Gideon Stein

Gideon Stein (born December 19, 1971, in Washington, DC) is an entrepreneur and education activist. He is the CEO of Write Label[1][2] (formerly Comedywire), a crowd-sourced platform for short-form writing, president of The Moriah Fund,[3] treasurer of Chalkbeat, and a member of the board of directors of textbook solutions company, Slader,[4] New Classrooms,[5] and Narrative 4.[6] He is the former vice chairman of the board of Success Academy Charter Schools, a high-performing charter school management organization in New York City.

Education

Stein graduated with honors from Wesleyan University with a degree in Economics and History. He attended St Edmund Hall at Oxford University as a Visiting Scholar in Development Economics and European History.

Career

Stein is the CEO of Write Label, a crowd-sourced platform for short-form writing. He was the founder and CEO of LightSail Education, an adaptive literacy solution for K-12.[7] Stein was the founder, chairman and CEO of Omnipod, Inc.,[8] a leading on-demand provider of real-time messaging to the enterprise market, until its sale in 2005 to MessageLabs Group, Ltd.,[9] one of the world’s largest private software companies (and now a division of Symantec). Stein was a founding partner of MR Ventures, a private investment firm with a portfolio of companies concentrated in media, commerce and software. Stein also served on the board of directors of the Real Silk Investment Company,[10] a publicly traded regulated investment company, until its sale to Lord Abbett Affiliated Funds.[11]

Philanthropy

In May 2019, Stein became the President of his family foundation, The Moriah Fund.[12] Stein is a board member of New Classrooms.[13] He serves as treasurer of Chalkbeat, a leading non-profit education news outlet for New York City, Denver, Indianapolis, Memphis, Chicago, Newark, and Detroit.[14] He is on the board of directors of Narrative 4,[15] a global empathy building organization, as well as on the board of directors for University Prep Public Schools.[16]

References
  1. https://www.writelabel.com/
  2. "Leading Creative Writing Service Provider Comedywire Announces Rebranding to Write Label".
  3. http://moriahfund.org/
  4. https://www.slader.com/
  5. "Who we are". 12 February 2021.
  6. https://narrative4.com/
  7. http://www.lightsailed.com
  8. "Omnipod CEO Gideon Stein Speaks on IM Networks". 22 November 2004.
  9. "MessageLabs To Acquire Omnipod." 2005, November 2. Archived copy: https://web.archive.org/web/20100928190256/http://www.messagelabs.com/resources/press/126
  10. "SEC Info".
  11. "SEC Info".
  12. http://moriahfund.org/
  13. "What we do". 12 February 2021.
  14. "About Chalkbeat". 6 April 2020.
  15. "Family".
  16. http://upchs.org/
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