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Glenn brings over 20 years of business and IT experience to Digital Learning Tree. While working as an engineer for an RF plasma company in 1991, Glenn met Bob Daigle, a known International Business Delegate and together with him and a team of executives worked exclusively with Fortune 500 companies certifying them to expand globally via the recognized prestigious ISO-9000 Certification process of benchmarking. In the Bay Area, he worked with Nortel Communications implementing a $3M dollar project migrating 60,000 plus users into various platforms and systems internationally. Other companies include Applied Bio Systems, Visa, Inc., Leapfrog, Level 4 Systems, BitMicro and numerous start-ups. He has held various management positions ranging from CEO of start-ups to director positions of larger firms. Other highlights include a two-year writing contract with IDG Books (the largest publisher for tech books) for the Information Technology and Business sections of their publications. He holds a BS in Management Information Systems from University of San Francisco and an MA from Dallas Theological Seminary.

Jim holds an MA in Instructional Technology and has worked as an educator and entrepreneur for the past 25 years. He has also served as Executive Director for several non-profits in addition to working in the private sector as VP of Business Development for Silicon Valley Start-Ups. While serving with the Marine Corps in Vietnam 1969 Mr. Knight was awarded “Marine of the Month” for establishing a highly successful “GED” (High School Completion) study skills program with high graduation rates at Three MAV Correctional Facility for Marines in Da Nang, Vietnam. In the earlier part of his career in Instructional Television (1977-79) he coordinated the nation’s largest educational television consortium (five dedicated education channels) run out of a PBS television station in Spokane Washington. During this time he was responsible for providing programming for all five channels in addition to producing school district in-service programs for teachers and administrators.

David works in strategic marketing and corporate development with Fortune 500 companies. David helped a VC firm fundraise $60M for Asia Pacific Investment. Active in a number of professional organizations, David co-chaired Entrepreneur Apprenticeship Program and started the Executive Mentorship Program for Asian-American professionals, and served as the judge for the Entrepreneurship Competition at the 2nd World Pioneering Forum in China as well as the “Triple Bottom Line” Business Plan Competition at Urbana “Open for Business” Conference. Graduated from Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, David was a Clausen International Business and Policy Fellow, McDonald’s Corporate Social Responsibility Fellow, member of Mensa and Leadership Austin. He worked with a group of visionary healthcare professionals to start a free medical and dental clinic in Silicon Valley for the homeless and the underserved at CityTeam San Jose. David enjoys going on mission trips with rēp to repurpose businesses in India, Indonesia, and South Africa.

A teacher and administrator in North Dakota, Texas, and Missouri for the last 22 years. In 2009, Shannon built a website called www.newteacherhelp.com to reduce the 50% five-year attrition rate for novices in the teaching profession. Encouraged by the success of the website, Holden addressed another passion of his – helping teachers implement technology in the classroom – by building www.educationaltechtools.com in 2010. While presenting live training sessions to teachers in Missouri, Shannon was introduced to the “next big thing” in education technology – the practice of “Flipping” lessons. Shannon built an online course to help teachers flip their classrooms in 2012. The course has become so popular that The University of The Pacific and The University of North Dakota are offering the class for graduate-level credit. The two colleges also offer New Teacher Help, a course Holden wrote that helps teachers transition from college to the classroom. In 2013, Holden hosted the largest webinar in the history of edWeb.net, entitled Flipping Your Classroom Step-by-Step. Shannon hosts two communities on edWeb – New Teacher Help, and TechTools For The Classroom. He also teaches aspiring teachers about Flip Teaching in his undergraduate course at Missouri State University. You can contact Shannon by email at newteacherhelp@yahoo.com

An Australian teacher with over 25 years’ experience in both mainstream and special education schools It was her interest in autism and how to provide better educational opportunities for her students with autism that led her to iPads. Karina completed her Master in Education majoring in technology (specifically the use of iPads) and education and also trialed the use of iPads in her classroom for an entire year. She has written over 20 courses available to teachers in Australia, America and Singapore. Karina partnered with Digital Learning Tree in 2012 to develop a number of online courses on iPads in education, autism education, Android technology in education, and iPads for autism education. You can contact Karina Barley on (910) 527-2130

Bonnie Terry has shown hundreds of thousands of students and families the way to overcome dyslexia, ADHD, handicaps and learning disabilities. She has done this through her teaching and leading-edge materials used in homes, classrooms, and teacher preparation programs around the world. She has helped children and adults of all ages to achieve unprecedented success in reading, writing, spelling and math.

Smadar is a founding partner and co-director of JETS - Jerusalem EdTech Solutions, and has been innovating teaching methodology in K-12 for over 18 years, focusing on increasing student engagement in the traditional and online classroom. She has taught in over 20 cities in N. America and Europe in online learning sessions. From 1994-1998, she taught grades K-8 at a few different day schools in N. America, among them the Yeshiva of Flatbush in Brooklyn, NY and the Hillel Torah Day School in Chicago, IL, from 1994-1998.

Kayla holds over 10 years of experience in Customer Relations and Administration, having spent a majority of her career working in Local Government in Australia. She is now working on building Digital Learning Tree's social media profiles and assisting with the ongoing website updates.

Rachel Zabaneh is a Bay Area edupreneur committed to reimagining innovative education strategies for the 21st century. As founder and CEO of Veritas Institute for Leadership and Innovation and having worked in both private and public education sectors, her work engages leaders now and for the future with questions of identity, existential and vocational discovery. Increasingly, her research focuses on how social entrepreneurship can be used as a pedagogical tool for student success. Her findings have been presented at institutions including Stanford and Creighton University. She was also the Founding Director of the Caritas Scholars Program and Social Entrepreneurship Lab at Pacific Bay Christian School (2012-2019) and is an adjunct professor at Crown College and Olivet University International. She holds an Interdisciplinary Doctor of Education in Leadership from Creighton University and a Master of Arts in Intercultural Leadership Studies from Crown College. She is also an advisor for the Christian Entrepreneurs Association and a presenter at the annual Association for Christian Schools International Professional Development Forum.

Lance Joe is a strategic advisor and experienced business executive. He is the founder of Payzone Systems Inc., a global e-commerce company with offices in SF and Beijing and CSO of Digital Learning Tree, an online learning company. Previously, Lance played a key role on the senior sales management team of Heartland Payment Systems growing the company from start-up to one of the largest payment processors in the country highlighted by a successful IPO on the NYSE. Prior to his work in the payments industry, Lance worked in commercial real estate and business acquisitions. Lance serves on the advisory board of several for profit and non profit companies. He is a graduate of SF State University.

Robert has held positions as Founder, President, CEO, COO, CTO, CMO and General Manager. He has worked with and supported several start-up ventures in many facets of the development stage. These positions included strategic and financial planning, process improvement, systems implementation, web-development, marketing and branding. One core focus has been online marketing with conversion results as high as 44.26% to sales when applying specific techniques in various capacities over the last 17 years. Bringing a rare combination of technologist mixed with creative visionary.As a visionary, I am excited about combining passions and expertise in natural health, digital learning and creative results, I'm open to exciting opportunities in those areas.