Our team.

Started in 2016. Our advisors include school system leaders, former state officials and EdTech policy leaders.

Leadership

Ilya Zeldin

Founder and CEO

A three-time technology entrepreneur rooted in education. Previously ran strategy for Dell’s global cloud service provider program. Georgetown MBA. Former board member, ETIN. Family man, New York City.

Roman Pryslipskiy

Technical Lead

Roman leads software development and platform architecture for 2gnoMe. He and his team build and maintain the platform’s Python-based backend, framework-agnostic data model, and secure AWS infrastructure.

Richard Laine

Senior Advisor

Former Director of Education at The Wallace Foundation, where he oversaw a $300 million school leadership initiative across 24 states. Former Division Director of Education at the National Governors Association.

We build from what principals and teachers tell us isn’t working. The hard part is always people. Tools change in months. How people reflect, take feedback and learn changes over years. 2gnoMe (to know me, from the Greek gnōsis) helps educators grow the way adults should grow at work: through feedback, self-reflection, and differentiated learning that fits the person.

Advisors

Amy Jefferis, Ed.D.

Education Advisor

Former Associate Superintendent and Director of Academic Excellence, Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon.

Troy Lange

Education Advisor

Executive Director of Exceptional Student Services, Eagle County Schools. Former Executive Director, Colorado River BOCES.

Jill Abbott

Strategic Advisor

Founder, Abbott Advisor Group. Former Senior Vice President and Managing Director of ETIN at SIIA.

Bruce Umpstead

Strategic Advisor

Michigan State Director of Educational Technology and Data Coordination, 2007 to 2013. Later worked with BrightBytes and IMS Global.

Teachers stay where they grow. If you want that for your school or district, we’d love to work with you.

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