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Tackling America's

Skilled Trades Shortage 

 

About Us

We are passionate about the skilled trades and the critical role they play in powering the American economy.  Our founding team has decades of experience in delivering education and training at scale and driving frontline worker skill development.  

Vision

A nationwide network of training centers 

Leadership

We are passionate about the skilled trades and the critical role they play in powering the American economy.  Our founding team has decades of experience in delivering education and training at scale and driving frontline worker skill development.  

Jack-Chorowsky

Jack Chorowsky

Co-Founder

Jack has deep experience building and running multi-site school networks, having served as President of KIPP charter schools, overseeing its growth to 224 schools across 22 states serving 100,000 students.  Prior to KIPP, Jack was founding General Manager of a digital learning business unit at Pearson Education serving higher ed and corporate customers.  Most recently, Jack was an Operating Partner managing  education investments for Sansome Partners, a California investment firm. 

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Zack Parnell

Co-Founder

Over a 15 year period, Zack built, and as CEO led, Industrial Training International, a leading training company delivering crane, rigging and heavy equipment operations training to clients ranging from SMBs to Fortune 500 companies and government agencies.  After selling ITI to Interplay Learning, a leading simulation-based skilled trades training firm, Zack became Interplay’s SVP of Strategy.  More recently, he has served as a consultant and fractional executive to industrial firms and startups.

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