Mursion Values
We cultivate empathy.
- Empathy is at the core of all we do. We make time to communicate and listen before we take action. We make decisions based on reasoned analysis and authentic care for the aspirations of our partners and colleagues.
We lead with curiosity.
- Curiosity creates lightbulb moments. We are results-oriented innovators who create dynamic solutions to complex problems by encouraging transparency, creativity, and iteration. We are energized by thought-provoking conversations and the diverse perspectives of our partners and peers.
We strive to raise the bar.
- We see ourselves as trailblazers in simulation. Our learning theory is grounded in research and we demand empirical evidence before concluding our efforts have been successful. We recognize we live in an imperfect world and we embrace our responsibility to promote shared understanding and elevate humankind.
We have the courage to be human.
- We are a fun-loving, driven team of developers, artists, entrepreneurs, operational masterminds, and technologists dedicated to the proposition that learning experiences can be powerful and playful. It is through our humanity that we create better products and learning experiences for our partners.
Senior Leadership
Our senior management team executes on Mursion’s vision, leading our departments toward success, daily.
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Mark Atkinson
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
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Tim Evans
Senior Vice President, Sales & Marketing
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Chris Laidley
Chief Financial Officer
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Gwen Baker
Chief Learning Officer
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Rajesh Singh
Vice President, Engineering
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Katya Levitan-Reiner
Chief of Staff and Vice President, Strategy
Where We Work
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We're a CA based company headquartered in San Francisco
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85%
of our workforce work remotely across the United States
Careers
We believe the essential skills that guide us through conflict and stress can be learned, developed, and perfected. We bring together the best in technology and live human interaction to fulfill our vision of unlocking empathic potential through immersive practice. Each day and every person matters. To join us in our mission, visit our Careers page.
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Mark Atkinson is responsible for Mursion’s long-term strategic plan, capital requirements and key leadership positions. Mark has spent the last twenty years building technology ventures that support human capital development in K-12 education and corporate learning. Mark founded TeachForward, LLC a full service educational consulting firm with a proprietary web platform that delivers custom-developed, performance assessments to K-12 educators. Before working in education, Mark served as Senior Producer and Manager of New Markets for CBS News Productions, and was an Emmy award winning Producer for Peter Jennings Reporting, ABC News, where he produced a series of network specials on U.S. foreign policy. Mr. Atkinson is a graduate of Yale College.
Ms. Cates has led growth and innovation in education through her work as an advisor, investor and business leader, with extensive experience within and in partnership with universities around the world. Cates has served as an advisor to public and private universities, education service companies and investors, and was previously the Chief Operating Officer of 2U, Inc., where she led a number of core functions critical to the growth of 2U’s university partner programs, including content production, technology, data analytics, marketing and student and faculty support. Prior to her tenure at 2U, Cates served as President of Executive development at the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School and as founding Executive Director of [email protected], the school’s ground-breaking online MBA program.
Ezra S. Field is a Senior Advisor of Roark Capital Group, an Atlanta-based private equity firm with over $10 billion in capital under management. He currently serves as a Director of Roark portfolio companies CKE Restaurants and Pet Retail Brands, and is a former Director of Roark portfolio companies Atkins Nutritionals, CyberCore Technologies, Driven Brands, International Car Wash Group, Jim 'n Nick's Bar-B-Q, Massage Envy, Miller's Ale House, Naf Naf Grill and Peachtree Business Products. He is also a Director of Business Executives for National Security, and is a former Trustee of the Asian University for Women Support Foundation, Global Kids, and the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women. From 2007 - 2020, Mr. Field served in various roles at Roark Capital, including as a Managing Director, Senior Managing Director, Co-CIO and CIO. Prior to joining Roark, Mr. Field was a Managing Director at New York-based ACI Capital, where he played a lead role in all aspects of the firm’s investing activities. Mr. Field received a B.A. (Honors) from Wesleyan University, an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School and a J.D. from Columbia Law School.
Director
Joseph High
Mr. High is an accomplished C-suite executive with strategic and operational experience in several global Fortune 500 companies across diverse industries. Joseph excels at building and sustaining strong cultures and selecting and developing leaders and teams that meet expectations of demanding customers with excellence to drive company success and shareholder value. He received recognition for his role in leading CEO succession and strategies to reposition assets and cost structure to better serve customers and increase growth at Grainger, led the multi-billion dollar people integration of Conoco and Philips Petroleum, was instrumental in Owens Corning exiting an asbestos-related bankruptcy with an investment grade credit rating and implemented high-performing manufacturing environments at Cummins Engine and Rockwell Automation.
Arjun Nagendran is the founding visionary behind Mursion’s extraordinary simulation platform. He oversees all aspects of Mursion’s technology, product strategy, and it’s overall vision. Arjun completed his Ph.D. in Robotics from the University of Manchester, UK, specializing in landing mechanisms for Unmanned Air Vehicles. Prior to Mursion, he worked for several years as an academic researcher leading the ground vehicle robotic systems for Team Tumbleweed, which was one of the six-finalists at the Ministry of Defense (UK) Grand Challenge. During his academic career, he contributed to several projects and manuscripts including the development of a robot to explore the Great Egyptian Pyramid.
Mark Atkinson is responsible for Mursion’s long-term strategic plan, capital requirements and key leadership positions. Mark has spent the last twenty years building technology ventures that support human capital development in K-12 education and corporate learning. Mark founded TeachForward, LLC a full service educational consulting firm with a proprietary web platform that delivers custom-developed, performance assessments to K-12 educators. Before working in education, Mark served as Senior Producer and Manager of New Markets for CBS News Productions, and was an Emmy award winning Producer for Peter Jennings Reporting, ABC News, where he produced a series of network specials on U.S. foreign policy. Mr. Atkinson is a graduate of Yale College.
