Ken Eisner

About Ken

• I went to public school in Philadelphia, then public school in New Jersey, before completing two years at a prep school prior to college.
• After college, I moved to Colorado and worked on a few entrepreneurial ventures—I had moved away from New York to get out of the “rat race.”
• I went back to school for a master’s degree in urban policy—at this time, the internet was starting to boom, so I added an MBA degree and joined a startup company.
• I worked as the vice president of marketing at Varsity Books, a startup that sold textbooks online—my work in brand awareness pushed the company to the most visited site among the college demographic.
• Getting deeper into the technology industry, I moved onto a nonprofit that leveraged technology to provide digital adoption opportunities for children in low-income communities around the world.
• After spending some time in tech, I realized that working in education—as I did with Varsity Books—was what I felt most attached to and where I wanted to be.
• I joined Amazon Web Services when it was starting to get big—the social contribution a company makes is important to me and I saw that AWS had the capacity to make a huge impact on education at scale.
• I worked my way up to director of worldwide education programs at AWS—I was recognized as 2018 AWS Worldwide Public Sector “Impact Person of the Year.”