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GOVERNING BOARD

As CEO and founder of Pansophic Learning, the global technology-based education company that operates iCademy Middle East, Ron Packard is highly regarded in his field. He is well known as an educator, entrepreneur, and visionary and is the author of ‘Education Transformation’ – a book that demonstrates why technology is critical to the future of education.

Mr Packard was the long-time CEO and founder of K12 Inc and in that role oversaw the growth of K12 from an idea to a billion dollar business. It is now one of the world’s leading education companies. Before K12, Mr Packard was vice-president of Knowledge Universe and CEO of Knowledge Schools, one of the USA’s largest early-childhood education companies.

He was instrumental in the successful investments in Learn Now, Children’s School USA, Leapfrog, TEC, and Children’s Discovery Center. He has also received the Education Industry Association’s James P. Boyle Entrepreneurial Leadership Award.

CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD

ron-packard

Ron Packard

CEO and Founder of Pansophic Learning

GOVERNING BOARD MEMBERS

Maria Szalay

Co founder and chief Operating Officer, 

Pansophic Learning

Maria Szalay brings more than 20 years of strategy, operations, and development capability to Pansophic Learning. She joined K12 in 2000 and was instrumental in growing it from a pre-revenue startup to a $900 million public company. In this time, Ms Szalay served in a variety of roles including product management, product development, operations, strategy, and corporate development.

Before joining K12, she was practice director at Operon Partners, an e-business consulting firm where she led consulting teams assisting clients with business strategy, product management, and business transformation consulting services. She worked directly in client organisations developing business plans to obtain funding, and assisted with the implementation of online initiatives, with specialized expertise in integrating these solutions with their bricks-and-mortar business

Martha Burnige

Executive Vice President, Pansophic
Learning UK

Martha Burnige is a senior education executive with more than 10 years’ experience of working with schools and education institutions. After seven years as a lawyer in London with two leading education law firms, Stone King and Veale Wasbrough Vizards, she became the in-house lawyer for Prospects Services, a large UK education and training group with a turnover of more than £80m.

In 2013 she was recruited by a former client, Mosaica Education, an international education company operating charter schools in the US and private schools overseas, where she worked on international business development focused on the Middle East. In July 2015 Mosaica was taken over by Pansophic Learning. As Executive Vice President, Martha Burnige is responsible for all UK operations and is a trustee and a member of the executive team of Aurora Academies Trust, a group of five UK schools sponsored by Pansophic Learning.

As well as being a governing board member of iCademy Middle East, she is also a board member of the International School of Berne in Switzerland

HEAD OF SCHOOL

Diane Claver

Head of School

Welcome to iCademy Middle East, where we are focused on ensuring excellence for every student, empowering each one to be successful in higher education, the workplace, and in life. We believe that our individualized programs enable each student to achieve his or her true potential.

As of 2017, iCademy has become one of the first online schools—and the only online school in the Middle East–to be accredited by the prestigious New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC). Over the past three years, this rigorous process has allowed us to refine and continuously improve our school. We have built up an academic staff dedicated to serving students in the GCC region; refined teacher training and evaluation processes; and partnered with a schools and learning institutions throughout the region to offer a world-class, individualized education. We have also successfully implemented Measures of Academic Progress standardized testing, widely used by US and international schools, to help us target teaching practices and meet learning needs for individual students and our school as a whole.

Students who graduate with us will receive a fully US-accredited, US curriculum, international school diploma from iCademy Middle East, which will be widely accepted in the United States and in most higher-education institutions across the world. iCademy Middle East is also licensed by Dubai’s Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA).

Our mission at iCademy Middle East is to provide a high quality, online and blended learning school for students from all over the world. We are committed to building an excellent learning environment for all students, whether schooling online, in our Learning Centers, or in one of our blended-model school partnerships.

We truly believe that all of students have the potential for success, and we continue to demonstrate commitment to ensure that every student receives an education that will prepare him or her for the next level and beyond

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