Ed on the Edge

www.dashmedia.coEntrepreneurs. Educators. Investors. Policymakers. Hosted by GSV Founder & CEO Michael Moe, Ed on the Edge covers the "who" and the "how" of driving change in the global education landscape.Daniel Diermeier is an internationally renowned political scientist, management scholar and visionary leader and has served as Vanderbilt University’s ninth chancellor since late 2019.  He has led major growth and innovation efforts, including expanding research funding, increasing financial aid, launching new campuses and programs, and strengthening Vanderbilt’s national and global reputation. Diermeier is also a prominent advocate for higher education reform, emphasizing institutional neutrality, civil discourse, and universities’ role in driving innovation, economic prosperity, and societal progress.Bio via vanderbilt.edu

www.dashmedia.coEntrepreneurs. Educators. Investors. Policymakers. Hosted by GSV Founder & CEO Michael Moe, Ed on the Edge covers the "who" and the "how" of driving change in the global education landscape.John Fallon served as CEO of Pearson PLC for eight years. He is now Professor of Practice at Northeastern University, an executive fellow at London Business School, and works with a range of public and private organizations on education technology and digital transformation.Bio via Bloomsbury

www.dashmedia.coEntrepreneurs. Educators. Investors. Policymakers. Hosted by GSV Founder & CEO Michael Moe, Ed on the Edge covers the "who" and the "how" of driving change in the global education landscape.Andrew Grauer is the Cofounder and CEO of Learneo, a platform of builder-driven productivity and learning businesses. Learneo is on a mission to supercharge productivity and learning for everyone and currently comprises eight businesses, serving over 100 million monthly active users. In 2006, Andrew cofounded the first business in Learneo’s portfolio, Course Hero, an online learning platform for course-specific study resources. Andrew started the company while attending Cornell University and led the company for 16 years. Starting in 2020, Andrew expanded the company from one business to eight, and created the parent company, Learneo, in 2022. Andrew has been named one of Forbes 30 Under 30, he’s a 2022 Silicon Valley Business Journal 40 Under 40 honoree and a Bay Area finalist of EY’s 2022 Entrepreneur Of The Year. Andrew holds a BA in Spanish from Cornell University.Bio via ASU+GSV Summit

www.dashmedia.coEntrepreneurs. Educators. Investors. Policymakers. Hosted by GSV Founder & CEO Michael Moe, Ed on the Edge covers the "who" and the "how" of driving change in the global education landscape.Fernando Zulueta is founder and CEO of Academica, an innovative global education organization. Academica serves more than 200 charter schools in 22 states. More than 3,000 schools in 33 countries offer Academica’s International Dual Diploma program. For 30 years, Mr. Zulueta has helped establish public charter schools. Academica schools rank among the nation’s best, recognized for many achievements. The US Department of Education has awarded them more than 20 National Blue Ribbons. He was inducted into the National Charter School Hall of Fame. He has served on the Board of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools. He chaired Florida’s Charter School Review Panel. He is a co-founder of the Florida Consortium of Charter Schools. He is the founder of Doral College — an accredited four year non-profit college. Doral provides free dual enrollment and college acceleration. It has awarded thousands of concurrent college degrees to high school students.He has received awards for his work advancing the education of disadvantaged students. Academica schools reduce the income achievement gap. He presents at conferences on how charter schools disrupt the poverty cycle.Bio via Fernando Zulueta (LinkedIn)

www.dashmedia.coEntrepreneurs. Educators. Investors. Policymakers. Hosted by GSV Founder & CEO Michael Moe, Ed on the Edge covers the "who" and the "how" of driving change in the global education landscape.Ian Rowe is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on education and upward mobility, family formation, and adoption. Mr. Rowe is also the cofounder of Vertex Partnership Academies, a network of virtues-based International Baccalaureate high schools inaugurated in the Bronx in 2022; the chairman of the board of Spence-Chapin, a nonprofit adoption services organization; and the cofounder of the National Summer School Initiative. He concurrently serves as a senior visiting fellow at the Woodson Center and a writer for the 1776 Unites Campaign.Mr. Rowe was CEO of Public Prep, a nonprofit network of public charter schools based in the South Bronx and Lower East Side of Manhattan, for a decade. Before joining Public Prep, he was deputy director of postsecondary success at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, senior vice president of strategic partnerships and public affairs at MTV, director of strategy and performance measurement at the USA Freedom Corps office in the White House, and cofounder and president of Third Millennium Media. Mr. Rowe also joined Teach for America in its early days.He has been widely published in the popular press, including in the New York Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Examiner, and is often interviewed on talk radio programs.Following the publication of his book Agency: The Four Point Plan (F.R.E.E.) for All Children to Overcome the Victimhood Narrative and Discover Their Pathway to Power (Templeton Press, 2022), Mr. Rowe leads AEI’s FREE Initiative. The FREE Initiative cultivates a deeper understanding of how family, religion, education, and entrepreneurship weave together a moral fabric that shapes children. Those insights have been shared with leaders around the country who can reinvigorate the crucial institutions that help develop agency in young people.Mr. Rowe has an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was the first black editor-in-chief of the Harbus; a BS in computer science engineering from Cornell University; and a diploma in electrical engineering from Brooklyn Technical High School, one of New York City’s elite public schools, which specializes in science, technology, and mathematics.Bio via AEI

www.dashmedia.co Entrepreneurs. Educators. Investors. Policymakers. Hosted by GSV Founder & CEO Michael Moe, Ed on the Edge covers the "who" and the "how" of driving change in the global education landscape.Peter Bezanson holds a BA from St. John’s College and Ph.D. from the University of Iowa, his home state. Beginning his career in academia, Peter transitioned to the K-12 education sector, where his expertise in critical thinking and educational theory now drives his strategic leadership. Peter’s love of teaching math led him to want to lead other teachers who loved teaching math, which in turn led him to want to lead a school, and then, a network of schools. Peter has held numerous leadership roles within the organization, including CEO of BASIS Ed and CEO of BASIS Ed Texas, before becoming co-chairs of BASIS Educational Ventures in 2023. Hired by the network’s co-founders in 2014 during the network’s early expansion, Peter’s leadership has been pivotal in maintaining the schools’ hallmark academic rigor, and in amplifying that growth, particularly outside of BASIS’ home state of Arizona. His dedication to the intellectual curiosity and innovation inherent in the BASIS model has cultivated a thriving community of learners and educators at dozens of campuses nationwide.Bio via BASIS Education

www.dashmedia.co Entrepreneurs. Educators. Investors. Policymakers. Hosted by GSV Founder & CEO Michael Moe, Ed on the Edge covers the "who" and the "how" of driving change in the global education landscape.Chris co-founded Sterling in 1983 and is a Managing Director of the firm. Prior to re-joining the Sterling team, Chris operated as CEO of portfolio company Educate, Inc. and Chairman and Co-CEO of Sylvan Learning Systems, Inc. Chris is a member of the Boards of Trustees for Johns Hopkins University and Sheridan Libraries. He attended Johns Hopkins University.Bio via Sterling Partners

