Executive and Senior Management Team
- Jon Carson
- Chairman & CEO
- Harris Fishman
- Chief Financial Officer
- Lisa Besteni
- Vice President, Marketing Operations
- Erica Davis
- Vice President, Online Marketing
- David Mello
- Vice President, Sales & Client Services
- Greg Salls
- Vice President, Engineering Operations
- Paul Sheppard
- Vice President, Product Management
Jonathan Carson
Chairman & CEO
Personal Statement from the CEO
Jon is a nationally recognized entrepreneur with a passion for social entrepreneurship having funded and endowed social entrepreneurship lectures at both Yale and Babson College. He is a serial entrepreneur who, other than brief stints at Boeing and McKinsey & Company, has always worked on new ventures.
He has started and profitably sold three companies, the most recent being FamilyEducation Network (Fen.com) which used a unique public/private partnership model to become the largest education portal on the Internet. In total he has returned in excess of $175 million to investors and has never lost investor money.
He is currently on the board of Taunton Press and Net-Impact, a national organization of college and MBA chapters promoting social entrepreneurship. He has previously served on the boards of the National PTA, National School Boards Foundation, and the Small Business Association of New England (SBANE). In 2008 Jon was inducted into the Babson College Entrepreneur Hall of Fame.
Jon lives in Boston with his wife and has recently discovered the wonders of fatherhood.
