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This list showcases the top New York based CEO’ operating in the EdTech 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.
Ankur Nagpal
Founder & CEO of Teachable
Founder of Fedora.
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About Teachable: Teachable is a venture-backed company that allows anyone to create and sell online courses.
Michał Borkowski
Co-founder & CEO of Brainly
Michał is the CEO and co-founder of Brainly and is responsible for product strategy, company strategy and culture. He and his co-founders established Brainly in 2009 in Kraków, driven by the conviction that collaborative online communities can empower students from around the world with knowledge and information. In a little more than a decade, Brainly has become the world’s largest online learning community for students, parents and teachers. After moving to New York City and living there for 4 years to open and build Brainly’s US office, Michał was only 16 when he started his first company, and he’s been shaking up the internet ever since. He grew up in a small town in Poland before heading to Warsaw to study corporate finance at the acclaimed Warsaw School of Economics. Michał now lives in Kraków with his wife, Kasia.
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About Brainly: Brainly is an online learning platform where students and parents get homework and study help from peers and experts.
Genevieve Ryan Bellaire
Founder & CEO of Realworld
Genevieve Ryan Bellaire is the Founder and CEO of Realworld, a company that provides a simple way to navigate adulthood and its life moments, with help from your community. Genevieve has had a broad array of professional experience across business, law, and government. An attorney by profession, she received her JD/MBA from Georgetown University, and worked on strategic partnerships at Goldman Sachs until leaving to found Real World Playbook. Genevieve received her B.A. in Politics-International Relations from Princeton University, where she held numerous campus leadership roles and graduated with Honors in her department. Beyond her work in the entrepreneurial world, Genevieve is passionate about women’s empowerment, education, and national security. She currently serves as a member of the Pencils of Promise Leadership Council, the Acumen Fund Young Professional Committee, and the Washington Institute for Business, Government, and Society.
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About Realworld: The #1 platform to navigate adulthood
Heather Hartnett
CEO and Founding Partner of Human Ventures
Heather Hartnett is the CEO and founding partner of Human Ventures, an early-stage venture studio in NYC that backs and builds industry-changing business. Heather has spent her career in venture capital, technology startups, and philanthropy. She was recently featured in Business Insider as “the first female-led startup studio in New York City” bringing a fresh new perspective to the tech scene. Heather also serves on the Leadership Council for tech:nyc. Prior to Human Ventures, Heather incubated companies within a NYC-based venture fund that invests in companies seeking to generate measurable social impact alongside financial returns. Heather leads the Human team with a knack for identifying innate talent, and a track record of building strong, successful early teams.
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About AARP, Human Ventures: Human Ventures is a business creation platform, comprised of a venture fund, studio and enterprise agency.
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.
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.
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.
Nicole Neal
Co-Founder & CEO of Noodle Markets
Nicole is a visionary leader and pioneer at building transformative educational products. As the CEO of Noodle Markets, she leads the company in its mission to enhance efficiency and transparency within the education landscape by revolutionizing K-12 purchasing. Prior to joining the company, Nicole was the President of the Education Solutions Group at CORE Education Consulting and Solutions, Inc., where she oversaw a staff of 300 employees and managed a portfolio of formative assessment, intervention, and content solutions for districts and states serving the Pre-K, K-12, Employability, Special Education and Higher Education sectors. Nicole also served as the Senior Vice President of Major Accounts and State Services for Pearson Education Inc., one of the world’s largest education publishing and technology companies. Prior to Pearson, she served as Senior Vice President of Client Services for Schoolnet, Inc. Nicole holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from Binghamton University’s Watson School of Engineering and an MBA from the University of Maryland University College. When she is not working, Nicole finds great joy in mentoring young girls and spending quality time with her family and friends
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About Noodle Markets: Noodle Markets is K-12’s first digital procurement platform and national marketplace.
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.
Justin Wenig
Co-Founder & CEO of Coursedog
Justin Wenig is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder at Coursedog.
