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William J. Kelly — CEO and Co-Founder
William is co-founder and has served as CEO for Learning.com since 1999. In 1996 he was co-founder and Executive Vice President of Sapient Health Network, Inc., a pioneer in developing online health-oriented communities for consumers. When Sapient was acquired by WebMD, William served as its Vice President of Commerce. He has more than a decade of experience helping to nurture the concept of online communities and user generated value, and is leading Learning.com to apply online community development in K-12 education. William received his bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University and his master’s degree in business from Harvard Business School. A Portland native and resident, he has served on the boards and as a volunteer for numerous community organizations, including education, arts, and youth services groups. He is currently on the board of the Portland Schools Foundation. He and his wife have four school-aged children. |
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Barclay Burns, Ph.D. — Co-Founder
Barclay received his Ph.D. in instructional psychology and technology from Brigham Young University. He has seven years' experience teaching in a public high school where he founded the "Community Bound" integrated education program. This program exposed high school students to real world applications of their learning and successfully solicited corporate sponsorship of innovative programs and trips, such as two trips to Romania to paint orphanages. Barclay has also worked on the development of BYU's extensive online distance learning applications for high school students, which includes the delivery of curriculum and grades to students and parents over the Internet. Barclay was most recently in a post-doctoral program in Internet Strategy at the University of Cambridge in England where he taught and researched at the Judge Institute of Management. |
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Candace Petersen, Ph.D. — President/COO
Candace was most recently vice president and chief strategy officer for InFocus Corporation, a worldwide leader in the projection market. In that role she was responsible for developing and implementing the InFocus strategic plan to pursue growth opportunities in the education market. She has nearly three decades of business experience in high tech and industrial companies, and has held various management positions in corporate strategy, business analysis and marketing, including corporate economist for IBM. Candace, who holds a doctorate in Systems Science from Portland State University, was also a founding partner of Petersen & Prusia, a marketing research and consulting firm for advanced display and emerging high-tech industries, and has for 10 years taught as an assistant and adjunct professor in PSU's School of Business. |
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Jim Kuhr — VP Marketing and Product Development
Jim has served in key management roles for Microsoft, developing products and leading multiple teams for Microsoft's education initiatives, and for Apple, including managing and developing Apple's first K-12 Internet solution and launching additional Apple products. Jim also has had a successful consulting business providing firms with expert product development, forward-thinking positioning strategies and marketing initiatives, and supporting companies to be at their most competitive. |
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Mark Tullis — VP Strategic Relations
For the past several years Mark has worked in business development roles for technology companies including MyFamily.com, Knowlix Corporation, Open Market Inc., and Folio Inc. Mark received his MALD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and undergraduate degrees from Brigham Young University.
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Clark Holmes — VP Finance and Administration
Clark has experience in financial management of small start-ups to billion dollar companies. He joined Learning.com from Xerox where he was manager of financial reporting and systems in the office products division. Prior to Xerox, Clark was corporate controller for Card Capture Services, where he played a leadership role in developing processes and systems for their rapid growth. Clark has a bachelor’s degree in economics from Portland State University. |
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Steve Gardner — VP Sales
Before joining Learning.com, Steve was President & CEO of Apta Software, a developer and provider of an online financial and human resources management solutions for K-12 school districts. Steve was the Vice President of Instructional Solutions for NCS Learn, a business of Pearson Education, where he was responsible for all marketing, product strategy and business development for a suite of instructional products used by more than 20,000 schools around the world. Steve was also the Vice President of Marketing & Sales for NovaNET Learning. Steve was also an international strategic management consultant for Bain & Company and has extensive experience with technology based enterprises. Steve has a bachelor’s degree from Williams College and master’s degree from the Wharton School of Business. |
