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Manan Khurma
Manan Khurma is the founder and chairman of Cuemath, an online math learning platform that teaches K-12 students across 80+ countries through live 1-on-1 classes. An IIT Delhi engineer who started teaching JEE math in his second year of college, Khurma has spent two decades trying to make a billion kids fluent in mathematics.
Kristin Werk
Kristin Werk is the CEO of BookNook, a San Francisco-based edtech company delivering synchronous, research-backed K-8 tutoring in reading and math to students across the United States. A self-described introvert with 20+ years of operational leadership—spanning 17 years at Thomson Reuters, followed by executive roles at Questar Assessment and NWEA—Werk joined BookNook in 2023 as COO, expanded the platform to include math tutoring, and stepped up as CEO in December 2024. She holds a BS in Journalism from St. Cloud State University, an MBA from Capella University, and a stack of certifications including PMP, Six Sigma Green Belt, and Prosci Change Practitioner.
Sameer Shariff
Sameer Shariff is the co-founder and CEO of Cambly, a San Francisco-based edtech platform that connects English learners worldwide with native-speaking tutors via on-demand video chat. A Princeton and Stanford-educated engineer who spent five years at Google, Shariff co-founded Cambly in 2012 after a trip to Argentina revealed how dramatically conversation practice accelerates language fluency. After a failed Series A attempt, he drove Cambly to cash-flow positivity without touching raised capital - then raised $60M from Benchmark, Bessemer, and others once the company no longer needed it. Cambly has ranked #1 in app stores across 150 countries and reaches an addressable market of 1.5 billion people seeking English fluency.