Plenary Session

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, D.C., 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 Board Chairman, the National Coalition for Technology in Education and Training (NCTET), the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) and the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) board, where she participates on the International Committee.

In 2003, Hurley was inducted into the Association of Educational Publishers (AEP) Hall of Fame for her achieve-ments and service to the education publishing industry and most recently she was awarded special recognition for her dedication and work in education by SIIA at their annual CODiE Awards event.

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.