Leadership
Steve Shapiro
Chief Executive Officer
Steve is a serial entrepreneur, having founded three companies in education, international travel, and workforce development.
Simmy Ziv-el
Chief Strategy & Business Development Officer
Business Strategist and Executive for education and workforce products and services across cultures around the world.
Sara Vispoel, PhD
Chief Assessment & Learning Officer
Sara is a psychometrician who has 17 years of senior-management experience in the high-stakes testing industry, most recently at ACT.
Jennifer Ku
Chief Product Officer
Jennifer has years of experience bringing products to market in industries ranging from marketplace companies, media, and financial services.
Steven Maggs
Chief Technology Officer
Steven blends both hands-on and management experience building and maintaining large-scale Internet services and properties.
Jesse Hamer
Lead AI Scientist, Innovation
Mathematician by training, AI Scientist by trade. Jesse is committed to making the world a better place through the ethical application of AI to solve problems in education.
Charles Foster
Lead AI Scientist, Core Technology
Charles loves interfacing with emerging research, to bring forward the very best tech for AI-human solutions.
Lucas Cezimbra
Team Lead
Lucas is passionate about technology and solving real problems through it, having years of experience in different software development projects.
Seung Chong
Head of Product Design
Seung loves complex design challenges. With her team, she creates thoughtful, engaging and elegant design solutions that add value to users.
Kat Heath
Technical Project Manager
Kat leverages her technical know-how to optimize organizations and challenge them to deliver best-in-class products.
CP Knerr
Architect
CP loves to ask questions which uncover the “why” behind an end user’s goals and apply appropriate technologies that deliver value beyond those goals.
Steve Picciano
VP of Engineering
Technology leader with an entrepreneurial spirit and a passion for leveraging innovation and analytics to make a difference.
Jay Trommer
Head of Quality Assurance
Jay has over 20 years of experience combining data analytics and user feedback to help create high quality, user friendly experiences.
Board of Directors
Bill Hughes
Board Member
Bill is president of Open4 Learning, an education-based venture advisory company. He serves as a partner with Milamber Ventures.
Julie Yoo
Board Member
Julie has years of experience in data science and AI. She is founder of a healthcare data analytics startup and co-founder of pymetrics.
Martin Scaglione
Board Member
Martin is President and CEO of Hope Street Group since 2014, and has made it his life’s work to create access to learning for those in need.
Jeffrey Sugerman
Board Member
Jeffrey brings more than 25 years of experience in executive management, within the technology, training and publishing industries.
Linda G. Roberts
Board Member
Linda brings her commitment to advancing the effective use of technology in education, advising companies, foundations and government agencies.
Jeffrey True
Board Member
Jeffrey brings more than 30 years of financial and operations leadership across a range of industries. He is COO of Integrity Holdings, LLC.
Ted Preston
In Memoriam
Advisors
Dr. Peter Foltz
Peter has over twenty five years’ experience researching and applying Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning in academic and industry, with a history of leading innovative research and development teams resulting in scientific insights and revenue generating products.
Matt Doherty
For more than 20 years, Matt has helped build education companies in executive, operational, and sales leadership roles.
Richard Varn
Richard has over forty years of experience in advancing technology and innovation in education and government, most recently at ETS.