Marlowe Johnson
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German Full professional proficiency
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French Elementary proficiency
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Swahili Limited working proficiency
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Creoles and pidgins, English-based Limited working proficiency
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Sarah Smirnoff
Marlowe's leadership style is one that encourages collaboration and fosters an environment where teams can reach their full potential. Marlowe's ability to think strategically and develop business plans has led to successfully implementing a number of innovative initiatives that have resulted in growth and organizational change. He is not afraid to take risks and is willing to try new strategies to achieve success, bolstered by deep knowledge and the ability to work seamlessly between product and business development. I wholeheartedly recommend Marlowe - he is a wonderful colleague, partner and office mate.
Laura Poggi
Marlowe is a mission driven visionary who can translate that into actions and an effective product. He can see where the market is going and how to gather all the right pieces and people to meet the demand. Not only is he wonderful with strategy and products, but also with people. As a manager and CEO, he inspires the team with mission and direction to create their best output, but also supports them as an employee and in their career path. He would be an amazing CEO or CPO for any organization!
Sarah Smirnoff
Marlowe's leadership style is one that encourages collaboration and fosters an environment where teams can reach their full potential. Marlowe's ability to think strategically and develop business plans has led to successfully implementing a number of innovative initiatives that have resulted in growth and organizational change. He is not afraid to take risks and is willing to try new strategies to achieve success, bolstered by deep knowledge and the ability to work seamlessly between product and business development. I wholeheartedly recommend Marlowe - he is a wonderful colleague, partner and office mate.
Laura Poggi
Marlowe is a mission driven visionary who can translate that into actions and an effective product. He can see where the market is going and how to gather all the right pieces and people to meet the demand. Not only is he wonderful with strategy and products, but also with people. As a manager and CEO, he inspires the team with mission and direction to create their best output, but also supports them as an employee and in their career path. He would be an amazing CEO or CPO for any organization!
Sarah Smirnoff
Marlowe's leadership style is one that encourages collaboration and fosters an environment where teams can reach their full potential. Marlowe's ability to think strategically and develop business plans has led to successfully implementing a number of innovative initiatives that have resulted in growth and organizational change. He is not afraid to take risks and is willing to try new strategies to achieve success, bolstered by deep knowledge and the ability to work seamlessly between product and business development. I wholeheartedly recommend Marlowe - he is a wonderful colleague, partner and office mate.
Laura Poggi
Marlowe is a mission driven visionary who can translate that into actions and an effective product. He can see where the market is going and how to gather all the right pieces and people to meet the demand. Not only is he wonderful with strategy and products, but also with people. As a manager and CEO, he inspires the team with mission and direction to create their best output, but also supports them as an employee and in their career path. He would be an amazing CEO or CPO for any organization!
Sarah Smirnoff
Marlowe's leadership style is one that encourages collaboration and fosters an environment where teams can reach their full potential. Marlowe's ability to think strategically and develop business plans has led to successfully implementing a number of innovative initiatives that have resulted in growth and organizational change. He is not afraid to take risks and is willing to try new strategies to achieve success, bolstered by deep knowledge and the ability to work seamlessly between product and business development. I wholeheartedly recommend Marlowe - he is a wonderful colleague, partner and office mate.
Laura Poggi
Marlowe is a mission driven visionary who can translate that into actions and an effective product. He can see where the market is going and how to gather all the right pieces and people to meet the demand. Not only is he wonderful with strategy and products, but also with people. As a manager and CEO, he inspires the team with mission and direction to create their best output, but also supports them as an employee and in their career path. He would be an amazing CEO or CPO for any organization!
Credentials
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Certified Product Lifecycle Coach
PearsonFeb, 2016- Nov, 2024 -
Product Lifecycle Management
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Experience
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EdAgree, Inc
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United States
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Education Administration Programs
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1 - 100 Employee
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Co-Founder
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May 2020 - Present
EdAgree is an advocate for international students. We provide a free platform and services to help students identify pathways to longer term success. We also provide tools and services to help students excel in their undergraduate studies and invest in resources to maximize the positive impact of cross-cultural exposure. EdAgree works to see students succeed. EdAgree is an advocate for international students. We provide a free platform and services to help students identify pathways to longer term success. We also provide tools and services to help students excel in their undergraduate studies and invest in resources to maximize the positive impact of cross-cultural exposure. EdAgree works to see students succeed.
