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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 United States based CEO’ operating in the STEM 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.
Vikas Gupta
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Wonder Workshop
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About Wonder Workshop: Wonder Workshop provides a platform that makes programming fun and accessible for children while they play.
Sepideh Nasiri
Founder & CEO of Persian Women In Tech
Sepideh (“Sepi”) Nasiri is an award winning serial Entrepreneur with 16 years of experience working in the Tech Industry, the Founder of Persian Women In Tech, the former Vice President at Women 2.0 and a life-time advocate for women, diversity and inclusion. Mrs. Nasiri started her career as a Co-founder and Managing Editor of a digital and print Los Angeles Magazine and later joined a number of successful startups in Silicon Valley. In 2014, she was recognized by San Francisco Business Times/Journal “40under40” and Diversity Journal’s 2014 “Women Worth Watching”. Currently, Mrs. Nasiri advises early stage startups including at global initiatives such as WeMENA (a program by the World Bank) and mentors globally many female entrepreneurs and founders in technology serving as an advisor to initiatives such as TechWomen, an initiative of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA).
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About Persian Women In Tech: Persian Women In Tech supports Iranian women in Tech/STEM from all across the Globe’s landscape.
Hadi Partovi
Founder and CEO of Code.org
Hadi Partovi is an entrepreneur and investor, and CEO of the education non-profit Code.org. In 2013 Hadi and his twin brother Ali launched the education nonprofit Code.org which Hadi continues to lead full-time as CEO. Code.org has established computer science classes in 15% of US classrooms, created the most popular curriculum platform for K-12 computer science, and launched the global Hour of Code movement that has reached over 100 million students. A computer science graduate of Harvard University, Hadi began his career during the browser wars in the 1990s, when he was Microsoft’s Group Program Manager for Internet Explorer. In a second stint at Microsoft, he was General Manager of the MSN portal, delivering its first year of profit. As an entrepreneur, Hadi was on the founding teams of Tellme Networks and iLike, which were acquired by Microsoft and MySpace, respectively. Hadi has served as an early advisor to numerous startups including Facebook and Dropbox, and as a tech investor his portfolio also includes airbnb, Uber, Zappos, IndieGogo, Change.org, and others. Aside from his investments, Hadi also serves as a Director on the boards of TASER International and Convoy.
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About Code.org: Code.org is a non-profit foundation focusing on developing computer programming education in the U.S.
Kimberly Bryant
Founder & CEO of Black Girls CODE
Kimberly Bryant is the Founder and Executive Director of Black Girls CODE, a non-profit organization dedicated to “changing the face of technology” by introducing girls of color (ages 7-17) to the field of technology and computer science with a concentration on entrepreneurial concepts. Kimberly has enjoyed a successful 25+ year professional career in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries as an Engineering Manager in a series of technical leadership roles for various Fortune 100 companies such as Genentech, Merck, and Pfizer. Since 2011 Kimberly has helped Black Girls CODE grow from a local organization serving only the Bay Area, to an international organization with seven chapters across the U.S. and in Johannesburg, South Africa. Black Girls CODE has currently reached over 3000 students and continues to grow and thrive. Kimberly serves on the National Champions Board for the National Girls Collaborative Project, and the National Board of the NCWIT K-12 Alliance. Kimberly and Black Girls CODE have been nationally recognized as a social innovator and for her work to increase opportunities for women and girls in the tech industry. In August 2012 Kimberly was given the prestigious Jefferson Award for Community Service for her work to support communities in the Bay Area. In 2013 Kimberly was highlighted by Business Insider on its list of “The 25 Most Influential African- Americans in Technology” and was named to The Root 100 and the Ebony Power 100 lists. A highlight of 2013 for Kimberly was being invited to the White House as a Champion of Change for her work in tech inclusion and for her focus on bridging the digital divide for girls of color. In 2014 Kimberly received an American Ingenuity Award in Social Progress from the Smithsonian along with being given the Inaugural Women Who Rule Award in Technology via Politico. She has been identified as a thought leader in the area of tech inclusion and has spoken on the topic at events such as Personal Democracy Forum, TedX Kansas City, Platform Summit, Big Ideas Festival, SXSW, and many others.
