Doug joined New Profit in 2005 and serves as Managing Partner and Chief Operating Officer. In that role, he oversees New Profit’s internal infrastructure (finance,talent, operations) and portfolio grant-making and support. Doug has also worked closely with several of New Profit’s portfolio organizations, including Achievement First, iMentor, KIPP, Year Up, Leading Educators, and New Classrooms, and currently serves on the boards of CodePath, UnboundEd, Equal Opportunity Schools, and TalkingPoints.

Doug brings diverse experience to New Profit as an accomplished entrepreneur and senior executive in both the nonprofit and for-profit sectors. Most recently, Doug was Vice President of Prospecting Solutions at Dun & Bradstreet, a leading global provider of business information. At D&B, Doug led a $140mm business unit, with broad P&L responsibility for product strategy, sales and marketing, and product development. Doug came to D&B through its acquisition of iMarket, Inc., a venture-funded provider of sales and marketing software and internet solutions that he co-founded. Doug also spent several years as a consultant at Bain & Company, a leading international management consulting firm, where he worked on assignments in the information services industry.

Tyler Coats is the CEO of Falcon Critical Care Transport, a $20m revenue business employing over 250 personnel in the SF Bay Area. Formerly Tyler was the Managing Partner of Cascadian Capital. Tyler also served in the US Navy aboard the USS Henry M. Jackson, a strategic nuclear submarine, where he led over 70 personnel with overall responsibility for the operation of the nuclear reactor as Head Engineering Officer and Officer of the Deck. Tyler has an MBA from Stanford GSB and has a B.S. in Quantitative Economics and Applied Mathematics from the United States Naval Academy.

Dr. Contreras is passionate about providing a high-quality education to each child. She is a teacher at heart, a transformational leader and a passionate advocate for children and education. Growing up in Uniondale, New York, with nine brothers and sisters, she learned early to advocate for her right to an excellent education. Over the course of her 30-year education career, she has been the first woman of color to lead one of New York’s “Big 5” school systems in Syracuse, and the first woman and Latina to lead Guilford County Schools in North Carolina. She holds multiple degrees including: a Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis and a Master of Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison; a Master of Arts, English Literature; a Master of Arts in Teaching and a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from the State University of New York at Binghamton.

Dr. Sharon Contreras, CEO of the Innovation Project, joins us with unparalleled experience as a public education leader and a passionate advocate for children. Her insights will help shape our market strategies and ensure our work aligns with the needs of educators and families.

Kumar is a passionate champion of education reform and started his career working on behalf of parents and children as an education lawyer and advocate. Kumar led the Obama Administration’s efforts to bolster federal STEM education initiatives, serving for nearly 8 years in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). He then led partnerships at Schmidt Futures, working with Eric Schmidt to design and launch moonshot initiatives in education while building ongoing multi-donor and multi-sector collaboratives. Kumar is now president of Renaissance Philanthropy, a nonprofit that surfaces breakthrough ideas and incubates ambitious initiatives. He received a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College and a law degree from Yale Law School.

Kumar Garg is an expert in education and technology and brings a wealth of experience in research, development, and government partnerships. His guidance will strengthen our ability to innovate and collaborate across sectors.

Greg Gunn is a leader in using technology, innovation, and venture capital investing to promote progress in education. As co-founder of Lingo Ventures, he makes early-stage investments in education and workforce technologies. In 2000, Greg co-founded Wireless Generation (now called Amplify), a leading educational software company serving millions of students annually with groundbreaking assessment and instruction products. Greg is a director of Zearn, FHI 360, Bridgespan, and Girls Who Code.

Greg Gunn will contribute his expertise in product innovation and scaling tech organizations to support our growth and market strategies.

After a long career at McGraw-Hill Education that included roles in sales, marketing, education policy and general management, Jeff formed EdSolutions, LLC in 2015 as a vehicle for focusing education innovation, investment and philanthropy on underserved students, scaling proven innovations to reach the students who will benefit most from them. Today, EdSolutions help organizations to find impact through the markets for education goods and services primarily via: Ecosystem Maps, Target Product Profiles, Go-to Market Strategies and other customized consulting services.

Jeff holds a baccalaureate degree in Government from Harvard University. He has served as a director of the Association of Educational Publishers, the Association of American Publishers- Education Division, the Software and Information Industry Association, The Harlem Educational Activities Fund, UnBoundEd Learning, New Meridian, LaborX, Yenko and Allhere. Jeff currently lives in New York City with his wife, Sahily Artiles, a naturalized American citizen and certified Spanish/English court interpreter.

Jeff Livingston’s strategic leadership will guide our efforts to scale and rapidly evolve our solutions to increase our impact on educators and families.

Dr. Mapp is a leading expert in the field of family engagement, and her 2010 book, Beyond the Bake Sale: The Essential Guide to Family-School Partnerships, is considered a foundational text in the field. She created the Dual Capacity-Building Framework for Family-School Partnerships, the research and practitioner framework that TalkingPoints bases itself on and has advised the U.S. Department of Education and multiple states and school districts on family engagement. She is currently a Professor of Practice at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE).

Dr. Mapp will play a vital role in helping us develop a research-driven standard for excellence in family-school partnerships.

Bob is the chief executive officer of Chiefs for Change, and previously served as superintendent of Broward County Public Schools – the sixth-largest district in the United States. Under his leadership, Chiefs for Change has increased its technical assistance for members and expanded leadership development initiatives to build the pipeline of diverse, talented educators ready to lead K-12 systems. His professional experience also includes founding a management and technology consulting company and holding several strategic leadership positions with Chicago Public Schools. He became the first in his family to finish high school and graduate from college, earning his bachelor’s from Harvard College and MBA from Northwestern University.

Bob Runcie’s connections and strategic insights will enhance our partnerships and market outreach.