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At CFO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based CFO’ operating in the E-Learning space. If you think a CFO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Michael Wilson
Chief Financial Officer of Esme Learning Solutions
Michael Wilson is the CFO at Esme Learning Solutions.
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About Esme Learning Solutions: Esme Learning is transforming the world’s workforce for the Fourth Industrial Revolution using AI.
Aric Holsinger
Chief Financial Officer of Cricket Media
Aric Holsinger brings 20 years of CFO experience from the telecommunications, technology and professional sports industries. Prior to joining ePals, Holsinger was CFO for Critical RF, a provider of interoperability solutions linking smartphones, computers and two-way radio systems. Prior to that, Holsinger was CFO for MCT, a wireless communications provider with operations in Russian and Central Asia where he led the growth from its start-up phase to a $300M sale to TeliaSonera. Holsinger joined MCT following CFO positions with the Baltimore Orioles and the Baltimore Stallions, a Canadian League Football team. He began his career with Arthur Andersen, specializing in the high tech and emerging growth companies. Holsinger holds a BS in Accounting and Management Information Systems from the University of Virginia.
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About Cricket Media, HemoShear Therapeutics: Cricket Media is an education media company providing content on a safe and secure learning network for children, families, and teachers.
Kenneth Hahn
Chief Financial Officer of Coursera
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About Coursera: Coursera is an online education company that partners with universities and organizations to offer classes on their platform.
Elaine Kitagawa
Chief Financial Officer of Lynda
Elaine Kitagawa is the chief financial officer of [lynda.com](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/lynda-com#/entity), an online learning company that provides video tutorials to learn software, creative, and business skills. Prior to that, she held the same position at [Saba](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/saba#/entity). With more than 20 years of financial management experience in fast-growing global technology companies, Kitagawa is focused on driving the continued growth of lynda.com as it builds out platforms and expands internationally. Kitagawa began her career as an auditor at [KPMG](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/kpmg#/entity). She has also served as the chief financial officer and chief operating officer of [Gaia Interactive](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/gaia#/entity). Kitagawa holds a bachelor’s degree in finance and accounting from [UC Berkeley Haas School of Business](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/uc-berkeley-school-of-law). She lives in Santa Barbara, California, United States.
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About Lynda: Lynda provides business training.
Stephen Pemberton
Chief Financial Officer of Career Step
Stephen Pemberton With 30+ years of experience in financial and operational management, accounting, strategic planning, and mergers and acquisitions, Steve brings a wealth of professional knowledge and experience to Career Step. He has held positions as CEO, CFO, COO, and Controller with companies across a variety of industries including healthcare, financial services, insurance, and data processing, to name a few. Steve is committed to helping Career Step provide the best service to its students, clients, and partners while also driving long-term growth and efficiency. He is a CPA and holds a Master’s of Accountancy from Brigham Young University.
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About Career Step: Career Step is an online provider of career-focused training in other words.
Maureen Levangie
Chief Financial Officer of Ogment
Maureen is responsible for financial reporting and analysis, cash forecasting and management of business operations. Maureen has more than 20 years of financial leadership experience. Prior to EvoText, she spent over 15 years as Principal for her own accounting consultancy firm, maintaining the financials for business clients in the banking, insurance, educational, software, and entrepreneurial sectors. She served for two years as Corporator for Belmont Savings Bank (BLMT : NASDAQ), transitioning to her current role as a member of the BSB advisory board. Maureen brings a unique perspective to her role from an educational standpoint, having served for three years as Treasurer, and continuing her role as financial consultant to CNS, a community nursery school in her hometown of Lexington. She spent a semester studying abroad at SAIIE in Seville, Spain, and received her Bachelor of Science in Finance from Carroll School of Management, Boston College.
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About Ogment: Create engaging, relevant lessons your way with Ogment.
Karen Gardner
Chief Financial Officer of Section4
Karen Gardner is the Chief Financial Officer of Section4.
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About Medisafe, Section4: Section4 is democratizing business education through innovative and engaging 2-3 week sprints.
Thomas Graham
Chief Financial Officer of Astute Technology
Mr. Graham has been Chief Financial Officer of Astute Technology since joining the company in March 2007, and brings more than sixteen years of financial experience to this position. Mr. Graham began his successful career in the fast-paced telecommunications industry at MCI in 1991 working in Business Markets Finance for the Eastern Division. In 1993, Mr. Graham moved over to work in Mass Markets Finance taking the finance lead on several successful initiatives including airline and retail partnerships, wireless, direct sales, DSL and local service, and providing analytic support for some of the unit’s most compelling products; Friends and Family, 5 cent Sundays, 1 800 Collect, 10-10-220 and The Neighborhood. Mr. Graham earned a Masters in Business Administration from George Washington University and is on the Board of the National Blood Foundation Research and Education Trust (NBFRET).
