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At CEO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top New York 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 [email protected].
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Gunnar Cuevas
CEO of CARL
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About CARL, Eight Two Capital: Investing platform. Access smart data-driven investment strategies
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.
Craig Tashman
Founder and CEO of LiquidText
Founder and user experience designer. Comfortable in the complete life cycle of interactive technology creation, from initial requirements gathering and design, to technology transfer, business model development, and customer development. PhD from Georgia Tech in human computer interaction.
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About LiquidText: LiquidText improves the reading experience by allowing users to better understand, synthesize, visualize, and collaborate over digital text.
Kristy McCann Flynn
Chief Executive Officer of GoCoach
Kristy has 15 years of experience as a Strategic Human Resource Leader, Change Manager and Organizational Development Expert. She has served in senior leadership positions throughout her career most notably with Pearson Education and Constant Contact. Kristy brings a big picture perspective and a hands-on, tactical approach to her leadership that she is now bringing to life with gocoach where she is CEO & Founder. Kristy’s goal has always been to help and educate others to meet their ultimate success. She is now converting this energy into a company whose mission is to help and educate others to own their career.
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About GoCoach: GoCoach is a B2B SaaS Subscription Talent Development Platform that upskills all employees with it’s coach marketplace and learning platform
Jacob Lewis
Co-Founder, Co-CEO, and President of Authoritive
Jacob Lewis is a print and digital media executive and entrepreneur. He was the Managing Editor of The New Yorker magazine, where he worked for more than twelve years, and was, most recently, the Publishing Director at Crown Publishing, a division of Penguin Random House. Jacob started and ran figment.com, a site he sold to Bertelsmann/Random House in 2013.
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About Authoritive: Authoritive builds customized learning experiences over messaging technology for experts and creators.
Christy Fletcher
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Authoritive
Christy Fletcher is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO at Authoritive.
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About Authoritive: Authoritive builds customized learning experiences over messaging technology for experts and creators.
Jason Wachob
Founder & Co-CEO of mindbodygreen
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About mindbodygreen: Mindbodygreen is an independent media brand dedicated to wellness.
Brandon Goon
CEO of Be Anything
Brandon Goon is the founder and CEO of Be Anything, a project management platform that enables students to define their learning and helps teachers provide just-in-time feedback. When Brandon was 16, he dropped out of high school. His lust to design and invent didn’t have a place in education. Now, Brandon’s mission is to reinvent education its self.
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About Be Anything: Project Management Platform for the Classroom
Anayet Chowdhury
CEO & Co-Founder of ArgoPrep
Anayet Chowdhury is the CEO & Co-Founder at ArgoPrep.
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About ArgoPrep, Microphone Rocks: ArgoPrep is an educational publishing and technology company that offers test prep workbooks for K-12 and various standardized exams
Greg Brill
Co-Founder & CEO of Thread Learning
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About Thread Learning: Bringing autism education into the digital age
Sara LaHayne
Founder & CEO of Move This World
Sara is the Founder & CEO of Move This World, the leading provider of social-emotional learning (SEL) multimedia experiences for PreK-12 students, educators, and families. Move This World has already impacted the lives of over 2 million students across 42 states. A graduate of the University of Virginia, Sara is a 2016 Stevie Award Winner for “Female Innovator of the Year;” a Global Shaper with the World Economic Forum; an American Express Ashoka Emerging Innovator; a Cordes Fellow with the Opportunity Collaboration; the only U.S. recipient of the Youth Leader Award in the Americas by the Inter-American Development Bank Annual Board of Governors Meeting; an Ashoka Activating Empathy Award Winner; a three-time Beyond Sport Award Finalist; named a “Woman Entrepreneur” by World Resources Institute New Ventures Mexico; a Creative Community Fellow with National Arts Strategies; a StartingBloc Fellow; a Finalist Nominee Social Entrepreneur/Innovator for the Women’s Information Network 18th Annual Young Women of Achievement Award; 1 of 3 Artists Transforming the World by the Arts and Healing Network; Global Good Fund Fellow; honored among The Jewish Week NY’s “36 Under 36”; and a Susan Schiffer Stautberg Leadership Fellow. She has presented at conferences across 5 continents and been featured in CNN, Forbes, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, ABC7, The Atlantic, Education Week, The Huffington Post, Inc, USA TODAY, The Hechinger Report, Education Dive, TODAY Parenting, Edutopia, and EdSurge, among others. A life-long dancer and previous professional performer, Sara was a Fulbright Scholar in Bogotá, Colombia when she authored, implemented, and evaluated the original Move This World curriculum. Most importantly, she is the inspired mother of two little girls, who present her with hourly opportunities to Move This World, and lives with them and her husband in Brooklyn, NY. For more information about Sara, her speaking, and her writing visit www.sarapotlerlahayne.com.
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About Move This World: The leading social-emotional skills curricula: evidence-based, developmentally appropriate multimedia experiences for schools and families.
Scott Lee
Founder and CEO of Gooroo
On a mission to reimagine education, unlock every student’s potential, and promote lifelong learning for all. Founder and CEO of Gooroo, a next-generation AI platform that is disrupting the tutoring market. With data-driven insights from personalized learning experts, we are crafting algorithms that help match students with their perfect Gooroo based on their specifications. Previously a Senior Analyst at JP Morgan Chase’s Chief Investment Office. Prior to Gooroo, I also founded Peertutor.co.kr, a non-profit platform that connected underserved children with English tutor volunteers, and Mud Cafe, a niche online fashion retailer.