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About Coursedog: Coursedog builds software that powers Higher Education.
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.
Rakesh Gupta
Chairman & CEO of KiwiTech
Rakesh is the founder and CEO of Kiwitech, a digital interactive production and publishing house with over 300 APP’s in the companies production portfolio. Prior to founding Kiwitech, Rakesh was the founder and CEO of Aptara Corp, a leading Digital publishing & production company with over 4000 employees. The company was acquired in 2008 and was started from Rakesh’s kitchen table.
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About KiwiTech, KiwiVenture Partners: KiwiTech is a growing innovation ecosystem that’s home to more than 500 portfolio companies and 2000 investors.
Andrew S. Rosen
Chairman & CEO of Kaplan
Andrew S. Rosen is Chairman of Kaplan, Inc., among the largest, most diverse global education organizations and the largest subsidiary of Graham Holdings Company. He also serves as Executive Vice President of Graham Holdings Company. Throughout his two decade career at Kaplan, Rosen has helped pioneer much of the company’s innovation and growth, with a focus on student success and outcomes. These include the founding of Concord Law School, the first fully online law school in the U.S.; the development of Kaplan University from a few dozen to more than 50,000 online students; and the creation of new blended online and classroom-based learning opportunities for both working adults and test preparation students.
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About Kaplan: Kaplan, Inc., a subsidiary of Graham Holdings Company, is a premier provider of educational services.
Thomas C. Leppert
CEO of Kaplan
Thomas C. Leppert is the Chief Executive Officer of Kaplan, Inc., the global educational services company and largest subsidiary of Graham Holdings Company. Leppert first joined Kaplan in January 2013 as the company’s President and Chief Operating Officer, with oversight of its various operating divisions across North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. He assumed his current role in April 2014. Leppert has extensive leadership experience that includes high profile positions in both the private and public sector. His professional work has spanned managing companies in the role of CEO in a wide range of industries to leading a major U.S. city as the elected Mayor. From 2007-2011, he was the elected Mayor of Dallas, Texas. In that role, he instilled a professional, supportive and business focused approach and a strong sense of cooperation, optimism and “can do” spirit within the city and community. He championed policies to improve the quality of life in Dallas and made the city a national focal point in the areas of public safety, economic development, and the environment. In addition, Leppert led two successful referendums to build major projects in Dallas and guided a reform of local ethics standards. As Mayor, he pursued a strong education agenda, creating programs for early reading, which touched over 60,000 children locally, internships in concert with area businesses to demonstrate the importance of education, and scholarship programs targeted at graduating students in underserved Dallas high schools. He donated his mayoral salary to scholarships. Leppert’s public career followed 30 years of leading major national and international corporations in the areas of construction, financial services, homebuilding and real estate. He served as the Chairman and CEO of The Turner Corporation, the nation’s largest general building company. In that role, from 1999 to 2006, he led the company into new markets, doubled its revenues, and initiated Turner University, an innovative internal, online training program for its 7,000 plus employees. Prior to Turner, Leppert was Vice Chairman of Pacific Century Financial Corporation and its major subsidiary, the Bank of Hawaii; President and CEO of Castle & Cooke Properties, Inc.; and a National Partner at Trammell Crow Company. He began his career at McKinsey & Co. where he was elected a Principal of the firm. Leppert served as a White House Fellow in 1984 under President Ronald Reagan. He holds an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School and graduated cum laude from Claremont McKenna College. He has been engaged in education from a number of perspectives. In addition to his work as Mayor, Leppert chaired the West Dallas Community School, a private faith based K-8 school in in one of the lowest income areas of the nation. He has also served on the boards of a local high school, Claremont McKenna College and Harvard Business School Alumni. A lifelong community volunteer, he has served numerous community groups and charitable organizations on both the local and national levels. Leppert served as chair of the Greater Dallas Regional Chamber, the Hawaii Business Roundtable, and the Bishop Museum. He has also served on numerous boards, including the US Chamber of Commerce, National Building Museum, and Executive Board of US Conference of Mayors. He was appointed by President George W. Bush to the White House Fellows Commission. He is a noted speaker and has appeared regularly in the media as both a topical authority and representative of the organizations he led. He has been recognized for his leadership, including “CEO of the Year” by D Magazine, the “Texas Businessman of the Year” by the Texas Association of Business, the “Torch of Conscience Award” from American Jewish Congress, and “The Global Cross Millennium Award for Corporate Environmental Leadership” from Global Green. He has also been inducted into the “Energy Efficiency Hall of Fame” and the “Dallas Business Hall of Fame”. He and his wife Laura have three children and are members of First Baptist Church Dallas and Park Cities Baptist Church.
