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 United States based CEO’ operating in the Continuing Education 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.

Neil Dsouza
CEO of GetSetUp
Founder of Zaya.
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About GetSetUp, Zaya: GetSetup is a social learning platform that offers classes and social opportunities to help older adults.
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.

George Haddad
Founder & CEO of Liaison International
George founded Liaison International in 1990 and currently serves as its chief executive officer. Under his guidance, Liaison has become a leader in providing graduate management software and Centralized Application Services (CASsTM) for educational institutions and affiliated professional associations. He plays an integral role in creating admissions management and marketing enterprises that allow institutions to advance their recruitment strategies and to share best practices within the global community of CAS users. George is an active board member of for-profit and nonprofit institutions that encourage scholastic achievement and personal excellence among students in the realms of K-12 and higher education.
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About Liaison International: Liaison International helps higher education institutions better identify, recruit, enroll and retain best-fit students.

Michael Croft
Founder & CEO of Volute
Michael D. Croft is the Founder & CEO at Volute.
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About Volute: Volute is a social learning platform that bridges academia and industry, targeted to the busy schedules of working professionals.
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.
Mehak Vohra
CEO / Founder of SkillBank
Mehak Vohra is the CEO and Founder of SkillBank.
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About SkillBank: SkillBank provides a 3-month program that focuses on growth marketing.
Simone Petrella
Chief Cyberstrategy Officer, CEO & Co-Founder of CyberVista
Simone Petrella is Chief Cyberstrategy Officer at CyberVista where she leads product development and delivery of cybersecurity training and education curriculums as well as workforce initiatives for executives, cyber-practitioners and continuing education. Prior she was a Senior Associate at Booz Allen focusing on the creation of cyber-fusion centers and the integration of cybersecurity operations. Before that she led the firm’s all source cyberthreat intelligence business in the national security and defense sectors, including intelligence support to both defensive and offensive operations. Petrella received her JD from Catholic University’s Columbus School of Law and has a BA in government and an MA in international law and policy from Georgetown University.
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About CyberVista: A cybersecurity workforce development company that build and strengthen organizations through developing cybersecurity talent

Jed Etters
CEO of Interact CE
Jed Etters, Founder and CEO of Interact CE, is a leader dedicated to disrupting the education industry through an engaging gamification platform. His experience selling thousands of homes and successfully managing hundreds of real estate agents has enabled him and his team to create a real-world simulation which encompasses all that agents need to complete their continuing education. He is now influencing and servicing over half of the REALTOR population through Interact CE, and this is only the beginning. Jed is a visionary who sees this gamification platform taking, not just real estate, but all continuing education to new heights. He has been consistently recognized as a top performer in the industry and recently received the EDDY award for his outstanding contribution to the real estate education community.
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About Coldwell Banker Realty, Interact CE, John L Scott Real Estate: Interact CE is a software company that offers a gamified continuing education platform.

Matt Geller
Co-founder and CEO of Eyes On Eyecare
Co-founder and CEO at CovalentCareers, Inc.
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About Eyes On Eyecare: A digital marketing agency that provides content, creative, and technology services for forward-thinking healthcare organizations.

Adam Dill
CEO, Co-Founder of SmoothTerminal
Adam has over 19 years of software development experience, and has spent a good part of that educating new developers. He was previously CTO at inside.com and Development Director at Maxmedia. When Adam isn’t coding, he is off hiking in Colorado mountains, or practicing some pretty fly martial arts. He thinks swords are cool.
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About SmoothTerminal: SmoothTerminal is an online learning website.
Bill Latham
CEO of MeTEOR Education
Bill Latham joined MeTEOR Education as CEO in 2010.
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About MeTEOR Education: MeTEOR Education is a educational services partner working with education professionals.
Blake McClellan
Founder and CEO of Implant Compare LLC
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About Implant Compare LLC: Implant Compare is a Livestreaming platform for dental professional to get access to realtime CME

James DeCicco
CEO of BeachCoders Academy
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About BeachCoders Academy: BeachCoders® is a front-end web development, user experience design and javascript blockchain coding bootcamp
Justin Ervin
CEO, Head of Strategy and Co-Founder of Habitual Roots
Justin Ervin is the CEO, head of strategy, and co-founder of Habitual Roots Inc.
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About Habitual Roots: We are the one stop shop for all Emotional Intelligence Retreats, Community, Training, Workshops, and Programming towards clarity