Open School EduTech Corp

Steve Zimmerman was founder and CEO of BookLinks Publishing Services, whose clients were major school publishers, such as Pearson and McGraw-Hill. Steve also founded two high performing charter schools in NYC and an education nonprofit that, among other things, conducts leadership searches for schools. His most recent venture is an EduTech startup—OpenSchool ePortfolio, a web and mobile app for authentic assessment and project-based learning.

Akhilesh Sharma is founder and CEO of A3logics, a global technology consulting & professional services firm. He is a recipient of the MSME award for "Outstanding Entrepreneurship" by the President of India in 2011. In a span of ten years Akhilesh has built one of the largest IT services companies in Rajastan—an organization of over 350 professionals, delivering engineering & consulting services to global product engineering companies.

Jeff Vohden is a sales / marketing consultant specializing in the education marketplace. Previously Jeff was CEO of Editure Professional Development, a global educational consultancy company. He has also been Senior VP - Sales and Marketing at Pearson Learning Group, Senior VP - Marketing at Prentice Hall, and Director of Marketing (Instructional Publishing) at Scholastic. Jeff holds B.A. (Biology) and M.B.A. degrees.

Zeke Zimmerman spent 7 years as a NYC public math and Spanish teacher and 5 more years working in educational publishing as an editor and project manager. In 2008 he co-founded The Zimmedia Group, a company focused on developing interactive content for English learning. Zeke has a BA/JBA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an MS-Ed from Hunter College and an MBA from Cornell University.