Working in partnership with BV Investment Partners to deliver Education Technology platforms at scale by making equity investments and implementing best-practices and mature operational methodologies in our portfolio of companies.Current focus: Building an integrated suite of K-12 software solutions that streamline school administration, better connecting families, students and educators to create safer, higher performing schools. Responsible for all revenue-generating functions, including Sales, Marketing, M&A; delivering high growth and operational excellence across these disciplines.Responsibilities include: Sales, Marketing and overall Revenue Growth, organic and via acquisitionsM&A thesis and strategy utilized to deploy up to $150M in growth equityWork with investors and to coordinate all aspects of M&A transactionsSource, evaluate, structure, negotiate and closing strategic M&A transactions Manage due diligence processes, facilitate post-acquisition integration Collaborate with our portfolio leaders to create great products and operational excellenceSchoolMint Portfolio: schoolmint.com | herok12.com

-Strategic leader responsible for creation and delivery of PowerSchool's guiding principles, brand identify, demand generation engine and end-to-end marketing-Member of senior management, responsible for corporate and go to market strategies -Acquisition deal team participant, conducting due diligence and integration for 7 acquisitions in 18 months-Evangelist and public speaker charged with presenting PowerSchool Roadmap and strategies at industry events, to customers, business partners and other market constituents-Expert people manager, responsible for diverse, cross-discipline team overseeing several mission critical functions for the PowerSchool Group

-Strategic leader responsible for creation and delivery of PowerSchool's guiding principles, brand identify and marketing, product roadmap and business partnerships-Evangelist and public speaker charged with presenting PowerSchool Roadmap and strategies at industry events, to customers, business partners and other market constituents-Member of senior management team building blueprint and go-forward growth plan for the PowerSchool business-Deal maker, creator/manager of PowerSchool ISV program that has delivered over 100 education technology partnerships for PowerSchool to date

Executive responsibility for the following teams/functions at Pearson School Systems:Strategy:-Identify key market trends and opportunities around which to formulate School Systems strategies for product development and global product delivery-Create and rationalize game-changing strategies that enable School Systems to grow, with PowerSchool improving its position as the global Student Information System (SIS) market leaderProduct Management:-Build and manage delivery of the PowerSchool SIS Product Roadmap, a product utilized by more than 30 million users globallyProduct Marketing:-Increase awareness of and interest in PowerSchool’s brand identity through product marketing activities such as presentations at industry and user events, delivery of multi-media collateral, utilization of web and social media, email and other targeted outreach campaignsBusiness Development:-Drive business development activities, such as acquisitions of key industry competitors AAL, Century Consultants; grow and evolve the PowerSchool ISV program, which now includes over 100 Education Technology partners

My current role is as an Education Technology Executive, charged with evaluating and assisting in the execution of acquisitions; building Strategic Partner Programs, prospecting, negotiating and managing Strategic Alliances that augment Pearson’s brand and product position in the marketplace. Recent achievements include:Serving as business unit lead on Pearson's acquisition of Administrative Assistants Ltd. - http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/11/prweb4791294.htmGround up creation (vision design and launch) of Pearson's ISV partner program. This initiative which I built and own is tracking to generate material revenue and operating income for Pearson School Systems in its first year.http://pearsonschoolsystems.com/partners/programs/

Lead development of Pearson School System’s business and technology strategy, with respect to school funding reports and state level longitudinal data. Built relationships with key industry players and stakeholders from state departments of education. Scaled operations based on business need, initiating strategic partnerships to deliver additional product capabilities. ∼ Create vision, determine implementation requirements of education solutions aimed at fulfilling longitudinal data system requirements of state departments of education∼ Direct all aspects of Pearson Student Information System SDLC and product development efforts related to school district funding and state compliance ∼ Manage overall integration of Pearson School Systems state reporting function, implementing Agile methodology at multiple team sites to delivering software solutions

Responsible for architecting and implementing a data warehouse and business intelligence infrastructure that allowed InsWeb to leverage data, to track monitor and analyze KPIs, evaluate company performance and use data-driven decisions to optimize overall business strategy.∼ Lead architect, custom data warehouse, capturing data from multiple corporate systems∼ Strategized with executives, project managers and developers to evolve data warehouse to better capture/report on company KPIs∼ Head of InsWeb’s business analytics function, oversaw development of OLAP cubes, analytic reports, ad hoc queries and reporting websites∼ Designed InsWeb’s event logging (business intelligence) software used to track user activity, identify revenue driving transactions and generate partner invoices∼ Managed BI environment, executed upgrades to new versions of data warehouse and BI packages∼ Worked with vendors to evaluate and acquire new software packages and licenses∼ Performed project/budget management, developed work plans for team projects

∼ Lead Application Engineer, supervised development of custom software applications∼ Managed diverse team of contractors, county employees and Accenture consultants∼ Technical and functional expert, assisted programmers in resolving various issues ∼ Gathered client’s functional requirements and created application design specs∼ Integration team member, managed customer business process changes resulting from software system implementation