www.dashmedia.coEntrepreneurs. Educators. Investors. Policymakers. Hosted by GSV Founder & CEO Michael Moe, Ed on the Edge covers the "who" and the "how" of driving change in the global education landscape.This conversation took place in 2024 as part of GSV’s Bootcamp with the National Football Foundation.Admiral William H. McRaven is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Make Your Bed and the New York Times bestsellers Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations, The Hero Code: Lessons Learned from Lives Well Lived, The Wisdom of the Bullfrog: Leadership Made Simple (But Not Easy), and Conquering Crisis: Ten Lessons to Learn Before You Need Them. In his thirty-seven years as a Navy SEAL, he commanded at every level. As a Four-Star Admiral, his final assignment was as Commander of all U.S. Special Operations Forces. After retiring from the Navy, he served as the Chancellor of the University of Texas System from 2015 to 2018. He now lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, Georgeann.Bio via LBJ Presidential Library

www.dashmedia.coEntrepreneurs. Educators. Investors. Policymakers. Hosted by GSV Founder & CEO Michael Moe, Ed on the Edge covers the "who" and the "how" of driving change in the global education landscape.Rajen Sheth is CEO and Founder of Kyron Learning, a public benefit company focused on giving all students equitable access to high quality one-on-one teaching using AI. Previously, Rajen was VP of Google Cloud AI and Industry Solution as part of a 17 year career at Google. He focused on building products that enable enterprises to transform themselves through AI, and building transformative products for Google Cloud’s key industries: healthcare, retail, financial services, media/entertainment, and manufacturing. Earlier on, Rajen led the development of Android and Chrome for business and education, including the Android for Enterprise products, the Chromebooks for Education product line, and Chromebooks and Chrome browser for enterprise . Rajen also helped create and lead product development for Google Apps for Enterprise and Education (now known as Google Workspace), used by over 5 million businesses and 200 million students.Bio via ASU+GSV Summit

www.dashmedia.coEntrepreneurs. Educators. Investors. Policymakers. Hosted by GSV Founder & CEO Michael Moe, Ed on the Edge covers the "who" and the "how" of driving change in the global education landscape.Dan Rosensweig currently serves as Chegg’s Executive Chairman. In 2010, Dan Rosensweig joined Chegg as its Chief Executive Officer with a vision to transform the popular textbook rental service into a leading provider of digital learning services. As CEO from 2010 to June 2024, Dan committed the company to fulfill its mission – “always put students first” – by not only helping them succeed but also by helping them thrive. Under Dan’s direction, Chegg became the always-on, trusted, and affordable source of knowledge, guidance, and inspiration, helping learners achieve their educational and career goals. Prior to Chegg, Dan served as CEO of Guitar Hero, COO of Yahoo!, and CEO of ZDNet. Dan received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Hobart and William Smith College in Geneva, New York. When Dan isn’t attending a Springsteen concert or enjoying quality time with his wife and two daughters, he serves on the Board of Directors for Adobe Systems, Inc., UpGrad, Inc., and Yumi. He also serves as a Colgate University Emeritus Trustee and as an Advisor to Kleiner Perkins.Bio via Chegg.

www.dashmedia.coEntrepreneurs. Educators. Investors. Policymakers. Hosted by GSV Founder & CEO Michael Moe, Ed on the Edge covers the "who" and the "how" of driving change in the global education landscape.This fireside chat took place on April 9th at the 16th annual ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego.Colin Kaepernick is a renowned athlete, activist, and philanthropist dedicated to advancing social justice and equity. Best known for his impactful NFL career and advocacy against systemic racism, Colin founded the Know Your Rights Camp, empowering youth through education and self-empowerment. As an entrepreneur, he founded Lumi, an AI-driven storytelling platform that democratizes content creation by providing creators with tools to produce, publish, and merchandise their stories independently. Colin continues to bridge sports, activism, and community impact through his initiatives.Bio via asugsvsummit.com

www.dashmedia.coEntrepreneurs. Educators. Investors. Policymakers. Hosted by GSV Founder & CEO Michael Moe, Ed on the Edge covers the "who" and the "how" of driving change in the global education landscape.Emily Chase Coleman is Co-Founder & CEO of HAI Analytics. Emily has two decades of experience building and implementing statistical models and has helped institutions of all sizes, types, and selectivity use model results to address their biggest challenges in real time. Throughout her career, she has worked with higher ed institutions to predict and improve yield, effectively allocate financial aid dollars, and support student success.Emily began her career in enrollment management at Syracuse University, where she worked for 12 years, most recently as the Assistant Vice President of Enrollment Management. At Syracuse, Emily built modeling strategies that fueled record applications and enrollment. Prior to co-founding HAI Analytics, Emily served as the Senior Vice President of Enrollment Management Services at Maguire Associates. In this position, Emily led the company’s predictive modeling division and was a member of the senior leadership team.Emily earned a PhD in Social and Personality Psychology with a concentration in statistics from Cornell University, and a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Philosophy from Boston College.

www.dashmedia.coEntrepreneurs. Educators. Investors. Policymakers. Hosted by GSV Founder & CEO Michael Moe, Ed on the Edge covers the "who" and the "how" of driving change in the global education landscape.Michael M. Crow is an educator, knowledge enterprise architect, science and technology policy scholar and higher education leader. He became the sixteenth president of Arizona State University in July 2002 and has spearheaded ASU’s rapid and groundbreaking transformative evolution into one of the world’s best public metropolitan research universities. As a model “New American University,” ASU simultaneously demonstrates comprehensive excellence, inclusivity representative of the ethnic and socioeconomic spectrum of the United States, and consequential societal impact.Lauded as the ”#1 most innovative” school in the nation by U.S. News & World Report for nine straight years, ASU is a student-centric, technology-enabled university focused on global challenges. Under Crow’s leadership, ASU has established more than twenty-five new transdisciplinary schools, including the School of Earth and Space Exploration, the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, and launched trailblazing multidisciplinary initiatives including the Biodesign Institute, the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, and important initiatives in the humanities and social sciences.Bio via asugsvsummit.com

www.dashmedia.coEntrepreneurs. Educators. Investors. Policymakers. Hosted by GSV Founder & CEO Michael Moe, Ed on the Edge covers the "who" and the "how" of driving change in the global education landscape.Scott Hamilton is the Founder of Live Data Technologies and and long time technology entrepreneur. Live Data is vertical AI for the workforce. Based in Santa Barbara, California, Live Data monitors the employment of 100 million professionals with information aggregated from the open web.  Read Scott's recent essay, "The Birth of the Data Grid" on Dash Media.

