Kathy Hurley
Senior Vice President, Strategic Partnerships
Pearson Education & Pearson Foundation
Panelist: Re-engineering Your Business to the 3.0 World
Tuesday, June 7
4:00 - 5:00 pm
Kathy Hurley, Senior Vice President, Strategic Partnerships Pearson Education & Pearson Foundation, is a 35+ year veteran of the education industry. She has served in senior executive positions with PLATO Learning, The Learning Company, Skillsbank, and IBM. She works across Pearson with sales and marketing on major opportunities as well as the Pearson Foundation on education-related initiatives on a domestic and international scale.
Ms. Hurley is based in Washington, DC, where she works closely with education policy associations. In this capacity she currently serves on several key industry and education advisory boards, including the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21) as Past Board Chairman, the National Coalition for Technology in Education and Training (NCTET), the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA), the Association of Educational Publishers (AEP), and the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) board, where she participates on the International Committee.
In addition, Hurley has received various awards for her service in the industry. In 2010, she received a citation from State of Massachusetts Rep. Cory Atkins for her extraordinary contributions mentoring leaders in education. In 2001, Hurley was named to receive CoSN’s first ever Outstanding Private Sector Achievement Award, and in 2003, she was inducted into the Association of Educational Publishers Hall of Fame for her achievements and service to the education publishing industry. In 2010, she received an award for her 25 years of contributions to SIIA and the education industry at the CODiE Awards.
Ms. Hurley holds a B.A. degree in special education from the University of Dayton and a Master’s degree in education from Jersey City State College.
