Leaders

Dr. William Guttman, Chairman, is Special Advisor to the Provost of Carnegie Mellon University, and Chairman of iCarnegie, Carnegie Mellon's for-profit education company; he previously co-founded Cylab, one of the world's largest University-based research initiatives focused on dependability and security in software and networked systems. Bill has been instrumental in a variety of University tech transfers; most recently he co-founded the video search software company, Panopto, whose board he also chairs.

Guttman is also Investment Partner and leads the financial technology practice at Philadelphia-based TL Ventures. In addition to his investing activities on behalf of TL, he has founded, co-founded, or held other leadership roles in more than a dozen institutionally-backed ventures, serving as chief executive at several of these, including Printcafe (NASDAQ: PCAF), a 500-person software developer acquired by Electronics for Imaging (NASDAQ: EFII).

Earlier in his career, Dr. Guttman served in advisory capacities for the United States, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the OECD. He is the author of Pacific-Asian Capital Markets (OECD/Oxford & IBH), Between Bailout and Breakdown: A Modular Approach to the Latin American Debt Crisis (Center for Strategic and International Studies), US Telecommunications Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa (U.S. Agency for International Development), along with other publications and patents. Bill completed his Masters and Doctoral degrees at Balliol College, Oxford University, where he was a British Council Scholar.

Eric Burns has ten years of successful innovation experience in the video-on-demand, distance education, and digital library sectors.

Mr. Burns was the co-inventor of the SlideCentric and Focus courseware projects at Carnegie Mellon University and oversaw the design, development and implementation of both systems. While at CMU, he also spent eight years with the Universal Library Project building massive-scale digital library search and archiving systems. This research led to the creation of a parallel-computing, turn-key digital library search appliance.

Mr. Burns went on to become a senior engineer at Microsoft Corp, spending two years helping to lead development of the Books and Academic search engines for Microsoft's Windows Live division. He received his Bachelor of Science from Carnegie Mellon University.

Larry Kinsella is a senior business and finance executive with multi-functional experience across a multitude of public and private international organizations. He has specific expertise in company restructurings, rebuilding organizations particularly during challenging economic conditions, identifying and executing revenue enhancement, and cost control strategies.

He has served as chief financial officer of British Telecom's Global Financial Services Division ($1.2billion in revenues) which offers services to the global financial community. He was responsible for all finance related matters within the division and performed in operational roles involving business planning, product development and project management. He served as chief financial officer of Radianz, a $500 million business operating in 120 countries providing secure extranet connectivity to the financial community. Radianz was purchased by British Telecom in 2005.

Larry was Chief Financial Officer/Chief Administrative Officer for Moneyline Telerate, a $500 million (revenue) global market data company from 2001 through 2001. Before Moneyline, Kinsella held various senior financial positions within Dow Jones & Company, Inc., including Vice President/General Manager of Dow Jones International, where he was responsible for all finance and administrative matters spanning the entire International group operation including The Wall Street Journal Europe, the Asian Wall Street Journal and the Far Eastern Economic Review. He was also the Comptroller and Chief Accounting Officer for the company, as well as being on the Board of Directors of CNBC Europe and CNBC Asia.

Prior to joining Dow Jones, Mr. Kinsella worked for Coopers & Lybrand in New York. He is a Certified Public Accountant, is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Stephen Zlotnick has more than thirty years of experience leading high growth companies in the digital learning markets. For much of his career, Mr. Zlotnick worked at Thomson Learning where he served as senior vice president of sales and marketing and was responsible for over $750 million in annual sales. In 2007, Thomson Learning was acquired for approximately $7.8 billion by Apax Partners and OMERS Capital Partners.

Since that time, Mr. Zlotnick's firm, The Henry Dorr Alliance, has advised some of the fastest growing software and learning companies in the K-20 and corporate markets. Earlier in his career, Mr. Zlotnick helped fuel growth in management positions at Harcourt Brace and McGraw-Hill, Inc.

As Panopto's president, North America, Mr. Zlotnick drives all North American client-facing operations and helps expand Panopto's presence within the corporate, health care, government, regulatory, and education markets. He also oversees the North American business strategy with deep involvement in the development of Panopto's market-leading products and technology.

Tom opened the London office in 2011 to expand Panopto's customer base and provide same time-zone support. His background is in media and publishing, particularly in relation to education at all levels. Equally at home in a start-up as in a corporate board room, Tom spent the 1990s with Person Plc, where he held a number of senior leadership positions. These included Managing Director of Longman Higher Education, Executive Director of the worldwide English Language Teaching Group and Chief Executive of Pearson Education EMEA.

Always an early adopter of technology, Tom introduced and championed new products and services to engage students using digital media. He presided over a period of rapid growth in sales of educational resources for students, teachers and professionals and paved the way for Pearson's success as the world's largest educational media group.

In 1999 Tom founded Spark Learning, a ventured-back start-up with a mission to motivate reluctant learners to become more literate and numerate through the use of educational games. In 2006 he joined Thomson Learning, now Cengage, as CEO for Europe, Middle East and Africa. Following the sale and relocation of that company Tom has worked as an independent consultant assisting media businesses, both large and small, to reposition themselves in response to seismic shifts in the economic and technological landscape.