcare and IoT
Lawrence Kosick
Co-Founder of GetSetUp
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About GetSetUp: 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.
Stephanie Dua
Co-Founder and President of BEGiN
Stephanie Dua is Co-Founder & President of BEGiN, parent company of HOMER. After launching her career at McKinsey & Co.,Stephanie spent 15 years in public education, most recently as a Senior Advisor to the Common Core Standards effort.She served as the CEO of the New York City Education Department’s Fund for Public Schools, raising more than $165 million to support literacy and teacher-training efforts. In 2009, she was named to Crain’s New York Business 40 Under 40 list. She received a BA in geophysics from UCLA and a Masters from the Harvard Kennedy School where she was a Kennedy Fellow. Stephanie lives in Coconut Grove, FL, with her husband and three daughters.
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About BEGiN, HOMER: BEGiN is an award-winning company offering best-in-class solutions across digital, physical, and experiential learning to kids globally.
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.
Max Deutsch
Co-Founder of Monthly
Max Deutsch is a Co-Founder at Monthly.
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About Monthly, Openmind: Monthly provides hands-on, one-month classes for everyone to experience the creativity and fulfillment of learning new things with others.
Valentin Perez
Co-Founder of Monthly
Valentin Perez is a Co-Founder at Monthly.
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About Monthly, Openmind: Monthly provides hands-on, one-month classes for everyone to experience the creativity and fulfillment of learning new things with others.
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
Chris Murphy
Co-Founder/CTO 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.
Dustyn Williams
Co-Founder & Lead Educator of OnlineMedEd
Dustyn Williams is a Co-Founder and Lead Educator at OnlineMedEd.
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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.
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.
Alex Ricken
CPO, Co-Founder, Board Member of Podium Education
Director of Open Scale at Arizona State University COO at Grockit
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About Podium Education: Podium Education helps colleges and universities add in-demand tech skills to undergraduate majors.
Chris Haroun
Founder of Haroun Education Ventures
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About Accenture, Haroun Education Ventures: Haroun Education Ventures They think that all problems in the world can be solved using education and technology.
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.
Dan Cogan-Drew
Co-Founder & Chief Academic Officer of Newsela
Dan brings twenty-plus years of professional experience spent working towards a more perfect union of teaching, learning and technology. Most recently, Dan was the founding Director of Digital Learning at Achievement First Public Charter Schools, where he spearheaded the integration of digital learning technologies across twenty-two schools, including flipped classrooms, mobile learning, and 1:1 computing. He was also a founding member of the Gates Foundation Next Generation Community of Practice, traveling the country to visit sites of innovation and reviewing dozens of software products across K–12 math and literacy. Prior to this, Dan was Director of Programs at the Connecticut Career Choices Program, where he developed blended high school STEM programs and co-authored one of the highest rated applications to the Race to the Top I3 grant program. Before that he taught and developed federally funded professional development programs in the Graduate Department of Education at Tufts University. Dan also rode the dot-com boom as a content producer at Fact City, a search engine startup. He began his education career in Teach for America in Wrightsville, GA, and went on to teach in public and private schools, as well as in the US Navy. He holds a B.A. in English and Spanish from Wesleyan University, an M.A. in English Literature from Brown University, and an M.A. in Educational Studies from Tufts University. Dan is a longtime youth and college coach and two-time world champion ultimate Frisbee player (1999 and 2000) with the legendary Boston club team Death or Glory. He and his wife are raising two Newsela readers in Maplewood, New Jersey.
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About Newsela: Newsela is an Ed-tech startup that takes content from trusted providers and turns it into learning materials.
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.
Juan Pablo Mejia
Co-Founder and CTO of BabySparks
Juan Pablo Mejia is the founder of Intellecting, a company that specializes in creating and implementing web-enabled IT solutions. Juan Pablo worked for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) where he was the creator of UN’s most visited portal. Juan Pablo has a degree in Industrial Engineering, with a concentration in Information Technology (IT) from The University of Los Andes in Colombia. He has an advanced degree from ICN Business School (France) where he specialized in International Management, again focusing on IT.
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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.
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.
Melina Lopez
Founder of Praxis Labs
Melina Lopez is a Co-Founder of Praxis Labs.
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About Praxis Labs: Praxis reimagines corporate bias training, integrating research-backed curriculum with cutting-edge VR technology.
Heather Shen
Founder of Praxis Labs
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About Praxis Labs: Praxis reimagines corporate bias training, integrating research-backed curriculum with cutting-edge VR technology.
Peter Zandan
Executive Board Chair/Co-Founder/Investor of Quantified
Global Vice Chairman of Hill & Knowlton Strategies Founder and CEO of Intelliquest (IQST) a NASDAQ traded information firm, sold to WPP. Founder and CEO of Zilliant. Ph.D. in Evaluation Research, MBA from University of Texas, Austin
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About Quantified: Quantified is an AI-Powered Coaching Platform that helps you have Better Conversations with Better Outcomes.
Justin Kestler
Co-Founder of LitCharts
Justin Kestler is the Co-Founder at LitCharts.
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About LitCharts: LitCharts is a literary resource, with lots of literature guides, literary terms, and modern English translations of every Shakespeare play.
