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Rachel Romer and the problem with paying people back
A tuition benefit is only useful if a worker can afford to use it. Guild’s co-founder built a business around that detail, with lessons from Colorado politics, a burrito chain and her grandmother’s preschool.
Fernando Bleichmar
Fernando Bleichmar is the CEO of Risepoint, the online program management company formerly known as Academic Partnerships, which helps regional universities build and grow online degree programs for working adults. He joined in 2022 after running the U.S. higher education business at Cengage, serving on the leadership team at Elsevier Health Sciences, and spending his first decade in strategy consulting at Boston Consulting Group. The son of educators who founded a school in Mexico City, he frames the company's work around closing the access and affordability gap in American higher education.