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About Kaplan: Kaplan, Inc., a subsidiary of Graham Holdings Company, is a premier provider of educational services.
Harry Aurora
Founder & CEO of iTutor.com
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About iTutor.com: iTutor offers schools and education institutions cloud-based technology solutions to support teachers and advance student learning.
Charlie Javice
Founder & CEO of Frank Financial Aid
Charlie Javice is the founder and CEO of Frank.
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About Frank Financial Aid: Frank is a financial platform that helps college students manage their financial aid and student debt.
Jason Field
CEO of BrainStation
Jason Field is the Founder and CEO of BrainStation, the global leader in digital skills training. Over the years, BrainStation has empowered more than 70,000 professionals around the world through corporate training, diploma programs, and certification courses, both online and at campuses in New York, Toronto, Chicago, Vancouver, and Boston. The company has also worked with over 350 corporations in the process of digital transformation, offering cutting-edge employee skills training and a pipeline of emerging tech talent.
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About BrainStation, BrainStation: BrainStation is a global leader in digital skills training, empowering businesses and brands to succeed in the digital age.
Michael Hansen
CEO of Cengage Group
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About Cengage Group: Cengage Group, is a global edtech company providing millions of learners with affordable, quality digital products and services.
Miriam Altman
Co-founder, Chief Executive Officer of Kinvolved
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About Kinvolved: Kinvolved is a developer of a social enterprise platform designed to improve student attendance and reduce chronic absenteeism.
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
Pamela Skillings
President & CEO of Big Interview
Pamela Skillings is an author, career development expert, and co-founder of Skillful Communications, a company that provides career coaching and training for individuals and training and development consulting for organizations. Skillful has also developed Big Interview, an online job interview training system that helps clients ace their interviews and land job offers. Pam is the author of Escape from Corporate America: A Practical Guide to Creating the Career of Your Dreams (Random House) and has been featured as a career expert by The New York Times, Newsweek, ABC News, and other media outlets . She is an adjunct professor at New York University and frequently leads workshops on career development topics for organizations including the American Management Association, the City of New York, and the U.S. Small Business Administration. She is also a contributing columnist for About.com and other publications. Previously, Pamela spent more than twelve years as a marketing and human resources executive for Fortune 500 firms including Citigroup, MasterCard International, and Morgan Stanley.
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About Big Interview: Big Interview offers an AI-base job interview training platform.
Fredrik Marø
Founder & CEO of Firsthand
Fredrik Marø is the Founder & CEO at Firsthand
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About Firsthand: The #1 Alumni Engagement and Mentoring Platform
Jan Viviani
Chief Executive Officer of Voxy
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About Voxy: Voxy is a personalized and adaptive language learning platform.
Paul Gollash
Founder & CEO of Voxy
Paul Gollash has deep experience founding, investing in, and leading tech and education companies. In his current role as CEO of Voxy, a venture-funded edtech company focused on English language learning, he has been at the forefront of the personalized learning movement. Voxy uses mobile and web technologies to teach English to learners around the world, and operates under “the common belief that there is a better way to learn a new language.” Prior to starting Voxy, Gollash worked as a venture investor for Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group, the organization that created Virgin Mobile, Virgin America, and Virgin Galactic. While at Virgin, Gollash evaluated new business opportunities across a number of sectors, and helped conceive, incubate and launch Virgin Hotels. Before Virgin, Gollash worked as a management consultant, launched a new retail business for GM Europe, and helped start an import/export business in Santiago, Chile, which is where he learned Spanish and developed his passion for travel and language education. Gollash has a BA in Economics from Dartmouth College and an MBA with Honors from The University of Chicago.