Nina Zolt
Co-Chair, Co-Founder, Chief Program Architect, Board of Directors of Cricket Media
A tenacious advocate for educational equity and teacher empowerment through digital media, Nina Zolt founded In2Books in 1997. In 2007, she merged In2Books with the ePals Classroom Exchange, co-founding the current ePals. She created In2Books, ePals’ flagship common core eMentoring program in 1998 and in 2012 it received the CODIE Award for Best Reading/English Instructional Solution. Zolt served as a member of the Washington D.C. Advisory Board of Directors for Teach for America (2000-2011) and the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (2004-2010). She also served as an Advisory Board Member for the International Reading Association (2008-2010). She is a co-author of Getting Children In2Books: Engagement in Authentic Reading, Writing and Thinking (Phi Delta Kappan, 2007). She has an A.B. from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from Boston University School of Law. She received an honorary doctorate from National-Louis University in 2004 and from Bryant College in 2012. In 2007, Boston University School of Law awarded Zolt its Silver Shingle Award for distinguished service to the community.
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About Cricket Media: Cricket Media is an education media company providing content on a safe and secure learning network for children, families, and teachers.
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.
David Wiley
Co-Founder and Chief Academic Officer of Lumen Learning
David Wiley is Chief Academic Officer of Lumen Learning, an organization dedicated to increasing student success, reinvigorating pedagogy, and improving the affordability of education through the adoption of open educational resources by schools, community and state colleges, and universities. He is also currently the Education Fellow at Creative Commons and adjunct faculty in Brigham Young University’s graduate program in Instructional Psychology and Technology, where he leads the Open Education Group (and was previously a tenured Associate Professor). As an academic, Dr. Wiley has received numerous recognitions for his work, including an National Science Foundation CAREER grant and appointments as a Nonresident Fellow in the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, a Peery Social Entrepreneurship Research Fellow in the BYU Marriott School of Business, and a Shuttleworth Fellow. As a social entrepreneur, Dr. Wiley has founded or co-founded numerous entities including Lumen Learning, Degreed, and the Open High School of Utah (now Mountain Heights Academy). In 2009, Fast Company named Dr. Wiley one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business. David was born and grew up in West Virginia. He is an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons). He served a two-year mission for the church in Fukuoka, Japan, and now serves as bishop of a student congregation at Brigham Young University. David lives in Utah with his wife and five children and enjoys hiking, running, playing basketball, listening to and making music, and reading.
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About Carnegie Mellon University, 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.
Michael Vilardo
Co-Founder, President, COO, and Board Director of Emile Learning
Michael Vilardo is the Co-Founder, President, COO, & Board Director at Emile Learning.
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About Emile Learning: Building the Netflix of HS education, where students can earn HS and College credit for engaging with our premium videos.
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.
Vasu Ram
Chief Product & Technology Officer / Founder of Raven360
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About Raven360: Raven360 provides a sales readiness platform that delivers up-to-date and consistent sales content, training and coaching.
Ilya Gorelik
Co-Founder & CTO of VirtualJobShadow
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About VirtualJobShadow, VirtualJobShadow: Strivven Media is a leading developer of high-tech, career exploration products for students.
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.
Joshua Goldberg
Co-Founder, Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer of Legends of Learning
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About Legends of Learning, NextGen Venture Partners: Legends of Learning is an e-learning platform focused on game-based learning to advance education.
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.
Yijen Liu
Founder of Human
Yijen Liu is the Founder of Human. She was the VP of Product at Mezi.com (Acquired by American Express).
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About Human: Human is an e-learning platform to hear and follow voice notes from the greatest mentors.
Federico Schiano di Pepe
Founder of Teachfloor
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About Forbes Magazine, GoPillar, GoPillar Academy, Teachfloor: Building the future of education with a cohort-based courses platform
Al Lieb
Co-Founder of Gixo
Al Lieb joined Gixo as Co-Founder in 2016.
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About CreatorPlus, Gixo, SFR3 Fund: Gixo develops a mobile application that offers online fitness classes from professional coaches.
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.
Frederick Gale Ruffner
Co-Founder of GALE CENGAGE Learning
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About GALE CENGAGE Learning: Cengage Learning delivers highly customized learning solutions for colleges, universities, professors, students, libraries, government
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.
Ralph Sita
President / Co-Founder of Cybrary
Co-Founder at Cybrary; CEO / Founder at TrainACE
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About Academy of Computer Education, Cybrary, Game Planner Pro: Cybrary is the cybersecurity and IT Career Development Platform. Cybrary is the fastest growing, fastest-moving catalog in the industry.
Ush Patel
Founder of BrightStart
At VKRM, a small boutique venture firm, Ush primarily focuses on finding and evaluating investment opportunities and the strategic direction of the company. Over the past three years he has closely worked with the current portfolio advising them on financing, recruitment and business development. Previously, he helped launch Apara Global Services and developed its client base to enable growth in its European and Middle East business. Prior to that, Ush was a senior technology manager with Merrill Lynch for 7 years where, he was instrumental in the development and implementation of key operational processes that form the underpinning of his group’s success today. Ush has a Bachelors degree in Mathematics and Management from King College London and a Masters in Computer Science and Engineering from University College London. He currently serves on the board of Indus International Schools and Bring Me A Book Foundation. When he’s not working or spending time with his young family.
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About BrightStart: BrightStart is an interactive learning system that teaches children Letters, Words, Numbers and Phonics
Chris Brigham
Founder & Chief Architect of Viv
Chris Brigham is Founder at Viv Labs. he previously workded at Apple Inc.
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About Viv: Viv radically simplifies the world by providing an intelligent interface to everything.
