Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer In 1998, Mr. Harber conceived and founded Schoolnet Inc., a company with the mission to transform the world’s school systems into efficient, highly productive and exciting places for students to learn. Today, Jonathan's innovative vision is helping school districts to increase student achievement and increase institutional efficiency. Schoolnet serves over 50 American cities that educate over 2 million students in 14 states. As a result of Jonathan’s leadership and passion Schoolnet has been recognized twice by INC. Magazine’s Inc. 500 Award and three times by Deloitte’s Fast 50 Award. In 2007, Ernst &Young recognized Jonathan with the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year ® Award in the New York region. At Wesleyan University, he studied Cognitive Science and completed an Honors thesis on education technology. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harber earned his M.S. and completed a joint Masters thesis between the MIT Media Lab and the MIT Sloan School of Management involving the creation of an environment for multimedia case studies. Harber was the co-founder and president of Diva, a publisher of multimedia software, which sold over one million units around the world. Diva's flagship product, VideoShop, was used by students and teachers to create interactive-multimedia projects. Diva was acquired by Avid Technology (NASDAQ: AVID). Jonathan was president and founder of the award-winning children's education software company KinderActive. The company created interactive reading products for young learners winning the "Teacher's Choice - Excellence in Classroom Products" Award from Learning Magazine. Jonathan was also the co-founder and Chairman of NewKidCo the first company to develop and market children's education video games including Elmo's Letter Adventure and Elmo's Number Journey - for PlayStation and Nintendo N64. NewKidCo was acquired by SoftQuad (NASDAQ: SFQD). As a Board member of New York City Outward Bound and Trail Blazers (not-for-profit organizations), Jonathan has actively worked to help disadvantaged youth in New York City. A native New Yorker, Jonathan lives in New York City with his wife, daughter, and son.
President and Chief Operating Officer Mr. Chernis joined The Princeton Review in 1984 and served as the company’s Chief Operating Officer and Secretary from 1995 on. In August 2000, he added the position of company President to his responsibilities. During his 24 year career at The Princeton Review, Mr. Chernis either held or oversaw key leadership positions in nearly every sector of the Company, including information technology, human resources, operations, product development and each of Princeton Review’s three operating divisions. Over the years he orchestrated more than 15 corporate acquisitions, sat on several corporate boards – including Schoolnet, Inc., and was instrumental in Princeton Review’s IPO in June of 2001.
Mr. Chernis attended Vassar College and now lives in Bedford, NY where he is a twice publicly elected member of the Board of Education for the Bedford Central School District.
Mark also serves as a Board member at 2tor Inc. an education company partnering with preeminent institutions of higher education to deliver rigorous, selective degree programs online. 2Tor’s first industry partnership is with the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education to offer an online Master of Arts in Teaching degree.
Director, Chief Academic Officer and Co-Founder Doyle is co-founder and Chief Academic Officer of Schoolnet. He is a nationally and internationally known education writer and consultant. His career began as a consultant to the California legislature after earning his AB and MA in political science from the University of California at Berkeley. He later joined the federal government as an Assistant Director of the US Office of Economic Opportunity where he developed major education reform projects. He was transferred by executive order to the US Office of Education where he served as an Assistant Director of the National Institute of Education. Since that time, Doyle has served in three think tanks - the Brookings Institution, the American Enterprise Institute, and Hudson Institute - where he has written over 200 articles for both scholarly and popular publications, ranging from the Atlantic Monthly to the Washington Post. An authority on business and education, Doyle is the co-author of three major education books with CEOs: Investing in Our Children with Proctor & Gamble CEO Brad Butler, Winning the Brain Race with Xerox CEO David Kearns and Reinventing Education with IBM CEO Lou Gerstner.
Chief Product Officer Luyen Chou is Chief Product Officer at Schoolnet, Inc. In this capacity, Luyen is responsible for the firm’s product strategy, development, and operations for new and existing products. Prior to joining Schoolnet, Luyen Chou was the Executive Director of the Center for Integrated Learning and Teaching, and the Associate Head of The School at Columbia University – an independent K-8 laboratory school on the campus of Columbia University in New York City. Before working at Columbia University, Luyen was Founder, President, and CEO of Learn Technologies Interactive, Inc. (LearnTech), a New York-based company that develops innovative educational software tools and applications. Prior to founding LearnTech, Luyen served as Director of the New Laboratory for Teaching and Learning at The Dalton School in New York City. Luyen also taught high school philosophy, history, and multimedia; and developed an award-winning curriculum on New York City during the Civil War.
Luyen joined Schoolnet in 2006 as Senior Vice President, Global Networks. He has written articles on education technology and on interactive design and lectured on these subjects at Columbia University, MIT, Stanford University, the U.S. Library of Congress, TED Conference, the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), and many other venues. Luyen has consulted extensively for schools and universities around the world as well as for-profit and not-for-profit organizations, including: George Lucas Educational Foundation, The Walt Disney Company, ABC, Inc., ICL (Fujitsu, UK) Ltd., PBS, and WNET.
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