Michael Chai Email & Phone Number

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Paramus, New Jersey, Us

London, Gb

School line of business leadership team member responsible for digital product, development and engineering strategy across the global product lines. Delivery responsibilities include common web services, content architecture/tools, learning analytics and driving overall development investment ROI. The great promise of digital products is timely, actionable feedback loops to students, teachers, parents, administrators and policy makers. With digital services, it’s about making the business of educational institutions more effective and efficient. Add global demographic trends and the opportunity for positive impact is enormous.

London, Gb

Led bottoms-up review of K12 through Higher Education digital product portfolio ($500M+ annual investment) with an emphasis on platform strategy and ecosystem partnerships. Served as a key Global Product Council leader and significant contributor to a companywide transformation to an integrated global education business focused on efficacy. Operationally transitioned user experience, content management and K12 strategy teams to support the new global operating model.

London, Gb

Moved the needle on simplifying the K12 School team’s platform roadmap and systematically improving the quality and predictability of releases. Led delivery teams through the largest, most successful 1:1 learning implementation in the US (full district transformation to digital curriculum, grades 3-12, one laptop/tablet per student, in one school year).

Emeryville, California, Us

Corporate officer responsible for company strategy and delivering the entire product line of learning toys, mobile platforms and a large library of engaging, multi-platform content apps. A core aspect of the product strategy is a patented SaaS-delivered Learning Path(tm) system that translates a child’s product play experience into learning progress measures for parents/teachers. This software innovation consistently delivers >50% email open rates and drives feedback loops to marketing, sales, e-commerce, customer care and prod dev teams. Achieved company turnaround in five years. Recruited talented successors from Apple, LucasArts/Amblin and repositioned company for digital ecosystem + learning apps business atop a traditional mass retail distribution model.

Emeryville, California, Us

Management team member responsible for worldwide R&D and key corporate strategy leader. Responsible for 100+ engineers across a broad range of technical disciplines from ASIC development to web engineering and IT operations. Delivered award-winning educational products such as My Pal Scout(tm), My Own Leaptop(tm), the Tag(tm) Reading System and Leapster Explorer(tm). Over 25M units sold through online channels and mass market retailers (Wal-Mart, Target, Toys R’ Us, Best Buy).

Londonderry, Nh, Us

Appointed by the CEO to create a new business unit focused on transforming core company assets into SaaS solutions and services for IKON, Canon, Xerox and others. Grew to $15M and groomed an experienced sales/marketing exec to run it.• Built a scalable monthly subscription revenue model (managing >10M service calls/yr); grew overall IKON sales by 60%• Created internal new business ‘incubator’ that i) bought a privately-held software company, ii) sold mobile messaging technology assets to Verisign and iii) strategically outsourced R&D projects to external vendors

Londonderry, Nh, Us

Directly accountable for $100M+ product/business relationships with US-based and Asia-based OEM customers such as HP, IBM, Canon, Ricoh, Xerox, Minolta and Legend to develop high performance embedded printer controllers and mid-range servers. Products were localized into as many as 21 languages and sold worldwide.• Led 180+ person team of software/firmware engineers, program managers, quality assurance and technical writing operations; directly involved with all staffing decisions• Personally responsible for the only laser printer controller ever outsourced by HP’s $20B Imaging & Printing division

Londonderry, Nh, Us

Contributions drove industry-wide color management standards still in use today and critical to the company’s goal of making printing to any color copier as simple as using an Apple LaserWriter

Dallas, Tx, Us

Ms, Computer Science

Bs, Mechanical Engineering