John Newkirk

Dr. John Newkirk, CEO and Founder Dr. John Newkirk has a distinguished career as a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, CEO, Principal Investigator and member of the Stanford Faculty. He attended MIT, Harvard and Stanford, receiving a bachelors, masters and doctoral degrees in business and electrical engineering. At Stanford, he won awards for his teaching and ran a 30-person research team that pioneered fundamental technology that lies at the foundation of modern integrated-circuit design. Since 1995, John has focused on developing the theory, implementation and technology for improving education, creating experts in months rather than in years, and making this capability available to all students. To support this vision, he assembled a highly talented, multidisciplinary team of researchers, engineers and academics, drawing upon the lessons learned over the past fifty years in education, cognitive psychology, social psychology, computer science, linguistics and artificial intelligence.