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Minneapolis, MN, US

Aventura, Florida, US

Genius, a Leeds Equity Partners company, solves the complex challenges of modern learning and training programs.Streamline, simplify and centralize all functions of your learning management to deliver compelling student-centric solutions. Genius is your unified system for data empowerment and workflow management, aggregating your student management.

Portola Valley, CA, US

Cignition transforms the way students learn mathematics. From immersive game-based learning to data-driven expert math tutoring, we deliver research-backed solutions to schools and parents that engage and aid all students in gaining deep conceptual understanding of mathematics. - Google for Education Partners- Common Sense Education's Top Pick for Learning.

Boston, Massachusetts, US

• Managed mutually beneficial GTM strategies with key global alliances and U.S. Partners.Provided executive leadership for the Global Alliances and Partnership teams for HMH, a $1.4B revenue international educational.
• Managed Google relationship to create over 100 Expeditions Virtual Reality Field Trips for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) Science and Social Studies curriculum.
• Integrated Google Classroom with HMH Platform.
• Negotiated Amazon institutional fulfillment agreement for HMH digital titles.
• Negotiated Microsoft consumer and institutional fulfillment agreements.
• Recruited and on-boarded over 100 Independent Software Vendors (ISV) to HMH Marketplace.

Brooklyn, NY, US

Defined the go-to-market strategy for the Amplify Access 1:1 learning platform, including performing market research, minimal viable product definition (MVP), partner identification, pricing and sales collateral, and initial pilots.Within eighteen months, we’d launched our first commercial offering across twelve states, generating over $3 million revenue.

Scottsdale, AZ, US

• Parchment’s mission is to turn credentials into opportunities. Parchment helps learners, educators, associations and employers securely send and receive education credentials online, in simple and insightful ways..
• Planned and implemented sales, marketing and partner go-to-market strategies
• Directly responsible for negotiations and award of 11 multi-year, multi-million dollar contracts at state education agency and higher education commission levels
• Directly responsible for over 70% of all revenue generated in first four years
• Strategic and channel partnership identification, negotiations and management
• Frequent speaker and company evangelist at industry/company activities

• Co-founded SchoolExtra, the exclusive sales and service organization for the nation's leading web-based K-12 student system, Infinite Campus (acquired by Infinite Campus in 2003).Defined and led all sales, marketing.
• Scaled Infinite Campus from pilot phase to second largest U.S. Student Information System provider.Successful exit 2003; Infinite Campus.

• Founded OCS to serve a rapidly growing market for technical ERP resources on contract among Fortune 1000 companies. Responsible for consultant sourcing, sales and marketing, partnerships, and major account management..
• Successfully recruited, placed, and managed consultants on major projects with mid-to-large companies including Owens Corning, Intelligent Electronics, Prudential, StorageTek, BankBoston, and many other Fortune 1000.

The 109th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron provides quality patient care and timely movement of casualties during wartime and peacetime operations. Using military and civilian aircraft the 109th, made up of more than 110 airmen, transport patients to airfields near designated health care facilities.