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James Caras is listed as STEM EdTech Entrepreneur at Catalyst Education, based in Santa Barbara, California, United States. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at catalysteducation.com.au, phone signal with area code 512, and a matched LinkedIn profile for James Caras.
James Caras previously worked as CEO at Catalyst Education and Board of Advisors | Investor at Unmudl Skills-To-Jobs Marketplace. James Caras holds Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biochemistry from The University Of Texas At Austin.
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I am an educational technologies entrepreneur with significant executive leadership experience. I apply my expertise as an educator and learning technology expert to build innovative companies and engaging learning products for the higher education STEM disciplines. I have gained a diverse base of business building and leadership skills by founding and selling three successful EdTech startups and holding senior executive roles within leading EdTech and learning companies.
Listed skills include E Learning, Higher Education, Start Ups, Educational Technology, and 30 others.
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Austin, Texas, Us
We help instructors inspire students to become the next generation of instructors, scientists, and problem-solvers. Our first product, Labflow, saves lab-teaching faculty time and provides insights into the teaching and learning within their course, improves learning for students, and empowers mentoring of lab teaching assistants.
Boston, Ma, Us
Provide expertise in the STEM education and higher education courseware space. Loosely advise founders as they navigate their entrepreneurial journey.
Chicago, Illinois, Us
General board guidance role with an emphasis on market positioning, pricing and go-to-market strategy within the direct-to-professor sales model common for curriculum/courseware tools in North American Higher Education. Packback had a successful exit to PSG Equity in March of 2024.
Indianapolis, In, Us
Willo Labs had a successful exit to Follett April 2023.
New York, New York, Us
Aktiv (formerly 101edu) had a successful exit to Top Hat in December 2022.
New York City, Ny, Us
Provided leadership to bring the market and product needs from the editorial group into a concise high-level strategy, and improve the communication of needs and refine the roles between Macmillan's Editorial and Product groups. Worked closely with Mathematics discipline leaders to hone and refine vision and priorities. Provided thought leadership by speaking at EdTech conferences. Provided product vision and executive sponsorship of new STEM College Readiness product.
New York City, Ny, Us
Served as a C-level key member of the management team of a "big 5" higher education and high school AP publisher. Consolidated multiple product groups into a unified team. Streamlined product strategy around assessment and learning management to focus on single platforms and reduce redundant investment, as well as greater focus on mobile and accessibility. Directed and sponsored the replacement of key software capabilities to utilize newer platforms and Web technologies for greater interoperability for the different business units and all disciplines within Macmillan and to make improvements for mobile and accessibility. Led the creation of a Learning Science group within Macmillan. Provided thought leadership by speaking at EdTech conferences.
New York, Ny, Us
Managed 4 Macmillan portfolio STEM EdTech companies: Sapling Learning, Late Nite Labs, PrepU, and Nature Ed. Directed consolidated STEM vision and worked with General Managers of each portfolio company on goals and strategy. With MNV management, worked to consolidate the sales and marketing strategy and teams across all portfolio companies. Doubled the served available market with new products in the high school (math) and higher education biology and chemistry laboratory markets. Provided thought leadership by speaking at EdTech conferences.
Managed Sapling Learning as a portfolio company for Macmillan post acquisition. Directed company vision, goals, and strategy. Hired 2 key executive team members. Oversaw the sales and marketing strategy that led to a 240% sales increase over 2 years. Doubled the served available market with launches of new products serving the economics market. Focused the software development team to support the growth in the number of users. Was also responsible for business development and partnerships, directing finance, and staffing for growth. Provided thought leadership by speaking at EdTech conferences.
