Providing the best return on education

Darrell measures his company’s success alongside student success, he believes strongly in experiential learning and is wildly driven to explore things that make him curious.

Prior to founding Thinkful, Darrell founded Perpetually.com, the web archiving service that sold to Dell in 2012. He started his career in quantitative trading at The Clinton Group, where he honed his leadership skills and built the company’s first automated stock trading algorithms, while also running Asia trade execution.

Darrell graduated from Columbia University with a BA in Art History and a minor in Computer Science. He is a New York native who believes jargon should be outlawed, enjoys skiing, amatuer photography and was married in October 2017.

Dan started Thinkful with the belief that great education is built on strong relationships between students and teachers and between peers.

Prior to starting Thinkful, Dan was a product manager at Elm City Labs, where he helped entrepreneurs turn their ideas into products and find their first customers. He first started as an analyst at RRE Ventures, a venture capital firm in NYC (and now a Thinkful investor).

Dan attended Yale University, but dropped out after two years to join the Thiel Fellowship, a program that pays 20 people each year to leave college and start a company.

Grae designs education systems that focus on the things that make students job-ready. He combines timeless best practices with proven but cutting edge high demand tech topics.

Before Thinkful, Grae practiced corporate and securities law at Greenberg Traurig with a focus on private equity transactions. He joined Dan and Darrell in 2013 to build Thinkful's mentorship program.

Grae earned his BA from St. John's College where he studied philosophy and the classics, and earned his JD Magna Cum Laude from the University of Illinois College of Law. He's been causing trouble with computers, in one form or another, since he could pick up a screwdriver.

Saul leads the engineering team to build simple solutions that help Thinkful deliver a learning experience worthy of the digital age, while keeping the humans at the center of it.

He started his career doing social network R&D at Telefónica, the world's 10th largest telco. After a stint working on his own education startup, he enlisted in Ampush in San Francisco, where he built ad bidding systems. A tinfoil-hat privacy nut, micro-targeting finally creeped him out enough to jump back from ad-tech to ed-tech, joining Thinkful.

Born with Dilbert’s Knack and raised with a computer as a perpetual roommate, Saul started coding and playing with electronics early. Having earned both a BEng in Computer Science as well as a BSc in Telecommunications, he still learns best by breaking things.

Catherine makes it her mission to bring tech education and career growth opportunities to people across the country. She joined in 2014 to help build Thinkful’s digital footprint and more importantly, to help change people’s lives through accessible education.

Prior to joining Thinkful, Catherine worked on digital campaigns in an agency setting, at Herizon and Rosetta, focusing on marketing pharmaceutical products.

Catherine graduated with a BS in Finance and Marketing. While studying she interned with Hearst Communications, Tommy Hilfiger, and MTV. Her passion for getting the word out is only surpassed by her passion for The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.

Jasjit believes that Thinkful is building a real and durable foundation to ensure everyone can access the opportunities in a tech-centric economy. He and his team are focused on understanding, navigating & investing in the themes that will drive the next phase of Thinkful’s growth.

Jasjit started his career in start-ups focused on building and supporting offline communities. He did stints at Redfin & Bridgewater after earning a belated B.A. in Ethics, Politics & Economics at Yale. Jasjit lives in Atlanta and tries to play tennis (or pickleball) everyday. He’s an active supporter of the factory-to-table food movement. He also enjoys karaoke, re-watching the O.C. and winning fantasy football.

Erin is driven to expand access to rewarding and high-paying tech careers. Her goal is to break down traditional barriers to these industries so that every veteran, stay-at-home mom, college dropout, and gig economy worker who works hard has the chance to transform their lives. She’s passionate about driving the operational excellence of Thinkful’s Education team to provide a world-class student experience with graceful efficiency.

Erin started her career as a teacher of English as a Second or Other Language. Teaching was formative in nurturing her passion for providing life-changing educational opportunities. Erin is a career-accelerator veteran, having served a number of in-person and online programs before joining Thinkful.

Erin has a Masters degree in History from the University of Toronto. She excels at trivia, karaoke, baking, and being excessively cheerful. She would love to talk to you about the organizational theory behind delivering empathy and outcomes at scale.

Creating growth and directing change are at the center of David’s work in education. Over his 20+ year career, he’s helped hundreds of thousands of students access education by expanding online opportunities. David drives collaboration across teams to meet the needs and goals of both learners, educators, and employers.

He joined Thinkful because he believes in the concept of education to employment. Our students deserve a meaningful return on their educational investment and Thinkful stands by their students throughout that journey.

David started his career in education at the Apollo Education Group as Director of Student Services at the College for Financial Planning. Later in his career, he served as Chief Marketing Officer at Southern New Hampshire University where he helped the university grow to over 70K students. He now lives in Kansas City, MO where you can often find him golfing or spending time with his wife and three children.