Ken Leonard, Chief Executive Officer & Chairman

Ken served as Ignite! Learning's first CFO & President spending the 21st century's early years criss-crossing continents raising capital for the business. After working with nearly 100 of the country's foremost teaching, learning, and digital media experts to design and build a system of engaging, standards-based curriculum specifically for the 21st century classroom, the outcome was a first-ever blend of high-quality music, animation, video, and interactives tightly addressing knowledge and skills requirements in subject-matter specific courses. When sales stalled after about $20 million by 2008, Ken implemented a series of tactics designed to get to an eventual tipping point for the adoption of classroom digital content. Ken's current push is to deliver highly customized classroom solutions, like the affordable Torch, which are configured to the state, grade, and subject area priorities of local schools and districts. In addition to his role at Ignite! Learning, Ken is a partner in a variety of entrepreneurial ventures across industries, including software and technology. He started his career as a senior consultant with Deloitte, where he focused on emerging business services as a former CPA with a BBA in Accounting from the University of Texas at Austin. Ken is the founder of a nationally ranked K8 independent school and is the father of two boys who together with Stacey, Ken's wife of 18 years, live in Austin.

Paul Clinkscales, Chief Financial Officer

Paul joined Ignite! Learning in 2008 and he manages the company's overall financial processes and related day-to-day HR, accounting, and general administration functions. Over Paul's career, he has focused on implementing management information system metrics for executives and Board members transcending basic financial compliance, adding value with sales and operations decisioning. Paul spent a decade with a high-growth, high-technology products firm, including three years as a worldwide CFO in Europe. At Ignite! Learning, he is helping shape our profitable growth, assisting in the analysis of existing and new selling pathways, and providing inputs for resource allocation and overall strategy. As an independent consultant and CPA, Paul has assisted scores of market leading media and technology companies' drive to develop and leverage intellectual property across markets including attracting key strategic partners. His experience in media penetration includes Home Video, Cable & Digital licensing, SaaS and distribution markets. He is also a partner in a music/video studio. Paul began his career with the international accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, working with a range of diverse clients on their accounting, tax, and internal control needs. Paul is a Certified Public Accountant and holds a Bachelor of Business degree in Accounting from the University of Texas at Austin.

Josh Bohls, Vice President of Sales and Marketing

Josh joined Ignite! Learning in 2008 as a Regional Sales Manager supervising field Account Representatives and territory plans across a number of states. Josh focused on the Southwest region with 8 direct representatives and 2 inside sales resources. In 2010, Josh was appointed as Director of Marketing & Sales Operations, using hands-on selling knowledge to formulate a practical marketing strategy for Ignite! Learning's growth. Josh is responsible for developing relevant communications structures for our customers, delivering product details to prospects and leads, and building commercial relationships with the media, selling partners, and the education industry. Josh's marketing resources include internal personnel, as well as experienced Ignite! Learning media contractors using cutting-edge design and information technologies for a range of programs. In Sales Operations, Josh supervises the performance metrics, tools, and processes used to support Ignite! Learning's sales and fulfillment functions. Over his career, Josh has helped build market share at innovative technology companies such as: TippingPoint Technologies, Hoovers Online, Activant Solutions, ACS Athletics, and Seilevel. Josh has a BBA from the University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business. Josh is actively involved in alumni relations and a number of community organizations in Austin.

Che Wilcox, Chief Technical Officer

Che Wilcox joined our team in 2010 as senior product developer. Che is forward-thinking and brings a wealth of experience creating powerful software that solves problems and genuinely makes life easier. Che graduated from Texas A&M in 2001, making him one of the few Aggies on the Ignite! Learning team! His BA in English and minor in Computer Science and Linguistics first brought him to San Jose, CA where he worked at BCL Technologies developing voice recognition software. Continuing his quest for innovation and following his thirst for knowledge, he then became the lead software developer at a start-up company where he created the tools that linked independent video stores across the country to a central dvd-by-mail service. After moving to Austin, Che took the role of Chief Technology Officer at SCBN where he was responsible for building the company's core technologies from the ground up. Che resides in Cedar Park with his wife and two rambunctious boys.

Dan Steinhauser, Director of Software & Media Systems

Dan joined Ignite! Learning in 2000 as a software developer prior to the release of our first curriculum product. Dan has since been involved in the progressive development of Ignite! Learning's curriculum and software architecture across evolving media, hardware, and technology platforms. Over the course of his career at Ignite! Learning, Dan has served in management roles as diverse as our Director of Product Development to Senior Systems Architect. Dan now leads the design of innovative tools aimed at fulfilling Ignite! Learning's continuing promise of delivering teachers digital content that motivates learning within an on-target; practical structure of what is required for everyday standards-based teaching and learning objectives. Across a range of mediums, including school networks, interactive whiteboard systems, student response systems and media delivery systems, Dan is pushing Ignite! Learning's rapid pace for designing and delivering relevant, local, standards-based, digital content solutions that integrate academic priorities and other classroom technologies for a seamless user experience. Dan joined the "pre-release" team at Ignite! Learning due to his desire to apply his software expertise to improving teaching and learning. Dan has a BA from the University of Texas at Austin with an emphasis on Computational Mathematics. Dan lives in Austin with his wife Julie and their children.

Cecilia Colomé, Director of Curriculum & Academic Standards

Cecilia Colomé received her B.Sc. in Physics and Math from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and her Ph.D. in Astrophysics from the University of Texas at Austin. As a graduate student, Cecilia was a frequent flyer aboard NASA's Kuiper Airborne Observatory, a time Cecilia remembers as "spending more time in the air than on the ground." While earthbound, Cecilia spent a lot of time at McDonald Observatory in West Texas, using the 107-inch telescope for which she built an infrared polarimeter to detect polarized light from celestial objects. For more than 10 years, Cecilia taught math and science at UNAM, UT-Austin (UTeach Program), and St. Edward's University. Since leaving academic life as an astronomy professor at UNAM, Cecilia worked as a science writer, translator, and editor. Cecilia's professional relationship with Ignite! dates to 2004, when she worked as a contributing writer for Ignite!'s Science Middle School curriculum and as a Spanish translator of Ignite!'s Early American History course. Prior to joining Ignite! in 2011, Cecilia worked in the Student Assessment Division of the Texas Education Agency. Cecilia's focus at Ignite! is the editorial process that oversees curriculum and academic standards for the development of Ignite!'s educational products.