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About Black Girls CODE: Black Girls CODE is a non-profit organization dedicated to teaching girls aged 7 to 17 about computer programming and digital technology.
Michelle Sun
CEO & Founder of First Code Academy
Michelle is the CEO and founder of First Code Academy, a leading coding and STEM education institute that teaches coding to kids from 4 to 18 with hands on workshops, camps and regular programs. She founded AppJamming Summit, the largest app development competition that attracts thousands of submissions from students (8-15 years old). She is a visiting instructor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)’s Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL), on the Mobile Computing Master Trainer program. Prior to starting First Code, she graduated from the inaugural class of Hackbright Academy, a leading coding bootcamp in San Francisco, and held various technical roles in high growth startups in Silicon Valley, including as the first growth hacker at Buffer and Bump Technologies (acquired by Google in 2013). Born and raised in Hong Kong, she graduated from University of Chicago and began her career at Goldman Sachs as an equity analyst. In addition to running First Code Academy, she is also passionate about women entrepreneurship and empowerment, cofounded a community for women in technology, Women Who Code (Hong Kong chapter). In her free time, she loves to train for long distance running, vinyasa yoga and travel. She contributes to Forbes and Womany (top blog in Taiwan). Her work has received international and regional accolades including the Forbes 30 Under 30 in Asia List in 2016, BBC 100 Women Entrepreneurs in 2015, Women of Hope Award (Entrepreneur Category 2015) and (Tech Category 2014) and American Chambers Women of Influence Awards (Young Entrepreneur Category 2015).
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About First Code Academy: First Code Academy is the leading K-12 coding education institute with presence in greater china and southeast asia.
Jim Steyer
Founder and CEO of Common Sense Media
Jim has spent more than 20 years as one of the most respected experts and entrepreneurs on issues related to children’s policy and media in the United States. As CEO, he is responsible for the overall leadership of Common Sense Media, the nation’s leading nonpartisan organization dedicated to improving the media lives of kids and families. Prior to founding Common Sense, Jim was Chairman and CEO of JP Kids, a respected family media company. Before that, he served as President of Children Now, a leading national advocacy and media organization for children, which he founded in 1988. Jim began his career as an elementary school teacher and then became a public interest lawyer. He served as a law clerk for the California Supreme Court, as a deputy district attorney, and as a civil rights attorney with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. In addition to his duties at Common Sense, Jim teaches popular courses on civil rights, civil liberties, and children’s issues at Stanford University, where he has taught for the past 22 years in the School of Education and Department of Political Science. During that period, he has received a number of Stanford’s highest teaching honors. Jim is also the author of the widely acclaimed book The Other Parent: The Inside Story of the Media’s Effect on Our Children, which draws upon his extensive experience as a leading child advocate, educational media expert, and dad. Over the past decade, Jim has appeared regularly on a variety of national television and radio programs, including The Today Show, Good Morning America, Oprah, CNN, The O’Reilly Factor, and Larry King. He hosts a regular weekly segment, “Kids and the Media,” on CBS-5 TV in San Francisco, and his work has been featured in many publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, Newsweek, and The Wall Street Journal. Jim grew up in New York City and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford. He received his JD from Stanford Law School, where he founded the East Palo Alto Community Law Project. Jim is the father of four children and lives with his family in the Bay Area.
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About Common Sense Media: Common Sense Media provides information and education to help kids and families thrive in a world of media and technology.