Ms. Cates has led growth and innovation in education through her work as an advisor, investor and business leader, with extensive experience within and in partnership with universities around the world. Cates has served as an advisor to public and private universities, education service companies and investors, and was previously the Chief Operating Officer of 2U, Inc., where she led a number of core functions critical to the growth of 2U’s university partner programs, including content production, technology, data analytics, marketing and student and faculty support. Prior to her tenure at 2U, Cates served as President of Executive development at the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School and as founding Executive Director of [email protected], the school’s ground-breaking online MBA program.
Ezra S. Field is a Senior Advisor of Roark Capital Group, an Atlanta-based private equity firm with over $10 billion in capital under management. He currently serves as a Director of Roark portfolio companies CKE Restaurants and Pet Retail Brands, and is a former Director of Roark portfolio companies Atkins Nutritionals, CyberCore Technologies, Driven Brands, International Car Wash Group, Jim 'n Nick's Bar-B-Q, Massage Envy, Miller's Ale House, Naf Naf Grill and Peachtree Business Products. He is also a Director of Business Executives for National Security, and is a former Trustee of the Asian University for Women Support Foundation, Global Kids, and the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women. From 2007 - 2020, Mr. Field served in various roles at Roark Capital, including as a Managing Director, Senior Managing Director, Co-CIO and CIO. Prior to joining Roark, Mr. Field was a Managing Director at New York-based ACI Capital, where he played a lead role in all aspects of the firm’s investing activities. Mr. Field received a B.A. (Honors) from Wesleyan University, an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School and a J.D. from Columbia Law School.
Director
Joseph High
Mr. High is an accomplished C-suite executive with strategic and operational experience in several global Fortune 500 companies across diverse industries. Joseph excels at building and sustaining strong cultures and selecting and developing leaders and teams that meet expectations of demanding customers with excellence to drive company success and shareholder value. He received recognition for his role in leading CEO succession and strategies to reposition assets and cost structure to better serve customers and increase growth at Grainger, led the multi-billion dollar people integration of Conoco and Philips Petroleum, was instrumental in Owens Corning exiting an asbestos-related bankruptcy with an investment grade credit rating and implemented high-performing manufacturing environments at Cummins Engine and Rockwell Automation.
Arjun Nagendran is the founding visionary behind Mursion’s extraordinary simulation platform. He oversees all aspects of Mursion’s technology, product strategy, and it’s overall vision. Arjun completed his Ph.D. in Robotics from the University of Manchester, UK, specializing in landing mechanisms for Unmanned Air Vehicles. Prior to Mursion, he worked for several years as an academic researcher leading the ground vehicle robotic systems for Team Tumbleweed, which was one of the six-finalists at the Ministry of Defense (UK) Grand Challenge. During his academic career, he contributed to several projects and manuscripts including the development of a robot to explore the Great Egyptian Pyramid.
Mark Atkinson is responsible for Mursion’s long-term strategic plan, capital requirements and key leadership positions. Mark has spent the last twenty years building technology ventures that support human capital development in K-12 education and corporate learning. Mark founded TeachForward, LLC a full service educational consulting firm with a proprietary web platform that delivers custom-developed, performance assessments to K-12 educators. Before working in education, Mark served as Senior Producer and Manager of New Markets for CBS News Productions, and was an Emmy award winning Producer for Peter Jennings Reporting, ABC News, where he produced a series of network specials on U.S. foreign policy. Mr. Atkinson is a graduate of Yale College.
Ms. Cates has led growth and innovation in education through her work as an advisor, investor and business leader, with extensive experience within and in partnership with universities around the world. Cates has served as an advisor to public and private universities, education service companies and investors, and was previously the Chief Operating Officer of 2U, Inc., where she led a number of core functions critical to the growth of 2U’s university partner programs, including content production, technology, data analytics, marketing and student and faculty support. Prior to her tenure at 2U, Cates served as President of Executive development at the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School and as founding Executive Director of [email protected], the school’s ground-breaking online MBA program.
Ezra S. Field is a Senior Advisor of Roark Capital Group, an Atlanta-based private equity firm with over $10 billion in capital under management. He currently serves as a Director of Roark portfolio companies CKE Restaurants and Pet Retail Brands, and is a former Director of Roark portfolio companies Atkins Nutritionals, CyberCore Technologies, Driven Brands, International Car Wash Group, Jim 'n Nick's Bar-B-Q, Massage Envy, Miller's Ale House, Naf Naf Grill and Peachtree Business Products. He is also a Director of Business Executives for National Security, and is a former Trustee of the Asian University for Women Support Foundation, Global Kids, and the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women. From 2007 - 2020, Mr. Field served in various roles at Roark Capital, including as a Managing Director, Senior Managing Director, Co-CIO and CIO. Prior to joining Roark, Mr. Field was a Managing Director at New York-based ACI Capital, where he played a lead role in all aspects of the firm’s investing activities. Mr. Field received a B.A. (Honors) from Wesleyan University, an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School and a J.D. from Columbia Law School.
Director
Joseph High
Mr. High is an accomplished C-suite executive with strategic and operational experience in several global Fortune 500 companies across diverse industries. Joseph excels at building and sustaining strong cultures and selecting and developing leaders and teams that meet expectations of demanding customers with excellence to drive company success and shareholder value. He received recognition for his role in leading CEO succession and strategies to reposition assets and cost structure to better serve customers and increase growth at Grainger, led the multi-billion dollar people integration of Conoco and Philips Petroleum, was instrumental in Owens Corning exiting an asbestos-related bankruptcy with an investment grade credit rating and implemented high-performing manufacturing environments at Cummins Engine and Rockwell Automation.
