Leadership
Co-Founders
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Co-Founder
Leadership
Our team possesses a collective 300+ years of teaching experience, and many of our leaders previously served in key roles in leading educational and technology-based organizations.
President of Teach to One
Chief Financial and Administrative Officer
Chief Academic Officer
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Vice President of Sales and Marketing
Vice President of Policy and Advocacy
Board of Directors
The New Classrooms Board of Directors provides strategic direction and oversight for the organization.
Will Ethridge
Principal
Ethridge Advisors
Palmina Fava
Chief Integrity Officer
The Magnum Ice Cream Company
Christine Fowler-Mack
Former Superintendent
Akron Public Schools
Matthew Gross
Founder and Executive Chair
Newsela
Dennis Miller
Former President
The CW Network
Matthew Pittinsky
CEO
Parchment
Rick Segal
Managing Partner
Banyan Seed Ventures
Rob Stavis
Partner
Bessemer Venture Partners
Lawrence Young
Senior Managing Director
Alix Partners
Mark Zurack (Chairman)
Senior Lecturer in Finance
Columbia Business School
Mike Bezos (Emeritus, Founding Board Member)
Vice President and Co-Founder
Bezos Family Foundation
John Deasy (Observer)
President
Bezos Family Foundation
Titiola Harley (Observer)
Senior Program Officer
The Gates Foundation
Lewis Leiboh (Observer)
Deputy Director, Education R&D
The Gates Foundation
Co-founder Joel Rose also serves on the Board of Directors.
Board of
Advisors
The New Classrooms Board of Advisors is a volunteer team of prominent education leaders who provide strategic guidance on academic and organizational issues including learning progressions, program research, evaluation design, school culture, teacher professional development, organizational design, fiscal management, governmental relations and communications.
Susan Asiyanbi
Founder & CEO
The Olori Network
Robert Avossa
CEO
K-12 Leadership Matters, LLC.
Former Superintendent
Palm Beach County School District
Kenetta Bailey
Senior VP of Marketing
Clear Channel Outdoor Americas
Neeraj Bewtra
Former Managing Director
J.P. Morgan
Emma Bloomberg
CEO and Founder
Murmuration
Doug Borchard
Managing Partner
New Profit Inc.
Chris Cerf
Former Commissioner of Education
State of New Jersey
Albert Chan
Director, Head of Sales, Small Business Group – North
Meta
Luyen Chou
Co-Founder & CEO
DeweyLearn, Inc.
Margo Georgiadis
Co-Founder & CEO
Montai Therapeutics
Jesse Hertzberg
Former Growth Partner
Great Hill Partners
Bradley Horowitz
General Partner
Wisdom Ventures
John Katzman
Chief Executive Officer & Founder
Noodle Education
Former Chairman & Founder
2U
Wendy Kopp
CEO and Co-Founder
Teach for All
Founder
Teach for America
Joshua Lewis
Adjunct Professor
The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
Kelly Merryman
Chief Executive Officer
The Wonder Project
Joe Negron
Co-Founder
KIPP Beyond Middle School NYC
Richard Sarnoff
Partner and Chairman of Media, Entertainment, and Education
KKR
Gideon Stein
President
Moriah Fund
Philip Uri Treisman, Ph.D.
Executive Director
The Charles A. Dana Center at the University of Texas at Austin
Marla Ucelli-Kashyap
Senior Director, Educational Issues
American Federation of Teachers
Tom Vander Ark
Founder
Getting Smart
Gene Wilhoit
CEO
Center for Innovation in Education
Former Executive Director
Council of Chief State School Officers
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