Paul Kellenberger
Chief Executive Officer of zSpace
Paul guides zSpace, Inc.’s vision of “Bringing zSpace to the mainstream.” Prior to zSpace, he was CEO for Chancery Software, the leading provider of Enterprise Student Administrative Systems. Paul built a successful team and profitably grew the business, resulting in the sale of the company to Pearson Inc. Paul has also held senior positions in general management, sales, marketing, and corporate development at Motorola Inc., Digital Equipment Corporation, and Inacom Corporation.
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About Infinite Z, zSpace: zSpace offers a system that enables its users to integrate their normal lives with a desktop-based virtual reality system.
Sharmi Albrechtsen
CEO/Founder of SmartGurlz Inc
Robotics aficionado, Sharmi Albrechtsen, CEO and co-founder, started SmartGurlz after she became frustrated when trying to find educational but fun toys for her daughter, Nina. She saw a world of opportunity with tech fun, coding and learning for fashion doll-loving girls and at the same time inspiring interest in STEM related subjects. As CEO, she is the visionary backbone of the company, ensuring that the company develops, markets and sells innovative products. Albrechtsen has an MBA from Copenhagen Business School and a BA in Communications from Temple University, Pennsylvania. For the past 10 years, she has been working with promoting education for adults and children within consumer health. Albrechtsen is also an active blogger and author of the book A Piece of Danish Happiness which resulted in world-wide media interest including BBC, the New York Times and Oprah. Albrechtsen was featured on Shark Tank, November 12th
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About SmartGurlz Inc: As Seen on Shark Tank, the World’s first coding robot for Girls.
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.
Craig Ulliott
CEO of Codeverse
Specialties:software development, scalable web architectures, social business models, viral marketing
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About Codeverse: Codeverse is the world’s first interactive coding studio & edtech platform,, founded on the mission to teach a billion kids to code.
Ahmad Kiarostami
Co-founder & CEO of Koantum
Ahmad Kiarostami is the co-founder and CEO of Koantum. He has worked in cinema and software industries for twenty years. After taking on leadership roles at Microsoft Middle-East, he founded three companies including the first multimedia and online production venue in Iran, where he published award-winning multimedia products in cinema and visual arts. Ahmad has served on the board of San Francisco Cinematheque, the oldest organization in North America promoting experimental cinema and video. His music videos are among the most viewed Iranian music videos on YouTube. He has studied Math and Computer Science at Sharif University and Philosophy at UCLA. He is currently the CEO of Fotomoto, which he founded in 2008.
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About Koantum: Interactive E-Learning Platform for K-5 Science Lessons
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.
Max Filin
CEO, Co-Founder of WOWCube® System (CubiOs Inc.)
Over 15 years of experience in OEM/ODM and consumer electronics distribution. SEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, AND LAUNCH OF NEW PRODUCTS; MANAGING COMPLEX SALES ENGAGEMENTS Over fifteen years of expertise in business planning, development, B2B sales, client relationship management, and revenue growth. Savvy sales strategist, leveraging competitive intelligence, actualizing opportunities, and forging partnerships to build business. Committed to driving efficiency and productivity of customers business through executive knowledge of their needs, challenges and concerns. Excel at inspiring peak performance of Sales, Marketing and Engineering staff and aligning resources to jumpstart and seamlessly execute projects; administered budgets of up to $70M. Dedicated, hard-working team player with proven ability to meet deadlines
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About Filin LLC, PSB-Gals, WOWCube® System (CubiOs Inc.): WOWCube system is a puzzle cube with tangible interface where virtual gameplay is controlled by physically tilting, twisting shaking.
Mariko Silver
President and CEO of Henry Luce Foundation
Mariko Silver is the president and CEO of the Henry Luce Foundation. Prior to joining the Foundation, Mariko was previously the president of Bennington College. She holds a Ph.D. in Economic Geography from UCLA; MSc, Science and Technology Policy from SPRU, University of Sussex (UK) and B.A., History from Yale University.
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About Henry Luce Foundation: Henry Luce Foundation is a non-profit organization that provides grantmaking programs to museums, colleges and universities, and more.
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
Greg Needel
CEO & Co-Owner of REV Robotics
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About BlinkFX, LLC, REV Robotics: REV Robotics designs, manufactures and distributes products for competitive and educational robotics.
Andrew Clark
CEO of Zovio
Andrew S. Clark founded Bridgepoint Education, a provider of innovative solutions that advance learning, in 2004. Bridgepoint Education owns and operates Ashford University and University of the Rockies, two regionally accredited academic institutions that embody the contemporary college experience. Before starting Bridgepoint Education with the support of private equity firm Warburg Pincus, Mr. Clark spent 14 years in higher education management. He began his higher education career in 1995 with University of Phoenix, a division of Apollo Group. From 1996 to 1999, he served as the youngest Vice President/Campus Director for University of Phoenix, producing the best combined enrollment and profit results of any campus in the system. From 1999 to 2001, he was the company’s youngest Regional Vice President, responsible for opening the Midwest and Northeast regions and creating nine campuses in seven states. Mr. Clark then served as Chief Operating Officer of American Continental University, a division of Career Education Corporation (CEC) and Vice President Operations of the University Division of CEC. Bridgepoint Education is dedicated to social responsibility and its corporate culture embodies that sentiment. Mr. Clark currently serves on the board of directors for Rady Children’s Hospital and Francis Parker School. In addition, he has supported organizations such as the American Red Cross, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, Boys and Girls Clubs, Freedom Station, the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and Promises2Kids. Mr. Clark earned an MBA from University of Phoenix and a BA in Communication Arts from Pacific Lutheran University.
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About Zovio: Zovio is an education technology services company that helps everyone be in a class of their own.
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.
Robin Rath
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Pixel Press
Robin Rath is the CEO and a co-founder of Pixel Press (projectpixelpress.com), a company building the next generation of creation tools for kids to create, share and play game-based content by leveraging the integrated power of toys and video games. Robin grew up playing video games and building websites. Now, as a father of two, he is focused on exploring ways to enable his children to be the next generation of creators by starting that process when they are at their most creative developmental stage, and doing so in a safe and age appropriate way. Robin was recognized in the 2015 The Business Journals “Upstart 100” list, recognizing top inventors and visionaries driving the new economy.
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About Pixel Press, Tari Labs: Pixel Press is a technology company that focuses on building engaging gaming and interactive experiences.
Rob Bennet
Co-Founder & CEO of Pixel Press
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About Pixel Press: Pixel Press is a technology company that focuses on building engaging gaming and interactive experiences.
Robert Coughlin
President and CEO of MassBioEd
Robert Coughlin is President and CEO of the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council He is very familiar with all areas of the Massachusetts life sciences super cluster and is a passionate advocate for research and the biotechnology community. Coughlin has spent his career in both the public and private sectors, most recently serving as Undersecretary of Economic Development within Governor Deval Patrick’s administration. Prior to that, he was elected as State Representative to the 11th Norfolk district for three terms. In the legislature both healthcare and economic development were his priorities. In the world of business he specialized in the environmental services industry and moved on to capital management and venture capital. He has held senior executive positions in both fields He is a graduate of the Massachusetts Maritime Academy where he majored in Marine Engineering, and is a Lieutenant in the United States Naval Reserve. Coughlin has also been active in the community, having served on the boards of the Massachusetts Maritime Academy and Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital. He has served as the honorary chairman of the Great Strides Cystic Fibrosis Walk since 1996. In years past, he co-chaired the Children’s Hospital Boston signature event, Champions for Children’s.
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About MassBioEd: MassBioEd is a non-profit organization committed to supporting science, technology, engineering, and math education.
Justin Weinberg
CEO & Co-Founder of 101 Edu
Justin Weinberg is the Co-Founder & CEO at 101edu.
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About 101 Edu: 101 Edu builds mobile-first teaching and assessment tools specifically for college STEM courses.