Arjun Nagendran is the founding visionary behind Mursion’s extraordinary simulation platform. He oversees all aspects of Mursion’s technology, product strategy, and it’s overall vision. Arjun completed his Ph.D. in Robotics from the University of Manchester, UK, specializing in landing mechanisms for Unmanned Air Vehicles. Prior to Mursion, he worked for several years as an academic researcher leading the ground vehicle robotic systems for Team Tumbleweed, which was one of the six-finalists at the Ministry of Defense (UK) Grand Challenge. During his academic career, he contributed to several projects and manuscripts including the development of a robot to explore the Great Egyptian Pyramid.
Mark Atkinson is responsible for Mursion’s long-term strategic plan, capital requirements and key leadership positions. Mark has spent the last twenty years building technology ventures that support human capital development in K-12 education and corporate learning. Mark founded TeachForward, LLC a full service educational consulting firm with a proprietary web platform that delivers custom-developed, performance assessments to K-12 educators. Before working in education, Mark served as Senior Producer and Manager of New Markets for CBS News Productions, and was an Emmy award winning Producer for Peter Jennings Reporting, ABC News, where he produced a series of network specials on U.S. foreign policy. Mr. Atkinson is a graduate of Yale College.
Ms. Cates has led growth and innovation in education through her work as an advisor, investor and business leader, with extensive experience within and in partnership with universities around the world. Cates has served as an advisor to public and private universities, education service companies and investors, and was previously the Chief Operating Officer of 2U, Inc., where she led a number of core functions critical to the growth of 2U’s university partner programs, including content production, technology, data analytics, marketing and student and faculty support. Prior to her tenure at 2U, Cates served as President of Executive development at the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School and as founding Executive Director of [email protected], the school’s ground-breaking online MBA program.
Ezra S. Field is a Senior Advisor of Roark Capital Group, an Atlanta-based private equity firm with over $10 billion in capital under management. He currently serves as a Director of Roark portfolio companies CKE Restaurants and Pet Retail Brands, and is a former Director of Roark portfolio companies Atkins Nutritionals, CyberCore Technologies, Driven Brands, International Car Wash Group, Jim 'n Nick's Bar-B-Q, Massage Envy, Miller's Ale House, Naf Naf Grill and Peachtree Business Products. He is also a Director of Business Executives for National Security, and is a former Trustee of the Asian University for Women Support Foundation, Global Kids, and the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women. From 2007 - 2020, Mr. Field served in various roles at Roark Capital, including as a Managing Director, Senior Managing Director, Co-CIO and CIO. Prior to joining Roark, Mr. Field was a Managing Director at New York-based ACI Capital, where he played a lead role in all aspects of the firm’s investing activities. Mr. Field received a B.A. (Honors) from Wesleyan University, an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School and a J.D. from Columbia Law School.
Director
Joseph High
Mr. High is an accomplished C-suite executive with strategic and operational experience in several global Fortune 500 companies across diverse industries. Joseph excels at building and sustaining strong cultures and selecting and developing leaders and teams that meet expectations of demanding customers with excellence to drive company success and shareholder value. He received recognition for his role in leading CEO succession and strategies to reposition assets and cost structure to better serve customers and increase growth at Grainger, led the multi-billion dollar people integration of Conoco and Philips Petroleum, was instrumental in Owens Corning exiting an asbestos-related bankruptcy with an investment grade credit rating and implemented high-performing manufacturing environments at Cummins Engine and Rockwell Automation.
Arjun Nagendran is the founding visionary behind Mursion’s extraordinary simulation platform. He oversees all aspects of Mursion’s technology, product strategy, and it’s overall vision. Arjun completed his Ph.D. in Robotics from the University of Manchester, UK, specializing in landing mechanisms for Unmanned Air Vehicles. Prior to Mursion, he worked for several years as an academic researcher leading the ground vehicle robotic systems for Team Tumbleweed, which was one of the six-finalists at the Ministry of Defense (UK) Grand Challenge. During his academic career, he contributed to several projects and manuscripts including the development of a robot to explore the Great Egyptian Pyramid.
Mark Atkinson is responsible for Mursion’s long-term strategic plan, capital requirements and key leadership positions. Mark has spent the last twenty years building technology ventures that support human capital development in K-12 education and corporate learning. Mark founded TeachForward, LLC a full service educational consulting firm with a proprietary web platform that delivers custom-developed, performance assessments to K-12 educators. Before working in education, Mark served as Senior Producer and Manager of New Markets for CBS News Productions, and was an Emmy award winning Producer for Peter Jennings Reporting, ABC News, where he produced a series of network specials on U.S. foreign policy. Mr. Atkinson is a graduate of Yale College.
Ms. Cates has led growth and innovation in education through her work as an advisor, investor and business leader, with extensive experience within and in partnership with universities around the world. Cates has served as an advisor to public and private universities, education service companies and investors, and was previously the Chief Operating Officer of 2U, Inc., where she led a number of core functions critical to the growth of 2U’s university partner programs, including content production, technology, data analytics, marketing and student and faculty support. Prior to her tenure at 2U, Cates served as President of Executive development at the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School and as founding Executive Director of [email protected], the school’s ground-breaking online MBA program.
