Social Impact Investment Pioneer Paul Carttar Joins panOpen Board of Directors

NEW YORK, Feb. 19, 2019  /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- panOpen is pleased to announce the appointment of Paul Carttar, currently Co-Founder and Partner at International Venture Philanthropy Center, to its Board of Directors.

Paul has more than thirty years of experience tackling management challenges in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. He brings to the board distinctive expertise in social innovation and investment, enhancing the effectiveness and impact of social-purpose organizations and scaling solutions that work. He served as the founding Director of the Social Innovation Fund, a priority program of the Obama Administration. Under his watch, the program mobilized more than half a billion public and private dollars to grow promising nonprofits with evidence of impact in low-income communities. As a longtime management consultant for Bain & Co., and an executive in the healthcare industry, Paul also brings considerable knowledge and expertise to for-profit business operations.

Prior to the Social Innovation Fund, Paul was an executive partner with New Profit, Inc., where he worked with entrepreneurial nonprofit CEOs to build strong organizations and expand their scale and impact. Previously, he was chief program officer for the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, where he oversaw all programs and grantmaking activities, and Executive Vice-Chancellor for External Affairs at the University of Kansas, where he led government and media relations. Paul is also a former partner and co-founder of The Bridgespan Group, where he now serves as a Senior Advisor.

Paul is a frequent writer and speaker on social innovation and has delivered keynote addresses at conferences in Beijing, China; Kaliningrad, Russia; Bogota, Colombia; Santiago, Chile; Dublin, Ireland; Singapore; Seoul, South Korea; Berlin, Germany; Copenhagen, Denmark; and Mumbai, India. Paul graduated with highest distinction from the University of Kansas and received his M.B.A. from Stanford University.

"panOpen is a company doing groundbreaking work in education. The team is intent on building not only a spectacularly successful business but one that helps transform lives through innovative educational practices and improved equity of access in the US and abroad," Paul commented, "I am delighted to join them on this journey."

Paul joins the company at a particularly exciting moment, with great momentum in the business in the US and the establishment of a new operational center in the city of Medellín, Colombia, which was recently named the first Latin American center in the World Economic Forum's Fourth Industrial Revolution Network.

"Investors and advisors normally fall into two groups," noted panOpen's Founder and CEO Brian Jacobs, "those who are economically oriented and those who are philanthropically oriented. There is also, however, a narrow band of people who seek out and support those ventures that can accomplish both. Paul Carttar is a leading figure among them and we are thrilled to welcome him to the team."

About panOpen
Designed by educators, panOpen is a learning platform that realizes the promise of OER by providing all of the components required for its widespread use. panOpen offers complete peer-reviewed content, customization tools, assessments, analytics, LMS integration, and a means of financially sustaining campus-based OER efforts. With panOpen, faculty adopt enhanced interactive OER as they would a commercial textbook, with confidence in the quality and reliability of the content. panOpen preserves the virtues of OER—radically reducing textbook costs and freeing faculty from the constraints of commercial copyright—while delivering the quality, features, and ease-of-use faculty expect from their learning materials. The result has enormous implications for pedagogical practices, changing the relationships of instructors and students to their educational content. To learn more, visit http://www.panopen.com

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