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Founder, Lingo Ventures

Greg Gunn is an entrepreneur in residence at City Light Capital, where he focuses on early stage investments in educational software and services companies. In 2000, he co-founded Wireless Generation, a leading educational software company now serving more than three million children with groundbreaking assessment and instruction products. As president, Greg created and led the product development team, shipping the award-winning mCLASS® handheld formative assessment platform. He took over and revamped the company's sales division, landing key state and district sales and tripling the company's revenue in 18 months. As chief scientist, he designed highly effective professional development techniques and created the company's analytics and data-mining division, turning raw data into new insights about student learning progressions. The company was sold to News Corporation in December 2010. Greg holds a bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Chicago, an MBA and master's in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and was a Rhodes Scholar. He currently is a trustee of the Nellie Mae Education Foundation and of the Center for Excellence in Education and was named one of Fast Company magazine's 100 Most Creative People in Business in 2012. He serves as an expert in residence at Harvard University's Innovation Lab and coaches entrepreneurial students at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Greg is a Fellow of the fourth class of the Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.