BSG Team Ventures is proud to announce the successful recruitment of Linda Leftrict as a new addition to the marketing team at Connections Education. She will be serving as the Senior Vice President of Marketing for the company, bringing to the organization over 25 years of product management and marketing executive experience.
Prior to Connections Education, Leftrict spent over 10 years at Laureate Education, a leading international network of innovative institutions of higher education. The LIU network of more than 80 accredited campus-based and online universities offers hundreds of undergraduate, master’s and doctoral degree programs in a variety of fields. There she held positions such as Vice President of K-12 Product Management and Divisional Director of Marketing. Most recently she served as the Chief Marketing Officer of the company, where she led the development and launch of new universities, schools, and partnerships within the Global Products and Services Group at Laureate Education.
Leftrict earned her BA in Communication Studies from the University of Virginia and a Masters in Management, Marketing and Finance from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
About Connections Education
Connections Education is a leading, fully-accredited provider of high-quality, highly accountable virtual education solutions for students in grades K–12. Connections Education is part of the global learning company Pearson and is committed to expanding quality education through technology and helping students achieve both academic and personal success.
About BSG Team Ventures Education Practice
For almost two decades BSG Team Ventures has been an active participant in the growth of the Education industry, with a track record that includes more than 250 senior-level searches for companies big and small, public and private, for-profit and not-for-profit, at the VP level and above. Many have been with private equity partners.
Its industry expertise comprises the full spectrum of education markets--K-12, postsecondary, corporate, and consumer--and products and services that include distance learning, SES and EMO, administrative and curricular technology solutions, assessment, teacher professional development, for-profit college education, and corporate training. Clients have gone public, merged, been acquired, raised and invested capital, grown through acquisition, and, with most, thrived under strong leadership.
BSG's commitment to the industry also goes beyond executive search. As sponsor and panelist for such industry events as the GSV Summit, Capital Roundtable’s Private Equity Investing in For-Profit Education Companies; APSCU's Education Industry Finance and Investment Institute and Senior Executive Management Seminar; and the SIIA Ed Tech Industry Summit, BSG has remained persistent in its belief that competence as a service provider begins with knowledge of an industry's people, companies, niches, and trends.