Rachel Romer Carlson
Rachel Romer Carlson is the co-founder and CEO of Guild Education.
Early life and education[edit]
Carlson is the daughter of former Colorado State Senator Chris Romer, and a granddaughter of former Colorado Governor Roy Romer.[1][2] As a child, she sometimes attended and participated in her grandfather's campaign, and in 2011 worked as the finance director for the unsuccessful mayoral campaign of her father.[1]
Carlson completed an undergraduate degree at Stanford University, and completed an MBA and MA in Education at Stanford.[2][3] [4] While at Stanford, she took a break to work for the Obama administration, and then returned to school.[5] She also worked with her father on issues related to access to higher education before developing Guild Education.[5]
Career[edit]
Before developing Guild Education, Carlson worked for American Honors, an organization co-founded by her father that coaches community college students, and The Parthenon Group, as well as the Obama campaign and the Office of Presidential Personnel in the Obama administration.[3][4] She also was the chief executive of Student Blueprint,[6] an app she created while at Stanford during her MBA program to help community college students find jobs.[1]
In 2015, Carlson co-founded Guild Education with her former classmate Brittany Stich,[3] after she conducted research for two years with Stich into low graduation rates,[7] and then pitched the idea to her former professor and a seed investor.[1] In 2019, Guild Education became valued at over $1 billion.[8] In 2020, the company was listed as a CNBC Top 50 disruptor.[9]
In March 2020, Carlson co-authored an open letter, signed by more than 450 other CEOs and investors, advocating for business leaders to take steps to stop the spread of Covid19.[10][11][12] She is a co-founder and strategic advisor for the organization Stop The Spread.[13]
Honors and awards[edit]
- In 2017, Carlson and co-founder Brittany Stich were listed on the Forbes 30 under 30 list.[1][4]
- Entrepreneur of the Year in the 2020 EY Entrepreneur of the Year Awards - Mountain Desert region.[14]
Personal life[edit]
In 2014, she married David Carlson.[15] In 2018, her twin daughters were born.[3]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Wilson, Alexandra; Adams, Susan (December 31, 2019). "Class Act: This 31-Year-Old's Company Rocketed To A $1 Billion Valuation Helping Workers Get Degrees". www.forbes.com. Forbes. Retrieved 4 April 2021.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Blumenstyk, Goldie (August 7, 2016). "When Education Innovation Is the Family Business: a Dinner With the Romers". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Chuang, Tamara (December 3, 2018). "Guild Education's twist on college is working for cashiers, sales clerks and others who abandoned the idea of a college degree". Colorado Sun. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Guild Education". Forbes. 2017. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Managing Future Growth at an Innovative Workforce Education Startup". hbswk.hbs.edu. Harvard Business School. March 23, 2021. Retrieved 4 April 2021.
- ↑ Washington Post Staff (March 9, 2020). "The Technology 202Network:/". The Washington Post. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
The Technology 202 Network is a panel of technology experts from across the government, the private sector and the consumer advocacy community invited by The Washington Post to vote in regular surveys on the most pressing issues in the field.
- ↑ McPherson, Doug (October 9, 2020). "Growth at EY winner Guild Education leads to new program, acquisition". Denver Business Journal. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
- ↑ Umoh, Ruth. "Guild Education Is Latest Female-Led Company To Hit $1 Billion Valuation". www.forbes.com. Forbes. Retrieved 4 April 2021.
- ↑ CNBC.com staff. "45. Guild Education". www.cnbc.com. CNBC. Retrieved 4 April 2021.
- ↑ Chenault, Kenneth I.; Carlson, Rachel Romer (March 18, 2020). "It's Time for the Business Community to Step Up". The New York Times. Retrieved 4 April 2021.
- ↑ Sapra, Bani (March 16, 2020). "#StoptheSpread: Hundreds of business leaders and investors signed a commitment to help stop the spread of the coronavirus pandemic". Business Insider India. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
- ↑ Konrad, Alex (March 15, 2020). "Steph Curry, 400 CEOs And Investors Sign Open Letter Pledging To Take Bold Action In Combatting Coronavirus Spread". Forbes. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
- ↑ "Rachel Carlson, MBA". Stop The Spread. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
- ↑ "Meet the 2020 Mountain Desert winners". EY. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
- ↑ "Rachel Romer and David Carlson". The New York Times. July 6, 2014. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
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