Emaginos - Engaging Every Child Through Customizing Education
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Emaginos Leadership
The Emaginos management team includes entrepreneurship, business, education and technology.
The Chief Executive Officer, Bob James. Bob is a former senior executive at IBM, AT&T and Xerox corporations. Bob has been working to transform Education for over ten years. Bob has more than 40 years’ experience as a Senior Executive and Entrepreneur. He has started four small businesses, and prior to Emaginos he was President and COO of CELT Corporation. Bob has served on many profit and non-profit Board of Directors and today is working with many community based organization to teach self-sufficiency and health awareness in the Black and Hispanic communities.
David Blumenthal, COO. David currently is president of Forward Looking Management where he collaborates with leadership teams to create strategic and operational plans, provides high level project management and sales consulting. David has more than twenty years of experience as a founder, builder, harvester, mentor and entrepreneur with a strong history of successful, measurable, results-oriented leadership. As part of his value, he designs sales and executives sales programs that typically generate millions of dollars in sales annually.
Allan Jones, President. A career technology leader and educator with a history for management and innovation, Allan has designed and implemented education programs that received national recognition and validation by the U.S. Department of Education. He was one of the founders of an online high school that at one point was providing more than 80% of the State of New Mexico’s distance learning content. He has taught high school math, established and managed a district Information Technology infrastructure, taught college courses, served on a school board, and consulted with schools, districts and states on their technology planning and implementation. He also worked in corporate research for Digital Equipment Corporation and built knowledge transfer relationships between Digital and strategic university researchers. He brings a unique combination of talent and experience to his leadership role.
Keith Larick, Chief Education Officer. Keith is known for his many education and technology innovations and is a national leader in the integration of technology into teaching and learning. For the past 30 years Keith has participated in trend analysis, forecasting and studies of the future. As a renowned futurist and change agent he has served as a consultant and presenter to more than 500 businesses and educational organizations. Keith was appointed by the California Senate to serve on the California Master Plan for K-12 Education and California Technology Commission. He has served on the Executive Committee and Board of the Agency for Instructional Technology; a consultant for IBM, Compaq, ACER, AT&T, Digital Equipment Corporation, Global Digital Utilities Inc., and Emaginos Inc. In addition, he has served as president and CEO of Vistar Technologies software and consulting services company.
Jack Taub, Founder and Visionary. (1931 - 2011) After dropping out of school, Jack went into the stamp collecting business and eventually pioneered a new distribution system to the US Postal Service as Chairman and CEO of Scott Publishing Company (the publisher of the postage stamp catalog). That pioneering effort lead to all post offices becoming the retailing operation they currently are. The USPS has earned over $10B on expansion of Taub-originated strategies. For some time, over 33,000 post offices were selling Scott Publishing Company products, exclusively and very profitably.
Jack Taub, proclaimed by Venture Magazine as one of America’s most successful entrepreneurs, has had an incredible impact on American technology. This incredible impact began in the late 1970s. Jack Taub, pioneered the consumer online industry in 1977 creating The Source, which became the model for the consumerization of the Internet and cloud computing. He watched the profound impact the technology had on his young child who was born with cerebral palsy. After selling The Source to Reader’s Digest, in 1980, Mr. Taub decided to dedicate his life and fortune to educate children with special needs. He soon discovered that special needs children were required by law to have an individualized education plan (IEP).
It quickly became apparent to Mr. Taub, who never graduated from high school, that virtually every child receiving a K-12 education is socially or economically disabled in the sense that schools are not providing them the knowledge and skills necessary to earn a living and be successful in a global marketplace. His solution was to customize education for every student and eliminate student boredom which is one of the main causes of high student dropout rates.
This plan would accomplish this goal by making every classroom an “Intellectual Disneyland” so that children would want to attend school, rather than have to attend. In 1982, he committed his life to this goal; vowing not to move forward with this solution unless he could be certain that all the elements were in place to lead to the transformed system of his dreams. And so began one of the longest and most complex journeys in this nation’s history. Jack fulfilled his vision for digital utilities, and has moved on to another, bringing American education into the 21st century. He has dedicated the past thirty years of his life to achieving that goal, and is absolutely serious about creating a better tomorrow for our kids.