Ezra S. Field is a Senior Advisor of Roark Capital Group, an Atlanta-based private equity firm with over $10 billion in capital under management. He currently serves as a Director of Roark portfolio companies CKE Restaurants and Pet Retail Brands, and is a former Director of Roark portfolio companies Atkins Nutritionals, CyberCore Technologies, Driven Brands, International Car Wash Group, Jim 'n Nick's Bar-B-Q, Massage Envy, Miller's Ale House, Naf Naf Grill and Peachtree Business Products. He is also a Director of Business Executives for National Security, and is a former Trustee of the Asian University for Women Support Foundation, Global Kids, and the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women. From 2007 - 2020, Mr. Field served in various roles at Roark Capital, including as a Managing Director, Senior Managing Director, Co-CIO and CIO. Prior to joining Roark, Mr. Field was a Managing Director at New York-based ACI Capital, where he played a lead role in all aspects of the firm’s investing activities. Mr. Field received a B.A. (Honors) from Wesleyan University, an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School and a J.D. from Columbia Law School.
Director
Joseph High
Mr. High is an accomplished C-suite executive with strategic and operational experience in several global Fortune 500 companies across diverse industries. Joseph excels at building and sustaining strong cultures and selecting and developing leaders and teams that meet expectations of demanding customers with excellence to drive company success and shareholder value. He received recognition for his role in leading CEO succession and strategies to reposition assets and cost structure to better serve customers and increase growth at Grainger, led the multi-billion dollar people integration of Conoco and Philips Petroleum, was instrumental in Owens Corning exiting an asbestos-related bankruptcy with an investment grade credit rating and implemented high-performing manufacturing environments at Cummins Engine and Rockwell Automation.
Arjun Nagendran is the founding visionary behind Mursion’s extraordinary simulation platform. He oversees all aspects of Mursion’s technology, product strategy, and it’s overall vision. Arjun completed his Ph.D. in Robotics from the University of Manchester, UK, specializing in landing mechanisms for Unmanned Air Vehicles. Prior to Mursion, he worked for several years as an academic researcher leading the ground vehicle robotic systems for Team Tumbleweed, which was one of the six-finalists at the Ministry of Defense (UK) Grand Challenge. During his academic career, he contributed to several projects and manuscripts including the development of a robot to explore the Great Egyptian Pyramid.
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Mark Atkinson
Mark has spent the last twenty years building technology ventures that support human capital development in K-12 education and corporate learning. Mark is the founder of TeachForward, LLC, a virtual coaching platform for K-12 educators that offers programs for alternative certification and professional licensure and previously founded and served as CEO of Teachscape Inc. Prior to launching a career in educational technology and workforce development, Mark served as Senior Producer and Manager of New Markets for CBS News Productions and worked as an Emmy award winning News Producer for Peter Jennings Reporting, ABC News, where he produced a series of network specials on U.S. foreign policy in Bosnia, Haiti and Iraq. He is a recipient of the Alfred I. DuPont Columbia University “Gold Baton” for his work in Bosnia. Mr. Atkinson is a graduate of Yale College.
Senior Vice President, Sales & Marketing
Tim Evans
Tim is responsible for growing Mursion’s revenue through new and existing customer sales engagements. Tim has over 25 years of sales and marketing experience that has included leadership positions at several AI technology firms. This includes work in number of different market segments such as B2B enterprise, education, network security, mobile computing, compliance, and consumer products. Tim holds a bachelor’s degree from Boston College and a Master’s in Management from Harvard University. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife, and they have three adult children.
Chief Financial Officer
Chris Laidley
Chris is a strategic operations executive with demonstrated ability to drive high-growth businesses towards scale. In his previous role, he implemented strategies and processes to scale 2U from a team of 8 employees, through IPO, to a global multi-product corporation with more than 6,000 full-time employees in six international markets. Chris served as a lead member of the due-diligence and integration teams for two industry defining EdTech acquisitions - $110M for GetSmarter, a short course business in Cape Town and $750M for Trilogy Education, a skills-based workforce accelerator based in New York - and guided 2U through a successful IPO and two follow-on offerings that raised more than $630M of capital to fuel 2U’s rapid growth initiatives and multi product line expansion
Chief Learning Officer
Gwen Baker
Gwen leads the Learning, Platform, and Insights team. In this role she leverages her experience in learning science, client service, strategy, technology, entrepreneurship, and operations developed over her career. Prior to joining Mursion, Gwen was Partner and Chief Operating Officer at Bellwether Education Partners, a dual role that focused on the firm's operations and serving clients in the strategic advising practice. Before that, she founded and led CoreSpring, a B2B technology designed to enable authoring of digital assessment items.
Gwen has had roles at NewSchools Venture Fund, New Visions for Public Schools, and Teachscape and she began her career at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). Gwen is a graduate of Ithaca College and Northwestern University. At Northwestern, she was a fellow at the Institute for the Learning Sciences (ILS) where she studied the use of technology and simulation to improve learning outcomes. Two of her favorite simulation projects involved the creation of tools to practice consultative selling and the investigation of the social conditions leading up to the French Revolution.
Gwen has had roles at NewSchools Venture Fund, New Visions for Public Schools, and Teachscape and she began her career at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). Gwen is a graduate of Ithaca College and Northwestern University. At Northwestern, she was a fellow at the Institute for the Learning Sciences (ILS) where she studied the use of technology and simulation to improve learning outcomes. Two of her favorite simulation projects involved the creation of tools to practice consultative selling and the investigation of the social conditions leading up to the French Revolution.
Vice President, Engineering
Rajesh Singh
Rajesh heads engineering at Mursion and is responsible for Mursion technology and building products. Rajesh has over 20 years of experience building engineering teams and products from ground up in multiple startups. This includes technology companies in SaaS, Enterprise, Cloud and AI space. Rajesh holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from IET Lucknow, India. He lives in Santa Clara, CA with his wife, son, and twin daughters.
