Stuart Udell, Angel Investor

Stuart Udell, trailblazing as an EdTech CEO and Investor, Driving Innovation and Growth. Stuart Udell has served as Chief Executive Officer of Catapult Learning since 2010. Stuart has spent the last twelve years as a board member of The National Dropout Prevention Center/Network (part of Clemson University), which he formerly chaired. Prior to joining Catapult Learning, Stuart was Chief Executive Officer of online school operator Penn Foster, which he sold to The Princeton Review in what was named by Thomson Reuters as the 2009 Private Equity Deal of the Year. He additionally spent eleven years at Kaplan, most recently as President of Kaplan K12 Learning Services. From 1997-2001, Stuart helped drive Renaissance Learning’s rapid post-IPO growth as President of its subsidiary School Renaissance Institute. He recently served on the board of directors of Renaissance Learning until the sale of the company this past Spring. Stuart served several terms on the board of the Software and Information Industry Association, as well as its education division board. For his significant leadership contributions to education, Stuart was honored by the I Have a Dream Foundation in 2011 and was inducted into his own school district’s Hall of Fame in 2012. Stuart has an MBA from Columbia University and a BS from Bucknell University.