{"id":8210,"date":"2012-09-30T17:32:43","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T00:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/?p=8210"},"modified":"2012-09-30T17:32:43","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T00:32:43","slug":"michael-chasen-innovator-and-founder-of-blackboard-inc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/2012\/09\/30\/michael-chasen-innovator-and-founder-of-blackboard-inc\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Chasen, Innovator and Founder of Blackboard Inc."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Michael Chasen is the president and chief executive officer for Blackboard Inc. \u00a0He and Matthew Pittinsky founded Blackboard in 1997. According to Blackboard Inc., \u201chis expertise managing fast growth Internet software companies coupled with a passion to enhance education through technology has been critical to Blackboard’s success.\u201d Chasen is\u00a0recognized\u00a0as an innovator. Among his many awards and acknowledgements, Chasen was honoured by the The Kilby Awards Foundation as a young Innovator \u201cfor having recognized and delivered on the demand for a high-quality, easy-to-use, and cost-effective online educational software platform\u201d http:\/\/www.blackboard.com\/About-Bb\/Who-We-Are\/Leadership\/Michael-Chasen.aspx<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With a value proposition that focused on e-learning educational technology, Blackboard Inc. has expanded both customer base and service breadth to become a multibillion dollar company that provides a service to millions of people. Blackboard Inc. offers an array of learning and educational management services through a variety of online platforms. Through strategic mergers and acquisitions the company has grown from a one product company to an integrated multiplatform education enterprise software provider. Its platforms are Blackboard: Learn, Transact, Engage, Connect, Mobile, Collaborate, and Analytics. \u00a0Much of this growth is attributed to Michael Chasen and his team.<\/p>\n

Michael Chasen\u2019s profile reveals a man who garnered the necessary skills and experience to create Blackboard and champion its vision; as well as a man who harnesses key leaders to guide the ship. His education and training includes an MBA from Georgetown University and an undergraduate degree in computer science from American University. Prior to founding Blackboard, Chasen worked at KPMG as a part of the company\u2019s Higher Education Practice. \u201cHe worked closely with several universities and colleges to implement wide-ranging software systems and also managed high-profile online development projects within the U.S. Department of Education\u201d http:\/\/www.blackboard.com\/About-Bb\/Who-We-Are\/Leadership\/Michael-Chasen.aspx<\/a>. While the degrees armed him with the necessary foundations in business and computer science to establish Blackboard, I think the experience garnered at KPMG was crucial to his understanding of the education market, its players and the pain points that existed. He was able to leverage into the development solutions via of Blackboard\u2019s various platforms.<\/p>\n

Blackboard\u2019s leadership team comprises a diverse skill set suitable for the platforms that they lead or for their roles they have. Blackboard\u2019s hiring practices reflect a focus on leaders with proven track records honed through many years of experience in their fields. The team\u2019s wealth of experience and expertise build and enhance the company\u2019s credibility, help to cement its place in the market and expands Blackboard\u2019s connections and network. See each member\u2019s profile at http:\/\/www.blackboard.com\/About-Bb\/Who-We-Are\/Leadership.aspx<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Michael Chasen is the president and chief executive officer for Blackboard Inc. \u00a0He and Matthew Pittinsky founded Blackboard in 1997. According to Blackboard Inc., \u201chis expertise managing fast growth Internet software companies coupled with a passion to enhance education through technology has been critical to Blackboard’s success.\u201d Chasen is\u00a0recognized\u00a0as an innovator. Among his many awards […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13050,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493564],"tags":[602628,233,6196,602632,602629,602627,57787,1074],"class_list":["post-8210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-week-04-entrepreneur-bootcamp","tag-blackboard-inc","tag-education","tag-expertise","tag-innovator","tag-michael-chasen","tag-online-platforms","tag-passion","tag-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13050"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8210"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8216,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8210\/revisions\/8216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}