Chief of Staff and Vice President, Strategy
Katya Levitan-Reiner
Katya works closely with the CEO and leadership team to support effective straegy and operations. Prior to Mursion, Katya served as COO of Propel Capital, a philanthropic and investment fund supporting visionary leaders challenging the status quo and driving transformational change. Katya has over 20 years of experience in strategy, operations, management, and learning. They have consulted to school systems, non-profits, and philanthropic entities, and supported organizational change and talent development at fortune 500 companies while part of Deloitte's Human Capital Practice. Katya began their career as a High School Mathematics teacher in Oakland, CA. Katya holds a BA in Mathematics from Smith College and an MBA from the Yale School of Management. They live in the New York with their wife and son.
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Mark Atkinson
Mark has spent the last twenty years building technology ventures that support human capital development in K-12 education and corporate learning. Mark is the founder of TeachForward, LLC, a virtual coaching platform for K-12 educators that offers programs for alternative certification and professional licensure and previously founded and served as CEO of Teachscape Inc. Prior to launching a career in educational technology and workforce development, Mark served as Senior Producer and Manager of New Markets for CBS News Productions and worked as an Emmy award winning News Producer for Peter Jennings Reporting, ABC News, where he produced a series of network specials on U.S. foreign policy in Bosnia, Haiti and Iraq. He is a recipient of the Alfred I. DuPont Columbia University “Gold Baton” for his work in Bosnia. Mr. Atkinson is a graduate of Yale College.
Senior Vice President, Sales & Marketing
Tim Evans
Tim is responsible for growing Mursion’s revenue through new and existing customer sales engagements. Tim has over 25 years of sales and marketing experience that has included leadership positions at several AI technology firms. This includes work in number of different market segments such as B2B enterprise, education, network security, mobile computing, compliance, and consumer products. Tim holds a bachelor’s degree from Boston College and a Master’s in Management from Harvard University. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife, and they have three adult children.
Chief Financial Officer
Chris Laidley
Chris is a strategic operations executive with demonstrated ability to drive high-growth businesses towards scale. In his previous role, he implemented strategies and processes to scale 2U from a team of 8 employees, through IPO, to a global multi-product corporation with more than 6,000 full-time employees in six international markets. Chris served as a lead member of the due-diligence and integration teams for two industry defining EdTech acquisitions - $110M for GetSmarter, a short course business in Cape Town and $750M for Trilogy Education, a skills-based workforce accelerator based in New York - and guided 2U through a successful IPO and two follow-on offerings that raised more than $630M of capital to fuel 2U’s rapid growth initiatives and multi product line expansion
Chief Learning Officer
Gwen Baker
Gwen leads the Learning, Platform, and Insights team. In this role she leverages her experience in learning science, client service, strategy, technology, entrepreneurship, and operations developed over her career. Prior to joining Mursion, Gwen was Partner and Chief Operating Officer at Bellwether Education Partners, a dual role that focused on the firm's operations and serving clients in the strategic advising practice. Before that, she founded and led CoreSpring, a B2B technology designed to enable authoring of digital assessment items.
Gwen has had roles at NewSchools Venture Fund, New Visions for Public Schools, and Teachscape and she began her career at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). Gwen is a graduate of Ithaca College and Northwestern University. At Northwestern, she was a fellow at the Institute for the Learning Sciences (ILS) where she studied the use of technology and simulation to improve learning outcomes. Two of her favorite simulation projects involved the creation of tools to practice consultative selling and the investigation of the social conditions leading up to the French Revolution.
Gwen has had roles at NewSchools Venture Fund, New Visions for Public Schools, and Teachscape and she began her career at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). Gwen is a graduate of Ithaca College and Northwestern University. At Northwestern, she was a fellow at the Institute for the Learning Sciences (ILS) where she studied the use of technology and simulation to improve learning outcomes. Two of her favorite simulation projects involved the creation of tools to practice consultative selling and the investigation of the social conditions leading up to the French Revolution.
Vice President, Engineering
Rajesh Singh
Rajesh heads engineering at Mursion and is responsible for Mursion technology and building products. Rajesh has over 20 years of experience building engineering teams and products from ground up in multiple startups. This includes technology companies in SaaS, Enterprise, Cloud and AI space. Rajesh holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from IET Lucknow, India. He lives in Santa Clara, CA with his wife, son, and twin daughters.
Chief of Staff and Vice President, Strategy
Katya Levitan-Reiner
Katya works closely with the CEO and leadership team to support effective straegy and operations. Prior to Mursion, Katya served as COO of Propel Capital, a philanthropic and investment fund supporting visionary leaders challenging the status quo and driving transformational change. Katya has over 20 years of experience in strategy, operations, management, and learning. They have consulted to school systems, non-profits, and philanthropic entities, and supported organizational change and talent development at fortune 500 companies while part of Deloitte's Human Capital Practice. Katya began their career as a High School Mathematics teacher in Oakland, CA. Katya holds a BA in Mathematics from Smith College and an MBA from the Yale School of Management. They live in the New York with their wife and son.
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Mark Atkinson
Mark has spent the last twenty years building technology ventures that support human capital development in K-12 education and corporate learning. Mark is the founder of TeachForward, LLC, a virtual coaching platform for K-12 educators that offers programs for alternative certification and professional licensure and previously founded and served as CEO of Teachscape Inc. Prior to launching a career in educational technology and workforce development, Mark served as Senior Producer and Manager of New Markets for CBS News Productions and worked as an Emmy award winning News Producer for Peter Jennings Reporting, ABC News, where he produced a series of network specials on U.S. foreign policy in Bosnia, Haiti and Iraq. He is a recipient of the Alfred I. DuPont Columbia University “Gold Baton” for his work in Bosnia. Mr. Atkinson is a graduate of Yale College.
Senior Vice President, Sales & Marketing
Tim Evans
Tim is responsible for growing Mursion’s revenue through new and existing customer sales engagements. Tim has over 25 years of sales and marketing experience that has included leadership positions at several AI technology firms. This includes work in number of different market segments such as B2B enterprise, education, network security, mobile computing, compliance, and consumer products. Tim holds a bachelor’s degree from Boston College and a Master’s in Management from Harvard University. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife, and they have three adult children.
Chief Financial Officer
Chris Laidley
Chris is a strategic operations executive with demonstrated ability to drive high-growth businesses towards scale. In his previous role, he implemented strategies and processes to scale 2U from a team of 8 employees, through IPO, to a global multi-product corporation with more than 6,000 full-time employees in six international markets. Chris served as a lead member of the due-diligence and integration teams for two industry defining EdTech acquisitions - $110M for GetSmarter, a short course business in Cape Town and $750M for Trilogy Education, a skills-based workforce accelerator based in New York - and guided 2U through a successful IPO and two follow-on offerings that raised more than $630M of capital to fuel 2U’s rapid growth initiatives and multi product line expansion
Chief Learning Officer
Gwen Baker
Gwen leads the Learning, Platform, and Insights team. In this role she leverages her experience in learning science, client service, strategy, technology, entrepreneurship, and operations developed over her career. Prior to joining Mursion, Gwen was Partner and Chief Operating Officer at Bellwether Education Partners, a dual role that focused on the firm's operations and serving clients in the strategic advising practice. Before that, she founded and led CoreSpring, a B2B technology designed to enable authoring of digital assessment items.
Gwen has had roles at NewSchools Venture Fund, New Visions for Public Schools, and Teachscape and she began her career at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). Gwen is a graduate of Ithaca College and Northwestern University. At Northwestern, she was a fellow at the Institute for the Learning Sciences (ILS) where she studied the use of technology and simulation to improve learning outcomes. Two of her favorite simulation projects involved the creation of tools to practice consultative selling and the investigation of the social conditions leading up to the French Revolution.
Gwen has had roles at NewSchools Venture Fund, New Visions for Public Schools, and Teachscape and she began her career at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). Gwen is a graduate of Ithaca College and Northwestern University. At Northwestern, she was a fellow at the Institute for the Learning Sciences (ILS) where she studied the use of technology and simulation to improve learning outcomes. Two of her favorite simulation projects involved the creation of tools to practice consultative selling and the investigation of the social conditions leading up to the French Revolution.
Vice President, Engineering
Rajesh Singh
Rajesh heads engineering at Mursion and is responsible for Mursion technology and building products. Rajesh has over 20 years of experience building engineering teams and products from ground up in multiple startups. This includes technology companies in SaaS, Enterprise, Cloud and AI space. Rajesh holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from IET Lucknow, India. He lives in Santa Clara, CA with his wife, son, and twin daughters.
Chief of Staff and Vice President, Strategy
Katya Levitan-Reiner
Katya works closely with the CEO and leadership team to support effective straegy and operations. Prior to Mursion, Katya served as COO of Propel Capital, a philanthropic and investment fund supporting visionary leaders challenging the status quo and driving transformational change. Katya has over 20 years of experience in strategy, operations, management, and learning. They have consulted to school systems, non-profits, and philanthropic entities, and supported organizational change and talent development at fortune 500 companies while part of Deloitte's Human Capital Practice. Katya began their career as a High School Mathematics teacher in Oakland, CA. Katya holds a BA in Mathematics from Smith College and an MBA from the Yale School of Management. They live in the New York with their wife and son.
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Mark Atkinson
Mark has spent the last twenty years building technology ventures that support human capital development in K-12 education and corporate learning. Mark is the founder of TeachForward, LLC, a virtual coaching platform for K-12 educators that offers programs for alternative certification and professional licensure and previously founded and served as CEO of Teachscape Inc. Prior to launching a career in educational technology and workforce development, Mark served as Senior Producer and Manager of New Markets for CBS News Productions and worked as an Emmy award winning News Producer for Peter Jennings Reporting, ABC News, where he produced a series of network specials on U.S. foreign policy in Bosnia, Haiti and Iraq. He is a recipient of the Alfred I. DuPont Columbia University “Gold Baton” for his work in Bosnia. Mr. Atkinson is a graduate of Yale College.
Senior Vice President, Sales & Marketing
Tim Evans
Tim is responsible for growing Mursion’s revenue through new and existing customer sales engagements. Tim has over 25 years of sales and marketing experience that has included leadership positions at several AI technology firms. This includes work in number of different market segments such as B2B enterprise, education, network security, mobile computing, compliance, and consumer products. Tim holds a bachelor’s degree from Boston College and a Master’s in Management from Harvard University. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife, and they have three adult children.