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About Voxy: Voxy is a personalized and adaptive language learning platform.
Eliaz Shapira
CEO of ONEder
Eliaz is an innovative entrepreneur with over two decades of experience leading high growth, technology-focused companies. He currently serves as the CEO of ONEder, the premier special education software provider. The ONEder platform was designed to maximize the unique abilities of every student, and empower educators with the tools they need to close the opportunity gap. By using advanced technology in simple ways, ONEder enables administrators, professionals, and teachers to share common goals and make data-driven decisions. The company prides itself on delivering solutions that meet the requirements of academic and functional academic standards, while addressing the needs, and IEP goals of each student
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About ONEder, Sorbet: Oneder provides educators the ability to easily create a share lesson plans all in one platform.
Jonathan Izak
CEO of ONEder
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About ONEder: Oneder provides educators the ability to easily create a share lesson plans all in one platform.
Michael Li
Founder & CEO of The Data Incubator
Michael Li founded the Data Incubator (http://www.thedataincubator.com), a New York-based training program that turns talented PhDs from academia into workplace-ready data scientists and quants. The program is free to fellows, and routinely accepts just 1% of applicants. Employers engage with the Incubator as hiring partners. Previously, he worked as a data scientist (Foursquare), Wall Street quant (D.E. Shaw, J.P. Morgan), and a rocket scientist (NASA). He completed his PhD at Princeton as a Hertz fellow and read Part III Maths at Cambridge as a Marshall Scholar. At Foursquare, Michael discovered that his favorite part of the job was teaching and mentoring smart people about data science. He decided to build a startup to focus on what he really loves. Michael lives in New York, where he enjoys the Opera, rock climbing, and attending geeky data science events.
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About Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, Pragmatic Institute, TechCrunch, The Data Incubator, Venture Out Startups, VentureBeat, WIRED: The Data Incubator is a full-stack data science education company. Delivering the most up to date data science curriculum available.
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.
Eiko Nakazawa
CEO & Founder of Dearest
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About Dearest: Childcare amenity for building tenants
Bryan Talebi
CEO and Co-Founder of Ahura AI
Bryan Talebi is the CEO and Co-Founder at Ahura AI.
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About Ahura AI: Ahura AI, an EdTech startup using artificial intelligence to create personalized learning tools that replicate a 1-to-1 learning experience
Alex Rappaport
Founder & CEO of Flocabulary
Alex Rappaport is the co-founder and CEO of Flocabulary, an online library of educational hip-hop videos for students in grades K-12. Flocabulary is used in more than 20,000 schools around the world. Since founding the company in 2004, Alex has been responsible for defining Flocabulary’s strategic vision and building the business from the ground up.
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About Flocabulary: Flocabulary – a web-based learning program for all subjects, K-12 – uses educational hip-hop to engage students and increase achievement.
Barbara Yu
Founder & CEO of UniCareer
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About UniCareer: UniCareer offers an online educational technology platform that targets various stages of professional development needs.
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
Matthew Robins
CEO of DeansList
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About DeansList: DeansList is a new gradebook that helps schools assess critical “soft skills” like perseverance, diligence, leadership, teamwork and grit.
Waine Tam
CEO of Selected
Co-founder and CEO of Selected, mobile/web developer & entrepreneur, former COO of iMentor.org, Goldman Sachs & Princeton alum
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About Selected: Selected is a matching platform for job-seeking teachers and hiring K-12 urban schools.