www.dashmedia.coEntrepreneurs. Educators. Investors. Policymakers. Hosted by GSV Founder & CEO Michael Moe, Ed on the Edge covers the "who" and the "how" of driving change in the global education landscape.Ben Nelson is founder, chairman, and CEO of Minerva Project and Founder of Minerva University. Ben founded Minerva in 2011 with the goal of nurturing critical wisdom for the sake of the world through a systematic and evidence-based approach to learning. Nelson has, since, built Minerva University, ranked as the most innovative university in the world, and has developed a business to share Minerva's unique approach with other like-minded institutions, corporations and governments. Prior to Minerva, Nelson spent 10 years at Snapfish, where he helped build the company from startup to the world’s largest personal publishing service. Serving as CEO from 2005 through 2010, Nelson began his tenure at Snapfish by leading the company’s sale to Hewlett Packard for $300 million.Nelson holds a B.S. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, where he created a blueprint for curricular reform in his first year, the principles from which he drew to frame Minerva.Bio via asugsvsummit.com

www.dashmedia.coEntrepreneurs. Educators. Investors. Policymakers. Hosted by GSV Founder & CEO Michael Moe, Ed on the Edge covers the "who" and the "how" of driving change in the global education landscape.This fireside chat took place on April 8th at the 16th annual ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego.Sarah Friar is the Chief Financial Officer of OpenAI. Before joining OpenAI, Sarah served as Chief Executive Officer of Nextdoor from 2018 to 2024, and as Chief Financial Officer of Block (formerly Square) between 2012 and 2018. Before her tenure at Block, Sarah served as SVP of Finance & Strategy at Salesforce, she held executive roles at Goldman Sachs and started her career at McKinsey in London and South Africa. Sarah currently sits on the board of directors of Walmart and Consensys, as well as on the advisory boards of HOPE Global, the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford and the Digital Economy Lab at Stanford University. She previously served as a director of Nextdoor, Slack and New Relic. She is the co-founder of Ladies Who Launch, a nonprofit that celebrates and empowers women entrepreneurs. Sarah graduated from the University of Oxford with a Masters of Engineering in Metallurgy, Economics, and Management and also from Stanford Graduate School of Business with an MBA.Bio via asugsvsummit.com

www.dashmedia.coEntrepreneurs. Educators. Investors. Policymakers. Hosted by GSV Founder & CEO Michael Moe, Ed on the Edge covers the "who" and the "how" of driving change in the global education landscape.Dr. Andrew Ng is a globally recognized leader in AI (Artificial Intelligence). He is Founder of DeepLearning.AI, Founder & CEO of Landing AI, General Partner at AI Fund, Chairman & Co-Founder of Coursera and an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University’s Computer Science Department.In 2011, he led the development of Stanford University's main MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) platform and taught an online Machine Learning course that was offered to over 100,000 students leading to the founding of Coursera where he is currently Chairman and Co-founder.Previously, he was Chief Scientist at Baidu, where he led the company’s ~1,300 person AI Group and was responsible for driving the company’s global AI strategy and infrastructure. He was also the founding lead of the Google Brain team.As a pioneer in machine learning and online education, Dr. Ng has changed countless lives through his work in AI, and has authored or co-authored over 200 research papers in machine learning, robotics and related fields. In 2023, he was named to the Time100 AI list of the most influential AI persons in the world. He holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University, MIT and the University of California, Berkeley.Watch Dr. Ng’s keynote presentation from the 2025 ASU+GSV Summit here.Follow Dr. Ng on X (@AndrewYNg) and Linkedin.Bio via www.andrewng.org.

www.dashmedia.coEntrepreneurs. Educators. Investors. Policymakers. Hosted by GSV Founder & CEO Michael Moe, Ed on the Edge covers the "who" and the "how" of driving change in the global education landscape.Shai Reshef is the President of University of the People (UoPeople). Reshef has over 25 years of experience in the international education market. Reshef has been widely recognized for his work with UoPeople, including being awarded the 2023 Yidan Prize for Educational Development, referred to as the Nobel Prize for Education; an honorary doctorate from the Open University, named one of Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business; awarded an Ashoka fellowship; joined UN-GAID as a High-level Adviser; granted an RSA Fellowship; selected by The Huffington Post as the Ultimate Game Changer in Education; nominated as one of Wired Magazine’s 50 People Changing the World; and selected as a Top Global Thinker by Foreign Policy Magazine.An expert on the intersection of education and technology, Reshef has spoken internationally at conferences, including DLD, TED, World Economic Forum, EG5 Conference, Google’s Higher Education Summit, ASU+GSV, SXSW, The Economist’s Annual Human Potential Summit, Financial Times’ Innovation Conference, and the Schools for Tomorrow Event for the New York Times. He has also lectured at Yale, Harvard, Stanford, and Oxford, among others. Reshef’s TED Talk and Nas Daily video about the University have over 30M views combined. Reshef holds an M.A. in Chinese Politics from the University of Michigan.Bio via University of the People

www.dashmedia.co Entrepreneurs. Educators. Investors. Policymakers. Hosted by GSV Founder & CEO Michael Moe, Ed on the Edge covers the "who" and the "how" of driving change in the global education landscape.Ronnie Screwvala is Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of upGrad Education. Ronnie’s first foray was Cable TV in India and for the first two years of that journey he found no takers and only advise was to treat it as a failed start up and move on, but with him staying at it he was credited with having pioneered Cable TV for all of India. Entrepreneurship is about finding and seizing opportunities and moving on from failures and Ronnie saw an opportunity in toothbrush manufacturing and after many setbacks went on to build one of the largest toothbrush operations in India. Ronnie went on to build a media and entertainment company - UTV, where post many pivots and four almost near bankruptcies and 15 years of focused work with strong co-founders and a large team, it scaled to a size spanning all aspects of Content and Platform and then he divested UTV to The Walt Disney Co in 2012. Newsweek termed him the Jack Warner of India, Esquire rated him one of the 75 most influential people of the 21st century and Fortune as Asia’s 25 most powerful. he has authored 2 books : ‘Dream With Your Eyes Open’and ‘Skill It, Kill It’. Ronnie in his second innings decided to deepen his commitment to making India a better place through a focus on two of the largest sunrise sectors - Online Education & the not-for-profit rural / social space. He is Co-Founder & Chairman of upGrad which zeros in on the massive Online Education market and the fact that Learning for every working professional is now a lifelong commitment.Bio via ASU+GSV & Emeritus Summit

www.dashmedia.coEntrepreneurs. Educators. Investors. Policymakers. Hosted by GSV Founder & CEO Michael Moe, Ed on the Edge covers the "who" and the "how" of driving change in the global education landscape.John Katzman is the founder and CEO of Noodle. Prior to Noodle, he founded and ran 2U, which is also involved in online learning, and The Princeton Review, which helps students find, get into, and pay for higher ed.‍Katzman is the co-author of five books and has served as a director of several for- and non-profits, including Carnegie Learning, Renaissance Learning, the National Association of Independent Schools, the Institute for Citizens & Scholars, and the National Alliance of Public Charter Schools.

www.dashmedia.co Entrepreneurs. Educators. Investors. Policymakers. Hosted by GSV Founder & CEO Michael Moe, Ed on the Edge covers the "who" and the "how" of driving change in the global education landscape.Sanjeev Sanyal is currently a Member of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’sEconomic Advisory Council (since 2022) with the rank of Secretary,Government of India. He was earlier the Principal Economic Adviser to theFinance Minister for five years till February 2022. He has also representedIndia on many international forums such as OECD and G7, and served as Co-Chair of the G20’s Framework Working Group. He was one of the keyarchitects of the G20’s Global Action Plan that kept the world economyfunctioning during the pandemic years.Since joining the government in early 2017, he was involved in many keyreforms For his contributions to public service, Sanjeev Sanyal was given theKPS Menon Memorial Award for 2023. The award is named after India’s firstforeign secretary.Prior to joining the government, he spent over two decades in internationalfinancial markets, and served as Chief Economist for South & South-EastAsia and later as Global Strategist and a Managing Director at DeutscheBankAn alumnus of Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University, Mr. Sanyallater attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. He was awarded theEisenhower Fellowship in 2007 for his work on urban systems. In 2010 he wasnamed as Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in Davos. Hehas been a visiting professor/fellow of numerous institutions such as OxfordUniversity Royal Geographical Society (London), Institute of Policy Studies(Singapore , Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi). He also chairs the board ofadvisors of the Delhi School of Public Policy and Governance (DelhiUniversity and was a member of the Board of Advisors of the World CitiesSummit Singapore.Mr Sanyal is the author of a number of best-selling books includingRevolutionaries Land of the Seven Rivers, The Ocean of Churn, India in theAge of Ideas, The Incredible History of the Indian Ocean, Life Over TwoBeers Iconic Indians and the Indian Renaissance. He has also publishedaround two hundred and fifty articles and columns in leading national andinternational publications. His writings have received many awards includingthe Kalinga Book Award 2023, the Art Karat Award 2018, Skoch Award forEconomics 2023 and so on. His book Revolutionaries is currently beingconverted into an Amazon Prime series.Bio via sanjeevsanyal.com

