Leaders need other leaders.
Industry leaders need each other to change the future for educators and learners. We’ve brought 500+ luminaries together to change the odds in favor of the innovators in our programs. Meet some of them below:
Mentors
Jeanne Allen
CEO, Center for Education Reform
Mahila Amjad
Partner, Leeds Illuminate
Diana Anthony
Partner, Figure Eight Investments
Akash Bansal
Founder, Kinderlime
Carol Barash
CEO and Founder, Story2
Mario Barosevcic
Principal, Emerge Education
Atin Batra
General Partner, 27 Ventures
Morgan Battle
Managing Director, Tucker Capital
Ayah Bdeir
Founder, littleBits
Peter Bencivenga
Chief Academic Officer, IO Education
Malvika Bhagwat
Partner, Owl Ventures
Dre Bennin
Partner, Rethink Education Ventures
Lyron Bentovim
CEO, The Glimpse Group
Dr. Rod Berger
Partner, Strategos Group
John Biggs
Editor In Chief, Gizmodo
Michael Bijaoui
Managing Director, East Wind Advisors
Frank Bonsall III
Managing Partner, Bonsal Capital
Katie Boody
Co-Founder & CEO, LEANLAB Education
Maaike Bouwmeester
Professor, New York University
John Boynton,
US Business Development Lead, Amazon Web Services
Miles Braffett
CTO, Success Academy Charter Schools
Ted Brodheim
Advisor to the CIO , Zoom Video Communications, former President at Schools Division, ePals, former CIO, NYC Department of Education, former Vice President, Samsung Electronics America
Patrick Brothers
Co-Founder, HolonIQ
Trisha Callella
Chief Innovation Officer, Leanlab Educationl
Dan Carroll
Chief Product Officer, Clever
Michael Carter
Strategic EdTech Advisor
Andrew Cary
Founder & CEO, Future Educational Options
John Challice
SVP Business Develoipment, hum, Former VP HigherEd, Oxford University Press
Elizabeth Chou
Partner, Leeds Illuminate
Luyen Chou
Former Chief Learning Officer, 2U
Toni Cleveland
CEO, Higher Education Research & Development Institute
Andrew Cohen
CEO & Founder, Brainscape
Kermit Cook
Former Managing Director, KKR Capstone
Niquelle Cotton
CEO and Chief Strategy Officer, Q-Factor Consulting, LLC
Alvin Crawford
Chief Revenue Officer, Concentric
John Danielson
Senior Advisor, Global Education Sector
Omar Darwazah
General Partner, Arab Angel Fund
Vinice Davis
Impact Investor, Imaginable Futures
Jennifer Dyck-Sprout
Former Program Director, OnDeck, Former VP, EVERFI
Shawn Domanic
Vice President, Avathon Capital
Robb Doub
General Partner, New Markets Venture Partners
Kenneth Eng
Former SVO Group Strategy and M&A, Macmillan / Holtzbrinck
Harris Ferrell
CEO, American Prison Data Systems
Carolyn Fikke
Managing Director, Golden Seeds
Emma Fish
Former Head of Global Public Sector Cloud, Google
Jon Fish
Manager, Doulingo
Graham Forman
Managing Director and Founder, Edovate Capital
Adam Fried
Associate Dean, Ramapo Community College
Hal Friedlander
CEO, Technology for Education Consortium
Ari Fox
General Manager, Audible for Business, Audible
Denise Gallucci
CEO, Rise Education Group
Paul Gollash
General Manager, K-12, ETS, Founder, Voxy
Fernando Gómez-Baquero
Director of Runway and Spinouts, Cornell University
Harris Goodman
SVP, Achieve3000
Nathan Graf
Senior Managing Director, Evercore
Matt Greenfield
Managing Partner, Rethink Education
Ujjwal Gupta
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer, BenchPrep
Jonathan Harber
Chairman, StartEd, Former CEO, SchoolNet/Pearson K-12 Tech
Jean Hammond
Partner, LearnLaunch
Isabelle Hau
Lead, Stanford Learning Accelerator
Din Heiman
SVP Strategy and Business Development, Renaissance Learning
Steven Hodas
Executive Director, GV NextED Co-Lab , Education Cluster Senior Advisor, Digital Promise
Bill Holiber
CEO, U.S. News & World Report
Jason Horne
Partner, GSV Ventures
Angela Jackson
Partner, New Profit - Education and Workforce Sector
Brian Jacobs
CEO, panOpen
Matt Johnson
EdTech Attorney and Advisor, Oppenheimer
David Joo
CEO, KnowRe
Ted Kalomiris
Founder & Principal Consultant, Pivotal Sales 360
Ash Kaluarachchi
CEO and Co-founder, StartEd, Early Employee, Techstars, Founding Producer, EDTECH WEEK
Andy Kaplan
Managing General Partner, Education Growth Partners
Arrun Kapoor
Managing Director, SJF Ventures
John Katzman
CEO, Noodle, Former CEO, The Princeton Review, Former CEO, 2U
Brad Kessler
CSO, Academic Approach Former
Rob Kingyens
Founder & CEO, Yellowbrick,
Ketan Kothari
Cofounder, Edmodo
Manish Kothari
Cofounder, Edmodo
Justin Kulla
