The Emerge Team
Jan Lynn-Matern
Founder & Partner
Nic Newman
Partner
Mario Barosevcic
Partner
Zara Zaman
Head of Platform
Mary Curnock Cook
Network Chair
Don Taylor
Network Chair
Venture Partners
The world's top edtech operators - at your service
Dan Sommer
CEO Sales Impact Academy
Pierre Dubuc
Co-founder, CEO OpenClassrooms
Parul Gupta
Co-founder, ex-President Springboard
Joshua Woehle
Co-founder SuperAwesome
Kirsten Campbell-Howes
CLO Busuu
Rob Cohen
Senior Advisor 2U
Steve Goldenberg
Founder, ex-CEO Interfolio
Jamie Brooker
Founder Kahoot
Craig Pines
CEO Amerigo
Christina Sass
Co-founder Andela
David Blake
Co-founder, CEO Degreed
Smita Bakshi
SVP Wiley, Founder, ex-CEO zyBooks
Stephen Kosslyn
ex-CAO Minerva Project, ex-Dean Harvard
Ian Dunn
Provost, Coventry University
Dennis Yang
ex-CEO Udemy
Sievert Weiss
Co-founder, CEO AMBOSS
Catalina Schveninger
ex-CLO Vodafone, ex-CPO FutureLearn
John Fillmore
President Chegg Skills
Sven Schutt
CEO IUBH Group
Lou Pugliese
ex-Founding CEO Blackboard, ex-CEO Moodlerooms
Kara Hedges Sasse
ex-VP Everfi, Blackboard, Gallup
Sunil Gunderia
CIO/CSO Age of Learning, ex-GM The Walt Disney Company
Jonathan Satchell
CEO Learning Technologies Group
Paul J. LeBlanc
President SNHU
Wendy Alexander
Scottish Higher Education Trade & Investment Envoy
Holger Seim
Blinkist Co-Founder & CEO
Jesus Lanza
CEO at Lottus Education
Abakar Saidov
Co-founder and CEO at Beamery
Nunzio Quacquarelli
Founder, CEO at QS
Amanda Nolen
Founder at Niles Nolen, ex-Head of Learning at Fuse Universal
Shailu Tipparaju
Founder at Examity, Strateology and EdAssist
Tess Kelly-Frazier
ex-VP, Blackboard and Interfolio
Keith Zimmerman
COO at University of Bath, ex-Director at University of Oxford
Nina Huntemann
CAO at Chegg, ex-VP, Learning at EdX
Guillermo Miranda
Ex-CLO at Boeing, ex-CLO at IBM and ex-President at IBM SkillsBuild Foundation
Bror Saxberg
ex-CLO at K12 Inc & Kaplan
Rob Grimshaw
ex-CEO at TES Global
Lucy Stonehill
Founder at BridgeU
Tom Davy
ex-CEO, EMEA at Panopto
James Mickelthwaite
VP at Kahoot! at work
Diane Morgan
ex-MD at Trilogy
Simon Brown
CLO at Novartis
Lee Weiss
SVP at Kaplan
Dror Ben-Naim
Founder, ex-CEO at Smart Sparrow
Natasha Davidson
ex-EMEA CMO at Coursera, ex-VP at Blackboard
Mathieu Nebra
Co-founder, CIO at Openclassrooms
Michael Horn
ex-CSO at Entangled Group
Jonathan Lau
Co-founder, COO at InStride
Adam Enbar
Co-founder and ex-EO at The Flatiron School
Jessica Appelbaum Wang
Senior Vice President at 2U
David Berger
Co-founder, ex-President at Trilogy
Girish Krishnaswamy
CBO, Learning Services at Chegg
Mike Damiano
ex-VP at Blackboard, Coursera, Studywiz
Mike Priddis
Founder, ex-CEO at Faethm
Cynthia Stuckey
SVP at EZRA Coaching, ex-VP at Degreed, ex-Senior Partner at Korn Ferry
Greg Miller
Co-founder, ex-CEO at Faethm
Cory Eyler
ex-GM at ed2go, Cengage Group
Susan Steele
CPO at Ebiquity, ex CHRO at Cision
Alan Tripp
Founder, ex-CEO at Inside Track & at Motimatic
Benedikt Dalkmann
CFO at Bertelsmann Education Group
Sean Gallagher
Executive Director at Northeastern University’s Center for the Future of Higher Education & Talent Strategy
Piers Lea
Founder, ex-CEO at LINE communications, CSO at Learning Technologies Group
Kevin Frey
CEO at Generation Unlimited, UNICEF
Shadee Barkan
ex-SVP Global Partnerships at 2U, ex-CPO at Trilogy
David Wood
Founder, CEO at Jam Pan
Emal Dusst
ex-Chief of Staff & Head of Strategy at Laureate; ex-Board Member at Coursera
Bertie Hubbard
Co-founder at MyTutor
Stephan Bayer
Founder at SofaTutor
Monica Garcia Junco
CDO @ Laureate Education
John Martin
ex-CEO at Sanoma
Shay David
Co-founder, CEO at Retrain.ai, Co-founder at Kaltura
Sergio Abramovich
ex-VP at Adtalem, ex-SVP at GEMS Education, CEO at Scala Learning
Christopher Nagle
ex-Director, Holmes Education Group
Martin Keck
MD at Harris Williams, ex-MD at Needham & Co
Gregory Finkelstein
ex-COO at Zovio, ex-MD at Wiley, MD at Tyton Partners;
Sean Newell
CEO, Interfolio UK
Shiv Gaglani
Co-founder, CEO at Osmosis
Simon Nelson
ex-CEO at FutureLearn, ex-Digital Director at North Anglia Education, CEO at QA Higher Education
Fernando Lau
ex-CMO at Adtalem, CRO at Rebello
Gabriel Bustamente
ex-Executive VP of Global Sales and Admissions at 2u
Prasad Mohare
SVP at Learning Mate
Emma Lancaster
ex-CEO at StudyGroup
Enrico Poli
Director at Zanichelli Venture
Nathan Greeno
SVP at 2u & EdX, ex-VP at University of Maryland Global Campus
Grant Lindsay
ex-Senior Director of Product at Chegg, Senior Director of Product at Udemy
Saqib Awan
Founder, ex-CEO at School Kompanion
Mark Rudnick
Vice President, Academic Partnerships at Guild Education
Rafael Sidi
ex-SVP at Clarivate, ex-SVP & GM at ProQuest, ex-VP at Elsevier
Nick Mount
Academic Director at University of Nottingham
Ahmed Haque
ex-CAO at Trilogy, ex-CPO at Emeritus
Mehul Patel
ex-COO/President at Apollo Global
Suzana Delanghe
CRO at OpenClassrooms
Christopher Hale
ex-UK acting CEO, ex-Head of Policy Universities UK
Norman Atkins
Founder, ex-CEO at Uncommon Schools, Co-founder, ex-president at Relay Graduate School of Education, Co-founder and MP at Together Education
Wayne Houlden
Founder, ex-CEO at Janison
Nick Petford
ex-Vice Chancellor at University of Northampton, ex-Pro Vice Chancellor at Bournemouth University
Tariq Chauhan
Co-founder, CEO at EFS
Paul Feldman
ex-CEO at Jisc, ex-CTO at Thomson Reuters
David Maguire
ex-Vice Chancellor at University of Sussex, Dundee, Greenwich & BCU
Andy McGregor
Director of Edtech at Jisc
Michaël Bijaoui
Partner and COO at East Wind Advisors