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About Astute Technology: Astute Technology is a provider of e-learning solutions.
Thomas Graham
Chief Financial Officer of Astute Technology
Mr. Graham has been Chief Financial Officer of Astute Technology since joining the company in March 2007, and brings more than sixteen years of financial experience to this position. Mr. Graham began his successful career in the fast-paced telecommunications industry at MCI in 1991 working in Business Markets Finance for the Eastern Division. In 1993, Mr. Graham moved over to work in Mass Markets Finance taking the finance lead on several successful initiatives including airline and retail partnerships, wireless, direct sales, DSL and local service, and providing analytic support for some of the unit’s most compelling products; Friends and Family, 5 cent Sundays, 1 800 Collect, 10-10-220 and The Neighborhood. Mr. Graham earned a Masters in Business Administration from George Washington University and is on the Board of the National Blood Foundation Research and Education Trust (NBFRET).
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About Astute Technology: Astute Technology is a provider of e-learning solutions.
Reid E. Simpson
CFO & SVP of Career Education Corporation
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About Career Education Corporation: Career Education Corporation is a dynamic educational services company committed to quality, career-focused learning and led by passionate
Jeff Samuels
Chief Financial Officer of UBEnX.com
Mr. Samuels’ background includes public accounting, corporate finance, business development, management consulting and taxation. He has utilized his skills in a variety of start-ups, public and private organizations and two of the four largest CPA firms world-wide which include Deloitte & Touché and Coopers & Lybrand (currently Price Waterhouse Coopers).With over 30 years of experience, Mr. Samuels has held senior management positions including, CFO, CEO, President and Managing Director. Mr. Samuels has written a series of study manuals relating to developing your “Potential Quotient” and is currently writing a book entitled, “What Is Your Potential Quotient?” scheduled to be released later next year. Mr. Samuels holds a BS in Accounting from Florida A&M University. Jeff has been a part of an impacting team that has the task of cleaning up 4 of the 5 major financial crisis that occurred in the USA!
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About UBEnX.com, UBEnX.com: UBEnX is a unique online educational platform that combines the power of “Earning While Learning” and a “Monetization System”.
Richard Brand
Capital Markets Advisor, Director & Acting CFO of Proto
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About : Proto is a blended-learning platform that enables K-12 students to become socially-minded, innovative computer scientists.
Bruce Willis
Chief Financial Officer of The Great Courses Plus
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About The Great Courses Plus: The Teaching Company is a developer and marketer of audio and video series for personal development and lifelong learning.
James Rhyu
CFO of K12
Mr. Rhyu has more than 20 years of financial management experience in various global industries. Prior to joining K¹², Mr. Rhyu served as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer of Match.com, a subsidiary of publicly traded IAC/InterActiveCorp. In those roles, he was responsible for overseeing a broad range of functions, including human resources, legal, information technology and operations, certain international operations and product development. Prior to his roles at Match.com, Mr. Rhyu was a Senior Vice President of Finance at Dow Jones & Company, where he ran the global financial function. Previously, Mr. Rhyu served for three years as the Corporate Controller of Sirius XM Radio Inc. and its predecessor company, XM Satellite Radio, as well as serving in the same role for Graftech International. Mr. Rhyu also spent six years with Ernst & Young LLP in the United States and South America. Mr. Rhyu holds a BS from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the London Business School.
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About K12, Stride: K12 manage public and private online schools, and develop innovative curricula and technology to help students reach their full potential.
Joey Jenkins
Chief Financial Officer of Vooks
Joey Jenkins is the Chief Financial Officer at Vooks.
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About Vooks: Vooks is a subscription based streaming service exclusively dedicated to animated storybooks.
Daniel West
CFO of Obscurity Labs
Daniel West is a CFO, Senior Cloud Security Engineer, & Instructor at Obscurity Labs, He has over 10 years of DoD IT and Cyber experience and he’s been tinkering with computers since he was 5 years old. During his tenure with the US Army, he served as the senior multidisciplinary subject matter expert and tactical planner for numerous defense cyber operations missions. He was entrusted with the protection of global mission systems that covered over $1 billion of critical aerospace and defense networks and systems. He was instrumental in cyber technology and doctrine development, working directly with various USG agencies, industry, and academia. He was recognized by the European Command in 2012 for strengthening US partnerships with NATO coalition forces, as a cyber operator during the largest multilateral C4 exercise in the world. In addition to holistically understanding the DoD side of cyber and the processes associated with the LE side of cyber, he also holds a Master of Professional Studies in Homeland Security with the Information Security and Forensics Option from The Pennsylvania State University. He has delivered comprehensive training on cyber hunt, incident response, forensics and malware analysis, vulnerability analysis and risk mitigation, penetration testing, and cyber threat emulation on enterprise systems, IoT devices, ICS/SCADA systems, and embedded systems, which was critical to the success of numerous USCYBERCOM missions and initiatives.