Alan Cutter
CEO of AC Lion
Mr. Cutter: Founded New York City’s premier digital media recruiting agency, AC Lion International, over 15 years ago and continues to lead the growing company as their CEO Brings a reputation to the table for being a negotiator par excellence with over 12 years experience in recruiting and creative staffing solutions Is known as a deep strategic thinker who oversaw AC Lion’s dynamic diversification into sales recruiting Was a former senior manager for OTEC, where he played a critical role in the initial strategic success of its evolution into HotJobs.com Works pro bono as Director of the Career Center for the J2J Network, a non-profit organization dedicated to matching business owners with potential customers and employees Is frequently quoted in Crain’s New York Business, maintaining an active and integral role in numerous community and political causes Earned a Masters Degree in Social Work from Yeshiva University in New York City Was born in Boston and is extremely ecstatic about the string of successes racked up by his hometown sports teams Has a passion for surfing, often traveling the coasts of California and Long Island in search of the perfect wave
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About AC Lion, LionsEye Group, OTEC: Powering Innovation by Bridging the Talent Gap. Recruiting Digital Talent for More Than 20 Years.
Ted Levine
President & CEO of Kids Discover
Ted Levine is President & CEO of Kids Discover, an award-winning educational publisher of high-interest nonfiction for K-8 learners. Ted is particularly interested in the intersection of multimedia, technology, and storytelling, and leveraging those three elements to create compelling and memorable educational experiences for kids.
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About Kids Discover: Kids Discover is an educational publisher offering high-quality science and social studies reading for K-8 learners and educators.
Rob Kingyens
Co-Founder, President & CEO of Yellowbrick
Empowering the next generation of talent through globally accessible and equitable programs in partnership with the world’s leading universities, brands, and employers.
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About Yellowbrick: Empowering the next generation of talent to achieve their calling by tapping into passion points
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
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.
Azadeh (Azi) Jamalian
Founder, CEO of The GIANT Room
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About The GIANT Room: Education AI
Nicolas Miller
Founder & CEO of Edvisor.io
Nicolas Miller is Founder & CEO at Edvisor.io.
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About Edvisor.io: Edvisor.io increases access to global educational opportunities by seamlessly connecting schools.
Abdi Shayesteh
CEO & Founder of AltaClaro
Abdi Shayesteh is CEO & Founder at AltaClaro.
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About Alta Transforma, AltaClaro: AltaClaro is an experiential learning platform providing attorneys with universal access to interactive professional education.
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.
Amit Gupta
Founder & CEO of Tenlegs
Amit is the Founder & CEO of Tenlegs, a global art & media network. Tenlegs helps arts schools & organizations to build their communities and serves innovative creative needs of world’s leading brands. Prior to Tenlegs, Amit was a Partner with Booz & Company (formerly known as Booz Allen Hamilton) based in the New York office. His experience spanned service industries including Media, Financial Services, and Technology. His clients included leading companies across United States, European Union and Asia. He is a hands-on dad, movie fanatic and nyc foodie.
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About Stripe, Tenlegs: Tenlegs provides an innovative platform to institutions, spanning community engagement, student success, career services, and more.
Claudia Recchi
Co-CEO of EdSights
Claudia is a social entrepreneur passionate about using data to advance higher education. After graduating top of her class at Georgetown University, she decided to turn down her job offer at Amazon and team up with her sister, Carolina Recchi, to build her first company ClassPulse. ClassPulse is a mobile application for classrooms that grew to over 200 colleges in less than 2 months. As they were talking to their university customers, the two sisters realized that there was an even more pressing issue that was giving administrators a headache – student retention. With this information, they decided to start EdSights – a retention solution that uses predictive analytics to help universities identify and help students at-risk of dropping out.
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About EdSights: EdSights helps universities engage and retain their students.
Carolina Recchi
Co-CEO of EdSights
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About EdSights: EdSights helps universities engage and retain their students.
Anita Anthonj
CEO and Founder of Talaera
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About Talaera: Personalized Business English Training on Demand
Andrew Margie
Co-founder & CEO of Alumnifire
Cofounder & CEO at Alumnifire
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About Alumnifire: Alumnifire is the first alumni networking platform powered by alumni that engages members to open doors and opportunities for one another.
