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Boston, Ma, Us

Good Harbor Partners (GHP) is an education-focused boutique growth strategy and investment banking firm with deep expertise in educational technology, publishing and digital media. The Firm provides consulting, corporate development and M&A advisory for a diverse array of companies in these sectors.- Sell-Side M&A Advisory- Corporate Development- Strategy Consulting- Buy-Side M&A Advisory- Corporate Finance- Start-up acceleration services

LearnLaunch is the most robust vertically integrated edtech cluster in the US. LearnLaunch consists of a co-working Campus, events, classes and an annual conference. LearnLaunch support for the creation and growth of education technology and learning companies. There is also the LearnLaunch Accelerator based in Boston, MA focused on enabling education technology entrepreneurs build and grow their startups into thriving companies and

Both entities address the high cost of education. Textbook Revolution is the premier higher education aggregator of content resources available for free or with a new model. Textbook Revolution is the leading site for faculty and students to become aware of options, read reviews and make decisions to adopt or utilize from among the compelling content listed on the site. Textbook Media is a pioneer and leader in low-cost high quality, vetted course material content including textbooks and supplements adopted by faculty and embraced directly by students

markmillers LLC is a boutique investment bank delivering middle-market M&A advisory services for companies and investors in the publishing, content management, higher education, and educational technology sectors. Deep understanding of the dynamics and issues facing companies ranging from start-ups to the middle-market, we provide your organization with keen strategic insight, corporate development and M&A advisory services. Leveraging highly developed and trusted network of industry executives, we provide a solid foundation to effectively manage the process of sell-side and buy-side transactions.

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Directed sales process for CEO of Xplana and successful sold to MBS the owner of MBS Direct and Textbooks.com. Among, if not the top exit of 2009 among early growth stage companies.

CollegiateLink: leading provider of co-curricular management software to colleges and universities in the US & Canada. CollegiateLink helps institutions to increase involvement in out-of-the classroom programs, assess program impact on student success, and make data-driven decisions on program planning and resource allocation within the Student Affairs division.The Daily Jolt: Leading expansion and refocusing of business model for web-based content community serving 100+ college campuses with 500,000+ users. The Daily Jolt was a network of student-run websites with everything a student could and should know about the campus, its students, and the local area. With dining hall and local restaurant menus, event listings, a job board, hard-to-find academic links and an active community forum the Jolt combines everything a student needs into one place.

Sebastopol, Ca, Us

Member of core team that launched SafariU the first to market innovative model for higher education course content focused on computer science. Offered on-line and print or blended offering as product or subscription model that incorporated access to extensive database of other resources.Leveraging O'Reilly's great brand and good will focused on strategic relationships with organizations, institutions and associations to promote custom publishing application with delivery online and/or in form of POD book. Signed agreement with largest association of computer science faculty who embraced and promoted product offering among their peers, at their regional and national conferences and events.

Brighton, Ma, Us

Consulted to COO and VP of Sales of Harvard Business School Publishing

Medford, Oregon, Us

Built and managed team of eighty writers and editors creating rapid turn around summaries and transcripts of corporate conference calls and presentations of Russell 1000 companies with subscription model. Powerprose was exclusive content provider for CCBN an early leader in providing and online investor relation platform. Content provided on subscription model serving the financial services marketplace of buyers and sellers of equities. Folded into CCBN and acquired by Thomson Financial Services.

Asked by University CTO/CIO community to license CUPID technology from Cornell University which partnered with CNI and major research institutions and formed NetPaper. Pitney Bowes incubated company. Raised venture capital, built commercial version of CUPID an automated custom publishing platform for specific custom publishing companies and also cross publisher compilations. Partners included Thomson Learning , McGraw Hill Ryerson, World Bank and Harvard Business School Publishing.

Founded 1989 The Custom Publishing Group (CPG). Service for professors and university programs to manage the custom publishing workflow process and create customized books for their courses. CPG created and ran course pack operation for Barnes & Noble College Stores at 250 colleges and universities serving thousands of faculty each term. Acquired by Courier Corporation (NASDAQ CRRC), renamed Copyright Management Services.Founded 1986 Godfather of Notetaking Businesses - Won Cornell Business Plan Competition for TakeNote the leading notetaking service providing a subscription based publishing model providing detailed, edited summaries of lectures. Regularly one quarter of all students at Cornell subscribed to the notes delivered the week following the lectures.

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Elementary School - Graduated With Distinction, Coaches Award 1977