Sapling Learning produced effective science online learning solutions used by instructors and students in higher education and high school. Managed the company to achieve over 100% average annual revenue growth over 4 years. Built a management team and operationalized company so it was capable of growing to 86 employees across 5 departments in 3 years. Led market strategy for disrupting and changing the education market in 3 key areas: separating digital problem-solving learning solutions from textbook bundles, innovative customer partnership and support models, and decreasing costs to students through the use of OER and used textbook bundles. Managed a business model transition from software licensing and content services to a successful SaaS educational software company. Raised over $3.5M in capital from a diverse funding sources, including Federal Small Business Administration (SBA) loans, bridge loans, angel investors, and institutional venture capital. Launched 11 higher education and 7 high school products targeting course areas in chemistry, physics, economics, engineering, and biology. Served as the primary sales lead for key early university sales, built the early sales group, and installed key sales leadership. Led business development initiatives that contracted key partnerships with publishing companies and providers of open education resources (OER). Responsible for the launch of Sapling Learning’s high school business which brought in over $1MM in revenue in its first year. Established Sapling Learning as an EdTech business and thought leader by speaking at numerous EdTech and STEM education industry conferences, and through being recognized as #4 on the Austin Fast 50 startup companies.Managed the sale of Sapling Learning to Macmillan New Ventures in 2012, providing an excellent return for investors.
Founded Sapling Systems to bring rich, STEM-relevant online learning environments in the education space. Led business development resulting in over $2M in software licensing contracts with 4 of the "big 5" large higher education publishing companies. Built the first quizzing system capable of asking questions that required students to draw chemical structures (ChemQuiz). Served as product management leader for the development of our online homework learning software and homework content authoring software. Provided thought leadership by speaking at Chemistry Education and EdTech conferences.
Ran educational multimedia company that specialized in Higher Education science and mathematics. This company was merged with Sapling Systems in 2007.Managed the growth of the company to over $3.2M in annual services revenue. Managed the production of over 30 CD-ROMs and Web sites as ancillary educational technology content to accompany leading higher education science and mathematics textbooks, including work featured by Science magazine as the “Best on the Web.” Led business development initiatives to secure ongoing business relationships with many publishing companies in both the higher education and K-12 markets. Led the team that secured and developed “Operation Science Quest,” an $800,000 contract to build an online and CD-ROM product for grades 1-6 science instruction adopted by the State of California, which 36 included interactive story-based and character-driven animations in both English and Spanish.
Austin, Tx, Us
Performed kinetic analysis of the Hepatitis C virus (HCV) polymerase enzyme, for investigation as a potential HCV drug target. Provided research consulting to various post-doctoral researchers and graduate students.
Austin, Tx, Us
Developed curriculum and managed all aspects of the Chemistry 339K (Biochemistry) course for the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, including the first engaging media-rich chemistry course Web site. I was elected by the students of the department to speak at National Sciences Week because of the use of innovative technology in the classroom.
Austin, Tx, Us
Designed and developed HIV immunotherapies and vaccines.Invented a novel vaccine design that tethered beta-2-microglobulin to conserved viral epitopes that bound in the class I MHC protein, which was eventually granted a patent for UT Austin
Instructed Physical Sciences portion (Chemistry) to pre-med students preparing for the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT). Prepared and delivered lectures covering all topics of general chemistry, as well as providing additional tutoring.
Washington, Dc, Us
Performed ab initio quantum mechanical calculations to determine the IR spectra of numerous potentially harmful polyaromatic hydrocarbons to aid in the identification of compounds discovered at Superfund cleanup sites.
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James Caras works for Catalyst Education.
James Caras is listed as STEM EdTech Entrepreneur at Catalyst Education.
AeroLeads has found 1 work email signal at @catalysteducation.com.au for James Caras at Catalyst Education.
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James Caras is based in Santa Barbara, California, United States while working with Catalyst Education.
James Caras has worked for Catalyst Education, Unmudl Skills-To-Jobs Marketplace, Good Harbor Partners, Acadeum, and Querium Corporation.
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James Caras holds Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biochemistry from The University Of Texas At Austin.
James Caras is listed with skills including E Learning, Higher Education, Start Ups, Educational Technology, Strategy, Science, Leadership, and Entrepreneurship.
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