Jose Ferreira is the founder and CEO of Knewton, the world’s leading adaptive learning company. Knewton personalizes lessons for millions of students around the globe. Top publishers and education companies use the Knewton infrastructure to power course materials that dynamically adapt to each student’s unique needs. Knewton was named a 2011 Technology Pioneer and a 2014 Global Growth Company by the World Economic Forum at Davos.
Jose earned his MBA from Harvard. He was formerly an executive at Kaplan, a strategist for John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign, and most recently, a Partner at New Atlantic Ventures (formerly Draper Atlantic), investing in new media and SaaS companies. He currently serves on the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Education & Skills, as well as the advisory boards for Laureate International Universities, Cambridge University Press, and the ASU/GSV Education Innovation Summit.