Governor Bob Kerrey joined M & F Worldwide Education Holdings as Company Chairman in July 2011. M & F Worldwide is the parent company of GlobalScholar, Scantron and Spectrum K-12, whose collective education offerings are marketed under the “GlobalScholar” brand. As Chairman, Governor Kerrey will be responsible for the company’s education businesses and will also lead strategic initiatives and evaluation of future investments in the education sector.

Prior to joining GlobalScholar, Governor Kerrey served as the seventh President of The New School, a university founded on strong democratic ideals and daring educational practices.

Under his leadership, The New School experienced an unprecedented period of growth.  Enrollment and full-time faculty increased significantly. The undergraduate population alone increased by more than forty percent to 5,000 students. Since 2001, the university raised a record $198 million for scholarships, professorships, capital projects, major conferences and cutting-edge research.

During his tenure, Kerrey devoted significant time to reforming the university’s administrative system. As a result, four percent of the university’s budget shifted from administrative to academic efforts. The university also built an information system, which allows prospective, current and former students to manage their affairs online. This also allowed a significant expansion of online offerings for students enrolled at the New York campus and those who are enrolled only online. 

Prior to The New School, Kerrey represented Nebraska as both a United States Senator and Governor. For sixteen years, Kerrey worked to improve the quality of Nebraska’s primary, secondary and post-secondary schools. Following the 1982 “Nation At Risk” report, Nebraska changed its laws to improve the quality of the K-12 curriculum. This not only helped teachers with professional development, but also ensured that at-risk and advanced students had equal opportunity to advance. 

As Senator, Kerrey lead the development of a statewide education technology plan, which established the first virtual high school in the country and made Nebraska one of the first states to wire its schools to the Internet in the early 1990’s.

In the Senate, Kerrey co-chaired the Congressional Commission on Web-Based Education and helped enact legislation for education technology subsidies. Further, he assisted both the National Science Foundation and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in their efforts to improve science education.

Since leaving the Senate, Kerrey has continued to be involved in public service.   He is a member of the 9-11 Commission, a co-chair of the National Commission on Alzheimer’s Disease, as well as a co-chair of the Concord Coalition. Additionally, he is a member of the Natural Resources Defense Council’s action committee and a board member of New York City’s Reading Reform Foundation.  He is also an advisory board member of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Association and was chairman of the College Board’s National Writing Commission.

Kerrey attended public schools in Lincoln, Nebraska. He graduated with a degree in pharmacy from the University. He also served three years in the United States Navy and received the Congressional Medal of Honor for his service.  

As president of GlobalScholar, John Lawler is responsible for driving the company’s growth, collaborating with customers to ensure GlobalScholar’s products meet their needs and keeping the company focused on its mission to empower the world’s students to learn, grow and achieve.

Most recently, Lawler served as president and CEO of Triumph Learning, a leading educational publisher in New York City. Lawler led the print-to-digital transformation of the business, including the launch of its first suite of digital products. Prior to that, Lawler was president and CEO of LexisNexis/Martindale-Hubbell. During his tenure, Lawler led a customer-focused initiative that transformed the business from a print directory company to an innovative, high-growth, web-based marketing services provider, building lawyers.com into a leading destination site for obtaining attorney credentials.

Lawler is a member of the Board of Trustees for St. Sebastian’s School, an independent school in Needham, MA, an Advisory Board member for The Connie Dwyer Breast Center in Newark, NJ, and a board member for several entrepreneurial technology and media businesses, including Whatsnext.com, Verdatum, Inc., Kaesu, Inc. and ASI Government, Inc.

Lawler received his Bachelor of Arts from Williams College and his MBA from The Colgate Darden School at the University of Virginia.

As a key leader of Scantron’s Executive Management Team, Mike has responsibility for over $200M in sales of Assessment, Data Collection, and Survey solutions for the Educational, Commercial, and International markets.  Mike brings over 21 years of broad leadership experience from his previous positions with Harland Clarke, a sister company to GlobalScholar/Scantron, where he was instrumental in driving and supporting the company’s growth from $89M in sales to $1.3B.