www.dashmedia.co Entrepreneurs. Educators. Investors. Policymakers. Hosted by GSV Founder & CEO Michael Moe, Ed on the Edge covers the "who" and the "how" of driving change in the global education landscape.For more than 17 years, Dr. Justin H. Lonon has provided proven executive and strategic leadership for Dallas College, guiding the institution to fulfill its mission of “transforming lives and communities through higher education.” Following a unanimous vote by the Dallas College Board of Trustees in 2021, Lonon began serving as the college’s eighth chancellor in March 2022.Lonon previously served as executive vice chancellor, leveraging his institutional knowledge to provide intentional leadership to the finance, governmental relations, legal, board relations, social responsibility, facilities, human resources, innovation and technology, marketing and communications, safety and security, emergency management, institutional effectiveness, and strategic initiatives functional areas.Lonon served as a driving force in the consolidation of the 55-year-old Dallas County Community College District — and its seven colleges — into one Dallas College. The historic move helps to meet the needs of Dallas County students, improving their access to in-demand degrees and credentials.To help address the teacher shortage, Lonon provided oversight to the creation of Dallas College’s first four-year degree in Early Childhood Education — the first in the state of Texas at a community college. This has led to the launch of the state’s first Teacher Residency Program. The college launched a second bachelor’s degree in nursing in summer 2024.Lonon’s experience as a collaborative leader in higher education transcends the executive suite. He previously served as interim president of Dallas College’s Brookhaven Campus, overseeing the 13,000-plus students the campus welcomes each semester.Prior to joining Dallas College in 2005, Lonon worked in the private sector providing public affairs counsel to local and national companies and nonprofit organizations. Lonon began his career in Dallas at City Hall, serving as press secretary for the Mayor’s Office.Lonon serves on several national and local boards, including the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities (CUMU); COMBASE, a national consortium of leading community colleges; the Austin-based United Ways of Texas; the YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas’ Advancement Committee; the North Texas Crime Commission; the Dallas Father of the Year Awards, and Rebuilding America’s Middle Class (RAMC). He co-chairs the University of Maryland – Global Campus (UMGC) Doctoral Program Advisory Board and served as past chair of the Task Force on Higher Education Government Relations for the American Association of Community Colleges.The Arkansas native earned a bachelor’s degree in public administration from Missouri State University, a master’s degree in public administration from the University of North Texas and a doctorate in management from the University of Maryland – Global Campus.Bio via Dallas College

www.dashmedia.coEntrepreneurs. Educators. Investors. Policymakers. Hosted by GSV Founder & CEO Michael Moe, Ed on the Edge covers the "who" and the "how" of driving change in the global education landscape.Ryan Craig is a Managing Director at Achieve Partners and was formerly an MD at University Ventures. Ryan’s commentary on where the puck is going in education and workforce regularly appears in the biweekly Gap Letter, Forbes, and Inside Higher Education. He is the author of the book Apprentice Nation: How the "Earn and Learn" Alternative to Higher Education Will Create a Stronger and Fairer America (2023). He is also author of A New U: Faster + Cheaper Alternatives to College (2018), which describes the critical importance of last-mile training and the emergence of bootcamps, income share programs, staffing and apprenticeship models as preferred pathways to good first digital jobs and was named in the Wall Street Journal as one the Books of the Year for 2018. Ryan’s first book was College Disrupted: The Great Unbundling of Higher Education (2015), which profiles the coming shift toward competency-based education and hiring. Ryan is a co-founder of Apprenticeships for America, a national nonprofit dedicated to scaling apprenticeships across the U.S. economy and is a senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute.Previously, Ryan led the Education & Training sector at Warburg Pincus. His prior experience in higher education was at Columbia University. Ryan also founded and built Wellspring, a national network of boarding schools and summer camps for overweight and obese children, adolescents, and young adults. He began his career at McKinsey & Co.Ryan received bachelor's degrees summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Yale University, and his law degree from the Yale Law School.

www.dashmedia.coEntrepreneurs. Educators. Investors. Policymakers. Hosted by GSV Founder & CEO Michael Moe, Ed on the Edge covers the "who" and the "how" of driving change in the global education landscape.Jeb Bush is the 43rd governor of the state of Florida and served two terms from 1999 to 2007. Governor Bush maintains his passion for improving the quality of education for students across the country by serving as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of ExcelinEd.Governor Bush was the third Republican elected as governor in Florida and the first in the state’s history to be reelected. During his two terms, Governor Bush championed major reform of government with the top priority of overhauling the state’s failing education system. Under his leadership, Florida established a bold accountability system in public schools and created the most ambitious school choice programs in the nation. Today, Florida remains a national leader in education and is one of the only states in the nation to significantly narrow the achievement gap.Governor Bush earned his bachelor’s degree in Latin American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. He has served as a Presidential Professor of Practice at University of Pennsylvania, a visiting professor and fellow at Harvard University as well as an executive professor at Texas A&M University. He has also been awarded several honorary doctorates from collegiate institutions across the country.Governor Bush has been recognized for his contributions to public policy by national organizations including the Manhattan Institute, The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation and the Jack Kemp Foundation. Governor Bush has authored or co-authored three books, Profiles in Character; Immigration Wars: Forging an American Solution; and Reply All: A Governor’s Story 1999-2007.Governor Bush is the son of former President George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush. He lives in Miami with his wife Columba, and they have three children and five grandchildren.Bio via ExcelinEd

