6 years of experience in operating roles at technology startups, 5 years of experience as private equity attorney at Debevoise & Plimpton. Previously founded a consumer web startup and grew company to 30,000 active users. JD, as well as a certificate in Intellectual Property Studies, from the Emory University; B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.

17 years of experience as an educator in New York City, Istanbul, and Israel. M.S. in Childhood and Early Childhood Education from Sarah Lawrence College; B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.

12 years of research experience examining the cognitive development of children, ranging from infancy to late adolescence, including research on how the brain is developing when children acquire visual expertise for written words. PhD in Developmental and Cognitive Psychology from Carnegie Mellon; MEd in Mind, Brain, and Education from Harvard; BS in Neuroscience from the U. of Pittsburgh.

10 years of professional software development experience. First engineering hire at Sailthru, an email service provider, where he helped scale the company to send a billion emails per month. Will also worked as an engineering consultant at HappyFunCorp where he led development on a number of applications. B.A. in computer science from SUNY Purchase.

7 years of professional software development experience. Prior experience includes work for New York Public Library (NYPL) to build their digital collection API which serves more than 1.3m digital assets, work for Bloomberg building bloomberg.com and work at Goldman Sachs. M.S. in Computer Science from SUNY Binghamton.