CEO MoviePass, Co-Founder of Netflix, Former President of Redbox

Mr. J. Mitchell Lowe, also known as Mitch, has been the Chief Executive Officer of MoviePass, Inc. since June 28, 2016. Mr. Lowe is a Partner at Crestlight Venture Partners, LLC. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of Quarterly, Inc. since June 18, 2013. Since late 2011, he has been an Independent Consultant for entrepreneurs and startups. He has more than 25 years in the video and rental industry, including executive positions at two of the most groundbreaking and influential companies in the home entertainment business since the 1980’s.

Mr. Lowe’s career in the video business started in the 1980’s with Video Droid. He opened a successful chain of video rental stores, further increasing his knowledge about the video rental customer experience. Leveraging that experience, he created a business that built websites for video rental stores. Mr. Lowe served as the President of Redbox Automated Retail, LLC of Outerwall Inc. from April 2009 to October 2011 and served as its Chief Operating Officer since May 2005. He helped to build a strong management team at Redbox and was instrumental in developing the concept of $1 per night new release DVD rentals. Mr. Lowe also consulted for McDonald’s business development group, focusing on automated vending machines.

Mr. Lowe was a Founding Executive of Netflix, Inc. since 1998, and also served as its Entertainment Domain Expert and Vice President of Business Development & Strategic Alliances from 1998 to 2003. He has been head of The Content Advisory Board of NanoTech Entertainment, Inc. since February 2014. He serves as a Director of Cantaloupe Systems, Inc. He is a Board Advisor to Alchemy Entertainment, Fandor, Moviepass, Spray, GoWatchit, and SkywriterRX. He has been a Director of Our Alchemy, LLC since August 2015. He has been an Independent Director at Notis Global, Inc. (formerly Medbox, Inc.) since March 3, 2014. He has been a member of The Content Advisory Board of NanoTech Entertainment, Inc. since February 2014. Mr. Lowe was Chairman of the Video Software Dealers Association since 1996 and was its Director from 1991 to 1996.

University Professor at The City University of New York
Former Dean of Macaulay Honors College at CUNY
and Strategic Advisor to the Chancellor

Ann Kirschner​ is University Professor at The City University of New York (CUNY) and president of Comma International, consultants in technology and education. She was the Dean of Macaulay Honors College at CUNY and Strategic Advisor to the Chancellor. She was founding director of the Women in Technology and Entrepreneurship (WiTNY) initiative at CUNY and Cornell Tech. She is a veteran of four start-ups in cable, satellite, and online. She was the first digital strategist for the National Football League, where she launched nfl.com and superbowl.com. A pioneer in e-learning, she founded FATHOM with Columbia University, London School of Economics, and other leading institutions. Ann Kirschner serves on the board of Strategic Cyber Ventures and Cricket Media. Her nonprofit boards include Public Agenda, Footsteps, the Paul and Daisy Soros Foundation, and FIRSTnyc. She is the author of Sala’s Gift: My Mother’s Holocaust Story (2006) and Lady at the OK Corral: the True Story of Josephine Marcus Earp (2013), and a frequent speaker and writer on innovation in media, technology, and education. She is a graduate of University of Buffalo, University of Virginia, and received her PhD from Princeton University, where she was Whiting Fellow in the Humanities.

Head of Industry, Education
Facebook

Jennifer Garrett is a creative and passionate sales and marketing leader with almost 20 years industry success to her credit. Garrett spent 12+ years in senior sales roles at Nickelodeon, MTV Networks International, and most recently at XO Group as Executive Vice President, National Enterprise Group. She now expertly leads Facebook's Education team as the Head of Industry over Education in North America.

As a new member of Facebook's cutting-edge leadership team, Garrett oversees the Education vertical within Global Marketing Solutions. Her team collaborates to drive growth for a variety of partners including online program managers, for-profit and not-for-profit institutions, and elearning businesses.

Before stepping into the media and sales worlds, Garrett practiced finance law at the firm Mayer, Brown and Platt. She graduated cum laude from Columbia University with a bachelor’s degree in International Relations and European History, and went on to earn a Juris Doctor degree from New York University School of Law. Throughout her career, Garrett has consistently demonstrated the unique ability to seamlessly translate her experience and skills across industries and disciplines – from finance law to media sales and marketing, from international to domestic, from television to digital, from established international media conglomerate to digital niche lifestage brands and beyond.

Garrett speaks French and Swedish; in fact, she has dual citizenship in the United States and Sweden. She met her husband at a Metropolitan Opera summer performance in Central Park, and together they have twins and live in New York City. They enjoy traveling, whether abroad to Europe or to hike and ski in the Adirondacks and Vermont. When she’s not at work or shuttling between her kids’ piano classes and baseball practices, Garrett enjoys reading mystery novels set in interesting places and fancies herself quite the chocolate connoisseur.

