Co-founder & Commercial CEO

By 38, I had three dream jobs in consulting, banking and as an airline CFO. I was CFO of Skywest until the sale to Virgin Australia, an investment banker at Credit Suisse in New York, Chicago and Singapore and a management consultant with A.T. Kearney. When I went from airline CFO to teaching airline management, I realized that Learning 1.0 lectures and Learning 2.0 e-learning do not prepare students for the workforce.

During lunch about a Duke-UNC basketball game, I discovered the team-based learning (TBL) methodology used at Duke-NUS Medical School and was convinced of the impact it could have on engagement, outcomes and 21st-century skills. This led to my role as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Duke-NUS and the founding of CognaLearn, a company that helps teachers replace lectures with Team-Based Learning cloud-based software, InteDashboard.