Partner, Head of Impact Investing, TZP Group
Steve Kupfer
Partner, Reach Capital
Chris Laidley
CFO, Mursion
Rob Lauber
CEO, Xloblobal, Former CLO, McDonald's
Angela Lee
Founder, 37 Angels
Sarah K. Lee
Peak State Ventures
Elana Leoni
Former Director, George Lucas Educational Foundation
David Levin
Former CEO, McGraw-Hill
Ted Levine
President & CEO, Kids Discover
Stell Ma
CPO, Italic, Co-founder, Little Passports
Ted Magder
Vice Dean, NYU Steinhardt
Kevin Martin
Chief Growth Officer, Parchment
Elliott Masie
Chair, The Learning Consortium at the MASIE Center
Amy McIntosh
HBS Angels NY | Former CUNY leader | Obama Admin Acting Assistant Secretary
Kheil McIntyre
Head of Industry Partnerships, Coursera
Daniel Mehaffey
Education AE, Microsoft
Matt Miller
Former CTO at Amplify Education, Principal, Mattus
Paul Miller
Former NYC Department of Education, Partner, Iris Advisors
Jessica Millstone
Managing Director, Copper Wire Ventures
Deena Minwalla
Senior Product Lead, Microsoft
Susan Morrow
VP, Education Cloud, Salesforce.org
Lynn Mulherin
Commissioner, Florida Department of Education
Donna Murdoch
Learning and Talent Strategy, Workday
Brian Napack
CEO, Wiley
Sandro Olivieri
CoFounder, Project FoundED, Lead, AT&T Aspire Accelerator
Jason Palmer
General Partner, New Markets Venture Partners
Amit Patel
Partner, Owl Ventures
Steve Perreault
Former Head of M&A, Thomson Reuters
Adam Penenberg
Director, Online Programs for Journalism, New York University
Daniel Pianko
Managing Director, Achieve Partners
Luis Pinto
Former Director, Udemy, Former Partner,Learn Capital
Enrico Poli
Director, Zanichelli Venture
David Preston
Lecturer, UCLA, Teacher, Santa Maria Joint Union High School District
Nasir Qadree
Managing Partner, Zeal Capital Partners
Deborah Quazzo
Managing Partner, GSV Ventures
Alex Rappaport
Former CEO, Flocabulary
Justin Renfro
Senior Director, Wefunder
Doug Roberts
President and Founder, Education Solutions Consulting
James A. Rowan
Partner, Parchman, Vaughan & Company, L.L.C.
Lisa Sacchetti
CEO, The Renaissance Network.
Richard Sarnoff
Managing Director and Head of the Media & Communications, KKR
Josh Schwartz
Founder & Managing Partner, East Wind Advisors
Todd Schwartz
Founder, Education.com
Anni Schleicher
Director of GTM Strategy, Salesforce
Colleen Scollans
Former CMO, Oxford University Press
Mark Seelig
Founder, Meister Seelig and Fein
Adam Shapiro
SVP, ExecOnline
Maia Sharpley
Former Partner, Learn Capital, Former EVP, Kaplan, Former Charter Schools USA
Stefanie Shelley
Executive Advisor and Coach
Darrell Silver
Founder, Thinkful
Jeremy Snepar
Founder & CEO, New York Code + Design Academy
Darshan Somashekar
Venture Partner, Trailmix.vc, Co-Founder, Imagine Easy (acq by Chegg in 2016), VP Product, Chegg
Alisa Sommer
Head of EdTech Partnerships, Google
Dan Sommer
Managing Partner, 10xImpact, Former CEO, Trilogy
Katrina Stevens
Former Director of Learning Science, Chan Zuckerburg Initiative
George Straschnov
Managing Director, Bisk Ventures
Neal Taparia
Founder, Solitaired, Founder and Former CEO, Imagine Easy (Easy Bib), General Manager, Chegg
James Tieng
Managing Partner, Lumos Capital
Jesus Trujillo-Gomez
Strategy and Innovation, Global Public Sector Google
Peter Tsang
Partner, The Riverside Company
Holly Uber
Former Director, zSpace
Phil Vahey
Former Director of Applied Learning Sciences, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Fernando Valenzuela Migoya
Managing Partner, EDT Partners, Founder, Global Impact EdTech Alliance
Cynthia Vance
Strategic Advisor, Instructor, Mentor, Angel Investor
Mark Vineis
CEO, Proliteracy Worldwide, Founder, Mondo Learning
Kate Eberle Walker
CEO, PresenceLearning, Former CEO, Princeton Review
Matt Wallaert
Head of Behavioral Science, frog
Frankie Warren
Product, Outschool, Former US Investment Partner, Lego Ventures
Joseph Watt
Impact Investing and Corp Dev, ECMC
Roy Weissman
Managing Director, Octopus
Oliver Wreford
CEO, SchoolMint
Mary Beth Wilson
Founder, EDU Inc, Former Chief Learning Officer, GEMS Education
Susan Wolford
Chairwoman of the Board, Edify Acqusition Group, Former Managing Director, BMO Capital Markets
Rayna Glumac
Managing Principal Consultant, RYE Consulting
Daniel Yoo
Founder, Goalbook
John Yoo
Former CEO, Teachers Pay Teachers, former CPO, Noodle
Peter Yoon
Managing Director, Vicksburg Capital Partners
Steve Zales
Strategic Advisor