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ETS
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Education Administration Programs
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700 & Above Employee
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Sr Director, Product Development (prod innovation, agile methodology)
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Jul 2018 - Jul 2020
I was privileged to lead and learn from a great cross-functional team of select ETS luminaries. We explored opportunities to bring new paradigms to online learning and assessment...and we had fun building. This was a chance to participate in exciting, mission-driven innovation across the entire education ecosystem, looking for new ways to leverage emerging capabilities in research and AI to address the must-solve problems of an explosively growing set of customers. - Led team to build, validate and deploy longitudinal assessment suite to deliver feedback on both English progress (learning) and proficiency. - Drove and designed the product testing that led ETS to fund and sponsor spinoff of EdAgree. A first for ETS in its 70 year history. Show less
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2U
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United States
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Education Administration Programs
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700 & Above Employee
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VP Production
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Jan 2017 - Feb 2018
Member of Executive Leadership Team, responsible and accountable for development of online graduate degrees (2U’s core product) and maintenance of on-going relationships with university administrators and professors. - More than doubled course production throughput while decreasing unit cost. - Introduced agile management and continuous improvement practices to production teams. - Drove transition to rigorous and real-time analytics and communications, resulting in fewer team "handoffs" and a 40% reduction in per-course development time. - Business and Research sponsor for course development technology stack. Stack completed ahead of time and received extremely positive reviews from professors and Instructional Design team. Show less
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Pearson
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United Kingdom
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Education
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700 & Above Employee
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VP, Learning Product Architecture
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Jan 2013 - Dec 2016
Broadly responsible for combination of business and technology objectives, providing business and innovation leadership to meet the analytical and adaptive requirements of digital products.- Drove process improvement for digital-first workflows, resulting in more scalable and accurate content planning and metadata services. - Led cross-functional teams within Pearson’s global organization to streamline and integrate development of media, digital platforms, and data architectures.- Built and delivered cost-benefit analysis around delivery of enrichment services for Pearson content and provided guidance for related technology investments.- Business sponsor for implementation of new Content Management System.- Responsible for Pearson Higher Ed accessibility compliance (WCAG 2.0). Show less
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Director, Global Head, Learning Standards (metadata, learning objectives)
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Jan 2010 - Dec 2013
Leadership role across Pearson matrix of stakeholders to define and implement data architectures and standards (rights, security, descriptive, accessibility) and to build and integrate content enrichment services for digital products. - Provided strategic vision and leadership to drive change management and process innovation across Technology and Product teams.- Led successful redefinition and implementation of Pearson’s metadata standard.- Product Lead for automated content enrichment and machine learning tech stack.- Chair of Pearson Standards Council, communicating business risks/opportunities around digital transformation to senior leadership.- Evangelist for Pearson’s digital innovation as speaker/panelist at conferences and industry groups. Show less
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Financial Times
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United Kingdom
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Newspaper Publishing
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700 & Above Employee
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Managing Editor, Strategic Content Solutions
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Jul 2007 - Jan 2010
Member of executive team for FT Search, a semantic search start-up under the Financial Times. - Built and managed editorial and knowledge management team. - Drove refinement of discovery platform through active collaboration with Marketing, Design and Technology teams. - Led Editorial and Rights teams in construction and curation of taxonomies, ontologies and algorithms to serve as organizing structures for auto-enrichment and content de-duplication. - Implemented Editorial and QA workflows to deliver accurate knowledge discovery. Show less
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co-CEO
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2002 - 2006
Education and consulting company in China and U.S. focused on teacher and student international exchange and on business case development for economic development zone. Three centers in China (Shenzhen, Tianjin, Shanghai). Direct partnerships with universities in U.S. Education and consulting company in China and U.S. focused on teacher and student international exchange and on business case development for economic development zone. Three centers in China (Shenzhen, Tianjin, Shanghai). Direct partnerships with universities in U.S.
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Education
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Duke University - The Fuqua School of Business
Master of Business Administration - MBA -
Columbia University in the City of New York
Master's degree -
Stanford University
Bachelor's degree
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