Marja is a seasoned Principal who is leading a high school in the very popular residential Töölö district in the capital city of Helsinki. She is an accomplished teacher and a well-respected educator who will bring to the advisory board her valuable outlook of the school management priorities and the pedagogy expertise.
Jari is an accomplished product management expert having several years of experience with both startups and Fortune 500 companies. A globetrotter in his day job, he will provide focus to the Advisory Council with his deep entrepreneurship knowhow and bring his widespread network spread across the San Francisco bay area.
Bhanu Potta is a board director & advisor, an accomplished expert on Global Education Products & Social Investments. He is passionate about building businesses and product which enhance human potential. As an Angel Investor and Startup advisor, more recently he saw through multiple social startups from Idea to Market with multi-million dollar Series A rounds. Sharing his time between India, Europe and the USA, Bhanu is a frequent speaker and panelist at international education conferences. Bhanu brings to the advisory board his expertise and in depth knowhow of the education industry and his wide spread network with publishers and distributors of the Emerging Economies in Asia and Africa.
Kinga teaches STEAM education to elementary and middle school students with experiences inspired from the Finnish school model. She focuses on elementary and middle schools covering several school districts on the West coast. She will support the instructor training, business development and go-to-market activities.
Holds a Master’s Degree in Education and another one in Fine Arts. Sarah with her innovative approach of teaching guides her students at the very well reputed International School at Espoo, Finland to achieve their goals and ready them for the challenges of the 21st century. She believe in training our youth to be leaders of others and most importantly of themselves. She is closely involved with the content development and pedagogical aspects of the phenomena based learning is one of the founding members of the advisory board.