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.
Aaron Breuer
CEO of SelfCAD
Aaron Breuer is the founder and CEO of SelfCAD.
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About SelfCAD: SelfCAD is a browser based 3D modeling software all under one program includes modeling, sculpting and printing features.
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
Seth Haberman
President, CEO of Sense Education
CEO at Montage Group.
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About Sense Education, Visible World: Sense Education provides an artificial intelligence solution that helps instructors to provide personalized educational feedback.
Nikhil Ambekar
CEO & Co-Founder of Cuelogic Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Entrepreneur,Founder of Cuelogic Technologies.We are a team of passionate “Wired in” developers, with a Product DNA working to build a World Class Services Company.
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About Cuelogic Technologies Pvt. Ltd.: Outsourced Product Development for leading edge startups and Fortune 500 enterprises looking to compete with unicorns.
Nicolas Barone
CEO of Universe
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About Universe: Building immersive and engaging learning communities in the metaverse
Jaycee Indiviglio
Founder & CEO of IndiPro
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About IndiPro: Gradebook that tracks progress year to year.
Domi Enders
Founder & CEO of Open Assembly
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About Columbia University School of Professional Studies, Open Assembly: Open Assembly is an online platform that provides courses and content for educators.
Allen S. Greene
Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Smartpros
Mr. Greene had been President and CEO of Veral & Co. L.L.C., a consulting and investment banking firm. Prior to consulting, Mr. Greene was COO of Medallion Financial Corp., a publicly traded specialty finance company. Medallion was named one of the 200 best small companies (Forbes Magazine, 11/99) during his tenure. Previously, Mr. Greene was President and CEO of Ryan Beck & Co., a 50-year old full-service securities and investment banking company. Prior to that, he was Chairman, President and CEO of VSB Bancorp and Valley Savings Bank, which were sold to UJB Bancorp (now Bank of America) in 1994. While at Valley, Financial World Magazine named him CEO of the Year bronze award winner in 1993 and 1994. Mr. Greene has been a Director of numerous public and private corporations.
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About : SmartPros offers a wide array of content, technologies and blended learning solutions.
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!
Britta Riley
CEO of Windowfarms
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About New York University, Windowfarms: WIndowfarms provide personal scale edible indoor gardens for homes, schools, and restaurants.
Seamus Matthews
CEO & Founder of PennyOwl Technologies, Inc.
Man on a mission as CEO & Founder @PennyOwl. Making a lasting impression while I’m here! PennyOwl is a mobile savings platform that ensures parents raise money-smart kids. PennyOwl makes it easier for families for start & manage the money conversation, and it makes the right financial choices more accessible.
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About PennyOwl Technologies, Inc.: Voted #1 Education App for Kids 2017, PennyOwl helps parents raise money-smart kids. The future of financial education is mobile.
Patricia Toledo
CEO of Tyngu
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About Tyngu: Tyngu offers a micro-learning solution that allows companies to train their workforce in a scalable way, delivering quick achievements.
Kully Jaswal
Founder and CEO of Ignition
Since founding Ignition Coaching LLC in 2011, career and executive coach Kully has helped individuals and teams maximise their drive, resilience and performance both in work and in life. Combining extensive business experience with coaching skills, she has delivered a plethora of individual coaching assignments and group workshops in the areas of Career Coaching, Executive Coaching, Mindfulness, Communication Skills, Presentation Skills and Personal Resilience. Her clientele includes senior managers and executives in the financial services, consumer, pharmaceutical and professional services industries. At the core of Kully’s coaching style is a desire to build clients’ resilience and emotional intelligence. She is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the ICF, certified teacher for the Google-born Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute, and on faculty for Dr. Daniel Goleman’s Coaching for Emotional Intelligence Certification Program.
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About Ignition: Ignition is a career and executive coaching company focused on building resilience and well-being during times of change.
