Suzanne McElyea Founder
Suzanne H. McElyea, CPA, graduated with a BBA from Texas A&M University. She spent 23 years with Price Waterhouse, now PricewaterhouseCoopers, initially in the audit and finally in the Transaction Structuring Group. She was at various times based in the Dallas, New York and London offices, working in many states and countries on various financial and structuring issues. In 2004, she joined Socratic Learning, Inc. as its Chief Operating Officer, growing the startup to over 450 tutors operating in 29 states in just 2 years.

Craig Ullman Founder
Mr.Ullman is the inventor of eSchool™ Online, one of the first software suites for e-learning. eSchool was the first commercial product that combined digitized video with the automatic display of synchronous web pages. eSchool has been used by many state departments of education (Georgia, Texas, etc.), major school districts (Dallas, Houston, NYC, etc.) and major educational publishers (McGraw-Hill and Holt, Rinehart) to extend their initiatives to the Web using dynamic combinations of multimedia with integrated assessment. eSchool was acquired by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich and is now the central offering of their Classroom Connect division. In addition to his experiences in interactive multimedia content creation and product development, Mr. Ullman holds five patents on enhanced media and the Internet, and one on Interactive Television.

Mr. Ullman is also a columnist on educational technology for the United States Distance Learning Association's magazine Journal, and has been published frequently in Techlearning.com. He co-wrote an academic paper, “Course Management Systems and the Reinvention of Instruction” for T.H.E. Journal.

Mr. Ullman received a B.A. in English and Political Science from Bucknell University, and a Master of Fine Arts in English from Brown University.

Bill Diggins Executive Vice President
William Diggins has more than thirty years experience in business consulting, media production, and executive management, working in a wide variety of industries in the United States, South America, Europe, and Asia. He is currently President of Performance Media & Technology, which provides online professional development for clients including McGraw Hill, South Alabama University and the State of Alabama. He is the former Senior Vice President of ACTV, Inc., managing the operations and implementation of eSchool® Online, the leading provider of customized, online, professional development training for the K-12 education market. He conducted large-scale projects with school districts, states, and publishers to create hundreds of innovative, online programs in a variety of curricular areas. As a result of product quality, technical support, and proactive customer communication, nearly all projects resulted in repeat business.

David Thomas Vice President of Business Development
David Thomas has over 15 years experience in K-12 and Post Secondary Education. David served for over 14 years as a public school Board member.  During his tenure, David served as Chairman of The National School Boards Association, Council of Urban Boards of Education (CUBE); he also served on the Board of Directors of the Alabama Association of School Boards, the Alabama Governors Commission on Education and Co-Chairperson Governors Committee on Student Assessment and Accountability. David’s expertise in instructional design and training development prepared him to Chair the CUBE national task force on Urban Student Achievement and lead the Division of Adult Education and Workforce Development at Bishop State College as its director.

David has a BA in History from the University of Alabama, and MA in History from the University of South Alabama, and is currently a Doctoral Candidate at Northcentral University specializing in Educational Leadership and Training Development.

Mitchell Rabinowitz Chief Educational Advisor
Mitchell Rabinowitz received his Ph.D. from the University of California at San Diego in 1982, where he specialized in cognitive and developmental psychology. After graduation he spent two years as a University of Pittsburgh post-doctoral fellow at the Learning Research and Development Center. His first academic position was at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he was an assistant professor in the College of Education. In 1986, he was named a Spencer Fellow by the National Academy of Education. In 1988, he moved to the Graduate School of Education at Fordham University, where he currently is a professor and the director of the Center for Technology in Education. His research interests center around the issues of the acquisition of cognitive skills, knowledge representation, instructional design, technology and instruction and memory and memory development.

Susan Imholz Educational Advisor
Susan Imholz, Ph.D., is an education and information technology consultant with a focus on using technology as an expressive and creative medium. She is the former Associate Director of the Institute for Learning Technologies at Teachers College, Columbia University. Susan received her BA from Antioch College in Art and Psychology, an MA from Lesley College in Art Therapy, and her Ph.D. in Art and Media Technology from M.I.T. She is a published author on issues of: the design of informal learning environments; ILS data management services and research problems; and the application of the expressive arts to education pedagogy.

David E. Lee, Ed.D. Educational Advisor
David Lee is a member of The University of Southern Mississippi's Educational Leadership and Research Department. With more than thirty years experience as an educator, he has served as a teacher, coach, principal at all grade levels, superintendent of schools, Deputy State Superintendent, and is presently a school board member. He has published a book and completed a cassette series on motivational leadership, and is currently completing his second book with world-renown researcher Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.