Biography
Greg is a social entrepreneur and civic innovator focused on education, government, and the future of work.
Greg co-founded Avela Education with renowned MIT Professors Parag Pathak and Josh Angrist to build the platform for everything money can’t buy. Avela is a platform for organizations and governments to run internal markets and matching that ensure efficient and equitable distribution of opportunities and resources. Examples include student enrollment lotteries, teacher hiring, project assignments, rotational programs, fellowship and residency matches, vaccine priorities, and more.
Greg is also the President and Co-Founder of PoliScribe, which is building trust in our nation’s government by enabling public servants to connect with their constituents and legislate more efficiently. Whether answering phone calls, responding to constituent mail, or generating proactive/outbound mailers, offices use our web-based platform to research legislative issues and surface the right messaging and content instantly. PoliScribe can even compile this content and draft responses to constituents directly. PoliScribe is currently used by Members of Congress and State Legislators across the country!
Previously, Greg led marketing, business development, sales development, customer success, and professional services at NovoEd. He grew NovoEd from pre-revenue to millions in ARR, growing 200% year-over-year, from 100,000 to 1.6 million learners, and from seed funding to acquisition by Fidelity.
Greg sits on the Board of Trustees for Leadership High School, the first startup charter school in California, on the Board of Directors for MathAction, a nonprofit focused on developing quantitative reasoning through experiential learning, and on the Board of Advisors for Rutgers University’s Center for Innovation Education, which is launching a new Big Data certificate program.
Greg advises a number of startups, including Vendition, HiCounselor, BoldABC, and MarketX, as well as large enterprises and investors (PE & VC) evaluating the education space. He’s also an angel investor in a number of education and technology startups. Greg is also a frequent consultant through GLG, ThirdBridge, Guidepoint, and Coleman Research. Greg is a frequent keynote speaker, and has presented at ASU/GSV, ATD, Masie Learning, DevLearn, VMworld, EMC World, and more.
Previously, he was a Fellow at NewSchools Venture Fund, the first product manager at Coursera, an advisor to Renren’s expansion into education, the lead for VMware’s vCloud Suite launch, and a strategic counselor to Fortune 500 executives at McKinsey & Company.
Greg holds a MA-Ed and MBA from Stanford and a BA from Harvard. He lives in San Francisco and loves skiing, scuba diving, exploring new places, and trying new things.