www.dashmedia.coEntrepreneurs. Educators. Investors. Policymakers. Hosted by GSV Founder & CEO Michael Moe, Ed on the Edge covers the "who" and the "how" of driving change in the global education landscape.Dr. Chris Howard is the executive vice president and chief operating officer of ASU. Howard works closely with President Crow and the other executive vice presidents to coordinate enterprise-wide initiatives, technology, and advancement and oversee ASU Enterprise planning and strategy.He is a distinguished graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy and earned a doctorate in politics as a Rhodes Scholar from the University of Oxford. He also has an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School, and in 2018, received the school's Alumni Achievement Award. In 2024, he received the inaugural Leadership Achievement Award from the U.S. Air Force Academy. Howard's service to his country began as a helicopter pilot, then as an intelligence officer, where he was assigned to the elite Joint Special Operations Command. He served in Afghanistan in the Air Force Reserve and was awarded the Bronze Star. Howard concluded his career as a Reserve Military Attaché to Liberia, Africa.As a member of the Aspen Strategy Group, Howard co-edited a report entitled 'Re-Engineering American Security: Cultivating Talent for Competitiveness'. Howard unveiled the report's key findings during the 2023 Aspen Security Forum, sharing a panel with former Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice.Previously, Howard served as the eighth president of Robert Morris University, a nationally ranked doctoral-granting university in suburban Pittsburgh.Before serving at RMU, Howard was President of Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia.Howard also served as vice president for Leadership & Strategic Initiatives at the University of Oklahoma. Previously, he worked in General Electric's Corporate Initiatives Group and Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Corporate Associates Program. Howard served on the National Security Education Board, appointed by President Barack Obama.He is a trustee on the Harvard University Board of Overseers and also serves on the Board of Directors of AvalonBay Communities. Howard is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Young Presidents Organization, the Trilateral Commission, and Sigma Pi Phi, the oldest African-American fraternity in the United States.Howard won the Campbell Trophy, the nation’s highest academic award for a senior college football player. He also is a member of the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics and a former member of the College Football Playoff Selection Committee.Howard is the founder and a trustee emeritus of the Impact Young Lives Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports South African youth. He is also a board member of The Los Angeles World Affairs Council & Town Hall and the Barrow Neurological Institute Foundation.His wife, Barbara Noble Howard, serves as an Arizona State University Fellow for nonprofit leadership. She also serves on several philanthropic boards and hails from South Africa. They have two adult sons, Cohen and Joshua.Bio via ASU

www.dashmedia.coEntrepreneurs. Educators. Investors. Policymakers. Hosted by GSV Founder & CEO Michael Moe, Ed on the Edge covers the "who" and the "how" of driving change in the global education landscape.Jeanne Allen founded the Center for Education Reform (CER) over three decades ago to restore excellence to education, and built it into the nation’s leading advocate for innovation and opportunity in education. CER pioneered dozens of laws providing parents with choice and launched a nationwide movement that energized millions to engage in the fight.In 2021, Allen partnered with long time board member and education philanthropist Janine Yass and her husband Jeff to direct their education investments, and launched the Yass Prize for Sustainable, Transformational, Outstanding and Permissionless education, which defines their focus. Together and in partnership with Forbes, they work to support and engage educators, innovators, parents and policymakers to create the mechanisms for success for every student.Allen began her career on Capitol Hill in 1983 and served as a senior official in the U.S. Department of Education. She was the founding director of the first online communications portal, TownHall, and launched CER in 1993. From 2013 – 2016, Allen worked with a number of Silicon Valley education companies to bring about new innovations in online education and in 2015, she advised on the creation of the Masters in Education Entrepreneurship Program at the University of Pennsylvania and was co-founder of the StartED Accelerator.Jeanne has appeared extensively throughout the media and has contributed her analysis and voice to hundreds of outlets from NBC to FOX, and from the Wall Street Journal to the Washington Post. She is a regular contributor to Forbes Online, and a sought after speaker. Along with mentoring hundreds, she has served on numerous boards and posts in the education and tech worlds, and is a member of several lay orders dedicated to serving the poor.A first-generation Italian-American with an oversized affinity for her heritage, Jeanne authors a weekly newsletter entitled Forza, hosts the in Piazza podcast, and is author of An Unfinished Journey: Education & the American Dream (2020) which chronicles her journey through education. She is also the author of Education Reform: Before it Was Cool (2014), Manifesto: A Movement at Risk (2016) and co-author with Angela Dale of The School Reform Handbook: How to Improve Your Schools (1995).Allen, who holds a bachelor’s from Dickinson College and a master’s of science from the University of Pennsylvania, is mother to four amazing people & grandmother to two. She enjoys spoiling them, entertaining, politics and spending time on the water with her husband Dr. Kevin Strother, educator, boat Captain and classically-trained musician.Bio via edreform.com

www.dashmedia.coEntrepreneurs. Educators. Investors. Policymakers. Hosted by GSV Founder & CEO Michael Moe, Ed on the Edge covers the "who" and the "how" of driving change in the global education landscape.Betsy DeVos is a leader, an innovator, a disruptor, and a champion for freedom. She is the nation’s leading advocate for education freedom for students of all ages, having served as the 11th U.S. Secretary of Education from 2017-2021. For more than three decades, she has been tireless in her pursuit of public policy reforms that get government out of the way and allow all students the freedom, flexibility, resources and support they need to choose where, when and how they learn. Her advocacy has helped create new educational choices for K-12 students in more than 25 states and the District of Columbia and expanded post-high school education options for students and adult learners alike.Betsy is also an accomplished business leader. She served as Chairman of The Windquest Group, a privately held investment and management firm based in Michigan. She is the former chair of the American Federation for Children, The Philanthropy Roundtable, and the Michigan Republican Party. Betsy is a graduate of Calvin College and is married to entrepreneur, philanthropist and community activist Dick DeVos. Together, they have four children and thirteen grandchildren.Bio via betsydevos.com

www.dashmedia.coEntrepreneurs. Educators. Investors. Policymakers. Hosted by GSV Founder & CEO Michael Moe, Ed on the Edge covers the "who" and the "how" of driving change in the global education landscape.Arne Duncan is a prominent educator and public servant who served as the U.S. Secretary of Education under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2016. Before his tenure in Washington, he was the CEO of Chicago Public Schools, where he implemented significant reforms and oversaw the opening of over 100 new schools. Currently, Duncan is the Managing Director of Chicago CRED, an organization dedicated to reducing gun violence and providing opportunities for at-risk youth in Chicago. A Harvard graduate and former professional basketball player, he has devoted his career to improving educational outcomes and advocating for vulnerable communities.

www.dashmedia.coEntrepreneurs. Educators. Investors. Policymakers. Hosted by GSV Founder & CEO Michael Moe, Ed on the Edge covers the "who" and the "how" of driving change in the global education landscape.This conversation is from January 2024 between Michael Moe (Founder & CEO, GSV) and Chris Madden (Co-Founder, Imagine AI Live & CEO of Good Future Media) on an episode of the Imagine AI Live podcast. 

www.dashmedia.coEntrepreneurs. Educators. Investors. Policymakers. Hosted by GSV Founder & CEO Michael Moe, Ed on the Edge covers the "who" and the "how" of driving change in the global education landscape.Alan Todd is the founder of Udemy Business Leadership Academy. Alan is an education entrepreneur focused on solving organizational learning and leadership problems. As evangelist, advisor and podcast host for Udemy, he lives his life’s purpose of growing leaders, who grow organizations that change the world. Before Corp U, Alan was a pioneer in online learning, founding and leading KnowledgePlanet. The company was a key player in the online learning revolution and reached millions of learners in 150 countries. With over 30 years of experience transforming learning, Alan has served on Pennsylvania's Higher Education Commission, the Boards of Trustees at Dickinson College and Harrisburg University, and as Wharton's Entrepreneur-In-Residence, supporting innovative education startups.

www.dashmedia.coEntrepreneurs. Educators. Investors. Policymakers. Hosted by GSV Founder & CEO Michael Moe, Ed on the Edge covers the "who" and the "how" of driving change in the global education landscape.Ben Nelson is Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Minerva and Founder of Minerva University. Ben founded Minerva in 2011 with the goal of nurturing critical wisdom for the sake of the world through a systematic and evidence-based approach to learning. Nelson has since built Minerva University, which has been ranked as the most innovative university in the world, and has developed a business to share Minerva's unique approach with other like-minded institutions, corporations, and governments. Prior to Minerva, Nelson spent 10 years at Snapfish, where he helped build the company from startup to the world’s largest personal publishing service. Serving as CEO from 2005 through 2010, Nelson began his tenure at Snapfish by leading the company’s sale to Hewlett Packard for $300 million. Nelson holds a B.S. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, where he created a blueprint for curricular reform in his first year, the principles from which he drew to frame Minerva.

www.dashmedia.coEntrepreneurs. Educators. Investors. Policymakers. Hosted by GSV Founder & CEO Michael Moe, Ed on the Edge covers the "who" and the "how" of driving change in the global education landscape.Jack Ford is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning journalist, author, college professor, award-winning documentary film producer, and former trial attorney. An original anchor at the launch of Court TV, he was the co-anchor of the Weekend Today Show, a substitute anchor for Nightly News and Meet the Press, and has worked as a correspondent for Good Morning America and ESPN. He has received two Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, an American Radio and Television Award, a National Headliner Award, and the March of Dimes FDR Award. He also serves as the Vice Chairman of the National Football Foundation. A graduate of Yale University and the Fordham University School of Law, he is a Visiting Lecturer at Yale, NYU, and the University of Virginia, teaching a seminar on famous trials.

www.dashmedia.coEntrepreneurs. Educators. Investors. Policymakers. Hosted by GSV Founder & CEO Michael Moe, Ed on the Edge covers the "who" and the "how" of driving change in the global education landscape.Dave and Helen Edwards are the Co-Founders of Artificiality, a think tank dedicated to unraveling AI's impact on individuals, organizations, and society through research, publications, and events. Helen previously co-founded Intelligentsia.ai (acquired by Atlantic Media) and worked at Meridian Energy, Pacific Gas & Electric, Quartz, and Transpower.Dave previously co-founded Intelligentsia.ai (acquired by Atlantic Media) and worked at Apple, CRV, Macromedia, Morgan Stanley, and Quartz.Earlier this month, Dave and Helen published the research piece Learning in the Intimacy Economy in collaboration with Dash Media.

www.dashmedia.coEntrepreneurs. Educators. Investors. Policymakers. Hosted by GSV Founder & CEO Michael Moe, Ed on the Edge covers the "who" and the "how" of driving change in the global education landscape.Today’s episode takes a look at the 65-year career of one of the most impactful individuals in the history of American education. Bill Milliken, Founder and Vice Chairman of Communities In Schools, Inc., is one of the nation's foremost pioneers in the movement to give young people the help they need to graduate from high school and go on to rewarding lives. Mr. Milliken's activism began in 1960 when he joined Young Life, an ecumenical youth organization. He helped initiate “street academies” for young people who had dropped out of school and wanted a chance to resume their education, as well as live-in programs for substance abusers and youth in need of shelter and support. His experiences led him to search for a comprehensive approach to helping young people. This search culminated in the 1970s with the development of a model program that repositioned existing community resources into schools — the Communities In Schools network, which Mr. Milliken led as President until May 2004.Communities In Schools is the nation’s leading community-based organization helping students achieve in school and prepare for life. Currently, the organization directly serves more than 2 million students and their families each year. Mr. Milliken has served three U.S. presidents and has received numerous honors for his commitment to young people.Most recently, he was the recipient of the Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy Award for National Service. Prior to that, he received the Visionary Ambassador’s Award from Usher’s New Look Foundation and the National Jefferson Award for Public Service, which is widely regarded as the “Nobel Prize” for outstanding community and public service.Mr. Milliken serves on the boards of Leadership Foundations and Communities In Schools of Virginia. He also serves on the Board of Selectors of the Jefferson Awards, who choose the annual Jefferson Awards winners. He is an honorary member of Path North and is the author of four books: So Long, Sweet Jesus; Tough Love; The Last Dropout: Stop the Epidemic!; and From the Rearview Mirror: Reflecting on Connecting the Dots. Originally published in 2007, a revised edition of The Last Dropout was recently released in November 2022. Mr. Milliken received an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters in 2007 from Bard College.Bio via communitiesinschools.org

https://www.dashmedia.co/Entrepreneurs. Educators. Investors. Policymakers. Hosted by GSV Founder & CEO Michael Moe, Ed on the Edge covers the "who" and the "how" of driving change in the global education landscape.Michael Moe is the Founder & CEO of GSV, a growth investment platform. GSV identifies, advises, invests in, and accelerates the most transformative companies in the world. GSV has invested in game-changing companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox, Snap, Lyft, Palantir, Coursera, and Spotify.Brent Peus Jr. is VP of Growth Research & Strategy at GSV and Head of Dash Media. This conversation is from the Imagine AI LIVE conference in Las Vegas, NV in March of 2024. The interviewer, Chris Madden, is a co-founder of the event and the CEO of Good Future Media.

https://www.dashmedia.co/Entrepreneurs. Educators. Investors. Policymakers. Hosted by GSV Founder & CEO Michael Moe, Ed on the Edge covers the "who" and the "how" of driving change in the global education landscape.Jim Barnett is the CEO and Co-founder of Wisq (www.wisq.com), a business that gives every manager an AI-powered guide delivering personalized coaching, real-time guidance, and expert advice. Prior to Wisq, he co-founded Glint, where he served as CEO and Chairman before its acquisition by LinkedIn, where he then took on the role of VP of Product. Jim's entrepreneurial journey also includes co-founding Turn, a groundbreaking advertising technology company, and serving as Chairman of Sojern, a travel marketing platform. With experience as an investor at Shasta Ventures and executive roles at companies like Overture, AltaVista, Ancestry.com, and Accolade Video Games, Jim has earned a reputation as a seasoned leader in the tech industry.

https://www.dashmedia.co/Entrepreneurs. Educators. Investors. Policymakers. Hosted by GSV Founder & CEO Michael Moe, Ed on the Edge covers the "who" and the "how" of driving change in the global education landscape.Ben Wallerstein is CEO & Co-Founder of Whiteboard Advisors, a unique strategy consulting, communications, and advocacy firm built to help change-making organizations and entrepreneurs make an impact.Over the last twenty years, Ben Wallerstein has earned a reputation as the go-to advisor for education’s most impactful investors, nonprofit and corporate leaders. As an attorney and seasoned communications professional, Ben brings a deeply substantive perspective to bear on complex policy and communications challenges.In 2022, Ben was named to Washingtonian magazine’s annual list of the nation’s most influential leaders in education. EdTech Digest named Ben to its annual list of the top thought leaders in the sector.A frequent commentator on the intersection of regulation and innovation, Whiteboard Advisors’ research and commentary has appeared in The Washington Post, USA Today, TechCrunch, EdSurge, VentureBeat, and The Huffington Post, among others.Beyond Whiteboard Advisors, Ben is passionate about supporting the work of early-stage education entrepreneurs and has served as a judge for the PENN Education Business Plan Competition, the 1776 Challenge Cup, and the Yale School of Management Business Plan Competition. He previously curated “Three Minutes to Launch,” for the New York Times’ Schools of Tomorrow Summit.An active education investor, Ben serves as a Senior Advisor to New Markets Venture Partners. He is also a member of the Advisory Council for Rethink Education and served on the investment committee for the Jefferson Education Fund, which was founded by the University of Virginia’s School of Education Foundation.Ben previously served on the Boards of Blyth-Templeton Academy, the American Institute for Foreign Study Foundation, and on the B Lab education standards working group.The product of public schools in Norwalk, CT, Ben’s work reflects a deep and longstanding commitment to improving public education. He attended the University of Richmond and received his J.D., cum laude, from Georgetown University, where he was an editor of the Law Review.Ben began his career as an aide to former Xerox CEO, and U.S. Deputy Secretary of Education, David Kearns.Bio via www.whiteboardadvisors.com

