Chris Dragon Email Address

Vice President Program Management Office

Renaissance learning, Inc. (Renaissance) is a provider of cloud based assessment, teaching, and learning solutions. It provides computer based assessment technology for kindergarten to standard twelve students. The companys products include Assess, Teach and Learn. Its tools provide daily formative assessment and periodic progress-monitoring technology to improve the core curriculum, support differentiated instruction, and personalize practice in writing, reading and math. Renaissance learning tools are created and developed by researchers, educators, content area experts, technologists, and data scientists. The company distributes products to its customers across the world. It has presence in Europe and North America through its offices and subsidiaries. Renaissance is headquartered in Wisconsin, the US.

Profit-focused, ROI-driven senior executive, innovator, entrepreneur and turnaround specialist with 20+ years of executive leadership experience. During my tenure at Pearson, the world’s largest education company, I have worked closely with senior executives to ensure Pearson remained on the leading edge by pioneering innovative programs, platforms, and strategies. Creating high-performance teams, driving financial goals, restructuring business models and constructing visionary solutions within rapidly changing markets. Accomplishments include: • Partnering with colleagues to strengthen the operational infrastructure, optimize resource utilization, leverage organizational synergies to dramatically reduce labor costs and drive significant growth in net operating income. • Pioneering innovative programs, platforms, and strategies that drive revenue and market share growth in a highly competitive market environment. • Engineered strategies for the turnaround of a major K-12 English Language Arts and Mathematics digital program. Resulted in the program’s successful submission and listing in California. The program continues to gain national recognition, which further strengthens our market dominance. • Co-developing a multi-year strategic engagement with a leading global professional services company to stabilize, refactor, and improve performance of a multi-platform K-12 national program. • Developing revolutionary strategies to achieve renewed growth opportunity for the multi-disciplined K-12 product portfolio. • Partnering with a global media outlet to create a comprehensive video library in support of cross-discipline programs and professional development. Directing product development efforts and managing ongoing partner relations. • Resurrecting the intervention and supplemental portfolios by driving a strategic vision and renewed focus to reestablish the portfolio’s market dominance in domestic and key global markets.