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About Gooroo, Peertutor.co.kr: Gooroo is a subscription-based educational technology company that provides exceptional on-demand courses and personalized tutor matching.
Joshua Powe
CEO & Co-Founder of LinkIt!
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About LinkIt!: Based in NYC, LinkIt! is a leading K12 assessment management and performance analytics platform focused on improving learning outcomes.
Nancy Spears
CEO & Founder of genconnectU
Nancy Spears in 2008 founded genConnect, a digital media company that engages audiences with world-class experts and their wisdom. The mission of genConnect, which has a media presence at such high-profile events as the Aspen Food & Wine Classic, Aspen Ideas Festival, SXSW and Sundance Film Festival, is to link audiences directly to experts on everything that matters through short-form video, online chats and eCommerce.
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About genconnectU: genConnectU is an EdTech eLearning platform which creates and distributes world-class expert video courses, targeting a female audience.
Carol Barash
Founder & CEO of Story2
Award-winning author, educator, and entrepreneur Carol Barash holds degrees from Yale (BA, summa cum laude), UVa (MA), and Princeton (PhD) and has spent 20+ years innovating EdTech. In 2014, with support from Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses and investments from Techstars and Kaplan Ventures, she founded Story2 to improve speaking, writing, and collaboration and to accelerate cross-border communication. More than 200,000 students, businesses and organizations around the world have used her patented Moments Method® software to outperform competition in admissions, career development, and personal writing and to launch new products and companies.
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About McGraw-Hill Education, Story2: Story2 is a provider of a platform used to expand speaking, writing, and collaboration through online storytelling.
Owen Grover
CEO of TrueFire Studios
Owen Grover is the CEO of Pocket Casts. Prior to joining Pocket Casts, Owen spent 12 years at iHeartMedia, where he was a founding member of the iHeartRadio team and led digital transformation at the nation’s leading audio platform. Owen has extensive audio and music industry experience in the areas of digital including mobile, video and social platforms. Owen earned his MBA in Finance and Marketing from Columbia Business School and A.B. degree in History from Columbia University – New York.
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About TrueFire Studios: TrueFire Studios is an alliance of the world’s leading online music education companies.
Stephen Cornwell
Founder & CEO of Northpass
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About Northpass: Northpass is a learning platform that enables organizations to train employees, customers, and channel partners.
Vyacheslav Kalaushin
Founder/CEO of EdCAS
EdTech entrepreneur with extensive experience in the Russian market. He focused on creating educational technologies and uniting startups. For him, the most important thing about the product is its usability, design and the strongest technologies that outperform the market on the backend.
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About EdCAS: EdCAS is a SaaS LMS, based on microlearning. UX/UI focused platform, designed for Millennials and Generation Z.
Mohannad Arbaji
Founder, CEO of ChalkTalk
Mohannad Arbaji is the founder and ceo at chalktalk.
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About ChalkTalk: ChalkTalk is a platform for teachers & trainers to build, personalize, & run their real-time learning courses
Victoria Van Voorhis
Founder & CEO of Second Avenue Learning
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About National Science Foundation, Second Avenue Learning: Founded by educators and gamers, Second Avenue Learning provides custom development and managed services to education technology clients.
Paul Cypher
President & CEO of CypherWorX
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About CypherWorX: CypherWorX is an e-learning solutions company that partners with small businesses and non-profit corporations.
Roy Zur
Founder & CEO of Cybint
Roy Zur is the Founder & CEO at Cybint.
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About Cybint, IDC Herzliya, OMEK Institute: Cybint is a global cyber education company with a commitment to reskilling the workforce and upskilling the industry in cybersecurity.
Adda Birnir
Founder & Instructor, CEO of Skillcrush
Adda is not only the CEO and founder of Skillcrush, but also an instructor. With her self-taught tech skills, she’s worked on building sites for the New York Times, ProPublica and MTV. When Adda isn’t developing or teaching on Skillcrush, she enjoys watching Hall & Oates videos on YouTube.
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About Skillcrush: Skillcrush is an online learning community that conducts classes in design, coding, and other digital skills.
Jessica Sliwerski
Chief Executive Officer of Open Up Resources
Jessica Sliwerski is the Chief Executive Officer of Open Up Resources.
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About Open Up Resources: Open Up Resources was originally incubated by The Learning Accelerator
Felicia Wong
President & CEO of Roosevelt Institute
Felicia came to the Institute from the Democracy Alliance, where she led the development and assessment of the organization’s strategic investment portfolio. Previously, Felicia ran operations and product development at a venture-funded education services company. Her public service includes a White House Fellowship in the Office of the Attorney General and a political appointment in the Office of the Secretary of the Navy. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. Her doctoral dissertation on the role of race and framing in K-12 public education politics received the 2000 American Political Science Association award in Race, Ethnicity, and Politics.
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About Roosevelt Institute: Roosevelt Institute is a non-profit organization that engages new generations in activism.
Bobby Rauch
Founder and CEO of StudyGuideMaker.com
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About StudyGuideMaker.com: Don’t waste anymore time making study guides. Checkout StudyGuideMaker.com and make custom study guides instantly!
Sameer Shariff
Founder & CEO of Impelsys
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About Impelsys: Impelsys is an online media company providing content monetization services.
Jason Boorn
CEO of Roobricks
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About Roobricks: A roobrick is a smart performance coach that can cut training costs, improve transparency, and keep everyone focused on what matters most.
Neha Uberoi
CEO, Founder of AcedUp
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About AcedUp: Admissions counseling, test prep, tutoring and more
