Tom Dretler

Tom has been President and Chief Executive Officer of Eduventrues since 1999. Eduventures is the leading information services provider to the education sector. Tom has led the Company’s transformation from a boutique investment bank to a strategy research business with a worldwide reputation for improving the performance of organizations operating in the education market. Prior to joining the Company, he served as director of a management consulting firm chaired by Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter with a focus on business reengineering and organizational change.

Throughout Tom’s career, he has taken a leadership role in supporting business involvement in public sector issues. In the mid 1990s, he managed a Harvard Business School program on business involvement in public education, welfare-to-work, and urban investment. In the early 1990s, he served as a consultant to former President Jimmy Carter and was responsible for developing public-private partnerships in association with the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games. Tom is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Johns Hopkins University and holds an M.B.A. degree from the Harvard Business School.