Scott Lininger
Co-Founder & CEO/CTO of Bitsbox
Scott Lininger is a Founder of Bitsbox.
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About Bitsbox: Bitsbox is a provider of a monthly subscription box used to offer increasingly advanced projects that teach children to code.
Kent Fuka
Founder & CEO of Querium
Kent Fuka is CEO of eLearning startup Querium in Austin, TX. He was an early employee at three VC-backed startup companies, each of which had successful IPOs. Kent also serves as Chairman of the Board of Thinkwell, an eLearning company headquartered in Austin, and is a board member of CampusQuad, a startup in in the bay area. Kent has been a board member for a number of startup companies in Texas. Kent was a co-founder of Texas VC firm CenterPoint Ventures in 1996. Prior to CenterPoint, Kent was VP of Customer Operations for Tivoli Systems in Austin. Kent also held a variety of management roles at Convex Computer Corp in Dallas. Kent began is career in Boston, where we joined his first startup-company, Apollo Computer. Kent’s responsibilities have included managing complex software development projects, world-wide customer support teams, and software product marketing, and finance functions. Kent has an undergraduate degree in Computer Science and a graduate degree in Astronomy. Kent’s consulting company, KNCL Management, provides strategic advisory services to tech startups.
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About Querium: Querium licenses artificial intelligence technology used for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math education applications.
Roman Kazantsev
CEO, Co-Founder of Lux Science, Inc
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About Lux Science, Inc: The future of STEM is immersive. Lux Science combines a plot-driven video game with hands-on science kits to make learning fun.
Layla Sabourian
CEO of Chef Koochooloo
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About Chef Koochooloo: International education platform that teaches kids STEAM & global competency through healthy, culturally sensitive recipes!
Brad Johnston
Co-Founder & CEO of Tanoshi
Entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Tanoshi Former: Senior Product Manager (Vizio), Product Manager (Toshiba), Product Marketing Manager (Toshiba), Retail Strategy Consultant (Levin Consulting), English Language Instructor (Berlitz Japan) Education: Master of Commerce (University of Sydney), BA in Economics and Political Economy (Pitzer College – Member of the Claremont Colleges)
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About Tanoshi: Tanoshi provides educational, age appropriate, and fun consumer electronic products and software services for today’s pre-teens.
André Thomas
Founder / Chief Executive Officer of Triseum
André Thomas has spent over 20 years in CGI production and was formerly the Head of Graphics – Football for EA Sports Football games (NCAA, Madden, Head Coach, NFL Tour). The Madden franchise is the longest running and most successful sports franchise in the history of the games industry. After finishing his education and working for a few years in Germany, André was able to turn his passion for Computer Graphics into a career in 1994. André created graphics for such notable feature films as Men in Black, Con Air, Independence Day, and Tomorrow Never Dies. In 1997, he moved to London where he worked for 7 years on live action features and commercials. He worked on the Disney-backed, all CG-3D feature film Valiant in 2003. After the completion of Valiant, André joined DNA Productions in Dallas where he worked on the CG feature Ant Bully and oversaw the shading and rendering of the movie. In 2007, André relocated to Orlando, Florida were he joined Electronic Arts – Tiburon and worked on over 15 shipped football games for the majority of platforms. André joined the faculty of the Visualization department in the College of Architecture at Texas A&M University in January of 2014, where he is currently teaching Game Design, Game Development and interactive graphics techniques and established the Learning Interactive Visualization Experience lab – LIVE lab http://live.viz.tamu. edu/. André founded Triseum in Texas in 2014 to address a pressing need in higher education and fulfill a lifelong dream.
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About Danube University Krems, Texas A&M University, Triseum: Triseum is an information technology company that offers game based learning, computer gaming, e-learning, and education technology.
Brian Curcio
Chief Executive Officer of Rapunzl – Invest. Share. Win.