www.dashmedia.coEntrepreneurs. Educators. Investors. Policymakers. Hosted by GSV Founder & CEO Michael Moe, Ed on the Edge covers the "who" and the "how" of driving change in the global education landscape.Joe Lonsdale is the Founder and Managing Partner at 8VC, an early-stage venture capital firm managing over $6 billion in capital. In 2003, he founded Palantir Technologies (NYSE:PLTR), a global software company known for its work supporting US and its allies’ defense and intelligence. Since then, he has founded more than a dozen prominent companies, including Addepar, a wealth management platform with about $5 trillion, and OpenGov, the leading cloud software provider for local governments. He continues to create and scale companies through the 8VC Build program.As an investor, Joe was an early backer of companies like Anduril Industries, Oculus (acq. FB), Guardant Health (NASDAQ:GH), Oscar (NYSE:OSCR), Illumio, Wish (NASDAQ:WISH), JoyTunes, Blend (NYSE:BLND), Flexport, Joby Aviation (NYSE:JOBY), Orca Bio, Qualia, Synthego, RelateIQ (acq. CRM), Yugabyte, and others.Joe and his wife Tayler are active in a variety of philanthropic and institutional pursuits. In 2018, they founded the non-partisan Cicero Institute, which crafts and advances policies to promote effective and accountable governance, and is now successfully battling special interests with teams in over a dozen states. In 2021, Joe became the founding chairman of the board of the University of Austin (UATX), a new university dedicated to restoring the pursuit of truth in higher education. He also sits on the board of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute.Joe and his wife Tayler have four daughters and one son and live in Austin, Texas.

www.dashmedia.coRex Woodbury is the Founder and Managing Partner of Daybreak Ventures, a thesis-driven early-stage venture capital firm. The firm invests in Internet, software, and technology-enabled businesses, focusing on health, sustainability, education, community, and job creation. Prior to Daybreak, Rex was a Partner at Index Ventures where he focused on early-stage and growth investments in consumer technology businesses. Previously, Rex was an investor at TPG Growth and The Rise Fund, TPG’s global growth equity and social impact funds. Rex received his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth, where he ran cross country.Rex writes Digital Native, a weekly Substack about the intersection of people and technology that reaches over 60,000 readers.

www.dashmedia.coBarry F. Malkin is the CEO of Carnegie Learning, a leading provider of K-12 education technology, curriculum, and professional learning solutions. Mr. Malkin has been an active operator, investor, and advisor to the educational services sector for over 20 years. Prior to assuming the role with Carnegie Learning, Mr. Malkin was Head of Corporate Development and Strategy at Apollo Education Group. Mr. Malkin joined Apollo Group in June 2009, heading corporate development and strategy for one of the world’s largest educational services companies. Mr. Malkin’s activities included overseeing all domestic and international acquisition and investment activity, global strategy, integration services, and strategic partnerships across Apollo and its subsidiary companies including Apollo Global. Mr. Malkin’s activities included, among others, the acquisition of BPP Holdings, Apollo Group’s largest acquisition and its first foray into the professional education sector; the development of a new post-secondary education joint venture in India with the Hindustan Times, and the establishment of new lines of businesses and products. In addition to his professional responsibilities, Mr. Malkin has been interviewed by national media outlets, served as a panelist and speaker at educational conferences across the country and was instrumental in the establishment of the XPrize Global Literacy Prize.

www.dashmedia.coDr. Andrew Ng is a globally recognized leader in AI (Artificial Intelligence). He is Founder of DeepLearning.AI, Founder & CEO of Landing AI, General Partner at AI Fund, Chairman & Co-Founder of Coursera and an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University’s Computer Science Department.In 2011, he led the development of Stanford University's main MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) platform and taught an online Machine Learning course that was offered to over 100,000 students leading to the founding of Coursera where he is currently Chairman and Co-founder.Previously, he was Chief Scientist at Baidu, where he led the company’s ~1,300 person AI Group and was responsible for driving the company’s global AI strategy and infrastructure. He was also the founding lead of the Google Brain team.As a pioneer in machine learning and online education, Dr. Ng has changed countless lives through his work in AI, and has authored or co-authored over 200 research papers in machine learning, robotics and related fields. In 2023, he was named to the Time100 AI list of the most influential AI persons in the world. He holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University, MIT and the University of California, Berkeley.Follow Dr. Ng on X(@AndrewYNg) and Linkedin. Bio via www.andrewng.org.

www.dashmedia.coChristopher “Chip” Paucek is a visionary leader and seasoned entrepreneur who has dedicated his career to revolutionizing education and empowering individuals to pursue life-changing opportunities. As the Co-founder and Co-CEO of Pro Athlete Community (PAC), Paucek spearheads connecting the biggest talent in sports with unparalleled educational resources, experiences, and vital personal connections, ultimately enabling them to passionately pursue and shape their futures.Prior to becoming co-CEO of PAC, Paucek served as Co-Founder and CEO of 2U, Inc. During his 16-year tenure, Paucek architected the education technology company into one of the world’s largest online education providers, led a successful IPO in 2013, and grew the company to nearly $1 billion in annual revenue. His contributions earned him multiple accolades including the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, Goldman Sachs’s Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs Award, and recognition as one of America’s best chief executives by Institutional Investor magazine. Paucek’s entrepreneurial journey began in 1993 when he co-founded Cerebellum Corporation, known for its award-winning PBS television show, Standard Deviants. He also served as CEO of Hooked on Phonics and managed the successful re-election campaign of U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski in 2004.With a BA from George Washington University and an MBA from the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School, Paucek is an active speaker on entrepreneurship and the global education and technology landscape. While Chip lives in Annapolis, MD with his wife (Gabbi), they stay closely connected to their two sons (Noah and Henry) at Syracuse University through a shared love of all things dogs, Florida, and the Miami Dolphins. (Bio via Pro Athlete Community)

www.dashmedia.coJeff Maggioncalda joined Coursera as CEO in June 2017 and since then helped the company grow to over 140 million learners and 7,000+ institutions, served by high-quality learning content from 300+ of the world’s top universities and industry educators. He previously served for 18 years as the founding CEO at Financial Engines Inc, a company co-founded by economist and Nobel Prize winner William Sharpe. Financial Engines grew rapidly under Jeff's leadership, providing high-quality online investment advice that has helped millions of people save and prepare for retirement. Jeff has also worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company and Cornerstone Research, and serves as a director of SVB Financial Group. He holds an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor's degree in Economics and English from Stanford University. In his free time, Jeff is a lifelong learner and proud dad, and enjoys studying music theory and spending time with his wife and three daughters.

