Podcast Guests#
Patrick Methvin (confirmed)#
Patrick Methvin is Director, Postsecondary Success at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He oversees work designed to significantly increase the number of Americans achieving a post-high school credential and eliminate educational attainment disparities by race and income.
Patrick holds an MBA from the Wharton School, a Master in Educational Leadership from the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from the University of North Carolina, where he was a Morehead Scholar.
Tristan Denley (confirmed)#
Tristan Denley currently serves as Deputy Commissioner for Academic Affairs and Innovation at the Louisiana Board of Regents. His work uses a data informed approach to implement a wide variety of state-wide initiatives surrounding college completion, stretching from education redesign in a variety of disciplines, to the role of predictive analytics and data mining, cognitive psychology and behavioral economics in higher education. Amongst his most recent work has been the development and implementation of a comprehensive system-scale student success strategy, the Momentum Year, that transforms developmental education and advising. Implementation of the Momentum Year in Georgia increased system-wide 4yr graduation rates by 20%, and by 30% for African American students.
Tristan earned his PhD in Mathematics from Trinity College Cambridge.#
Michael Taft (confirmed)#
Michael Taft is CEO and co-founder of ZogoTech. ZogoTech creates solutions that help colleges and universities use data to improve institutional performance and student outcomes.
Michael graduated with high honors/Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Texas at Austin with degrees in Computer Science and Art History.
Teresa-Martin-Retortillo Rubio#
Teresa Martín-Retortillo has been the Executive President of Executive Education at IE Business School since September 2016. She also leads innovation in open programmes both online and face to face.
Teresa began her professional career at Goldman Sachs as a corporate finance analyst in London. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from CUNEF (Colegio Universitario de Estudios Financieros) in Madrid and an MBA degree from Harvard Business School.
Manoj Kulkarni (confirmed)#
Manoj Kulkarni is CEO of Realizeit. He leads all aspects of Realeizit’s commercial development, growth agenda and operations globally. Manoj has held senior executive roles for more than 20 years providing transformational leadership in high volume, high growth and global businesses in Education, Technology and Retail sectors.
Manoj earned his Bachelor in Engineering from India’s College of Engineering, Pune and his Masters in Business Administration from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
Charles Dziuban (confirmed)#
Charles Dziuban is Director of the Research Initiative for Teaching Effectiveness at the University of Central Florida (UCF) where has been a faculty member since 1970 teaching research design and statistics and is the founding director of the university’s Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning. In the coming year he will be transitioning to the position of Executive Director of Educational Programs for the Harris Rosen Foundation.
Patsy D. Moskal (confirmed)#
Patsy D. Moskal is Director of the Digital Learning Impact Evalulation at the Research Initiative for Teaching Effectiveness at the University of Central Florida (UCF). Since 1996, she has served as the liaison for faculty research of distributed learning and teaching effectiveness at UCF. Patsy specializes in statistics, graphics, program evaluation, and applied data analysis. S
She holds a MS in Computer Science and a Doctor of Education (Ed.D) in Curriculum and Instruction, both from University of Central Florida
Anthony Picciano (confirmed)#
Anthony G., Picciano is Professor at the City University of New York’s Hunter College and Graduate Center, USA. He has also held adminstrative appointments includ that of Senior Vice President and Deputy to the President at Hunter College. He has authored or co-authored 20 books, numerous articles, and edited 10 special journal editions. He was a founder and continues to serve on the Board of Directors of the Online Learning Consortium.