Prior to his current role, Mike served as Senior Vice President of Harland Clarke’s Major Accounts and Investments Services, a $570M division serving over 75% of the largest banking and brokerage firms in the United States.  In this role he developed a high performing organization focused and successful in meeting C-level strategic objectives and building unsurpassed customer loyalty. Mike’s leadership over strategic planning and execution, organizational design, alignment and team building, combined with highly developed operational and process management skills enabled the company to achieve success in its printing, direct marketing, and call center businesses. 

In a succession of rapidly increasing responsibilities, Mike was a sales executive of a number of major accounts in a business development capacity before being appointed as leader of Harland Clarke’s $70M Credit Union Division, and subsequently the $100M Community Bank Division. In 1989 Mike joined Clarke Checks, a predecessor of Harland Clarke, in plant operations before his appointment to sales executive in 1991.

In 1988 Mike earned his Bachelor’s of Arts degrees in both Business Administration and Economics from Trinity University in Texas. 

Prior to assuming the responsibilities of Chief Strategy Officer for GlobalScholar, Mr. Faulkner distinguished himself not only as an insightful business leader, but as a successful teacher as well.

Mr. Faulkner became a Technology Education and Computer Science teacher at Olivet Community Schools in 1993, creating the district’s first Technology Coordinator position. While there, he implemented an early version of the Pinnacle Suite, acquiring both mastery and respect for the new solution. Ultimately, Mr. Faulkner left Olivet Community Schools in order to dedicate his full attention to expanding and improving the Pinnacle Suite, leading to the development of a host of vital modules that enhanced the value of the Suite to teachers and administrators around the world. In 2005, Mr. Faulkner was appointed to the position of Vice President of Development, leading the transformation of the Pinnacle Suite to its current status as an industry leader.

Mr. Faulkner is a graduate of Western Michigan University with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Industrial Arts.

Muru Subramani brings a comprehensive insight of today’s technology to his position as Chief Technical Officer and Vice President of Technology for GlobalScholar.

Prior to joining GlobalScholar, he was a Research Software Design Engineer at Microsoft Research, engaging in a wide range of explorations and examinations of the use and application of contemporary technology.  His work was further distinguished through the publication of numerous research papers as part of the Adaptive Systems and Interaction Group.

Mr. Subramani’s experience is augmented by his work at Valve Corporation, where he helped build the company’s online game distribution platform.  In addition, he was a core member of the original engineering team that built the ecommerce platform for Drugstore.com and a senior software engineer at Intel Corporation.

Mr. Subramani holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science from University of Madras, India.

Appointed to the position of Chief Academic Officer at GlobalScholar in early 2008, William Zaggle continues to offer domain knowledge and direction to all departments in adapting to the educational software industry.  Always seeking new pathways for change, he passionately brings reality to the research of new learning opportunities.

In 1986, Mr. Zaggle was one of the founding partners for Excelsior Software, leading the company for 25 years to become one of the leading educational technology companies in the nation.  Under his leadership, the company became a pioneer for education technology, boasting the first Windows-based electronic gradebook, the first home-school network showing real-time student progress, the first web-based parent portal with real-time student grades, and the first enterprise level implementation of a gradebook in a single school district with over 20,000 teachers.

Mr. Zaggle earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University.

Robert (Rob) Kilgarriff brings 27 years of extraordinary sales and marketing experience in technology and technology services to his position as Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for GlobalScholar.  His career has included significant leadership roles in sales, marketing, product management, support and finance. Mr. Kilgarriff is responsible for all aspects of GlobalScholar's sales and marketing strategy, as well as service and support.

Prior to leading the GlobalScholar sales and marketing teams, Mr. Kilgarriff has held senior management positions with Readers Digest, Plato Learning, and Jostens Corporation, including Vice President of Sales and Channel Development for Project Achieve. From 1986 until mid-1999, Mr. Kilgarriff served in various sales and technology management roles with GE Plastics and GE Capital and was a champion of numerous Six Sigma programs. His responsibilities included strategy, marketing plans and tactics, advertising, customer segmentation, and alternative channel management.

Mr. Kilgarriff received his bachelor’s degree in business administration from Montclair University.