Scott Ellis

Scott Ellis was the founding CEO of The Learning Accelerator and is a national expert in catalyzing blended learning at scale. He has more than 20 years of experience as an executive and consultant in technology and nonprofits, and deep expertise in strategy, operations, finance, measurement of impact, and management coaching. Scott currently leads TLA’s work on tools for competency-based education, incubating efforts to develop open source tools and enablers of scale. Previously, Scott served as the Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Operating Officer of the New Teacher Center (NTC), a large national education nonprofit that works with school districts to develop and implement intensive instructional mentoring programs for new teachers. He has also served on the board of directors for Reading Partners (an education nonprofit that runs reading tutoring programs for children) and the Spondylitis Association of America (a medical organization) and provided consulting support to dozens of others. In his career before NTC, Scott spent nearly eight years at Hewlett Packard and managed an internal analytical consulting organization whose role was to help the various HP businesses make better data-driven decisions. Before joining HP, Scott was a consultant at McKinsey & Company, a strategy consulting firm. He has an MBA from Stanford and an undergraduate degree in government and economics from Harvard. - See more at: http://learningaccelerator.org/about-us/board-of-directors#sthash.920fmSPa.dpuf