Mark Miller is a recognized education expert and ed-tech entrepreneur with a twenty-plus year track record of success advising Pre-K through 12, Higher Education and Corporate clients in the areas of business strategy, corporate development, seed, early and mid-stage fund raising strategy towards and for exits – Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A).

As a dedicated member of the education community, Miller is a frequent speaker and moderator of panels at education and ed tech conferences and serves on several standards and best practices committees. He serves as Board member of LearnLaunch Inc., The Cornell University Entrepreneurship Advisory Board, and as Chairman of LearnLaunch Operating Company LLC. Miller was recognized for his contributions at Cornell, co-chairing the Student Finance Commission, and was tapped by the Quill and Dagger Honorary Society.

Miller has been focused on the education space since winning the Cornell University Business Plan Competition. He was the founder, CEO or Chairman of a set of innovative education companies with exits including: TakeNote (sold to Student Agencies Inc.), The Custom Publishing Group (sold to Courier Corporation then RR Donnelley); CollegiateLink (sold to Campus Labs then Leeds Equity); The Daily Jolt (sold to Chung Dahm Learning) and PowerProse (sold to CCBN/Thomson Reuters).

Select GHP sell-side engagements include: Intellus Learning (sold to Holtzbrinck Publishing Group’s Macmillan Education), Pubget (sold to the Copyright Clearance Center), MotionMath (sold to Curriculum Associates), CiteLighter (sold to Sylvan Learning), OpenSchool ePortfolio (sold to Nureva), and LightSail (sold to Israeli PE).

Ken Eisner has decades of experience guiding edtech startups, nonprofits, and inside the Fortune 10, including founding and scaling Amazon’s most successful education-to-work offering AWS Educate and guiding VarsityBooks.com to an IPO. At Amazon, he also reviewed most education “big ideas,” advised global edtechs on AWS, received AWS’ Public Sector “Impact Person of the Year” award, and was AWS’s first press-certified education speaker.

Ken brings deep knowledge in postsecondary, education-to-work, corporate learning, “skilling” frameworks, cloud, and the latest and greatest data systems / AI to GHP. He also brings a global purview and success entering new geographies and leading public private partnerships with countries, states, and cities.

Ken is currently: Whiteboard Advisors’ Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR); New Markets Venture Partners’ Senior Advisor; edX Customer Advisory Board member; and Council for Graduate Schools Advisory Board member. Ken was also appointed to the inaugural D.C. Mayor’s Innovation and Technology Inclusion Council, where he chaired Education and Workforce Development committees, and he has served on transition or advisory committees for President Biden and Gov-Elect Wes Moore (D-MD).

Chelsa’s expertise is in client relationship and program management, business strategy, and technical product development. She started her career scaling immersive learning experiences in higher education and transitioned to developing first-of-its-kind workplace learning AI software at Amazon.

Anna’s expertise is in strategy, product development, new product launches, marketing, business development and exit planning. Following her graduation from Yale Law School, she started her career as a corporate lawyer and transitioned to management consulting at McKinsey.

Since leaving McKinsey to join a startup in 1999, she has worked as a founder or early employee at early stage companies in the e-commerce, retail, entertainment and education sectors. She was co-founder and CEO of Scribble Press, an innovative children’s retail experience and digital publishing platform, and served as VP Product at companies such as Petstore.com, Rentanything.com and ABCMouse.

Anna is an advisor and coach to startups in the media and education sectors with a particular focus on mobile learning platforms. Anna is based in Los Angeles and represents the West Coast office of GHP.

Dean’s expertise is in K-12 provider due diligence, business models and strategy, federal education policy, public school reform, and the history of the school improvement marketplace.

Before joining GHP, he acted as President of New Education Economy and editor of K-12 Leads – a weekly web-enabled report of local, state, federal and international agencies grant and contract RFPs in P-16 education and youth services. He was Founder and President of Education Entrepreneurs Fund, a $15 million loan, equity, joint venture investment portfolio in emerging k-12 providers.

Dean also acted as Chief Operating Officer of New American Schools, a $125 million competitive R&D program to scale whole school reform. Prior to New American Schools Dean worked as a Senior Social Scientist at RAND Education with a focus on policy analysis around new structures of public education.

Todd Eicher is an experienced higher education executive, entrepreneur, investor, and consultant with an extensive education focused M&A background. He has dedicated more than 23 years to the education industry as an innovative leader promoting student success, college affordability, and access to higher education. Additional areas of expertise include enrollment marketing solutions, college planning services, and student loans (operations, customer support, product development, policy and compliance).

During his career Todd has served in a variety of capacities including Senior Vice President, Executive Director, and Chief Mergers and Acquisitions Officer for Nelnet, Inc. During his time at Nelnet he successfully completed more than 25 education related M&A transactions. Todd also served as the CEO of Nelnet Enrollment Solutions, CUnet, Sparkroom, Petersons, and Smart Degree; helping students prepare to pursue their higher education goals, and working with schools to effectively market to and enroll high quality student candidates.

Todd is currently the Founder and CEO of TME Ventures, LLC, focused on building, investing in, and partnering with education services and technology companies. He is also the Co-founder of ClearDegree, an education concierge for working professionals.

Additionally Todd has extensive board of director’s experience as a past or current member of the 5280 Solutions, Infinet, Next Gen Solutions, Campus Guard, Invite Education, Infovisa, First National Life, Funding University and Affordable College boards.

Todd is a graduate of the University of Nebraska – Lincoln, and the University of Nebraska College of Law.

James is an educational technologies entrepreneur with over 15 years of executive leadership experience in the digital learning marketplace. He applies his expertise as an educator and learning technology expert to build innovative companies and engaging learning solutions for higher education. He has gained a diverse base of business building and leadership skills by founding and selling two successful EdTech startups and holding senior executive roles within both leading EdTech and large publishing companies.

Christopher Nyren founded Educated Ventures LLC in 2012 following his founding role with the global strategy and acquisitions team of Apollo Group, the owner of the University of Phoenix and largest for-profit educational company in the world as well as subsequent education strategy projects with both one of the largest media and publishing companies in the world as well as the largest foundation in the world. His firm has grown to become a leading investment banking and advisory boutique focused on the education markets, completing over a dozen capital raises and direct investments totaling $70 million in capital and advising four clients with successful M&A processes.

Christopher has also founded Educelerate, a network fostering start-ups focused on education technology and innovation which holds monthly meetups and workshops for a membership base exceeding 5,000 Educelerants as well as organized StartupWeekend EDU events across each of Chicago, the Twin Cities and Los Angeles. Podcasts and blog content are found at Educelerate.com.

Christopher spent the prior four years helping to build the Corporate Development & Global Strategy team for. During this time, he was involved in the creation of Apollo Global, a $1 billion joint venture private equity fund with the Carlyle Group. Over his career at Apollo, Mr. Nyren was the primary corporate development professional on every acquisition and investment they completed (totaling four domestic and international deals and over $750 million of aggregate consideration).

Christopher serves on the boards of GetSet and Wellspring and is an investor in All Campus, Decision Desk, GetSet, Learning.com, Learnmetrics, N2N, Nuro Learning, Presence Learning, and Sokikon. He has also worked in private equity, including the education focused fund LLR Partners. He started his career with the education and services coverage team at investment bank Credit Suisse. Mr. Nyren graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Lake Forest College and received his MBA from the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania.