Marco
CEO
Marco is a lawyer and educator with several years of management experience in the nonprofit sector. He combines a passion for education that began when he taught law to public high school students in Washington, D.C., with the savvy that comes from having successfully launched a user generated video startup in the pre-YouTube era. He foresees a day when anyone with access to a web connected device will be able to individually customize a college degree by combining world class courses from multiple providers at an affordable cost. As the father of three small children, his personal goal is to bring that day closer to reality through his work building Einztein into a leading online learning community.
Mauro
CTO
Mauro is passionate about programming. With fifteen years of experience as a web developer and multimedia manager, in addition to a degree in computer science, technology has become Mauro’s second skin. Along with his fascination for Internet technology, he is interested in generative art and microcontrollers. Presently, he lives with his future wife and their cat, both of whom enrich his life immeasurably. His goal in life is simple: to help make the world a better place. He hopes to accomplish this by opening up doors to the only thing that truly frees us all: knowledge.
Bert
COO
Early in his career, Bert co-founded one of the first user generated video websites. This was years before the era of mobile phones equipped with high quality video cameras. From that experience, Bert dedicated the next 9 years of his career to working in the Internet industry. His professional dedication to online business was preceded by his life as a student, during which time he received an MBA in marketing and a BA in French literature. Since his student days, annual tuition for private universities has generally risen by 100%. Today, Bert’s dedicated to a few things: family, friends, golf and evolving online learning so that it positively touches every corner of planet earth.
Emily
Director of Media
Emily combines a meticulous nature with a restless intellectual curiosity. Her background in business, database management and cultural studies was gained through work and school in multiple continents and countries. Having put herself through college, she knows all about the challenge that sky-rocketing tuition costs places on students today. Her passion for the kind of educational innovation that underpins the Einztein mission comes from a first-hand recognition that education is undergoing profound changes. Inspired by her fiance, family, friends, and cat, Emily manages the nitty-gritty of the database and continues to grow with the exciting Einztein team.