Chief Financial Officer
Chris Laidley
Chris is a strategic operations executive with demonstrated ability to drive high-growth businesses towards scale. In his previous role, he implemented strategies and processes to scale 2U from a team of 8 employees, through IPO, to a global multi-product corporation with more than 6,000 full-time employees in six international markets. Chris served as a lead member of the due-diligence and integration teams for two industry defining EdTech acquisitions - $110M for GetSmarter, a short course business in Cape Town and $750M for Trilogy Education, a skills-based workforce accelerator based in New York - and guided 2U through a successful IPO and two follow-on offerings that raised more than $630M of capital to fuel 2U’s rapid growth initiatives and multi product line expansion
Chief Learning Officer
Gwen Baker
Gwen leads the Learning, Platform, and Insights team. In this role she leverages her experience in learning science, client service, strategy, technology, entrepreneurship, and operations developed over her career. Prior to joining Mursion, Gwen was Partner and Chief Operating Officer at Bellwether Education Partners, a dual role that focused on the firm's operations and serving clients in the strategic advising practice. Before that, she founded and led CoreSpring, a B2B technology designed to enable authoring of digital assessment items.
Gwen has had roles at NewSchools Venture Fund, New Visions for Public Schools, and Teachscape and she began her career at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). Gwen is a graduate of Ithaca College and Northwestern University. At Northwestern, she was a fellow at the Institute for the Learning Sciences (ILS) where she studied the use of technology and simulation to improve learning outcomes. Two of her favorite simulation projects involved the creation of tools to practice consultative selling and the investigation of the social conditions leading up to the French Revolution.
Gwen has had roles at NewSchools Venture Fund, New Visions for Public Schools, and Teachscape and she began her career at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). Gwen is a graduate of Ithaca College and Northwestern University. At Northwestern, she was a fellow at the Institute for the Learning Sciences (ILS) where she studied the use of technology and simulation to improve learning outcomes. Two of her favorite simulation projects involved the creation of tools to practice consultative selling and the investigation of the social conditions leading up to the French Revolution.
Vice President, Engineering
Rajesh Singh
Rajesh heads engineering at Mursion and is responsible for Mursion technology and building products. Rajesh has over 20 years of experience building engineering teams and products from ground up in multiple startups. This includes technology companies in SaaS, Enterprise, Cloud and AI space. Rajesh holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from IET Lucknow, India. He lives in Santa Clara, CA with his wife, son, and twin daughters.
Chief of Staff and Vice President, Strategy
Katya Levitan-Reiner
Katya works closely with the CEO and leadership team to support effective straegy and operations. Prior to Mursion, Katya served as COO of Propel Capital, a philanthropic and investment fund supporting visionary leaders challenging the status quo and driving transformational change. Katya has over 20 years of experience in strategy, operations, management, and learning. They have consulted to school systems, non-profits, and philanthropic entities, and supported organizational change and talent development at fortune 500 companies while part of Deloitte's Human Capital Practice. Katya began their career as a High School Mathematics teacher in Oakland, CA. Katya holds a BA in Mathematics from Smith College and an MBA from the Yale School of Management. They live in the New York with their wife and son.
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Mark Atkinson
Mark has spent the last twenty years building technology ventures that support human capital development in K-12 education and corporate learning. Mark is the founder of TeachForward, LLC, a virtual coaching platform for K-12 educators that offers programs for alternative certification and professional licensure and previously founded and served as CEO of Teachscape Inc. Prior to launching a career in educational technology and workforce development, Mark served as Senior Producer and Manager of New Markets for CBS News Productions and worked as an Emmy award winning News Producer for Peter Jennings Reporting, ABC News, where he produced a series of network specials on U.S. foreign policy in Bosnia, Haiti and Iraq. He is a recipient of the Alfred I. DuPont Columbia University “Gold Baton” for his work in Bosnia. Mr. Atkinson is a graduate of Yale College.
Senior Vice President, Sales & Marketing
Tim Evans
Tim is responsible for growing Mursion’s revenue through new and existing customer sales engagements. Tim has over 25 years of sales and marketing experience that has included leadership positions at several AI technology firms. This includes work in number of different market segments such as B2B enterprise, education, network security, mobile computing, compliance, and consumer products. Tim holds a bachelor’s degree from Boston College and a Master’s in Management from Harvard University. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife, and they have three adult children.
Chief Financial Officer
Chris Laidley
Chris is a strategic operations executive with demonstrated ability to drive high-growth businesses towards scale. In his previous role, he implemented strategies and processes to scale 2U from a team of 8 employees, through IPO, to a global multi-product corporation with more than 6,000 full-time employees in six international markets. Chris served as a lead member of the due-diligence and integration teams for two industry defining EdTech acquisitions - $110M for GetSmarter, a short course business in Cape Town and $750M for Trilogy Education, a skills-based workforce accelerator based in New York - and guided 2U through a successful IPO and two follow-on offerings that raised more than $630M of capital to fuel 2U’s rapid growth initiatives and multi product line expansion
Chief Learning Officer
Gwen Baker
Gwen leads the Learning, Platform, and Insights team. In this role she leverages her experience in learning science, client service, strategy, technology, entrepreneurship, and operations developed over her career. Prior to joining Mursion, Gwen was Partner and Chief Operating Officer at Bellwether Education Partners, a dual role that focused on the firm's operations and serving clients in the strategic advising practice. Before that, she founded and led CoreSpring, a B2B technology designed to enable authoring of digital assessment items.
Gwen has had roles at NewSchools Venture Fund, New Visions for Public Schools, and Teachscape and she began her career at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). Gwen is a graduate of Ithaca College and Northwestern University. At Northwestern, she was a fellow at the Institute for the Learning Sciences (ILS) where she studied the use of technology and simulation to improve learning outcomes. Two of her favorite simulation projects involved the creation of tools to practice consultative selling and the investigation of the social conditions leading up to the French Revolution.
Gwen has had roles at NewSchools Venture Fund, New Visions for Public Schools, and Teachscape and she began her career at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). Gwen is a graduate of Ithaca College and Northwestern University. At Northwestern, she was a fellow at the Institute for the Learning Sciences (ILS) where she studied the use of technology and simulation to improve learning outcomes. Two of her favorite simulation projects involved the creation of tools to practice consultative selling and the investigation of the social conditions leading up to the French Revolution.