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About Obscurity Labs: Obscurity Labs provides cyber security, software development, training, red team, and soc.
David English
Chief Financial Officer of Vector Solutions
As CFO, I am excited to lead Vector Solutions in the areas of Finance and HR as we expand organically and through acquisitions into diversified areas of Learning and Human Capital Management. While my foundation is in public accounting, my roles have been CFO for both publicly traded and privately held companies, including an IPO. I have been a key member of management for high-growth companies, responsible for SEC reporting and investor relations to HR and risk management. My domestic and international experience includes multiple acquisitions and divestitures/spinoffs, debt and equity raises, software design and implementation and business process outsourcing. I have a proven ability to improve operations and maximize profitability through effective financial management. I consider myself a hands-on leader, simultaneously serving as a strategic partner to other senior management. I am a frequent speaker at conferences and events, and in 2010, I was a finalist for the Dallas Business Journal’s CFO of the year award. I am a licensed CPA in Texas and am a graduate of West Texas A&M University.
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About Vector Solutions: Leading provider of technology solutions dedicated to driving safer, smarter decision-making in the world’s most essential industries.
Brent Caramanica
Co-Founder and CFO of Tembo
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About Tembo: Tembo believe every child should have access to quality early childhood education to build them up for a better future.
William F. Rooney
VP & CFO of Peerceptiv
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About Peerceptiv: Peerceptiv improves writing and critical thinking skills through research validated peer assessment.
Barbara Benson
CFO of Cambium Learning Group
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About Cambium Learning Group: Cambium Learning® Group is the educational company focused primarily on serving the needs of at-risk and special student
Teresa Matzelle
Chief Financial Officer of LawRoom
Teresa provides leadership and strategic direction for all financial and operational functions of LawRoom, and directly oversees accounting, human resources, and facilities.
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About LawRoom: LawRoom delivers online compliance training to thousands of organizations.
Don Bodnar
Founder/Owner & CFO of Axiom Education
Don Bodnar is the founder of the Axiom Group, which includes Axiom Education and Axiom International. Originally founded as D&D Systems in 1993, Axiom Group added Axiom Education to leverage prior experience with telecommunications infrastructure services provided to Connecticut municipalities and school systems. Axiom International provides technical engineering, support, project management and market data services to financial trading floors in the United States and Europe. Prior to founding Axiom Group, Don was CEO of a Communications Installation and Integration company in Southern Connecticut for nearly 10 years. Don brings a wealth of management experience to the team, including accounting, operations, vendor management, sales and marketing.
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About Axiom Education: Axiom Education provides solutions for educational institutions to effectively manage the assessment of student learning outcomes.
Patricia Sweeney
SVP and CFO of Aragon Research Inc.
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About Aragon Research Inc.: Aragon delivers trusted advisory, interactive research and consulting services to enterprises.
Patricia Sweeney
SVP and CFO of Aragon Research Inc.
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About Aragon Research Inc.: Aragon delivers trusted advisory, interactive research and consulting services to enterprises.
Tom Munro
COO & CFO of Media Partners
Tom Munro is the COO & CFO at Media Partners .
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About Media Partners, Verimatrix: Video based learning for business.
Frank Jalufka
CFO of Edmentum
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About Dream Center Education Holdings, Edmentum: Edmentum provides online learning programs to drive student achievement for academic and career success.
Katarina Duplessy
Chief Financial Officer of Roosevelt Institute
Katarina Duplessy is Chief Financial Officer @ Roosevelt Institution.
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About Roosevelt Institute: Roosevelt Institute is a non-profit organization that engages new generations in activism.
Hunter Ferrell
CFO of Linux Academy
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About Linux Academy: Linux Academy provides training, hands-on labs, and certification courses for Linux, AWS, Azure, Google, DevOps, Big Data, and Containers.
David Price
Chief Financial Officer, Fractional of SAFARI Montage
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About SAFARI Montage: SAFARI Montage is an e-learning company offering digital lesson tools and video streaming library.
Leo Nolan
CFO of Classroom24-7
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About Classroom24-7: Classroom24-7 is a leading provider of online education technologies and services.
