Jim Dougherty:
Jim Dougherty is the President and founder of The Dougherty Group.
At TDG Jim has Business Development responsibility as well as operational responsibility for: Key Technology Initiatives, Systems Planning & Integration, School-to-Home Solutions Development, Market / Business / Channel Analysis and Development, and School / District Technology Planning.
Jim has an outstanding track record of success with over 30 years experience in the Educational / New Media and Enterprise Software industry working for such innovative leaders as: Xerox Corporation, Ingres Corporation, Computer Curriculum Corporation, Pearson, NetSchools Corporation, and Plato Learning.
Jim has been recognized nationally as a key strategist and Subject Matter Expert in areas of B2E, B2B, and B2C e-learning directions, market trends, and solutions for the K-12 and Adult Education e-learning and e-commerce markets. Jim has been a 'featured' speaker at most major industry and state Education Conferences over the past 10 years.
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Jimmy Dougherty:
Jimmy Dougherty is a intern working with The Dougherty Group. His focus has been assisting clients with planning and implementing their data and web initiatives as well as serving as Web-master for TDG.
As an marketing intern to Baux Publishing Jimmy has played a key role in performing the following marketing activiies: Market Opportunity Analysis, Competitive Analysis, 'At-Risk' Funding Analysis, and New Business Development Marketing Messanging.
Jimmy is a Senior at California State University, Sonoma and is majoring in Business with a Marketing / Media Communications emphasis.
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Dianne Bean:
Dianne Bean has been in the business of providing Supplemental and Core Comprehensive Educational Materials to schools, districts, and states for 25 years. As an executive and top achiever of well known educational publishers such as Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, Pearson, Modern Curriculum Press, and Compass Learning, she is known throughout the industry for providing high quality, researched-based materials and top customer service.
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Ewald Wiberg:
Ewald Wiberg is President of the Wiberg Consulting Group and has over 30 years experience successfully developing and delivery software systems solutions for the Education and Technology markets.
For the past six years Ewald has been assisting Educators and Administrators, at both the State and local level, systemically impact instruction and learning through the 'intelligent' application of technology to learning. Some of Ewald's key initiatives include: District-wide technology planning; e-rate grant development and analysis; School-to-Community Learning Systems design and deployment; SIS and Curriculum Management Systems integration design; and Instructional Technology trends analysis.
Ewald was the former Director of Computer Technology for Broward County Schools, Florida and has been a 'featured speaker' at Education conferences in over 15 states.
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Dr. Rita Oates:
Dr. Rita H. Oates is President of Oates and Associates, an education consulting firm specializing in instructional technology.
Dr. Oates is industry renown as an educator, consultant, and an author. She has authored 8 books and published over 100 articles and research reports all focusing on education. As with most principles of The Dougherty Group, she has been a 'featured speaker' and given workshops at numerous regional, state, national and industry education conferences.
Dr. Oates was instructional supervisor of Computer Education and Technology for Miami-Dade Public Schools (Florida) for seven years and has been a consultant to the District for the past nine years.
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Dr. Howard Koenig:
Dr. Koenig is the Executive Director of R.E.F.I.T. (Reform Education Financing Inequities Today) - a consortium of New York low-wealth, high tax school districts seeking to provide equity in school funding. He is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Education Leadership and Technology at Dowling College in Oakdale, New York.
Dr. Koenig served as Superintendent of Schools for the Central Islip School District located on Long Island, New York. As Superintendent he led the implementation of a K-12 instructional technology initiative which included: the long range planning; staff development; and support for the installation of computers in all classrooms and their connection to the District WAN and the Internet.
Dr. Koenig is a regular speaker at the New York School Boards Association.
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Bonnie H. Williams:
Bonnie Williams is a well established independent technology consultant providing sales, marketing, and professional development strategies to education companies both domestically and internationally.
For the past four and one-half years Bonnie has been working on Project Smart Schools for New York City Public Schools. She worked with the Board of Education on the on the analysis, selection, implementation, and installation of instructional technology for all Junior High, Middle, and Sixth Grade classrooms.
Bobbie also has an extensive Sales background and has worked for numerous well known Education Technology companies in the K-12 market sector.
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Marianne Mullins:
Ms. Mullins is a 'full service' marketing consultant specializing in helping technology-oriented companies grow their businesses through: developing and launching new products; repositioning and re-branding/re-marketing existing products; and providing 'turn key' marketing support for start-up companies.
Ms. Mullins has an extensive marketing background and experience in both the consumer and K-12 'public' market sectors having worked for such companies as: Broderbund Software; iMind Education Systems; Lawgic Publishing; and Coca Cola Corporation. She brings extensive experience from various industries across multiple channels.
Ms. Mullins is proficient in building integrated marketing foundations for products or companies by identifying and implementing 'key components' of the marketing mix.
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