I am the co-founder of Rapunzl and a passionate supporter of any and all things related to financial education. At a young age, I was incredibly fortunate to receive broad exposure to entrepreneurship and the stock market through my family. That’s why, during my senior year at Amherst College, I developed Rapunzl. I partnered with my highschool friend, Myles Gage, and together we designed a developed an app that could solve the three roadblocks that prohibit many from understanding the stock market: fear, exposure, and accessibility. We decided to provide users with a risk-free, $10,000 simulated portfolio in order to eliminate the fear we all first feel when we look at the stock market. We then increased exposure by working with high schools and colleges and providing weekly, monthly, and (soon) annual competitions for cash prizes! Finally we made the stock market accessible by integrating social media into our simulator. Users can connect with their friends, share how they trade, and discuss their investment strategies. People need game-based learning tools which simulate the real world and contexualize their learning if they are ever to learn how to properly invest. Rapunzl provides an incentive to learn, a place to share findings, and a risk-free community to make mistakes along the way. Rapunzl is my career, passion, and best effort to combat our nation’s financial illiteracy crisis. Let’s connect and talk about it.
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About Rapunzl – Invest. Share. Win.: Rapunzl is an award-winning app that allows you to earn cash & scholarship prizes while you learn how to invest.
Rehgan Avon
Founder and CEO of Women in Analytics
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About Women in Analytics: An Analytics Conference. Featuring Women. For Everyone.
Pamela L. Jennings, Ph.D.
CEO & President of CONSTRUKTS
Pamela has engaged in as well as supported discovery, innovation, scholarship, and economic development across a range of institutions of higher education, corporate and non-profit think-tanks, and community organizations. She believes that the nexus of these disciplines and organizational structures is where catalytic breakthroughs and paradigm shifts occur. As the CEO of CONSTRUKTS, Inc. Pamela developed an IoT and mixed-reality platform for learning. Pamela’s engagement in technology innovation is grounded by her work in digital media arts. She received her Ph.D. from the Center for Advanced Inquiry in Integrative Arts (CAiiA) at the School of Computing, Electronics, and Mathematics, University of Plymouth (U.K); MBA from the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan; MFA in Computer Art from the School of Visual Arts; MA in Media Arts from New York University International Center of Photography program; and BA in Psychology from Oberlin College.
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About CONSTRUKTS: CONSTRUKTS is a mixed-reality platform combining physical block constructions.
Eric Weiss
CEO of VHornet, inc.
As a true visionary entrepreneur and C level executive, Eric has been at the forefront of many breakthrough technologies over the last two decades including Mobile Application Development, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Digital Manufacturing, Internet Development, Computer Graphics, blockbuster Film, TV and Game Production, and Social Media Applications. Eric has led many companies and projects from startup to explosive growth, and has a gift for recruiting and bringing together highly motivated, skilled and effective teams. Eric uses agile development, lean startup practices to energize and facilitate teams maximizing productivity and empowering all stakeholders. A veteran and founder of startups that have seen failure, growth and successful exits, Eric is an effective leader at companies large and small. Eric builds strong and loyal teams that execute inspiring visions and achieve far reaching results. Eric has a relentless drive for excellence, efficiency and a passion for his work. Eric’s energy is captivating and brings a clear vision and keeps teams focused on the steps along the way that lead to success, while maximizing effectiveness and efficiencies of capital. Very familiar and an advocate of lean startup methods and agile development, Eric leads numerous cross functional teams using Agile Scrum and Kanban systems. Eric has spent much of his career using lean manufacturing techniques including lean six sigma, value stream mapping and incorporation of black belt methodologies as well as utilizing project management tools such as Atlassian Jira, Confluence and revision control systems.
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About VHornet, inc.: VHornet creates augmented and virtual reality experiences focusing on games and social networking.
Ben Roberts
CEO & Founder of Codon Learning
Ben Roberts currently works as the CEO and Founder for Codon Learning.
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About Codon Learning: Codon Learning is a STEM courseware company that promotes evidence-based teaching.