www.dashmedia.coIn today’s episode, we sit down with Belhaven University leaders Kevin Russell (VP for University Enrollment and Marketing), Audrey Kelleher (Provost and VP for Academic Affairs), and Dr. Brett Andrews (Dean of The School of Business). In partnership with GSV, Belhaven offers an online MBA in Entrepreneurship - a program recently named top 10 by Forbes.

www.dashmedia.coIn today’s episode, we delve into the inspiring journey of Jean-Claude Brizard, a visionary educator deeply committed to advancing equitable education and empowering students. Born in Haiti and separated from his parents due to political persecution, Jean-Claude was raised by his grandmother until reuniting with his family in the United States six years later. This formative experience, coupled with witnessing his parents' sacrifices, instilled in him a profound sense of purpose. Jean-Claude's educational path led him from the public schools of Brooklyn to earning advanced degrees in Chemistry and Science Education from Queens College, and later, a degree in School Administration and Supervision from City College of New York. His career began in the trenches of the New York City public school system, where he first encountered the myriad challenges facing students and the pivotal role educators play.Ascending through various leadership roles, Jean-Claude served as the principal of George Westinghouse Career and Technical Education High School, an instructional superintendent in New York City, and later as Superintendent of the Rochester City School District. His journey didn't stop there; he went on to become the CEO of Chicago Public Schools and now leads Digital Promise, a global nonprofit dedicated to accelerating educational innovation. Under his leadership, Digital Promise focuses on bridging the gap between education leaders, researchers, and technology developers, with initiatives aimed at fostering inclusive innovation and equitable learning opportunities. Throughout his career, Jean-Claude has remained relentless in his mission to transform educational systems, driven by his personal narrative and an unwavering commitment to ensure that every child in America has the opportunity to thrive in the digital age. This episode explores his impactful work and the ongoing initiatives at Digital Promise that are shaping the future of education.

www.dashmedia.coBari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020, Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet Magazine. Weiss is the winner of the LA Press Club's 2021 Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism. She is also the winner of the Reason Foundation’s 2018 Bastiat Prize, which honors writing that “best demonstrates the importance of freedom with originality, wit, and eloquence.” In 2019, Vanity Fair called Weiss the Times's "star opinion writer." In 2023, Weiss and The Free Press won the Dao Prize for their work on the Twitter Files. Weiss is a proud Pittsburgh native. Her first book, "How to Fight Anti-Semitism," was the winner of a 2019 National Jewish Book Award. She lives with her wife and daughter in Los Angeles.

Lev Gonick is an educator, technologist, and smart city architect. He has been teaching, working, and living on the Net for more than 25 years.Lev is Enterprise Chief Information Officer at Arizona State University. Enterprise Technology at ASU leads the design and agile management of all enterprise infrastructure, applications, products, services, and analytics. HE also chairs the Sun Corridor Network, Arizona's Research and Education Network.In 2023, Lev was recognized by the ORBIE Awards as Arizona’s top large Enterprise CIO. In 2022, EdScoop named him among the Top 50 Educational Technology influencers and leaders.Before joining ASU in 2017, Lev was co-founder and CEO of DigitalC, the award-winning non-profit organization enabling and celebrating innovation, collaboration, and productivity through next-generation broadband networks, big open data solutions, and IoT for public benefit.Lev was CIO at Case Western Reserve University from 2001-2013. He and his colleagues were internationally recognized for technology innovations in community engagement, learning spaces, and next-generation network projects. Lev's innovations, including the Case Connection Zone catalyzed national projects, including US Ignite and Gig.Inside Business Magazine named Lev one of their Power 100 in 2015. In 2011 Government Technology awarded Lev one of their "Top 25 Doers, Dreamers & Drivers in Public-Sector Innovation."​ In the same year, Crain's Business Cleveland named Gonick one of its "10 Difference Makers"​ in Northeast Ohio and Broadband Properties honored him with their Cornerstone Award for "using fiber to build an inclusive society and empower individuals."​ In 2010 he received recognition as "Visionary of the Year" from NATOA. Lev has been recognized by ComputerWorld as a Premier 100 IT leader and honored by CIO magazine with a CIO 100 Award.

www.dashmedia.coMark Naufel is an innovator, a Professor of Practice, and a tech entrepreneur. During graduate school, Naufel was appointed by the Governor of Arizona to serve on the Arizona Board of Regents. Mark is the Founder of Luminosity, Arizona State University’s ‘Skunkworks’ innovation lab, which engages over 100 interdisciplinary students annually. Naufel’s teams have won two prestigious global innovation challenges, including the XPRIZE in 2020. Naufel has served as the Principal Investigator on R&D efforts for many of the world’s most successful companies, including Adidas, Zoom Technologies, Proctor & Gamble, and Starbucks. Through his consulting firm, Naufel has provided support to over 15 startup companies in various domains. Mark is now the founder of Primer - an AI learning companion. 

www.dashmedia.coMichael B. Horn strives to create a world in which all individuals can build their passions and fulfill their potential through his writing, speaking, and work with a portfolio of education organizations. He is the author of several books, including the recently released From Reopen to Reinvent: (Re)creating School for Every Child; the award-winning Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns; Blended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools; Choosing College; and Goodnight Box, a children’s story.Michael is the co-founder of and a distinguished fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, a non-profit think tank, and teaches at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He cohosts the top education podcasts Future U and Class Disrupted. He is a regular contributor to Forbes.com and writes the Substack newsletter The Future of Education. Michael also serves as an executive editor at Education Next, and his work has been featured in outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Harvard Business Review, and NBC. Michael serves on the board and advisory boards of a range of education organizations, including Imagine Worldwide, Minerva University, and Guild Education, and is a venture partner at NextGen Venture Partners.Michael was selected as a 2014 Eisenhower Fellow to study innovation in education in Vietnam and Korea, and Tech&Learning magazine named him to its list of the 100 most important people in the creation and advancement of the use of technology in education. Michael holds a BA in history from Yale University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

www.dashmedia.coIn this episode of Ed on the Edge, Michael Moe sits down with Scott Pulsipher. Scott serves as president of nonprofit Western Governors University (WGU), the nation’s first and largest competency-based university, leading all academic, operational, and organizational functions. Pulsipher became President of WGU in 2016 and blends a personal drive for making a difference in the lives of individuals and families through education and a passion for technology-powered innovation. At WGU, he is driving continuous innovation to improve student outcomes by focusing on rapidly advancing curriculum quality, new faculty models, data-driven learning, and an innovative cost model. In 2020, EdTech Digest named him one of the Top 100 Influencers in EdTech. Pulsipher chairs the President’s Forum, a collaborative network of nearly 20 college and university presidents committed to the reinvention of higher education. He also serves as a member of Handshake’s Impact Advisory Board, Trustee for the Committee for Economic Development, and on the board of the American Council on Education. Before WGU, Pulsipher had more than 20 years of leadership experience in technology-based, customer-focused businesses, including Amazon, Sterling Commerce (now part of IBM), and two successful startups that traverse retail, supply chain, banking, payments, and manufacturing sectors. Pulsipher holds a bachelor’s degree in management from Brigham Young University and an MBA from Harvard University.