Vice President, Engineering
Rajesh Singh
Rajesh heads engineering at Mursion and is responsible for Mursion technology and building products. Rajesh has over 20 years of experience building engineering teams and products from ground up in multiple startups. This includes technology companies in SaaS, Enterprise, Cloud and AI space. Rajesh holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from IET Lucknow, India. He lives in Santa Clara, CA with his wife, son, and twin daughters.
Chief of Staff and Vice President, Strategy
Katya Levitan-Reiner
Katya works closely with the CEO and leadership team to support effective straegy and operations. Prior to Mursion, Katya served as COO of Propel Capital, a philanthropic and investment fund supporting visionary leaders challenging the status quo and driving transformational change. Katya has over 20 years of experience in strategy, operations, management, and learning. They have consulted to school systems, non-profits, and philanthropic entities, and supported organizational change and talent development at fortune 500 companies while part of Deloitte's Human Capital Practice. Katya began their career as a High School Mathematics teacher in Oakland, CA. Katya holds a BA in Mathematics from Smith College and an MBA from the Yale School of Management. They live in the New York with their wife and son.
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Mark Atkinson
Mark has spent the last twenty years building technology ventures that support human capital development in K-12 education and corporate learning. Mark is the founder of TeachForward, LLC, a virtual coaching platform for K-12 educators that offers programs for alternative certification and professional licensure and previously founded and served as CEO of Teachscape Inc. Prior to launching a career in educational technology and workforce development, Mark served as Senior Producer and Manager of New Markets for CBS News Productions and worked as an Emmy award winning News Producer for Peter Jennings Reporting, ABC News, where he produced a series of network specials on U.S. foreign policy in Bosnia, Haiti and Iraq. He is a recipient of the Alfred I. DuPont Columbia University “Gold Baton” for his work in Bosnia. Mr. Atkinson is a graduate of Yale College.
Senior Vice President, Sales & Marketing
Tim Evans
Tim is responsible for growing Mursion’s revenue through new and existing customer sales engagements. Tim has over 25 years of sales and marketing experience that has included leadership positions at several AI technology firms. This includes work in number of different market segments such as B2B enterprise, education, network security, mobile computing, compliance, and consumer products. Tim holds a bachelor’s degree from Boston College and a Master’s in Management from Harvard University. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife, and they have three adult children.
Chief Financial Officer
Chris Laidley
Chris is a strategic operations executive with demonstrated ability to drive high-growth businesses towards scale. In his previous role, he implemented strategies and processes to scale 2U from a team of 8 employees, through IPO, to a global multi-product corporation with more than 6,000 full-time employees in six international markets. Chris served as a lead member of the due-diligence and integration teams for two industry defining EdTech acquisitions - $110M for GetSmarter, a short course business in Cape Town and $750M for Trilogy Education, a skills-based workforce accelerator based in New York - and guided 2U through a successful IPO and two follow-on offerings that raised more than $630M of capital to fuel 2U’s rapid growth initiatives and multi product line expansion
Chief Learning Officer
Gwen Baker
Gwen leads the Learning, Platform, and Insights team. In this role she leverages her experience in learning science, client service, strategy, technology, entrepreneurship, and operations developed over her career. Prior to joining Mursion, Gwen was Partner and Chief Operating Officer at Bellwether Education Partners, a dual role that focused on the firm's operations and serving clients in the strategic advising practice. Before that, she founded and led CoreSpring, a B2B technology designed to enable authoring of digital assessment items.
Gwen has had roles at NewSchools Venture Fund, New Visions for Public Schools, and Teachscape and she began her career at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). Gwen is a graduate of Ithaca College and Northwestern University. At Northwestern, she was a fellow at the Institute for the Learning Sciences (ILS) where she studied the use of technology and simulation to improve learning outcomes. Two of her favorite simulation projects involved the creation of tools to practice consultative selling and the investigation of the social conditions leading up to the French Revolution.
Gwen has had roles at NewSchools Venture Fund, New Visions for Public Schools, and Teachscape and she began her career at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). Gwen is a graduate of Ithaca College and Northwestern University. At Northwestern, she was a fellow at the Institute for the Learning Sciences (ILS) where she studied the use of technology and simulation to improve learning outcomes. Two of her favorite simulation projects involved the creation of tools to practice consultative selling and the investigation of the social conditions leading up to the French Revolution.
Vice President, Engineering
Rajesh Singh
Rajesh heads engineering at Mursion and is responsible for Mursion technology and building products. Rajesh has over 20 years of experience building engineering teams and products from ground up in multiple startups. This includes technology companies in SaaS, Enterprise, Cloud and AI space. Rajesh holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from IET Lucknow, India. He lives in Santa Clara, CA with his wife, son, and twin daughters.
Chief of Staff and Vice President, Strategy
Katya Levitan-Reiner
Katya works closely with the CEO and leadership team to support effective straegy and operations. Prior to Mursion, Katya served as COO of Propel Capital, a philanthropic and investment fund supporting visionary leaders challenging the status quo and driving transformational change. Katya has over 20 years of experience in strategy, operations, management, and learning. They have consulted to school systems, non-profits, and philanthropic entities, and supported organizational change and talent development at fortune 500 companies while part of Deloitte's Human Capital Practice. Katya began their career as a High School Mathematics teacher in Oakland, CA. Katya holds a BA in Mathematics from Smith College and an MBA from the Yale School of Management. They live in the New York with their wife and son.