Director of Digital Learning Initiatives
Dartmouth College

Josh Kim serves as a central point person for developing and coordinating digital learning programs across Dartmouth. Prior to starting this new role at Dartmouth, Josh was the Director of Learning and Technology for Dartmouth’s Master of Health Care Delivery Science (MHCDS) program. At the MHCDS program, Josh helped to build Dartmouth’s first graduate online/blended degree program designed for working professionals.

Josh is frequently asked to speak at national conferences and to consult with technology and publishing company leaders on topics of innovation and learning.

He has a PhD in sociology and demography from Brown University. He started his career on the faculty at West Virginia University, helped start Britannica.com’s education division in San Francisco, and was one of the original founders of Quinnipiac University Online. He has taught both on-ground and online courses in sociology, marketing, and higher education leadership.

Josh is best known for his daily blog on technology and learning on InsideHigherEd.com, a website that receives over 1.3 million unique monthly visitors.

Josh and his wife Julie, a pediatric oncologist at Dartmouth, live in Hanover and have two daughters who will be starting their own college careers in 2016 and 2017.

Associate Dean, Graduate Business Programs
D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University

Kate has served as the Associate Dean since 2005 overseeing the graduate portfolio at the D’Amore-McKim School. The School offers a variety of Master level programs including a Full-time MBA, Part-time MBA, Online MBA as well as a variety of specialty MBA and Master Degree and Graduate Certificate programs. Kate is a member of the D’Amore-McKim leadership team and also sits on the Graduate Programs and Assessment Committee within the School and the Graduate Dean’s Council for the University. She has been the primary representative to the Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC) throughout her career in higher education. She is currently serving as the Vice Chair of GMAC Board of Directors. Kate is also a member of the Board of the MBA Roundtable, and The Washington Campus. Prior to her current role at Northeastern Kate was the Dean of Graduate Admission at Babson College. She earned her BS in Consumer Economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and her MBA from Northeastern.

Vice President of Business Development
edX

Lee Rubenstein serves as our edX VP of Business Development. He leads our engagements with prospects and partners including foundations, NGO’s, corporations, and governments both local and international. Lee has been building, running, and advising global businesses in the learning, communications, and media space for 20+ years. Most recently he served 5 years as President and COO of TBA Global, and as an advisor to several companies in the online entertainment space. Lee’s career has been focused on incorporating innovative technology and strategy to assist high profile brands improve their business results through education, communications, strategy, and media. Lee was part of the first executive team to take an “experiential” communications corporation public and then went on to establish, build, and lead various global communication and learning companies in the US and Europe for agency holding companies. Lee was also part of the executive team that recast TrainingNet into THINQ Learning solutions, an LMS company later sold to Saba. Lee is a graduate of Boston University, and serves on the Board of Governors of Tufts Medical Center, and the Corporate Advisory Council of Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

Matt Celano
Vice President, Student Acquisition
Pearson

Matt Celano has almost 20 years of experience helping companies transform their customer acquisition models through digital innovation of complex web products and interactive marketing, resulting in five business process patents. As vice president of student acquisition for Pearson Online Learning Services, Matt spearheads a full-service, performance-based marketing and recruitment agency of 800+ subject matter experts across account services, new program development and launch, media and analytics, brand strategy, creative and web development, recruitment operations, and student acquisition.

Account Executive
Google

Meredith McNally has worked as a digital media consultant in the education vertical at Google in New York City since 2012. She builds partnerships with national education clients across the K-12 and higher education sectors to provide media and technology solutions. Prior to Google, she worked for New Corporation in the Los Angeles, Toronto, and New York City offices selling advertising solutions within the consumer packaged goods industry. She holds a BA in Business Administration from the University of San Diego. She also holds a leadership role as an alumnae of her sorority,​ ​frequently speaking​ ​at national conferences to empower future women leaders.

Managing Director
EY-Parthenon
Ernst & Young LLP

Seth is a managing director of EY-Parthenon based in the Boston office and is a leader of EY's-Parthenon Education practice. Seth was with Parthenon for more than two decades before its combination with EY in August 2014. His extensive education experience spans the for-profit and public sectors across K-12, post-secondary, and corporate training. He advises clients on issues related to strategy development, operational improvement, performance management, investment due diligence, and new venture creation. His clients include a wide range of organizations, from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, school districts, universities, government agencies, and some of the world’s largest foundations. In addition, Seth has worked extensively with clients in the information publishing and financial services industries. Internally, he leads EY's-Parthenon Alumni Program. Prior to joining Parthenon, Seth was a Teach For America corps member and worked at SchoolNet. He is a founding member of the Board of Trustees of Excel Academy Charter Schools, a charter network in the Boston area. Seth holds a BA in American Studies, magna cum laude, from Amherst College. He received his MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and his Master of Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.